Meteor (movie) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Meteor was a 1979 film starring Sean ConneryIt was directed by Ronald Neame and with a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann and co-starring Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Henry Fonda,
Scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster.
The opening sequence involves a crew of astronauts that observes a collision between a comet and an asteroid named Orpheus. The astronauts and their ship are then destroyed by a fragment from the collision. Back on Earth, Dr. Paul Bradley (Connery) is dragged reluctantly to the offices of his former boss
(Malden). They view the video footage of the doomed astronauts and it's explained that Orpheus is on a collision course with Earth.
While the United States government and military engage in political maneuvering, other smaller and faster moving fragments rain down on Earth. The major plot point involves secret orbiting nuclear missile platforms, one put up by Dr. Bradley's team for the U.S. and another constructed by his counterpart in the Soviet Union. Both governments are reluctant to admit to the existence of these orbital weapons because they be found in violation of international treaties (unnamed in the film but presumably like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The two superpowers finally agree to combine their weapons
to deflect Orpheus from collision.
Similar films released in the 1990s included Armageddon and Deep Impact..
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