Roland Emmerich, the director of the 'end of days' disaster movie, had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam's holiest site, but was persuaded not to He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence... [read full story]
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Ronald Emmerich isn’t just satisfied destroying the planet on the big screen; he wants to bring it to television too. The 2012 director is developing a TV series based on the film. Despite the mammoth fallout from the...
Roland Emmerich returns for one more disaster, writes Antony Lawes. In the hands of director Roland Emmerich, however, the floods wash over the tips of the Himalayas, tidal waves crash on the White House, a volcanic eruption...
Thursday, November 5 2009, 14:49 GMT By Tim Parks, Entertainment Reporter 2012 director Roland Emmerich has confirmed that a TV series based on the movie is in development. The filmmaker's latest cinematic effort centres on...
The effect of Islamic terrorism…one that Islamists and Muslims of all stripes leverage to their advantage… via Weasel Zippers: Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped...
Director Roland Emmerich tells Entertainment Weekly that a dramatic television series is already in development that serves as a sequel to his big-budget global apocalyptic action epic "2012" which opens next Friday. Mark...
Roland Emmerich has told Entertainment Weekly that there’s a small screen version of his latest disaster flick, 2012, in development. He reveals that it will be set in, “2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster. It...
But Emmerich was thinking of something even more explosive: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca, the focus of prayers and the Islamic pilgrimage called the Hajj; it is one of Islam’s holiest sites. Really?...
By Borys Kit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Five years after he made Earth freeze over in "The Day After Tomorrow," director Roland Emmerich is wreaking more havoc, this time with "2012." The disaster epic, which opens...
Oh for fuck's sake. So. Apparently the only thing that doesn't get trashed onscreen (or maybe at all) in 2012 is the Kaaba. Why? Because Emmerich and his co-writer didn't want to get fatwa'd. (btw if fatwa'd isn't a word it...
When I interviewed director Roland Emmerich a few months ago about his upcoming disaster flick "2012," the first question I asked was, "Why do you like killing the world?" His response: "It makes for a good story." Over the...
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