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Re: They are at it again! (NBC)
Monday August 16 1:03 AM ET NBC hatches Y2K disaster picture
By Josef Adalian NEW YORK (Variety)
- Looking to take advantage of millennium madness, NBC is working on
``Y2K,'' a disaster picture that imagines near-apocalyptic results brought
about by the much-hyped computer bug. The thriller stars Ken Olin (``L.A.
Doctors'') as a techie trying to save the United States from disasters
caused by computer failures as 1999 turns into 2000. The picture is the
only announced broadcast project to date capitalizing on concerns over the
Y2K computer bug, in which machines interpret the date 1/1/00 as Jan. 1,
1900. Analysts have predicted all sorts of catastrophes as a result of the
problem, though forecasts regarding the actual impact of the bug vary
widely. In ``Y2K,'' the bug causes an East Coast power outage, ATM
failures, airliners whose instruments don't work and other assorted
calamities. Olin's character battles one of the biggest imagined
consequences of the bug when a nuclear power plant threatens to go into
meltdown. ``Y2K'' also stars Joe Morton (``Terminator 2,'' ``The
Astronaut's Wife''), Ronny Cox (``Total Recall,'' ``Murder at 1600'') and
Lauren Tom (``Friends,'' ``Futurama''). Dick Lowry (``Atomic Train'')
directs. Reuters/Variety
>From: "Eugene Forrer" <Eugene.Forrer@tdh.state.tx.us>
>Reply-To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: They are at it again! (NBC)
>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:59:16 -0500 (CDT)
>
>I just saw that NBC will be making a Y2K bug movie about a disaster
>that strikes when the calendar rolls over to 2000. Of course they
>chose one of the areas that has already proven that they will be
>ready for the rollover, the nuclear power industry. The movie will
>be about a power plant that tries to melt down when the computers
>"bug out". Even better The director of Atomic Train will be
>directing this one as well. Until I saw that I thought it was going
>to be a hatchet job of a movie.
>
>
>The opinions expressed herein are entirely my own
>and not those of any agency, department, bureau,
>etc. of the great state of Texas.
>
>Eugene (Gene) Forrer
>Chief
>Uranium Licensing Project
>Texas Department of Health
>Bureau of Radiation Control
>Eugene.Forrer@tdh.state.tx.us
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