 EARTH
HAS A DEADLINE
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS IN
For
reasons unknown, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing
the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly,
life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston,
32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly
drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending
hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar
Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying
into panicked crowds, slamming into windshields and causing drivers
to lose control of their cars. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists
watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman
Colosseum to rubble.
Scrambling
to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon
geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and a team of the world's
most gifted scientists to travel into the earth's core in a subterranean
craft piloted by "terranauts" Major Rebecca "Beek"
Childs (Hilary Swank) and Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood).
Their mission: Detonate a nuclear device that will reactivate the
core and save the world from sure destruction.
When
unexplained catastrophes strike around the globe, geophysicist Dr.
Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and French atomic weapons expert Dr.
Sergei Leveque (Tchey Karyo) are summoned by General Thomas Purcell
(Richard Jenkins) to Washington, D.C., to determine if covert enemy
action is to blame. Working with his team at the University of Illinois,
Keyes discovers the mystery behind the tragedies is more frightening
than any act of war -- the earth's inner core has stopped rotating.
As a result, the planet's electromagnetic field, which shields the
earth from deadly solar radiation, is collapsing. If the problem
is not resolved quickly, airplanes will start falling from the sky
and everything electronic will be destroyed. Static discharge in
the atmosphere will create "super-storms" with hundreds
of lightning strikes per square mile, and deadliest of all, microwave
radiation will literally cook the planet.
Terrified
by his findings, Keyes seeks out the opinion of renowned geophysicist
Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci), an arrogant scientist who arrives
at the same horrifying conclusion. Together, they determine that
the only way to reactivate the core is to travel to it. But how?
Man has walked on the moon and landed on Mars, but never has anyone
dared to explore the inner, deepest regions of the earth ... until
now.
 Living
in a remote area of the Utah desert, a brilliant scientist, Dr.
Ed "Braz" Brazzelton (Delroy Lindo), has developed an
untested subterranean craft that they hope will be able to penetrate
deep into the earth, even as far as the core. Now it is up to Keyes,
a team of scientists and astronauts Major Rebecca "Beck"
Childs (Hillary Swank) and Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood),
who have just been recruited as the world's first "terranauts,"
to drive this high-tech vessel into the earth, detonate a nuclear
device and somehow restore balance to the planet. It's the ultimate
leap of faith ... not into outer space but into inner space, a journey
into an unknown frontier where truly no man has gone before.
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