“2012″ Movie Trailer Video

Here is the teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich’s “2012.” The highly anticipated epic will be released in theaters July 10, 2009. See photos and the movie trailer here.

Roland Emmerich

“2012″ is a post-apocalyptic movie based on ancient Mayan legends which predict the world will end in the year 2012. The movie has an ensemble cast–John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson and others–portraying survivors who are coping with unfolding catastrophic events as the civilized world comes to an end.

German director, producer and screenwriter Roland Emmerich, who rose to international prominence with the 1996 blockbuster “Independence Day” (the first movie in history to gross more than $100 million in one week), is well known for his epic disaster movies. Thus it is no surprise that he is at the helm of a movie which tackles the much speculated and much discussed 2012 prophesy.

Emmerich is also the co-writer (with Harald Kloser) and co-producer of the movie for Sony Pictures Entertainment. In an interview earlier this year, he talked about the impetus for “2012.”

“…This whole movie I’m doing next was inspired by just the phenomenon of the Internet when you type in Google, ‘2012′, you get 240 million hits. That’s a lot. And it’s just, so many people write about it, believe it, that our world comes to an end in 2012. I said wow. I kind of said before I will never do a disaster movie again. I said, for this idea I have to do it again.”

The teaser trailer delivers menacing music with a montage of rugged landscapes while asserting that indeed the world will end in 2012.

More photos and “2012″ movie trailer video are below.