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Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry Brook and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of blue collar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benol Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing 5 153.7 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and become the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia mon Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick cha his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers bar cleen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and agj frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station mirror to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire age and rosmos cosmina Lev andropov narrowly manage to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except love bear and Edge they Embark in the shuttle armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 mi from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before Zu barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but a Mis gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another metor destroys Paris age and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills grber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws agj is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid surface only to disconnect AJ as air hose and force him into the shuttle's airlock Harry then tells AJ that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to Mary agj and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before zero barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely AJ and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and a strange son during the credits agj and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memorium according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney 49 writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy P Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane cero and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul atanasio Anne byerman Scott Rosenberg and roberttown originally it was Hensley's script based on pool's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan caner was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by 3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated two months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $140 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard K he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allan asked then ABC executive Bob Iger who then asked Michael Bay for permission B required waiting six months after the film was released the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag seen to imitate a cave in Wilson's basement despite a mix critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest release the director's cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Basinger who taught Michael Bay at westl University states that the film is a work of art by a cuttingedge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle an explosion she sees it as a celebration of work men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VHS and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become buav Vista Home entertainment's bestselling liveaction title Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's best-selling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax 21 additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3d1 127 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr doule with an opening weekend gross of $36 million combined with $ 54.2 million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Men In Black and Independence 24 the film was dethroned by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of 23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its Rival deep impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the Year 26 the film gross $21.6 million in the United States and Canada and 352.50 in other territories for a worldwide total of $ 5537 million two it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 27 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist Armageddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Jerry brookheimer and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 23 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of M on an A plus f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human desire to be entertained on cisc and Ebert Ebert gave it a thumbs down however his co-host Jean csll gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing eert went on to name mageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Ba's rapid cutting style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 22 hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami heral interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would redo the entire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly B admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic Additionally the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 53319 1999 jm8 which is only 7 km 4.3 mi in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the in feasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four post-graduate physics students in 2011 out 100 39 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet Union's big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroids size density speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film The postgraduate students from Lester University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion ter of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418,000 ter 4041 in the commentary track benol says he asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever Ellen lesle Cleghorn one is an American actress and comedian Korn is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 199 5 she was the sketch comedy Show's second African-American female Repertory cast member succeeding Dana trevance in its 11th season and the first African-American female cast member to stay for more than one season she returned for its 40th anniversary special on February 15 2015 Korn was ranked the 69th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine in 1995 Cleghorn left SNL to Star his single mother Ellen Carlson on C Gorn a sitcom that aired for one season on the WB Network and which also starred fellow SNL alumnist Garrett Morris and Sherry Shepard in her first acting role 57 Korn later said I don't think I was ready in terms of being strong and saying I can write this is what I do and feel confident in that and to be able to say no this does not work this works better five in 1993 and 1994 Korn made appearances on the Nickelodeon children children's TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete playing a bus driver who served as the love interest of Pete's regular bus driver she later appeared in independent films and comedies including Mr Wrong 1996 Armageddon 1998 Coyote Ugly 2000 Little Nikki 2000 and old school 2003 she has also had a series of skits played on serus XM Radio's raw dog Comedy Channel citation needed Korn was mentioned on a segment of the Family Guy DVD Stewie Griffin the endold story when Stewie asks if they ever found a suitable vehicle for Ellen Cleghorn Seth macfarlan claimed that she called the show's staff about the joke which Cleghorn has denied 8 in 2013 Cleghorn appeared in a small role in grown-ups too nine in 2015 clay horn was one of the contestants for worst Cooks in America celebrity edition finishing in third place citation needed the same year she appeared in the 40th anniv iversary special of Saturday Night Live calling the experience a cleansing Jason Isaac's born the 6th of June 1963 is an English actor one he is best known for his portrayal of Colonel William tavington in The Patriot 2000 Michael D Steel in Blackhawk Down 2001 Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise series 2021 Captain Hook and Peter Pan 23 James wolf in battle of the Brave 2004 Antonio Perez in the escorial conspiracy 2007 Georgie zukov in the death of Stalin 2017 and John Godfrey in operation mince meet 2021 his television roles include Dr Hunter aloisius hap Percy in the Netflix Supernatural mystery drama streaming series The OA 2016 2019 and Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek Discovery 2017 2018 his voice acting roles include Admiral Xiao in the first season of avatar The Last Airbender 2005 and the second season of The Legend of quora 2013 and the grand Inquisitor Sentinel in Star Wars Rebels 2014 2016 Isaac has appeared on stage as Louie ironson in Dean donin's 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theater premiere of Tony kushner's Pitzer prize winning Play Angels in America a gay Fantasia on National themes two and as Hitman Ben in a 2007 Revival of Harold Pinter's 1957 play the dumb waiter at troger studios in the West best end 345 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best actor miniseries or television film for the state within 2006 and for the British Academy television Award for best actor for his portrayal of Harry H Corbett and the curse of stepto 2008 he also was nominated for the international Emmy Award for best actor won the satellite Award for best actor Min series or television film for case histories 2011 2013 and was nominated for the the satellite Award for best actor television series drama for Brotherhood 26 2008 Isaacs was born to Jewish parents in Liverpool on the 6th of June 1963 six's father was a jeweler he has two older brothers and one younger brother six he spent his earliest childhood years in the Liverpool suburb of child wall in a closely knit and integrated Jewish Community cofounded by his Eastern European Jewish great-grandparents