Millennium (1989) on Netflix
PG-1319891h 48mDramaSci-FiThriller
Bill Smith investigates an airliner crash in which passengers were reported burned, though no fire is evident. Louise Baltimore, sent back from a polluted future, works to divert his inquiry.
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Plot summary
An airliner crashes on its landing approach, and the flight engineer returns to the cockpit saying the passengers are dead and burned, though the wreckage shows no fire. Bill Smith, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator, and his team go over the cockpit voice recorder. Physicist Arnold Mayer, who lectures on visitors from the future, takes an interest in the case. A thousand years on, pollution has left humans unable to reproduce, so teams travel into the past to take people who are about to die, holding them in stasis until they can be sent forward to repopulate the Earth. Louise Baltimore is sent to 1989 to keep Smith from pursuing his inquiries. Time travelers smoke to mimic the atmosphere of their own era, because present-day air is too clean for them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Millennium (1989)
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- The death of Brainstorm's leading lady Natalie Wood led MGM to briefly pull the plug, halting production on Millennium because of visual effects designer Douglas Trumbull's involvement.
- Millennium's screenplay went through six rewrites for four different directors, and the writer said that by the time it went in front of the cameras a lot of the vision was lost.
- Paul Newman and Jane Fonda were proposed to play the leads of Millennium, a film that took a decade to reach the screen.
- For the film's time-travel Gate, cinematographer René Ohashi created the ghostly shimmering lights by spinning metal wheels covered in Mylar.
- Airport terminal scenes were shot at Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport in the former Terminals 1 and 2; for the shot where Louise Baltimore steals a car, two-way traffic was run on an ordinarily one-way road.
- Because no real aircraft could be sent through the set, Millennium used miniature models and a full-size mock-up of a Boeing 707's tail section, with optical effects making the planes appear to enter the set.
