Synopsis: A scientific possibility
becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe
comes closer to home.
Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr. Austin Shepard (Golden Globe winner
Peter Fonda, Back When We Were Grownups) suddenly disappears from his
observatory at the Space Propulsion Labs, leaving shocking data behind
for his assistant Ginny McKillip (Clemency Burton-Hill, La Femme Musketeer),
seasoned news reporter Laurie Stephenson (Emma Samms, General Hospital),
who's looking for answers to bizarre sun storm activities, and fellow
astrophysicist Christopher Richardson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills, 90210).
Joe Handey (Ronald Pickup, Lolita), the Managing Director of SPL and National
Intelligence Special Agent Lisa Delgado (Tia Carrere, True Lies) fear
that Shepard has been selling his classified top-secret Solar Probe discoveries
and has gone into hiding.
The truth is that Shepard has retreated to an island paradise with the
lost love of his life where he's planning to spend his final days. Because
Shepard knows something that everyone else will soon discover for themselves:
After eons of existence as a roiling inferno, the sun is set to explode
in a supernova that will bring about the end of world in seven days.
Already electromagnetic pulses are being blamed for a series of inexplicable
phenomena across the globe: schools of dolphins beaching themselves, a
spontaneous zebra stampede that kills thirty children in a remote Kenyan
village, locust swarms in Hong Kong, massive blackouts and freakish electrical
storms, high frequency radiation bursts, and total loss of telecom satellite
capability. Then fireballs vaporize the western states, the Sahara Desert
is turned into a wasteland of black noxious gas, and a boiling tidal wave
engulfs Australia.
The President of the United States tries to quell the worldwide panic-from
an underground bunker where he's orchestrating a Noah's Ark for the new
millennium. As civilized man turns into a raving mass of panic and hysteria-and
as uncivilized man acts on its own depraved impulses, Shepard's team of
survivors race against time to find the single saving grace to stop Shepard's
predictions of apocalypse from coming true. Blazing visual effects and
intense human drama ignite in Supernova, a fiery miniseries event that
really delivers on thrills. (courtesy Hallmark Channel, 2005)
The Cast:
Luke Perry as Dr. Chris Richardson
Tia Carrere as Agent Lisa Delgado
Peter Fonda as Dr. Austin Shepard
Clamency Burton Hill as Ginny McKillop
Emma Samms as Laurie Stephenson
Jessica Brooks as Brooke Richardson
Eliza Bennett as Haley Richardson
Marcus Jean Pirae as Dr. Marshall Peters
Phil Lenkowsky as Grant Cole
Ronald Pickup as Joe Handey
Lance Henrikson as Col. Harlan Williams
Didier Moestus as Agent Bott
Patrick Walton as Agent Means
Greg Carew as Bone
Nkuli Kgositsile as Linda Darlington
Chris April as Dr. Duka Ibrahim
Mehoob Bawa as Rani Vahpayee
Michael Mayor as Dr. Wilson Gregory
Adrienne Pearce as Giselle Lamond
Jeremy Crutchley as Dr. Joseph Chenislav
Sechaba Marojele as Carl
André Jacobs as Henry Cheevers
Tamsin McCarthy as Brenda
Silvia Esau as Teresa
Mark McQue as President Jeffries
Patrick Lyster as Edwards
Cindi Sampson as Gina
Grant Swanby as John
Wayne Harrison as Bartlett
Adrian Wilson as Dave
Vaneshran Arumugam as Singh
Production Credits:
Airdate:
It premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Monday, September 5th,. 2005 |