Meteor (film)

Meteor
original film poster
Directed by	Ronald Neame
Produced by	Arnold Orgolini Theodore R. Parvin Run Run Shaw
Written by	Stanley Mann Edmund H. North
Starring	Sean Connery Natalie Wood Karl Malden Brian Keith Henry Fonda
Music by	Laurence Rosenthal
Cinematography	Paul Lohmann
Edited by	Carl Kress
Distributed by	American International Pictures
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States Hong Kong
Language	English
Budget	$16 million
Box office	$8.4 million (U.S.)

Meteor is a 1979 science fiction Technicolor disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, Cold War politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The film stars Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.

It was directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay by Edmund H. North and Stanley Mann, which was inspired by a 1967 MIT report Project Icarus. The movie co-starred Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Joseph Campanella, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda.

After the asteroid Orpheus is hit by a comet, a five-mile chunk of Orpheus is sent on a collision course towards Earth, which will cause an extinction-level event. While the United States government engages in political maneuvering, smaller asteroid fragments precede the main body, wreaking havoc on the planet. The United States has a secret orbiting nuclear missile platform satellite named Hercules, which was designed by Dr. Paul Bradley (Sean Connery). It was intended to defend Earth against a massive space rock, but instead was demoted to become an orbiting super weapon now aimed at Russia. However, its fourteen nuclear missiles are not enough to stop the meteor.