2012 (movie)

2012 is a disaster movie directed by Roland Emmerich and released to theaters in America and Canada on November 13, 2009. The film's central premise is the fulfillment of the Mayan Calendar's prediction of the end of the world in 2012. It begins with solar flares in 2009 heating the planet's core, and causing a so-called Earth crust displacement in 2012 that brings about a series of cataclysmic natural disasters that destroy much of mankind and the planetary surface.

Mercury Rising Universe

 * In the Mercury Rising universe, the film still exists and is watched multiple times by Peter Lynch, Peter Horosz, Joseph Lynch, and Simon Jeffries between it's American release date and the first major disaster of the year, after which they quit watching.
 * Actress Amanda Peet and actor Liam James's roles are replaced by that of fictional actress Amy Hanson (character Simone Jeffries' sister) and real-life actor Quinn Lord, who portrayed young Peter Bishop in Season 2 of J.J. Abrams' Fringe.