Deep Impact (film)
Deep Impact is a 1998 sci-fi-drama disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, and Robert Duvall. The plot describes the attempts to prepare for and destroy a fictional comet (named “Wolf-Biederman”), which is expected to collide with the Earth and cause an Extinction Level Event. A competing “space impact” film, Armageddon, was released about two months after Deep Impact in the United States.[1] Deep Impact was lauded by astronomers as being more scientifically accurate,[2] but Armageddon fared better at the box office.[3] A teenaged astronomy-club member, Leo Biederman (Wood), alerts astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf (Charles Martin Smith) to his sighting of an unusual comet. Wolf realizes the comet will hit Earth and attempts to alert his colleagues, but dies in a car accident after leaving the observatory.
