Most disaster play on fairly unlikely fears. You are NOT likely to be attacked by a swarm of killer bees on the way to Sainsburys, not blasted to atoms by alien invaders . Even a zombie apocalpyse is looking a bit long in the tooth. However, to be fair, the premise of next year's San Andreas is at least built on an event that IS going to happen. Either next week or a hundred years from now, a sufficiently big earthquake will take place along America's western seaboard and likely send a massive chunk of California or more crashing into the sea. Earthquakes happen in the region all the time, but should a magnitude of around '9' hit... goodbye Disneyland and most of Hollywood.
In the meantime, Hollywood likes to fictionalise the disaster and 'San Andreas', hitting US cinemas next May, places Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in the heart of such an event. Johnson plays a (lucky for us) rescue pilot who must team-up with his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) to find their missing daughter after a massive earthquake cuts off most of the area from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
The film, directed by Brad Peyton, also stars Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,True Detective), Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four, Forever), Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife), Hugo Johnstone-Burt (Home and Away), Art Parkinson (Game of Thrones) and Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man).