2012 is a 2009 American action sci-fi disaster film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. The film was produced by Harald Kloser, Mark Gordon, and Larry J. Franco. Kloser wrote the screenplay with Emmerich, and, the film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and produced by Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment. The plot follows novelist Jackson Curtis as he attempts to bring his family to safety as the world is destroyed by a series of extreme natural disasters. The film refers to Mayanism and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events. Filming, originally planned for Los Angeles, began in Vancouver on August 2008. (Wikipedia)
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