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, Jon de Wilder is a science-fiction writer based in Georgetown, who lives with 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 his secretary, Renald Saint-Denis.

China, the G8 nations and the (fictionalized) 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. A 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 by Remy's son Renard, and artist and TikTok influencer 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 so 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 coincides with December 21st 2012.