Superstorm (film)
| Superstorm | |
|---|---|
| Genre | docudrama |
| Written by | Julian Simpson |
| Directed by | Julian Simpson |
| Starring |
Nicola Stephenson Tom Sizemore Chris Potter JR Bourne Cas Anvar Nicolas Wright Jana Carpenter |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC/Discovery Channel/ProSieben |
| Running time | 177 minutes (3x59 minutes) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Original release | 15 April – 29 April 2007 |
Superstorm is a three-part British docudrama miniseries written and directed by Julian Simpson, about a group of scientists that try to divert and weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding.
Superstorm originally aired on BBC One for a period of three weeks, totaling three 59 minute episodes, from 15 April 2007 to 29 April 2007. Each episode was followed by a half-hour documentary on BBC Two on extreme weather monitoring and forecasting, called The Science of Superstorms. The series was also aired (after being edited for content) on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. and Canada during the summer of 2007.
Superstorm is a co-production of BBC Worldwide, Discovery Channel and ProSieben, in association with M6 and NHK. Ailsa Orr and Michael Mosley, who made also Supervolcano, are the executive producers for BBC, while Jack E. Smith is the executive producer for Discovery Channel.
The miniseries was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2007.
The movie begins with a team of scientists working on a US government project, known as Stormshield, whose goal is to control and manage storms, particularly hurricanes.
Hurricane Grace, a Category 3 hurricane which is slowly climbing to a Category 5, is up to hit the United States. Using a predictive technology named Tempest and developed by Lance Resznick, they are able to simulate the effects of seeding the storm in order to collapse the eye of the storm and then decrease its intensity.
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