Finally! we always knew that Fingerprints of the Gods author Graham Hancock was one of the first people to write about things 2012. And we knew that Roland Emmerich used Graham’s seminal book for his 2012 movie, but not until now did the ‘master of disaster’ credit Graham. Now he has, in this Time Out interview:

‘I always wanted to do a biblical flood movie, but I never felt I had the hook. I first read about the Earth’s Crust Displacement Theory in Graham Hancock’s “Fingerprints of the Gods”. When I discussed it with Harald [Kloser, his writing partner], I said we need a “plausible” reason, not a scientific one. Show this film to a scientist and they would probably laugh.’