IMPACT

Event miniseries (2 x 90 mins)

The moon is knocked off course by an enormous meteor not only reaping havoc with its gravitational pull, but also putting it into a collision course with the Earth. In 45 days it will impact...

Genre: Action / Catastrophe

Status: In Production

Budget: US$ 14 Million

Production Company: IMPACT Films Inc

Director: Mike Rohl (Smallville, Eureka, Supernatural)

Writer: Michael Vickerman (Superfire, Intimate Stranger)

Executive Producers:

• Golden Globe® nominated Producer Jonas Bauer (The Company, The Hades Factor) 
• Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated Producer Rola Bauer (The Company, Lost City Raiders, Dark Kingdom - The Dragon King)
• Emmy® nominated Producer Howard Braunstein (Elvis, 10.5-Apocalypse, Evil Knievel)
• Emmy® nominated Producer Greg Guliotta (Cheaters, Living With The Dead, Strangers In A Small Town)
• Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated Producer Tim Halkin (The Company, P.I. - Post Impact, The Hades Factor)
• Gemini Award® winning Producer Michael Prupas (Human Trafficking, Savage Messiah, This is Wonderland)

Co-Executive Producers:
     Emmy® nominated and Gemini Award® winning Producer Irene Litinsky (Human Trafficking, The Wind in the Willows, Killer Wave)

Producer: Ted Bauman (Write & Wrong, Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness)
Associate Producer:  Jesse Prupas (Savage Messiah, Housesitter)

Production Designer: Eric Fraser (Emmy® winning Flight 93, Evil Knievel, Blade: The Series)

Visual Effects: Steven Hodgson (Vantage Point, Firewall, Married Life)

Delivery: Estimated 4th quarter 2008

Language: English

Synopsis:

While the entire world watches the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid, hidden by the meteor field, smashes into the moon in a tremendous explosion of rock and debris. Fragments from the asteroid, and even from the moon itself, penetrate Earth's atmosphere and make impact. Even though the initial damage is minimal, nerves are frayed throughout the planet. There is significant physical damage to the lunar surface, but experts quickly conclude there will be no lasting ramifications.

Then strange anomalies begin to manifest themselves on Earth. It starts small - cell phone disruptions, unusual static charges and odd tidal behavior. The world's leading scientists, including Alex Kittner, Maddie Rhodes and Roland Emerson, begin piecing together evidence that suggests the moon's properties, and its orbit, may have been permanently altered.

Their fears are realized when the anomalies increase to the point where the effect of 'simulated' gravity is being manipulated by increased electromagnetic surges coming from the moon. People, cars and other objects are rendered momentarily weightless in random, isolated areas around the globe. Alex, Maddie, Roland and the rest of their team soon discover something far worse - the moon's new orbit has put it on a collision course with Earth!

The world now has 39 days to stop it or Earth, and all of mankind, will perish. After a failed attempt by the United States to destroy the moon, our heroes bring all the countries of the world together in one last hope for humanity - an international mission to the moon itself where astronauts will attempt to reverse the magnetic effects and restore the moon to its original orbit. Alex, whose children are now missing after the latest rampage of anti-gravity, is emotionally torn as he must now join Roland and two other astronauts on the Earth saving mission into space.

It is a race against time as the two celestial bodies are drawn closer and closer to impact, the world united, watching and praying, the survival of mankind in the balance.

Unique visuals and powerful human drama will bring this chilling story to life. Get ready to experience the dark side of the moon!