Meteor

Meteor is a 1979 science-fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, from a screenplay by Stanley Mann and Edmund H. North. It stars Sean Connery and Natalie Wood, along with an ensemble cast featuring Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard, Richard Dysart and Henry Fonda. The film's premise, which follows a group of scientists struggling with Cold War politics after an asteroid is detected to be on a collision course with Earth, was inspired by a 1967 MIT report, Project Icarus. Meteor was released by American International Pictures on October 19, 1979. It was a box-office bomb and was panned by critics, but was nonetheless nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.