- Tycus
"Tycus" is a 1998 direct-to-video movie starring
Dennis Hopper ,Peter Onorati ,Finola Hughes ,Alexander Cleir and others. It has been released in 2000, inEngland ,France and theUnited States .Plot summary
In 1989 Peter Crawford, an astronomer, discovers a comet on a collision course with Earth. He reports his findings to the council, but they think it a joke. Ten years later the comet, now called Tycus, is rapidly closing on the Earth. But Tycus isn't on a collision course with the Earth, Tycus is going to impact the moon. If Tycus does impact the moon, it will be shattered and the fragments will be pulled in by Earth's gravity.
Dr. Crawford begins the construction of a vast city located under the Sierra mountains. His city would provide a safe haven for a few people who would become the beginning of the new age after the Apocalypse. A young reporter is investigating the building site when he finds out that only a few people get to inhabit the city. So he takes Dr. Crawford hostage and demands to go find his wife and unborn child. Dr. Crawford agrees as he also wants to find his family.
They plan to fly Crawford's jet to Los Angeles, now in a state of chaos. Jake Lowe, the reporter, finds his wife and gets her to the rendezvous point. Unfortunately, someone has already taken the jet so Jake, his wife, and Crawford's family use a pick-up truck to reach the city.
As soon as they get there they see a group of people desperately waiting for the doors to the city to open. Crawford activates the elevator and walks towards the door. After they all entered the elevator, Crawford is grabbed by the group of people and he is forced to stay behind. The elevator descends into the underground city just as Tycus is about to impact the moon.
Tycus smashes into the moon, shattering it and sending its debris down to Earth. The fragments obliterate every major city in the world: Paris, New York, London... Human civilization is wiped out...
Much later, a group of people sitting in the Sierra mountains tell of an ancient world where highways and buildings covered the Earth's surface. They tell of Dr. Crawford who first discovered the little dot in the sky and how that little dot would lead to the downfall of mankind. As the story continues, they tell us of how thousands of moons remind us of the new age and we are shown that the pieces left of the moon have formed an asteroid belt around the Earth...
Trivia
The film relied heavily on stock footage, recycling shots from
Dante's Peak and Air America amongst several films.External links
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