40 Days and Nights

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40 Days and Nights
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Directed byPeter Geiger
Written byH. Perry Horton
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyUlf Soderqvist
Edited byRachel Anderson-Lebron
Music byChris Ridenhour
Production
company
Distributed byThe Asylum
Release date
  • November 27, 2012 (2012-11-27)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

40 Days and Nights is a 2012 disaster film loosely based on the 2009 film 2012 . Produced by The Asylum and directed by Peter Geiger, the film stars Monica Keena, Alex Carter, Christianna Carmine, Emily Sandifer, and Mitch Lerner. [1] It is a modern take on Noah's Ark and the Genesis flood narrative.

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Premise

When a massive tectonic shift triggers a tsunami capable of swallowing whole continents, the military creates an ark capable of holding only 50,000 people and the DNA of every species possible while the storm consumes most of the world.

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References

  1. "See Five New Asylum Trailers Featuring Zombies, Cannibals, Satanic Babies, Biblical Disasters, and Hobbits". Dread Central . 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2013-01-07.