In an interview with TheWrap, Bay stated, “It just makes the world aware that there is a big effin’ problem that we might have one day, so it’s better to get our asses in gear now and practice for what can be a very serious situation.”Īlthough this DART mission won’t be scored by Aerosmith, we can enjoy this little win with Bay as he gets ready for his new film, Ambulance starring Jake Gyllenhaal, to hit theaters in February. While Bay acknowledges that Armageddon wasn’t the inspiration behind NASA’s DART mission, he does feel that the film brought awareness to the possible threats from outer space. The goal is for the spacecraft to hit the asteroid sometime next year, knocking Dimorphous off its crash course. Here's what happened behind the scenes to make the finest movie ever made about a meteor on a collision course with Earth (at least since Deep Impact premiered the month before).A post shared by Michael Bay key difference between NASA’s DART mission and Bay’s Armageddon is that NASA is sending its unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 to destroy a small asteroid known as Dimorphous, which is moving at 15,000 miles per hour.
However, the shooting of Armageddon was a very serious business, involving multiple rewrites, real shuttle launches, a spacesuit disaster, and extreme dental surgery. It's not supposed to be taken seriously." While NASA has already launched their first mission to test their asteroid-deflecting technology, Bruce Willis already did the job in 1998’s Armageddon.When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. (Except he said "brain surgery.") In 2001, Bay described the movie to The New York Times as, "a total fantasy for a 15-year-old. Throw in some low-angled 360-degree shots, improbable explosions, and unceasing dramatic music, and that just makes it even better.Įven Armageddon's notoriously prickly director, Michael Bay, admitted in his DVD commentary that the movie isn't exactly rocket science.
Sometimes, you just want to watch a bunch of oil drillers - preferably the best oil drillers in the world - learn to be astronauts in a matter of minutes, land a spacecraft on a giant meteor, and try to insert nuclear weapons into it.
We don't know who needs to hear this, but not all movies have to be scientifically accurate, win Oscars, and make us think really hard about the human condition. The shooting of Armageddon was a very serious business, involving multiple rewrites, real shuttle launches, a spacesuit disaster, and extreme dental surgery.
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