Countdown to Annihilation

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Countdown to Annihilation is a 2020 Guianese action disaster film based on the 2009 movie 2012, co-directed by James Fenty and Carlos Fidel and produced by Pirate Entertainment with funding from the Guianese Media Fund. It was released on theaters on November 16th 2020.

Plot
In an alternate 2009, Dutch Guianese Jon de Wilder is a science-fiction writer based in Macapa, who lives with his wife Rowena, a news reporter, and their children, Saskia and Danny. Jon is best friends with Jaime Torres, a geologist, who visits Sonali Balakrishnan, an astrophysicist who discovers that the Earth's core is somehow being heated up by a strange new type of neutrinos. The information ends up in the hands of Guianese President Remy LaFontaine, after receiving it from State Secretary Renald Saint-Denis.

China, the G8 nations and the (fictional) South American Union start working on 10 arks each carrying 100,000 people. 5 are built in the Himalayas while the other 5 are in the Gobi Desert. An unnamed Buddhist monk and his brother are evacuated, and their abbot becomes a worker for the ark project. In 2011, valuable items are hoarded by top ranking spies from each of the countries contributing to the ark project and moved into the arks with help from Remy's son Renard and French art expert Marie LaRouge.

In 2012, Jon has become a chauffeur for Brazilian multi-millionaire Rodrigo Domingo, and Rowena now lives with her new boyfriend, television show host and pilot Bradley Merrick. On December 19th, three days before the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar reaches Baktun 13.0.0.0, Jon goes camping with his family under the guise of a mock wartime scouting trip. They run into an area fenced off by the Guianan National Army and are caught, before being brought to Jaime, who happens to be a fan of Danny's videos.

They are released when they run into Dennis, a conspiracy theorist hosting a radio show from their campsite. The same night, Jon stumbles upon one of Dennis' videos predicting that the polar shift and ensuing crust displacement coincides with December 21st 2012 - the date the world is expected to end. Returning to Macapa, they begin packing up, refusing to dismiss the events as a joke. When they get in the car, the earthquakes indeed begin, and they flee Macapa in Bradley's plane, moving to Georgetown.

They fly to the nearby forest, retrieving a map from Dennis which contains the location of the arks. Just as they take off, an undiscovered supervolcano erupts and Dennis is killed. The group flies to Georgetown to find a larger plane and meet up with Rodrigo and his twin sons Jorge and João, who are both social media influencers, Rodrigo's wife Maria and their private pilot Ricardo. Ricardo and Bradley fly them all out in a B787 Dreamliner, as the ash cloud and earthquakes take their toll on Georgetown.

Jaime on the other hand flies with Renald and Remy to the arks on the Guyanese Presidential Aircraft, but not before Remy adresses the nation for one last time as billions die in earthquakes and tsunamis worldwide.

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