timespace coordinates: 2000’s Journey to the Earth’s center + Alaska, Boston, California, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, the Middle East, the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco Bay Area, Utah, Washington, D.C.
The Core is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D. J. Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, Bruce Greenwood, and Alfre Woodard.
In response to criticism of his screenplay’s lack of scientific realism, screenwriter John Rogers responded that he tried to make the science accurate, but expended three years fighting “to get rid of the … dinosaurs, magma-walks in ‘space-suits’, bullshit-sci-crap sources for the Earth’s crisis, and a windshield for the ship Virgil.” (wiki)
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