[LA Times]
Maybe it’s the wind that’s been rattling the windows here in Los Angeles, but when we heard about the new earthquake disaster movie “San Andreas: 3D,” it seemed … prescient. But hopefully not too prescient.
Written by the veteran Hollywood screenwriter Allan Loeb (“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” “21”), the heretofore unreported project is about the Big One: that mother of all rollers that stretches from California to Nevada first along the fault line of its title and then beyond, leaving plenty of destruction behind. …
Though they don’t exactly win Oscars, disaster movies are a timeless staple ands big global earners (“2012” made more than $750 million around the world, enough to support an entire Mayan civilization). And this one, of course, could be in 3-D.
Centuries ago some people believed gale-force winds could foretell earthquakes. Here’s hoping the winds foretell only earthquake movies.
Read the full story here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/12/earthquake-los-angeles-movie-san-andreas-allan-loeb-1.html