David James Elliott will take the lead in "Impact," an effects-heavy
 four-hour miniseries.

The Hollywood Reporter story on Elliott's casting doesn't list a
network home for the $13 million project, which is written by Michael
Vickerman ("Superfire") and will be produced through Muse
Entertainment, Jaffe/Braunstein Entertainment and Tandem
Communications.

The trade says that "Impact" focuses on the aftermath of meteor shower
that leaves the piece of a dwarf star stuck in the moon. As a result,
a bunch of weird stuff starts happening on Earth, including "cell
phone service interruption, exaggerated tides and the occurrence of
sporadic weightlessness." None of that actually sounds so bad, but we
assume things get worse.

Elliott will play an astrophysicist who joins forces with a female
astronomer to discover that the moon may be heading on a collision
course with Earth. Ah. That sounds bad.

"Impact" will begin shooting later this month.

Golly Gosh, it's the next EARTHSTORM.

 Wow, white dwarf physics ....

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