Let’s face it: we only remember Deep Impact because it was about a meteorite that was going to fall to Earth and it premiered the same summer that Armageddon. “Casuality” of life, as it once happened with Animals y with concreteor with Lambada y The forbidden dance. But the funny thing is that it could have been a much better movie if they had waited, because his own Steven Spielberg I wanted to direct it. However, upon learning that the title with Bruce Willis was already in the filming phase, they hired Mimi Leder and began filming in record time. The result is… Well, what it is. Why deny it?
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Curiously, and although it is remembered Deep Impact as the big loser of this duel, the truth is that, although it raised somewhat less, it gave many benefits (350 million compared to only 80 million in budget), The strange thing is that we didn’t have a whole type of meteorites falling on Earth after both films made money for their respective studios.
If you see again Deep ImpactFurthermore, it has an addition that, seen from 2024, is very funny: at times we can see “the Internet of old”the one from 1998. That is, a search system before Google, banners made in a very primitive way… In fact, if you look a little closer there is a hilarious prediction in one of them, in which we can read “You’re going to see the ocean” (“You’ve got some ocean coming…”). Indeed, Internet surfing character Jenny is killed when a mega-tsunami destroys New Jersey. Yes, I was going to see the ocean, yes.
It’s curious that Deep Impact has not suffered from late reboot fever and, therefore, there is no sequel or remake in sight, because it could perfectly happen. A good meteorite from time to time brightens up any billboard, of course.
