Meteor is a 1979 science fiction Technicolor disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. It was directed by Ronald Neame and with a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann, "inspired" by a 1967 MIT report Project Icarus. The movie co-starred Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda. With universally negative reviews , it proved unpopular with... audiences, losing millions in the process, and is considered to be one of the reasons for the downfall of American International Pictures. According to one biography of Natalie Wood, she and most others in the cast knew early on this film was going to be a dud, mainly due to the director and the script. Despite the failure and being disliked by the main cast themselves, it was nominated for an Academy Award and retained a cult following as it was an influence on the more successful later films Armageddon and Deep Impact.
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| Release date: | October 19, 1979 |
| Directed by: | Ronald Neame |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Music by: | Laurence Rosenthal |
| Cinematography: | Paul Lohmann |
| Screenplay by: | Stanley Mann, Edmund H. North |
| Estimated budget: | $16,000,000 |
| Genre: | Disaster, Thriller, Science Fiction |