a he has said that being Jewish played a big role in his childhood as he attended youth club in the local synagogue of King David High School in Liverpool's child wall District as well as a cheddar twice a week as a young adult 9101 when he was 11 he moved with his family to London and attended the haberdashers asks boys school in nearby El stre at the same time as David badil Sacha Baron Cohen Mark kermode and Matt Lucas nine he describes the bullying and intolerance he observed and experienced during his childhood as prepar ation for portraying the unattractive villains he has most often played 39 as a Jewish teen in London Isaac's endured anti-Semitism by the national front a far-right extremist organization his parents eventually immigrated to Israel nine he later told an interviewer there were constantly people beating us up or smashing Windows if you were ever say on a Jewish holiday identifiably Jewish there was lots of violence around but particularly when I was in 1979 the national front were really taking hold there were leaflets at school and seiling and people Goose stepping down the road and coming after us seven following in the footsteps of his three brothers one who became a doctor one a lawyer and one an accountant six he studied law at Bristol University from 1982 to 1985 becoming involved in the University's theater Club there he eventually acted in over 30 plays and performed each summer at the Edinburgh Festival Fring first with Bristol University and then twice with the national student Theater Company after graduating he went immediately to train at London's Central School of speech and drama from 1985 to 1988 after training as an actor Isaac's immediately began appearing on the stage and on television his film debut was in a minor role as a doctor in Mel Smith's the tall guy 1989 12 he was initially known as a television actor with starring roles in the it drama Capal Capital City 1989 and the BBC drama civies 1992 and guest roles in series such as tagart Inspector Morse and Highlander the Series 1993 12 he also played Michael Ryan in edv's adaptation of Martina Cole's novel dangerous lady directed by Jack woods and produced by levinia Warner in 1995 13 on stage he portrayed the emotionally waffling 12 gay Jewish office temp Louie ironson and Tony kushner's Pitzer prize winning angels in America a gay Fantasia on National themes at the Royal National Theater in its London premere performing the role in both parts Part One Millennium approaches in 1992 and part two perista in 1993 to when auditioning for that role he told the producers look I play all these tough guys and Thugs and strong complex characters in real life I am a cringing neurotic Jewish Mass can't I for once play that on stage age 10 after appearing in Dragon har 1996 Isaac's landed his first major Hollywood feature film role alongside Lawrence Fishburn in the horror film Event Horizon 1997 where he played the role of DJ the doctor of Lewis and Clark subsequently he appeared in the Bruce Willis Blockbuster armagedon 1998 12 initially called upon to take a fairly substantial role ISAC was eventually cast in a much smaller capacity as a planet saving scientist so that he could accommodate his commitment to divorcing Jack 1998 a comedy thriller he was making with David thul's 6 Isaacs played a charismatic honorable priest opposite Kirsty Ali in the miniseries The Last Don Roman 2998 14 following that he portrayed a priest opposite Julian Moore and Ralph fans and Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of Graham greens the end of the affair 1999 2000s in 2000 Isaac's appeared in the historical Epic film The Patriot opposite M Gibson and Heath Ledger playing sadistic Cavalry Officer Colonel William tavington critics deemed the performance memorable 12 a movie phone article called it his biggest International break to date when he 25 it led to rumors that Isaac's would be nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor at the 73rd Academy Awards nonetheless demonstrating his range Beyond historic films Isaac's next chose to play a drag queen in the romantic comedy drama sweet no number 2001 6 Isaac has appeared in many other films most notably as Lucius Maloy in the Harry Potter series of films 22 2011 regarding the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling he has said I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting you know didn't wash didn't eat drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic I suddenly understood why my friends who I'd thought were slightly backward had been so addicted to these children's books they're like crack from an interview in 2009 on 's the Justin Lee Collins show 16 in the naked and the dead an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle on the 26th of November 2006 neeva chonan named the character Lucius Malfoy one of the 12 sexiest men who were never alive and Isaac's one of the 13 sexiest men who are real and alive 17 prior to the making of the film when asked whether or not he would be in Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix 2007 Isaac's replied I hope so you'll have to ask David producer David hymon I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig but you never know 18 Isaacs also talked to Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Malfoy in the then unpublished Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film the character does not appear in the sixth book Harry Potter and the halfblood prince but Isaac's joked I fell to my knees and begged it didn't do any good I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from me but I made my point we'll see like everybody else I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there I just want to bust out of prison that's all I don't want to stay in askaban most of my life 19 ultimately Isaac's did reprise the role of Malfoy as a cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the halfblood prince 2009 where he is seen in a movie moving portrait afterwards Isaac's reprised the role again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part20 and part 2 2011 20 Isaac's appeared in Black Hawk Down 2001 Jackie Chan The Tuxedo 2002 as George darling and Captain Hook and PJ Hogan's adaptation of Peter Pan 2003 and as the voice of Admiral Xiao in the first season of The Animated Nickelodeon series avatar the Last Air vender 2005 he played the leading role of Sir Mark Brion the British ambassador to the United States in the BBC 4 minaries the state within 2006 for which he was nominated for the best performance by an actor in a miniseries or a motion picture made for television for the 65th Golden Globe awards 2122 on television he also portrayed actor Harry H Corbett in the curse of stepto part of a season of new one-off dramas for BBC 4 revealing the stories behind some of Brit 's Best Loved television entertainers and their achievements first broadcast in March 2008 2324 on American television Isaac's appeared in three episodes of The West Wing in 24 prior to developing his most notable TV serial role as Michael Cathy in Brotherhood 2608 Isaac's in July 2011 between the 2nd of February and the 24th of March 2007 Isaac's played Ben opposite Lee Evans Gus in the 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter the dumb waiter at Trafalger studios in London his first theater performance since appearing in the force of change 2000 3,450 2526 Isaac's played Major Briggs an American military officer opposite Matt Damon and Greg kener in Paul greengrass's Thriller green zone 2010 a fictionalized drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book Imperial life in the Emerald City inside baghdad's green zone 2006 by Rajiv chundra Garen for which production began in Morocco in January 2008 2728 in 2007 he was originally cast in Jan deon's then still upcoming film stopping power to play at Star John Cusack's Nemesis 201930 but on the 31st of August 27 variety reported that the film which was also planned for release in 2009 had been cancelled after a financial backer pulled out 31 Isaacs appeared in one episode of the TV show Entourage in the Autumn of 28 as Frederick line in 2009 he was nominated at the British Academy television awards for best actor for his role as Harry H Corbett in the curse of Steptoe 32 on the evening of the 2nd of May 2009 Isaac's performed the role of Ben again opposite his Brotherhood co-star and Tony Award winner Brian f as Gus in a rehearsed reading of the dumb waiter citation needed their reading capped off the Harold Pinter memorial celebration being curated by Harry Burton who had directed him and Evans at Trafalger Studios this tribute to Harold Pinter Co sponsored by the Martin E seagull theater center mesque of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Hy was part of the fifth annual Penn World voices Festival of international literature held in New York City from the 27th of April to the 3rd of May 2009 3D 334 2010s he provided the voice of Ros Al Gull in the DC animated film Batman under the Red Hood 2010 and also the voice of SRO in the DC animated film Green Lantern Emerald Knights 2011 in 2011 he starred as Jackson Brody in a BBC adaptation of Kate Atkinson's case histories Isaac starred as detective Michael Britain in the NBC police procedural fantasy drama series awake which premiered on the 1st of March 12 and ended in May 2012 after Britain gets into a terrible car wreck with his family his dreams begin to take on two alternate realities one in which his wife died in the crash and one in which his son died says Isaacs about the ambitious premise there's no question it's challenging we've got a bunch of very experienced writers who have written things from HBO shows to the X Files to 24 and everything in between and they are challenged all of them have said that it's the