Millennium is a 1989 science fiction drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti.

He and his team are confused by the flight engineer's words on the cockpit voice recorder, as there is no evidence of a fire before the crash.

Present-day air is too clean for the time travelers to process; they smoke cigarettes to mimic their own timeline's atmosphere.

Mayer was instrumental in the development of the Gate technology that made time travel possible; his death results in an unsolvable paradox—a force infinity timequake—which will destroy the entire civilization of the future timeline.

As an explosion destroys the Gate and as the blast wave engulfs Louise's android advisor, Sherman, he quotes Winston Churchill: "This is not the end.

One director initially attached was visual effects designer Douglas Trumbull; Paul Newman and Jane Fonda were proposed to play the leads.

The death of Brainstorm's leading lady Natalie Wood led to MGM briefly pulling the plug and thus halted production on Millennium due to Trumbull's involvement.

The role of director then passed to Richard Rush, Alvin Rakoff, and Phillip Borsos, before Michael Anderson, best known for 1956's Oscar-winning Around the World in 80 Days, stepped in.

[3] Millennium's production designer, Gene Rudolf, had to produce a future setting that implied putrefaction and atrophy.

To create the time-travel effects of the Gate itself, cinematographer René Ohashi produced the ghostly shimmering lights by spinning metal wheels covered in Mylar.

The room was filled with clocks, hourglasses and navigational equipment, in line with Dr. Mayer's fascination with time travel.

For the outdoor shot where Louise Baltimore steals the car, two-way traffic was run in front of the Terminal 2 arrivals level where it is ordinarily a one-way road.

Actor Scott Thompson played a bit part in the film, and discussed the experience in a sketch on The Kids in the Hall while in character as Buddy Cole.

[4] The original North American theatrical and VHS release of the film features a close-up of Sherman as the gate explodes, followed by a shot of the sun rising over clouds.