Beau Bridges’s 10.5: Apocalypse premieres

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Beau Bridges (“Hank Landry”) stars with Kim Delaney (CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue) in the new made-for-TV movie 10.5: Apocalypse, which will air during May sweeps. The movie will premiere on NBC on Sunday, May 21 at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.

Bridges and Delaney reprise their roles as U.S. President Hollister and as the controversial scientist, Dr. Samantha Hill. The deadly events of the 10.5 earthquake from the first mini-series devastated the West Coast. As a result, the Earth’s core structure has altered and now threatens to jeopardize North America and the entire western hemisphere, causing catastrophic events.

The President calls upon the previous team lead by Hill. She has no idea how to interpret continued seismic and now volcanic disruptions. In the process, Hill rediscovers her seismologist father’s much-discredited hypothesis from years past. Dr. Earl Hill (Frank Langella) predicts a complete altering of the North American continent — a continental divide of the land mass causing even more traumatic ruin.

The movie also guest stars Barbara Eve Harris, Melissa Sue Anderson, Dean Cain, Oliver Hudson, and Carly Pope.

“We are shooting this sequel on digital, which is allowing us to achieve a whole new level of visual effects and style that have heretofore not been seen on network television,” reports writer-director John Lafia (The Dead Zone).

Tune in to watch our favorite general play President valiantly trying to save lives in 10.5: Apocalypse. After its May 21 premiere, the movie will re-air on Wednesday, May 23 at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific.