It’s been a while, but I think the space station and shuttle and all the astronauts were killed in the intro, so they really don’t have any astronauts ready to go and the thing hits earth in 18 days and the lead driller guy is like “I want to be a difficult asshole so you gotta use my crew or we all die” or something like that
It was contrived, but not unbelievably so. Given that the problem was an asshole being an asshole about it, it’s kind of the most believable contrived plot possible.
famously, when asked about this nonsense plot, the director said (something along the lines of) “shut the fuck up”
It’s been a while, but I think the space station and shuttle and all the astronauts were killed in the intro, so they really don’t have any astronauts ready to go and the thing hits earth in 18 days and the lead driller guy is like “I want to be a difficult asshole so you gotta use my crew or we all die” or something like that
It was contrived, but not unbelievably so. Given that the problem was an asshole being an asshole about it, it’s kind of the most believable contrived plot possible.
Yeah because there’s only like five astronauts in existence and they’re all on the international space station all of the time.