hardest job that they've ever had but sometimes that's a good thing if it comes easily that they could write in their sleep I personally wouldn't want to act and I think the audience wouldn't want to watch 35 in 2015 Isaac's took the lead role in the USA Network action adventure drama series dig Isaac plays an FBI agent which was named Peter connley stationed in Jerusalem who uncovers a two Z yiel conspiracy while investigating an archaeologist murder the 10 episode series premiered the 5th of March 2015 in February 2016 he starred in Medusa's ankles a film directed by Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright in December 2016 he appeared in the Netflix series The OA as Dr Hunter aloisius hap Percy 36 in September 2017 Isaac's played field Marshall Georgie zukov in the death of Stalin a political satire and dark comedy film directed by Armando yanui the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the Council of ministers following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953 Isaac starred alongside Steve bamy Simon Russell Beal Jeffrey tamber Andrea risborough and Michael Palin the film was a controversial yet critical success and Isaac's performance earned him critical praise 42 for his performance he earned an evening standard British film Awards nomination for best supporting actor losing to his co-star Simon Russell Beal 43 Isaac's also played the role of Dan in the 2018 psychological Thriller Look Away starring Mira Serino and India icely 44 he also played the roles of vasy in the action thriller Hotel Mumbai and Marcus spry in the mystery thriller London Fields respectively throughout 2018 and 2019 Isaac's also voiced various characters such as the Slender aliser Thorne Slinky and Jack the donkey in the stopmotion sketch comedy TV series Robot Chicken in 2019 Isaac's provided the voice of sko the emperor in the Dark Crystal age of resistance and in 2020 voed Dick Dastardly in the Scooby-Doo film scoo in November 2019 it was announced that Isaac's will appear beside Jim broadb in the film The Dead spit of Kelly 45 2020s in March 2020 Isaac's played in the lead role of Dr Rob Griff Griffith in the CBS drama pilot Good Sam which was later picked up to Series in 2021 for a mid-season premiere on the 5th of January 2022 4647 in 2021 Isaac's played Carl and Dr Bird's advice for sad poets Admiral John Henry Godfrey and operation mince meat 48 J Perry in the drama film Mass Ralph in the forthcoming biographical film creation stories and John in the short film Sarah he also voiced King Arthur Pendragon Winston pingston sure and thundar the Barbarian in the direct to DVD animated comedy film Scooby-Doo The Sword and the scoob he also had a minor role in series three of the British comedy drama sex education and appeared in an episode of Anthology series inside no nine he voiced one of three principal villains in the video game balers Gate 3 released in 2023 Isaac's is set to star in the upcoming third season of Emmy award-winning show the White Lotus filming is set to take place in Thailand in February 202 for Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry Brooker and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of blue collar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benol Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia mountain Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers barar cleen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and agj frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the destroyed the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian Space Station mirror to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire age and rosmos cosmina L andropov narrowly manage to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except love bear and Edge they Embark in the shuttle armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 mi from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before zo barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but a Miss gas ET causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris age and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills Gruber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws agj is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid surface only to disconnect AJ as air hose and force him into the shuttle's airlock Harry then tells AJ that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to Mary agj and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before zero barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and a strange son during the credits Ag and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memorium according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney four nine writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy pool Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane Salo and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul atanasio Anne byerman Scott Rosenberg and Robert Town originally it was Hensley's script based on pool's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three picture deal he cut with the studio to comp compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan caner was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated two months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $ 4 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard Kar he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allan asked then ABC executive Bob Iger who then asked Michael Bay for permission Bay required waiting 6 months after the film was released the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag seen to imitate a C in Wilson's basement despite a mixed critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest released the directors cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Basinger who taught Michael Bay at westl University states that the film is a work of art by a Cutting Edge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle an explosion she sees it as a celebration of working men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VHS and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13th 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become buav Vista Home entertainment's best-selling liveaction title 17 Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's bestselling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however this record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax 21 Additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3D 127 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr doule with an opening weekend gross of $36 million combined with $ 54.2 million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Men In Black and Independence Day 24 the film was dethroned by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of 23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its Rival deep impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the Year 26 the film gross $21.6 million in the United States stes in Canada and $ 352.30 million two it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 27 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist Armageddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Jerry brookheimer and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 23 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of M on an A plus to f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human desire to be entertained on csll and Ebert Ebert gave it a thumbs down however his co-host Jean CIS gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing eert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Ba's rapid cutting style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 212 hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami heral interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would redo the entire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effects supervisor had had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly B admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic Additionally the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 53319 1999 J 8 which is only 7 km 4.3 m in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the infeasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four postgraduate physics students in 2011 out 139 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet Union's big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroid size density speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film The postgraduate students from Lester University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion ter of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418,000 ter 4841 in the commentary track benol says he asked Michael why it was easy to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever Ellen lesle Korn one is an American actress and comedian Korn is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995 she was the sketch comedy Show's second African-American female Repertory cast member succeeding Dana trevance in its 11th season and the first African-American female cast member to stay for more than one season she returned for its 40th anniversary special on February 15 2015 Korn was ranked the 69th greatest Saturday aturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine in 1995 Cleghorn left SNL to Star his single mother Ellen Carlson on Korn a sitcom that aired for one season on the WB Network and which also starred fellow SNL alumnist Garrett Morris and Sher Shepard in her first acting role 57 Korn later said I don't think I was ready in terms of being strong and saying I can write this is what I do and feel confident in that and to be able to say no this does not work this works better five in 1993 and 1994 clor made