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The idea for Asteroid originated in 1994, after NBC movies chief Lindy DeKoven saw news reports on the Shoemaker-Levi 9 Jupiter impact. Working with producer John Davis, they developed a story framed as an action-adventure drama. The promotional budget was $2 million, with a production budget of $19 million.
In general, Final Impact was less well received than the prior two books. [3] It picks up 18 months after Weapons of Choice, a transition which some readers [who?] criticized as too jarring. Other reviews noted the large number of plot points which had not been addressed properly, and the disjointed narrative structure used to depict the war.
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Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 85% of 59 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 7.00/10.The critical consensus states: "Writer-director Zak Hilditch's thought-provoking screenplay – and a stellar performance from young Angourie Rice-- make These Final Hours worth watching, even if its end-of-the-world premise is overly familiar."
[5] [40] In the 1916–1917 serial "The Moonmaker" by Arthur Cheney Train and Robert W. Wood, an errant asteroid is diverted to enter Earth orbit as an additional natural satellite instead of striking the Earth, [4] [41] a plot point that recurs in Isaac R. Nathanson's 1930 short story "The Falling Planetoid".
For comparison, the average distance between the Earth and the moon is about 385,000km (239,000 miles). So far, about 25,000 large asteroids have been discovered as potential “city killers”.
Final Impact is a 1992 Direct-To-Video martial arts film starring Jeff Langton, Mimi Lesseos, Lorenzo Lamas and Michael Worth. [1] It was directed by Joseph Merhi and Stephen Smoke. The film was shot in 18 days.
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