he was cast as the editor of the Daily Express in the Fleet Street-based sci-fi thriller The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
News media - "We see a media landscape that is largely defined through the press and its heavy-duty Gutenberg technology, and a political landscape that is defined through the Cold War... The bustling newsroom with its exhorting wall poster slogans (Go for IMPACT!) is a nexus of conflicting information and misinformation, conjecture and rumour as the hacks try to get an angle on freak weather conditions in the silly season."
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The film, which was partly made on location in London and Brighton, used matte painting to create images of abandoned cities and desolate landscapes.
Earth | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Green Day | Earth-616 | Google Earth | One Day International | New Year's Day | Boxing Day | Memorial Day | Seventh-day Adventist Church | Labor Day | Great Fire of London | Doris Day | Earth Day | May Day | Sandra Day O'Connor | Valentine's Day | Arcade Fire | Fire | Friends of the Earth | Record Store Day | From the Earth to the Moon | Cursed Earth | New York City Fire Department | Earth, Wind & Fire | Mother's Day | Middle-earth | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Bastille Day | Six-Day War |