appearances on the Nickelodeon children's TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete playing a bus driver who served as the love interest of Pete's regular bus driver she later appeared in independent films and comedies including Mr Wrong 1996 Armageddon 1998 Coyote Ugly 200000 Little Nikki 2000 and old school 2003 she has also had a series of skit played on serus XM Radio's raw dog Comedy Channel citation needed Korn was mentioned on a segment of the Family Guy DVD Stewie Griffin the endold story when Stewie asks if they ever found a suitable vehicle for Ellen Cleghorn Seth McFarlan claimed that she called the show's staff about the joke which Cleghorn has denied 8 in 2013 Korn appeared in a small role in grown-ups too nine in 2015 clayhorn was one of of the contestants for worst Cooks in America celebrity edition finishing in third place citation needed the same year she appeared in the 40th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live calling the experience a cleansing Jason Isaac's born the 6th of June 1963 is an English actor one he is best known for his portrayal of Colonel William tavington in The Patriot 2000 Michael D Steel in Blackhawk Down 2001 Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise Series 22 2011 Captain Hook and Peter Pan 23 James wolf in battle of the Brave 2004 Antonio Perez in the escorial conspiracy 2007 Georgie zukov in the death of Stalin 2017 and John Godfrey in operation mince meet 2021 his television roles include Dr Hunter aloisius hap Percy in the Netflix Supernatural mystery drama streaming series The OA 2016 2019 and Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek discovery 2017 2018 his voice acting roles include Admiral Xiao in the first season of avatar The Last Airbender 2005 and the second season of The Legend of Kora 2013 and the grand Inquisitor Sentinel in Star Wars Rebels 2014 2016 Isaac has appeared on stage as Lou ironson in Dean donin's 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theater premier of Tony kushner's Pitzer prize winning Play Angels in America a gay Fantasia on National themes to and as Hitman Ben in a 2007 Revival of Harold Pinter's 1957 play the dumb waiter at troger studios in the West End 345 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best actor miniseries or television film for the state within 2006 and for the British Academy television Award for best actor for his portrayal of Harry H Corbett in the curse of stepto 2008 he also was nominated for the international Emmy Award for best actor won the satellite Award for best actor miniseries or television film for case histories 2011 2013 and was nominated for the satellite Award for best actor television series drama for Brotherhood 26 2008 Isaacs was born to Jewish parents in Liverpool on the 6th of June 1963 six's father was a jeweler he has two older brothers and one younger brother six he spent his earliest childhood years in the Liverpool suburb of child wall in a closely knit and integrated Jewish Community co-founded by his Eastern European Jewish great-grandparents a he has said that being Jewish played a big role in his childhood as he attended youth club in the local synagogue of King David High School in Liverpool's child wall District as well as a cheddar twice a week as a young adult 9101 when he was 11 he moved with his family to London and attended the haberdashers asks boys school in nearby elri at the same time as David badil satcha bar Cohen Mark kermode and Matt Lucas nine he describes the bullying and intolerance he observed and experienced during his childhood as preparation for portraying the unattractive villains he has most often played 39 as a Jewish teen in London Isaac's endured anti-Semitism by the national front a far-right extremist organization his parents eventually immigrated to Israel nine he later told an interviewer there were constantly people beating us up or smash ing Windows if you were ever say on a Jewish holiday identifiably Jewish there was lots of violence around but particularly when I was 16 in 1979 the national front were really taking hold there were leaflets at school and seiling and people Goose stepping down the road and coming after us seven following in the footsteps of his three brothers one who became a doctor one a lawyer and one an accountant six he studied law at Bristol University from 1982 to 1985 becoming involved in the University's theater Club there he eventually acted in over 30 plays and performed each summer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe first with Bristol University and then twice with the national student Theater Company after graduating he went immediately to train at London's Central School of speech and drama from 1985 to 1988 after training as an actor Isaac's immediately began appearing on the stage and on television his film debut was in a minor role as a doctor in Mel Smiths the tall guy 1989 12 he was initially known as a television actor with starring roles in the ITV drama Capital City 1989 and the BBC drama civies 1992 and guest roles in series such as tag art inspector moris and Highlander the Series 1993 12 he also played Michael Ryan in edv's adaptation of Martina Cole's novel dangerous lady directed by Jack woods and produced by levinia Warner in 1995 13 on stage he portrayed the emotionally waffling 12 gay Jewish office temp Lou ironson and Tony kushner's peler prize winning angels in America a gay Fantasia on National themes at the Royal National Theater in its London Premiere performing the role in both parts Part One Millennium approaches in 1992 and part two perista in 1993 to when auditioning for that role he told the producers look I play all these tough guys and Thugs and strong complex characters in real life I am a cringing neurotic Jewish Mass can't I for once play that on stage 10 after appearing in Dragon Hart 1996 Isaac's landed his first major Hollywood feature film role alongside Lawrence Fishburn in the horror film Event Horizon 1997 where he played the role of DJ the doctor of Lewis and Clark subsequently he appeared in the Bruce Willis Blockbuster armagedon 1998 12 initially called upon to take a fairly substantial role Isaacs was eventually cast in a much smaller capacity as a planet saving scientist so that he could accommodate his commitment to divorcing Jack 1998 a comedy thriller he was making with David thul's 6 Isaacs played a charismatic honorable priest opposite Kirsty Ali in the miniseries The Last Don Roman 2998 14 following that he portrayed a priest opposite Julian Moore and Ralph fans and Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of Graham green the end of the affair 1999 2000s in 2000 Isaac's appeared in the historical Epic film The Patriot opposite Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger playing sadistic Cavalry Officer Colonel William tavington critics deemed the performance memorable 12 a movie phone article called it his biggest International break to date when he to5 it led to rumors that Isaacs would be nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor at the 73rd Academy Awards nonetheless demonstrating his range Beyond historic films Isaac's next chose to play a drag queen in the romantic comedy drama Sweet November 2001 six ISAC has appeared in many other films most notably as Lucius Maloy in the Harry Potter series of films 22 2011 regarding the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling he has said I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting you know didn't wash didn't eat drove drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic I suddenly understood why my friends who i' thought were slightly backward had been so addicted to these children's books they're like crack from an interview in 2009 on ad's the Justin Lee Collins show 16 in the naked and the dead an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle on the 26th of November 2016 neeva chonan named the character Lucius Malfoy one of the 12 sexiest men who were never alive and Isaac's one of the 13 sexiest men who are real and alive 17 prior to the making of the film when asked whether or not he would be in Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix 2007 Isaac's replied I hope so you'll have to ask David producer David hyon I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig but you never know 18 Isaacs also talked to Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Malfoy and the then unpublished Harry Potter and the Hallows so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film the character does not appear in the sixth book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince but Isaac's joked I fell to my knees and begged it didn't do any good I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from me but I made my point we'll see like everybody else I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there I just want to bust out of prison that's all I don't want to stay in askaban most of my life n 19 ultimately Isaac's did reprise the role of Malfoy as a cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the halfblood prince 2009 where he is seen in a moving portrait afterwards Isaac's reprised the role again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1210 and part 2 2011 20 Isaac's appeared in Black Hawk Down 2001 Jackie Chan The Tuxedo 2002 as George darling and Captain Hook and PJ Hogan's adaptation of Peter Pan 2003 and as the voice of Admiral Xiao in the first season of The Animated Nickelodeon series avatar The Last Airbender 2005 he played the leading role of Sir Mark Brion the British ambassador to the United States in the BBC 4 minaries the state within 2006 for which he was nominated for the best performance by an actor in a minseries or a motion picture made for television for the 65th Golden Globe