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Aka: Witch Mountain
In Las Vegas, the regenerated ex-con Jack Bruno works as taxi driver. During an UFO Convention at Planet Hollywood, the skeptical Jack picks up Dr. Alex Friedman, who will present a scientific lecture in the event. Then he is pressed by two henchmen of his former boss, the criminal Wolff, that wants to talk to him, but Jack does not want to return to the crime life. Jack fights and gets rid of them; out of the blue, he finds two teenagers on the backseat of his cab. They tell that they are siblings, Sara and Seth, and they need to travel to a location outside Las Vegas in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile the gove...
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rnment finds a spacecraft that crashed nearby Las Vegas and is chasing the two aliens; after the investigation of the men of Major Henry Burke, they discover that the two siblings are the aliens. Jack Bruno, Sara and Seth are chased by Henry Burke's team and by the "Syphon", a killer from outer space that has been sent to kill them by the military of their planet that want to invade Earth. Sara and Seth explain that they traveled to Earth to collect scientific data of an experiment and save Earth from invasion, but they need to return immediately to their planet. Jack teams up with Dr. Alex to retrieve their spacecraft in a secret base in the Witch Mountain.
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Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson), a Las Vegas taxi driver, is swept up in the adventure of a lifetime when he meets Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig), a pair of extraterrestrial youths who possess paranormal powers. In order to prevent an invasion of Earth, Jack must help the youths reach their spaceship, which is buried within Witch Mountain. But the task will not be easy, for government operatives and an alien bounty hunter are fast on their trail.
Walt Disney Pictures resurrects one of their time-honored franchises with Race to Witch Mountain, a family-oriented sci-fi adventure that tells the story of two alien visitors (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) whose search for their spacecraft gets them caught up in an adventure with a cab driver (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and a UFO specialist (Carla Gugino). As the group races toward the mysterious mountain in the Nevada desert that has mystified scientists and paranormal researchers for years, the government, gangsters, and an extraterrestrial bounty hunter attempt to prevent them from reaching their inte...
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nded destination. Should the two planetary travelers fail in recovering their ship, an alien invasion will be launched against the entire planet. The original 1975 picture Escape to Witch Mountain was followed by the sequel Return From Witch Mountain, as well as a 1995 made-for-TV remake.
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Een UFO-expert probeert met de hulp van een taxichauffeur twee broers en zussen met paranormale krachten te redden. Dit, omdat een kwade organisatie de kinderen wil gebruiken voor hun snode plannen.
Race to Witch Mountain News Articles
You are Universal. You won a bidding war a couple of years ago to turn Atari’s classic video game Asteroids into a film. You hired Race to Witch Mountain screenwriter Matthew Lopez to turn the basic concept into a script. But now you need a director. In the immortal, halting words of Janine Melnitz, who are you going to call? Why, Roland Emmerich , of course!Yes, the master of disaster, the man who never met a landmark he didn’t want to knock over/incinerate/exploderise/swamp is top of the studio’s list to tackle the Asteroids movie.But while Emmerich was once best known for the likes of Independence Day , Godzilla and, most recently, 2012, he’s seemingly sworn off the epic Earth destructo-fests in favour of developing other work, such as his incoming Shakespeare conspiracy drama, Anonymous . Here’s the likely loophole – according to Vulture, Lopez’ script
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