14 Best Fictional Movie Presidents

If you thought Morgan Freeman was the first head of state to deal with a collision course comet, then, in the words of Mr Cholmondley Warner:

“You’re quite wrong!”

In this earlier incarnation of the Extinction from the Stars terror, Fonda’s president not only has to confront the prospect of all out Armageddon from giant bits of rock hurtling to earth, he also has to contend with those secretive old foes, the Soviets, offering a further Cold War twist to an already tricky situation.

Staying true to the customs of such events, New York gets flattened.