awards 2122 on television he also portrayed actor Harry H Corbett in the curse of stepto part of a season of new one-off dramas for BBC 4 revealing the stories behind some of Britain's Best Loved television entertainers and their achievements first broadcast in March 2008 2324 on American television Isaac's appeared in three episodes of The West Wing in 24 prior to developing his most notable TV serial role as Michael caffy in Brotherhood 2608 Isaac's in July 2011 between the 2nd of February and the 24th of March 2007 Isaac's played Ben opposite Lee Evans Gus in the 50th Anniversary production of Harold Pinter the dumb waiter at Trafalger studios in London his first theater performance since appearing in the force of change 2000 3,450 2526 Isaac's played Major Briggs an American military officer opposite Matt Damon and Greg kener in Paul greengrass's Thriller green Zone 2010 a fictionalized drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book Imperial life in the Emerald City inside baghdad's green zone 2006 by Rajiv chundra Garen for which production began in Morocco in january8 2728 in 2007 he was originally cast in Jan deon's then still upcoming film stopping power to play at Star John Cusack's Nemesis 201930 but on the 31st of August 27 variety reported that the film which was also planned for release in 2009 had been cancelled after a financial backer pulled out 31 Isaacs appeared in one episode of the TV show Entourage in the Autumn of 28 as Frederick Lin in 2009 he was nominated at the British Academy television awards for best actor for his role as Harry H Corbett in the curse of Steptoe 32 on the evening of the 2nd of May 2009 Isaac's performed the role of Ben again opposite his Brotherhood co-star and Tony Award winner Brian f aay as Gus in a rehearsed reading of the dumb waiter citation needed their reading capped off the Harold Pinter memorial celebration being curated by Harry Burton who had directed him and Evans at Trafalger Studios this tribute to Harold Pinter Co sponsored by the Martin E seagull theater center mesque of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Hy was part of the fifth annual Penn World voices Festival of international literature held in New York City from the 27th of April to the 3rd of May 2009 3D 334 2010s he provided the voice of Ros Al Gull in the DC animated film Batman under the Red Hood 2010 and also the voice of SRO in the DC animated film Green Lantern Emerald Knights 2011 in 2011 he starred as Jackson Brody in a BBC adaptation of Kate Atkinson's case histories Isaac starred as detective Michael Britain in the NBC police procedural fantasy drama series awake which premiered on the first of March 2012 and ended in May 2012 after Britain gets into a terrible car wreck with his family his dreams begin to take on two alternate realities one in which his wife died in the crash and one in which his son died says Isaac's about the ambitious premise there's no question it's challenging we've got a bunch of very experienced writers who have written things from HBO shows to the X Files to 24 and everything in between and they are challenged all of them have said that it's the hardest job that they've ever had but sometimes that's a good thing if it comes easily that they could write in their sleep I personally wouldn't want to act and I think the audience wouldn't want to watch 35 in 2015 Isaac's took the lead role in the USA Network action adventure drama series dig ISAC plays an FBI agent which was named Peter connley stationed in Jerusalem who uncovers a two Vis yield conspiracy while investigating an archaeologist murder the 10 episode series premiered the 5th of March 2015 in February 2016 he starred in Medusa's ankles a film directed by Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright in December 2016 he appeared in the Netflix series The OA as Dr Hunter alius hap pery 36 in September 2017 Isaac's plag field Marshall Georgie zukov in the death of Stalin a political satire and dark comedy film directed by Armando yanui the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the Council of ministers following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953 Isaac starred alongside Steve bosami Simon Russell Beal Jeffrey tamber Andrea risborough and Michael Palin the film was a controversial yet critical success and Isaac's performance earned him critical praise 42 for his performance he earned an evening standard British film Awards nomination for best supporting actor losing to his co-star Simon Russell Beal 43 Isaac's also played the role of Dan in the 2018 psychological Thriller Look Away starring Mira Cino and India icely 44 he also played the roles of vassy in the action thriller Hotel Mumbai and Marcus spry in the mystery thriller London Fields respectively throughout 2018 and 2019 Isaac's also vo various characters such as the Slenderman aliser Thorn Slinky and Jack the donkey in the stopmotion sketch comedy TV series Robot Chicken in 2019 Isaac's provided the voice of sko the emperor in the Dark Crystal age of resistance and in 20120 voed Dick Dastardly in the Scooby-Doo film scoo in November 2019 it was announced that Isaac's will appear beside Jim Broadbent in the film The Dead spit of Kelly 45 2020s in March 2020 Isaac's played in the lead role of Dr Rob Griff Griffith in the CBS drama pilot Good Sam which was later picked up to Series in 2021 for a mid-season premiere on the 5th of January 2022 4647 in 2021 Isaac's plag Carl and Dr Bird's advice for sad poets Admiral John Henry Godfrey and operation mince meet 48 J Perry in the drama film Mass Ralph and the forthcoming biographical film creation stories and John in the short film Sarah he also voiced King Arthur Pendragon Winston piling stener and thundar the Barbarian in the direct to DVD animated comedy film Scooby-Doo The Sword and the scoob he also had a minor role in series three of the British comedy drama sex education and appeared in an episode of Anthology series inside no nine he voiced one of three principal villains in the video game balers Gate 3 released in 2023 Isaac is set to star in the upcoming third season of Emmy award-winning show the White Lotus filming is set to take place in Thailand in February 2024 Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry brookheimer and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of blue collar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benol Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $140 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia mountain Halifax and New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a new nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers barar cleen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and agj frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station mirror to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire age and rosmos Cosmonaut Lev andropov narrowly managed to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except love bear and Edge they Embark in the shuttles armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 mi from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before Zu barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but a Mis gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris age and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills grber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws agj is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid surface only to disconnect AJ's air hose and force him into the shuttle's airlock Harry then tells AJ that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to marry AJ and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off off and just before zero barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely agj and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and a strange son during the credits agj and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memorium according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney 49 writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy P Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane Salo and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul atanasio an by Derman Scott Rosenberg and Robert Town originally it was hens slay's script based on pool's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of cribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three- picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan caner was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest images showing an asteroid impacting Paris this additional footage Incorporated 2 months prior to the film's release was specifically added for the television advertising campaign to visually differentiate the film from Deep Impact which was released a few months before 13 at a budget of $140 million it was buav vista's most expensive film at the time three after filming was complete according to Home Improvement actor Richard Kar he stumbled upon the main asteroid set and suggested to Tim Allen that they needed to film on it according to K Allan asked then ABC executive Bob Iger who then asked Michael Bay for permission B required waiting 6 months after the film was released the asteroid set was used as a credit roll gag seen to imitate a cave in Wilson's basement despite a mixed critical reception the Criterion Collection a specialist film distributor of primarily art housee films that markets what it considers to be important classic and contemporary films and cinema at its finest released the director's cut of the film to DVD and Lazard disk in an essay supporting the selection of Armageddon film scholar G9 Basinger who taught Michael Bay at westl University states that the film is a work of art by a Cutting Edge artist who is a master of movement light color and