Will the dystopia soon become a reality? Roland Emmerich in an interview about cinema and the world of the day after tomorrow, 20 years after “The Day After Tomorrow”.26.04.2024 | 7:44 min
Because of the success of his films like “Independence Day” and “Godzilla”, Roland Emmerich seems almost moderate and calm. We meet the cult director 20 years after he made his film “The Day after Tomorrow” in Munich. Millions of people saw it and in 2004 it was the most successful film of the year worldwide.
A successful book provides the template
In the ZDF interview, Emmerich explains how he came up with the material: “I bought a book back then. It was called “The Coming Global Superstorm”.
In fact all the information I needed was there. And then I sat down and wrote a script.
Roland Emmerich
Roland Emmerich…
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The popular science book by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber was already successful back in 1999. And “The Coming Global Superstorm” delivered everything that Roland Emmerich, this “Master of Disaster”, needed. as the director is often called, for a good, interesting film.
There was so much knowledge in this book that I needed to worry less about scientific advice.
Roland Emmerich
He then spoke to climate activists about the film’s message and began promoting “The Day After Tomorrow”. The film was released in cinemas 20 years ago and Emmerich also used the public platform to make statements against the US government at the time under George W. Bush: “They’re still completely gone.” deny that there is such a thing as global warming. That’s completely absurd,” he said in a promotional interview for the film in 2004.
Roland Emmerich used the popular science book “The Coming Global Superstorm” as a template for the script. As early as 1999, the authors warned about the effects of global warming.
What: AP
The film was more or less prophetic.
Roland Emmerich
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Emmerich: “Dying of streaming services”
Emmerich also predicts a big change for the film industry. The problem of the cinema industry is that only the same films are successful.
Everything changes anyway, very quickly.
Roland Emmerich
By this he also means the streaming services: “Streams die now. They need to consolidate.” Emmerich himself is now making a series for the first time. Instead of visions of the future, he now prefers to look into the past: with the sword and sandal multi-part “Those about to Die” for a streaming service, in which Anthony Hopkins and Tom Hughes obviously.
And so Roland Emmerich remains committed to his idea of the future: through understanding the past.
Martin Schöne is an editor in the editorial team of “Kulturzeit” at 3 sat.
2024-05-02 18:05:10
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