During an interview with the Miami Herald while promoting his new movie Pain & Gain, he took the opportunity to say, “I will apologize for Armageddon, because we had to do the whole movie in 16 weeks. It was a massive undertaking. That was not fair to the movie. I would redo the entire third act if I could. But the studio literally took the movie away from us. It was terrible. My visual effects supervisor had a nervous breakdown, so I had to be in charge of that. I called James Cameron and asked ‘What do you do when you’re doing all the effects yourself?’ But the movie did fine.”
Armageddon, about a NASA team who tries to stop a Texas-sized asteroid from colliding into Earth, was considered a disaster by many movie critics, but was given two-thumbs up by many moviegoers. According to Box Office Mojo, it grossed $535 million worldwide while a similar movie, Deep Impact – which hit theaters before Armageddon – only earned $349 million. ~E. Guevarra