shape and also of chaos razzled Dazzle an explosion she sees it as a celebration of working men this film makes these ordinary men Noble lifting their efforts up into an epic event further she states that in the first few moments of the film all the main characters are well established saying if that isn't screenwriting I don't know what is 16 the film was also released on VHS and DVD by Touchstone home video on November 13 1998 and would surpass pretty woman to become buav Vista Home entertainment's best-selling liveaction title 17 Armageddon then premiered on both VHS and DVD formats on February 1st 1999 in the UK it was the country's best-selling DVD release selling over 100,000 copies however ever This Record would be surpassed by The Matrix later that year 18 the film was released on a standard edition Blu-ray in 2010 with only a few special features 19 television airing by April 2002 ABC airings of Armageddon had already received modifications due to the September 11th attacks that occurred 7 months prior the scene where the World Trade Center was hit by meteors and caught on fire was edited out because of its similarity to the attacks 20 following the 23 Columbia disaster some screen captures from the opening scene where Atlantis is destroyed were passed off as satellite images of the disaster in a hoax 21 additionally the American cable network FX which had intended to broadcast Armageddon that evening removed the film from its schedule and aired aliens in its place Armageddon was released on July 1st 1998 in 3D 127 theaters in the United States and Canada it ranked first at the box office ahead of Dr doule with an opening weekend gross of $36 million combined with $ 54.2 million from its first 5 days 23 upon opening the film had the third highest Fourth of July opening weekend at the time behind Men In Black and Independence Day 24 the film was dethroned by Lethal Weapon 4 in its second weekend although it collected a total of $23.5 million 25 in Late July 1998 it surpassed its rival Deep Impact to become the highest grossing domestic release of the Year 26 the film grossed $21.6 million in the United States and Canada and $352.00 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 5537 million two it was the highest grossing film of 1998 worldwide and the second highest grossing film of that year in the United States finishing just behind Saving Private Ryan critical response Armageddon received mostly mixed reviews from film critics many of whom took issue with the Furious pace of its editing 27 on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 43% approval rating based on 176 reviews with an average rating of five threaten the critical consensus States lovely to look at but about as intelligent as the asteroid that serves as the movie's antagonist Armageddon slickly sums up the Cinematic legacies of producer Barry brookheimer and director Michael Bay 28 Metacritic gave the film a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 23 critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of M on an A plus to f scale 29 the film is on the list of Roger Ebert's most hated films 30 in his original review Ebert stated the movie is an assault on the eyes the ears the brain common sense and the human desire to be entertained on cisc and eert Ebert gave it a thumbs down however his co-host genan Cisco gave it a thumbs up commenting on the noise and intensity of the film but also stating that he found the film to be amusing Ebert went on to name Armageddon as the worst film of 1998 though he was originally considering Spice World 31 Todd McCarthy of variety also gave the film a negative review noting Michael Ba's rapid cutting Style much of the confusion as well as the lack of dramatic Rhythm or character development results directly from Ba's cutting style which resembles a machine gun stuck in the firing position for 212 Hours 27 in April 2013 in a Miami Herald interview to promote Pain and Gain ba was quoted as having said we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks it was a massive undertaking that was not fair to the movie I would redo the hire third act if I could but the studio literally took the movie away from us it was terrible my visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown so I had to be in charge of that I called James Cameron and asked what do you do when you're doing all the effects yourself but the movie did fine 32 sometime after the article was published ba changed his stance claiming that his apology only related to the editing of the film not the whole film 33 three and accused the writer of the article for taking his words out of context the author of the article Miami Herald writer Renee Rodriguez claimed NBC asked me for a response and I played them the tape I didn't misquote anyone all the sites that picked up the story did 34 scientific accuracy see also asteroid deflection in an interview with Entertainment Weekly B admitted that the film's central premise that NASA could actually do something in a situation like this was unrealistic Additionally the largest known potentially hazardous asteroid fa is 53319 1999 Jam 8 which is only 7 km 4.3 m in diameter 35 while the asteroid in the movie is described as being the size of Texas near the end of the credits there is a disclaimer stating the National Aeronautics and Space administration's cooperation and assistance does not reflect an endorsement of the contents of the film or the treatment of the characters depicted therein 36 astronomers would subsequently note that Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate 3D 738 the infeasibility of the hbomb approach was published by four postgraduate physics students in 2011 out 139 and then reported by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 a mathematical analysis of the situation found that for Willis's approach to be effective he would need to be in possession of an hbomb a billion times stronger than the Soviet Union's big Ivan the biggest ever detonated on Earth using estimates of the asteroid size density speed and distance from Earth based on information in the film The postgraduate students from leester University found that to split the asteroid in two with both pieces clearing Earth would require 800 trillion ter of energy in contrast the total energy output of big Ivan which was tested by the Soviet Union in 1961 was only 418,000 teres 441 in the commentary track benol says he asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers and he told me to shut the up so that was the end of that talk 42 Neil degrass Tyson said on the October 2nd 2023 episode of The Late Show with Steven Colbert that until the release of the 2022 film moonfall Armageddon was the movie which violated more laws of physics per minute than any other movie ever Ellen lesle Cleghorn one is an American actress and comedian Korn is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995 she was the sketch comedy Show's second African-American female Repertory cast member succeeding Dana trance in its 11th season and the first African-American female cast member to stay for more than one season she returned for its 40th anniversary special on February 15 2015 clayhorn was ranked the 69th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine in 1995 Cleghorn left SNL to Star his single mother Ellen Carlson on Korn a sitcom that aired for one season on the WB Network and which also starred fellow SNL alumnus Garrett Morris and Sher Shepard in her first acting role 57 Korn later said I don't think I was ready in terms of being strong and saying I can write this is what I do and feel confident in that and to be able to say no this does not work this works better five in 1993 and 1994 clayhorn made appearances on the Nickelodeon children's TV show The Adventures of Pete and Pete playing a bus driver who served as the love interest of Pete's regular bus driver she later appeared in independent films and comedies including Mr Wrong 1996 Armageddon 1998 Coyote Ugly 2000 Little Nikki 2000 and old school 2003 she has also had a series of skits played on Sirus XM Radio's raw dog Comedy Channel citation needed Korn was mentioned on a segment of the Family Guy DVD Stewie Griffin the endold story when Stewie asks if they ever found a suitable vehicle for Ellen Cleghorn Seth McFarlan claimed that she called the show's staff about the joke which Cleghorn has denied 8 in 2013 clayhorn appeared in a small role in grown-ups too nine in 2015 clayhorn was one of the contestants for worst Cooks in America celebrity edition finishing in third place citation needed the same year she appeared in the 40th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live calling the experience a cleansing Jason Isaac's born the 6th of June 1963 is an English actor one he is best known for his portrayal of col William tavington in The Patriot 2000 Michael D Steel in Blackhawk Down 2001 Lucius Maloy in the Harry Potter franchise series 2221 Captain Hook and Peter Pan 23 James wolf in battle of the Brave 2004 Antonio Perez in the escorial conspiracy 2007 Georgie zukov in the death of Stalin 2017 and John Godfrey in operation mince meet 2021 his television roles include Dr Hunter aloisius hap Percy in the Netflix Supernatural mystery drama streaming series The OA 2016 2019 and Captain Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek Discovery 2017 2018 his voice acting roles include Admiral Xiao in the first season of avatar The Last Airbender 2005 and the second season of The Legend of quora 2013 and the grand Inquisitor Sentinel in Star Wars Rebels 2014 2016 Isaac has appeared on stage as Lou ironson in Dean donin's 19 1992 and 1993 Royal National Theater premiere of Tony kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning Play Angels in America a gay Fantasia on National themes to and as Hitman Ben in a 2007 Revival of Harold Pinter's 1957 play the dumb waiter at troger studios in the West End 345 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for best actor miniseries or television film for the state within 2006 and for the British Academy television Award for best actor for his portrayal of Harry H Corbett and the curse of stepto 2008 he also was nominated for the international Emmy Award for best actor won the satellite Award for best actor miniseries or television film for case histories 2011 2013 and was nominated for the satellite Award for best actor television series drama for Brotherhood 26 2008 Isaac was born to Jewish parents in Liverpool on the 6th of June 1963 six's father was a jeweler he has two older brothers and one younger brother six he spent his earliest childhood years in the Liverpool suburb of child wall in a closely knit and integrated Jewish Community co-founded by his Eastern European Jewish great-grandparents a he has said that being Jewish played a big role in his childhood as he attended youth club in the local synagogue of King David High School in Liverpool's child wall District as well as a cheddar twice a week as a young adult 9101 when he was 11 he moved with his family to London and attended the haberdashers asks boys school in nearby elry at the same time as David badil Sacha Baron Cohen Mark kermode and Matt Lucas nine he describes the bullying and intolerance he observed and experienced during his childhood as preparation for portraying the unattractive villains he has most often played 39 as a Jewish teen in London Isaac's endured anti-Semitism by the national front a far-right extremist organ organization his parents eventually immigrated to Israel nine he later told an interviewer there were constantly people beating us up or smashing Windows if you were ever say on a Jewish holiday identifiably Jewish there was lots of violence around but particularly when I was 16 in 1979 the national front were really taking hold there were leaflets at school and seiling and people Goose stepping down the road and coming after us seven following in the footsteps of his three brother is one who became a doctor one a lawyer and one an accountant six he studied law at Bristol University from 1982 to 1985 becoming involved in the University's theater Club there he eventually acted in over 30 plays and performed each summer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe first with Bristol University and then twice with the national student Theater Company after graduating he went immediately to train at London's Central School of speech and drama from 1985 to 1988 after training as an actor Isaac's immediately began appearing on the stage and on television his film debut was in a minor role as a doctor in Mel Smiths the tall guy 1989 12 he was initially known as a television actor with starring roles in the iiv drama Capital City 1989 and the BBC drama civies 1992 and guest roles in series such as tagart Inspector Morris and Highlander the Series 1993 12 he also played Michael in 's adaptation of Martina Cole's novel dangerous lady directed by Jack woods and produced by levinia Warner in 1995 13 on stage he portrayed the emotionally waffling 12 gay Jewish office temp Louie ironson and Tony kushner's Pitzer prize winning angels in America a gay Fantasia on National themes at the Royal National Theater in its London premere performing the role in both parts Part One Millennium approaches in 1992 in part two perista in 1993 two when auditioning for that role he told the producers look I play all these tough guys and Thugs and strong complex characters in real life I am a cringing neurotic Jewish Mass can't I for once play that on stage 10 after appearing in Dragon har 1996 Isaac's landed his first major Hollywood feature film role alongside Lawrence Fishburn in the horror film Event Horizon 1997 where he played the RO role of DJ the doctor of Lewis and Clark subsequently he appeared in the Bruce Willis Blockbuster armagedon 1998 12 initially called upon to take a fairly substantial role Isaac's was eventually cast in a much smaller capacity as a planet saving scientist so that he could accommodate his commitment to divorcing Jack 1998 a comedy thriller he was making with David thul's six Isaacs played a charismatic honorable priest opposite Kirsty Ali in the miniseries The Last Don Roman 1998 14 following that he portrayed a priest opposite Julian Moore and Ralph Fen and Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of gram greens the end of the affair 1999 2000s in 2000 Isaac's appeared in the historical Epic film The Patriot opposite Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger playing sadistic Cavalry Officer Colonel William tavington critics deemed the performance memorable 12 a movie phone article called it his biggest International break to date when in two5 it led to rumors that Isaac's would be nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor at the 73rd Academy Awards nonetheless demonstrating his range Beyond historic films Isaac's next chose to play a drag queen in the romantic comedy drama Sweet November 2001 six ISAC has appeared in many other films most notably as Lucius Maloy in the Harry Potter series of films 22 2011 regarding the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling he has said I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting you know didn't wash didn't eat drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic I suddenly understood why my friends who i' thought were slightly backward had been so addicted to these children's books they're like crack from an interview in 2009 on ad's the Justin Lee Colin show 16 in the naked and the dead an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle on the 26th of November 2006 neeva chonan named the character Lucius Malfoy one of the 12 sexiest men who were never alive and Isaac's one of the 13 sexiest men who are real and alive 17 prior to the making of the film when asked whether or not he would be in Harry Potter in the Order of the Phoenix 2007 Isaac's replied I hope so you'll have to ask David producer David hyon I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to where my Paris Hilton wig but you never know 18 Isaacs also talked to Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Maloy and the then unpublished Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film the character does not appear in the sixth book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince but Isaac's joked I fell to my knees and begged it didn't do any good I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from me but I made my point we'll see like everybody else I'm holding my my breath to July to see what's in there I just want to bust out of prison that's all I don't want to stay in askaban most of my life 19 ultimately Isaac's did reprise the role of Malfoy as a cameo appearance in Harry Potter and the halfblood prince 2009 where he is seen in a moving portrait afterwards Isaac's reprised the role again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1210 and part 2 2011 20 Isaac's appeared in Black Hawk Down 200 1 Jackie Chan The Tuxedo 2002 as George darling and Captain Hook and PJ Hogan's adaptation of Peter Pan 2003 and as the voice of Admiral Xiao in the first season of The Animated Nickelodeon series avatar The Last Airbender 2005 he played the leading role of Sir Mark Brion the British ambassador to the United States in the BBC 4 minaries the state within 2006 for which he was nominated for the best performance by an actor in a minseries or a motion picture made for television for the 65th Golden Globe awards 2122 on television he also portrayed actor Harry H Corbett in the curse of stepto part of a season of new one-off dramas for BBC 4 revealing the stories behind some of Britain's Best Loved television entertainers and their achievements first broadcast in March 2008 2324 on American television Isaac's appeared in three episodes of The West Wing in 24 prior to developing his most notable TV serial role as Michael Cathy in Brotherhood 2608 Isaac's in July 2011 between the 2nd of February and the 24th of March 2007 Isaac's played Ben opposite Lee Evans Gus in the 50th Anniversary production of Harold Pinter the dumb waiter at Trafalger studios in London his first theater performance since appearing in the force of change 2000 3,450 2526 Isaac played Major Briggs an American military officer opposite Matt Damon and Greg kenar in Paul greengrass's Thriller green zone 2010 a fictionalized drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book Imperial life in the Emerald City inside baghdad's green zone 2006 by Rajiv chundra Garen for which production began in Morocco in January 2008 2728 in 2007 he was originally cast in Jan deons then still upcoming film stopping power to play at Star John Cusack's Nemesis 201930 but on the 31st of August 27 variety reported that the film which was also planned for release in 2009 had been cancelled after a financial backer pulled out 31 Isaacs appeared in one episode of the TV show Entourage in the Autumn of 28 as Frederick line in 2009 he was nominated at the British Academy television awards for best actor for his role as Harry H Corbett in the curse of Steptoe 32 on the evening of the 2nd of May 2009 Isaac's performed the role of Ben again opposite his Brotherhood co-star and Tony Award winner Brian f aay as Gus in a rehearsed reading of the dumb waiter citation needed their reading capped off the Harold Pinter memorial celebration being curated by Harry Burton who had directed him and Evans at Trafalger Studios this tribute to Harold Pinter Co sponsored by the Martin e seagull theater center mesque of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Hy was part of the fifth annual