00:02This mass suicide, victims adhere to the Mayan calendar, which predicts the end of time to occur on the 21st
00:08of December of 2012.
00:12I thought we'd have more time.
00:26In 2012, Los Angeles gets ravaged by earthquakes.
00:30A 10.5 earthquake, so that's really the earthquake that ends all earthquakes.
00:35John Cusack raises to get his two kids and his ex-wife and her new boyfriend out of Los Angeles.
00:43We've got to get to Santa Monica Airport!
00:46One of the first things that we figured out was we have to approach it in a completely different way.
00:51You cannot shoot a scene for real where we're driving with a limousine through Los Angeles as it is crumbling
00:57down in a 10.5 earthquake.
00:58All of this has to be created.
01:01There's no way we can actually just shoot WorldShare Boulevard.
01:04We actually have to create WorldShare Boulevard from scratch.
01:08We build whole environments, you know, like the streets of L.A., totally in the computer.
01:14The only thing that's real in there is our actors inside the limousine.
01:19Now, that's a huge, huge challenge.
01:21Hurry up! Look behind you!
01:25There's actually a science to creating an earthquake.
01:28Everything has to move in the earthquake.
01:30Every palm tree, every mailbox, every car, every building.
01:35Drone was always very adamant about the look of the earthquake.
01:39The entire ground was supposed to behave like ocean waves, but do that to a street, to everything that's on
01:45the street.
01:46Shelves of ground are ripping open and falling down, and the entire landscape is moving.
01:54You can pretty much now, in CG technology, destroy any building, any landscape you want.
02:04Boys, you gotta get us out of here!
02:05The destruction of Los Angeles was the most difficult sequence in the movie.
02:10What you have in the end is a fully computer-generated piece of movie.
02:16There's no film so far that has done anything like this.
02:20It's so big that the people will say, oh my God, how did they do it?
02:24Guys, look.
02:41The destruction of Los Angeles
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