Similar Films
- Many elements of the movie's plot were used in the 1998 films Armageddon and Deep Impact.
- A 2009 film with the same title and a similar plot, Meteor, was broadcast by NBC as a 4-hour, 2-part miniseries.
- Meteor replicated many elements of 1964's Fail-Safe. These include the Americans forced to co-operate with the Soviet Union and share secret details concerning their nuclear weapons in order to avoid a global Armageddon, the strenuous objections of a senior Air Force officer in the control room, and Henry Fonda again portraying the unnamed American President with an essentially identical demeanour.
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