pen World voices Festival of international literature held in New York City from the 27th of April to the 3rd of May 2009 3D 334 2010s he provided the voice of Ros Al Gull in the DC animated film Batman under the Red Hood 2010 and also the voice of SRO in the DC animated film Green Lantern Emerald Knights 2011 in 2011 he starred as Jackson Brody in a BBC adaptation of Kate Atkinson's case histories Isaac starred as detective Michael Britain in the NBC police procedural fantasy drama series awake which premiered on the 1st of March 2012 and ended in May 2012 after Britain gets into a terrible car wreck with his family his dreams begin to take on two alternate realities one in which his wife died in the crash and one in which his son died says Isaac's about the ambitious premise there's no question it's challenging we've got a bunch of very experienced writers who have written things from HBO shows to the X Files to 24 and everything in between and they are challenged all of them have said that it's the hardest job that they've ever had but sometimes that's a good thing if it comes easily that they could write in their sleep I personally wouldn't want to act and I think the audience wouldn't want to watch 35 in 2015 Isaac took the lead role in the USA Network action adventure drama series dig ISAC plays an FBI agent which was named Peter connley stationed in Jerusalem who uncovers a two Vis yel conspiracy while investigating an archaeologist murder the 10 episode series premiered the 5th of March 2015 in February 2016 he starred in Medusa's ankles a film directed by Harry Potter co-star Bonnie Wright in December 2016 he appeared in the Netflix series The OA as Dr Hunter aloisius hap Percy 36 in September 2017 ISAC played field Marshall Georgie zukov in the death of Stalin a political satire and dark comedy film directed by Armando yanui the film depicts the internal social and political power struggle among the Council of ministers following the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953 Isaac starred alongside Steve bamy Simon Russell Beal Jeffrey Tam remember Andrea risborough and Michael Palin the film was a controversial yet critical success and Isaac's performance earned him critical praise 42 for his performance he earned an evening standard British film Awards nomination for best supporting actor losing to his co-star Simon Russell Beal 43 Isaac's also played the role of Dan in the 2018 psychological Thriller Look Away starring Mira Cino and India icely 44 he also played the roles of vasy in the action thriller Hotel Mumbai and Marcus spry in the mystery thriller London Fields respectively throughout 2018 and 2019 Isaac also voiced various characters such as the Slenderman aliser Thorne Slinky and Jack the donkey in the stopmotion sketch comedy TV series Robot Chicken in 2019 Isaac's provided the voice of sko the emperor in the Dark Crystal age of resistance and in 2020 voed Dick Dastardly in the Scooby-Doo film scoo in November 2019 it was announced that Isaac's will appear beside Jim Broadband in the film The Dead spit of Kelly 45 2020s in March 2020 Isaac's played in the lead role of Dr Rob Griff Griffith in the CBS drama pilot Good Sam which was later picked up to Series in 2021 for a mid-season premiere on the 5th of January 2022 46 147 in 2021 Isaac's played Carl in Dr Bird's advice for sad poets Admiral John Henry Godfrey in operation mince meet 48 J Perry in the drama film Mass Ralph and the forthcoming biographical film creation stories and John in the short film sah he also voiced King Arthur Pendragon Winston piling stener and thundar the Barbarian in the direct to DVD animated comedy film Scooby-Doo The Sword and the scoob he also had a minor role in series three of the British comedy drama sex education and appeared in an episode of Anthology Series in side no nine he voiced one of three principal villains in the video game balers Gate 3 released in 2023 Isaac's is set to star in the upcoming third season of Emmy award-winning show the White Lotus filming is set to take place in Thailand in February 2024 Armageddon is a 1998 American Science Fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay produced by Jerry Brooker and released by Touchstone pictures the film follows a group of bluecollar deep core Drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth it stars an ensemble cast consisting of Bruce Willis with Billy Bob Thornton Liv Tyler benol Will Patton Peter Stormare Keith David and Steve busam the film was a commercial success grossing $ 5537 million worldwide against a $14 million budget and becoming the highest grossing film of 1998 and the highest grossing film to be released by Touchstone pictures the film received mixed reviews from critics a massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and bombarding New York City Boston Philadelphia mountaint Halifax in New Finland the meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue Comet which also dislodged a massive asteroid the size of Texas and NASA learns that the asteroid will impact Earth in 18 days potentially wiping out all life on Earth NASA devises a plan to have a deep hole drilled into the asteroid into which they will insert and detonate a nuclear bomb to destroy the asteroid they recruit Harry Stamper a third generation oil driller and owner of his own oil drilling company Harry agrees to help but on the condition that he bring in his own team to do the drilling he picks his best employees for the job chick Chapel his best friend and right-hand man geologist rockhound and Oscar choice and Drillers Bear cleen Freddy Nunan Max Leonard and AJ Frost who has been dating Harry's daughter Grace despite Harry's objections over 12 days they are trained to become astronauts with astronaut Willie sharp who will pilot Freedom one of the two super shuttles to fly to the asteroid the other being the independence before leaving chick apologizes to his ex-wife for wronging her and sees his son who is unaware of his parentage grace accepts AJ's marriage proposal much to Harry's reluctant dismay she later has her father promised to return home safe with her fiance following the destruction of Shanghai by another meteor strike word of the massive asteroid becomes public to the world both shuttles take off without incident and dock with a Russian space station mirror to take on fuel however a leaky pipeline ignites the fuel pod on fire Ag and rosmos Cosmonaut Lev androv narrowly managed to board Independence before the space station is destroyed approaching the asteroid Independence is damaged by debris and crashes killing all on board except love bear and agge they Embark in the shuttle armadillo to find the freedom crew which lands 26 miles from its intended Landing site when the drilling goes slower than predicted sharp reports to Mission Control that it is unlikely the team will reach the depth necessary to destroy the asteroid before zo barrier the point after which detonating The Rock will not save Earth the president of the United States decides to remotely detonate the bomb from Earth immediately which will cause total Mission failure sharp and Harry have a vicious argument but agree to diffuse the bomb and work together after Harry promises sharp that he will accomplish the mission they make progress on drilling but a Mis gas pocket causes the armadillo and Max to be blown into space just as Harry NASA and the world believe the mission to be a failure while another meteor destroys Paris age and the others arrive in the second armadillo agj succeeds in drilling the hole to the required depth but a rock storm kills Gruber and damages the remote Detonator forcing someone to stay behind and manually detonate the bomb they draw straws agj is given the responsibility Harry takes him down to the asteroid's surface only to disconnect AJ's air hose and force him into the shuttle's air loock Harry then tells AJ that he is the son Harry never had and he would be proud to have him marry Grace using the armadillo Harry tearfully gives Grace his Blessing to Mary agj and Grace says that she is proud to be his daughter after some difficulty Freedom takes off and just before zero barrier Harry manages to detonate the bomb and saves the planet the astronauts land on Earth safely agj and grace are reunited and chick reconciles with his ex-wife and a strange son during the credits A and grace are married with the portraits of Harry and the others lost on the mission present in memorium according to Bruce Joel Rubin writer of Deep Impact a production president at Disney took notes on everything the writer said during lunch about his script and initiated Armageddon as a counter film at Disney 49 writers worked on the script five of whom are credited in addition to Robert Roy P Jonathan Hensley Tony Gilroy Shane Salo and JJ Abrams the writers involved included Paul ad andasio Anne by Derman Scott Rosenberg and Robert Town originally it was hens slay's script based on pool's original that had been given the green light by Touchstone pictures then producer Jerry brookheimer hired the succession of scribes for rewrites and polishes 56 Bruce Willis was cast in the film as part of a three- picture deal he cut with the studio to compensate them for the dissolution of 1997's Broadway brawler 78 he received a significant pay cut for the picture as part of the deal nine Shan caner was originally considered for the role of Stamper but Michael Bay decided to cast a younger actor in the role after meeting oil drillers 10 filming principal photography for Armageddon began in August 27th 1997 and ended on January 29th 1998 11 filming occurred at Culver studios in Culver City California 12 in May 1998 Walt Disney Studios chairman Joe Roth expanded the film's budget by $3 million to include additional special effects scenes by dream Quest