GRB: The Revenge

[gfish]

Randomness: If an action/disaster movie about a gamma-ray burster was to be made, what would the deus ex machina at the end be?

Assume that they (somehow) get a couple week's warning that there will be a GRB in the local vicinity -- no more than 10,000 light years away. The solution, obviously, need not be limited by reality, but the more plausible the better.

The cast should involve, but is not limited to:

• Harrison Ford as a somewhat bitter professional in some seemingly irrelevant but highly masculine trade, like a forest fire jumper or deep sea diver.


• Scarlet Johanson as an absent minded physicist.


• Jack Black as her wacky lab assistant.

The only thing I can think of is that they come up with some kind of magical forcefield which they use to shield the entire earth. That's kind of dull, on the scale of a GRB, but I don't see much available between that and some Stephen Baxter type of plot involving solar system scale engineering.

Comments

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Seeing as how you weren't present for the conversation, that's understandable. :)

See, this began because I threw it out on moo as a joke. Fishy posted an article about a GRB and I said "when does the Hollywood action movie come out?" And then I just randomly threw out the first people I thought of.

So I was going for the young ones because that's what Hollywood would do. The total implausibility of the young nubile female academic was kind of the point of the joke...