RE: Best Sci-fi movies
January 2, 2012 at 12:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2012 at 12:45 am by Cyberman.)
Actually, this is one thing that can, in one sense, be blamed on the Devil; or at the very least superstition. In the mid seventies, 20th Century Fox was in a sorry state financially and I understand was in danger of going under, when a horror film script which was doing the rounds of the Hollywood studios came to the attention of Alan Ladd Jr, president of Fox at the time. The script, working title The Birthmark, came hard on the heels of films such as The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, and Ladd Jr gave it the green light.
One sequence was set, and filmed, in a hospital where expectant mothers objected to the signs dotted around declaring the cameras were rolling; they felt that signs talking about birthmarks were too much of an omen for their impending offspring. Out of sensibility, the film was thus renamed as The Omen, the box office receipts went through the roof, and Ladd Jr felt that the studio's finances were now sufficiently strong to produce another script that had been bouncing around Hollywood: a little sci fi story called The Star Wars. The rest is the proverbial history.
(Source: Behind-the-scenes documentary on DVD release of The Omen. Specific details subject to my leaky memory but substantially accurate.)
One sequence was set, and filmed, in a hospital where expectant mothers objected to the signs dotted around declaring the cameras were rolling; they felt that signs talking about birthmarks were too much of an omen for their impending offspring. Out of sensibility, the film was thus renamed as The Omen, the box office receipts went through the roof, and Ladd Jr felt that the studio's finances were now sufficiently strong to produce another script that had been bouncing around Hollywood: a little sci fi story called The Star Wars. The rest is the proverbial history.
(Source: Behind-the-scenes documentary on DVD release of The Omen. Specific details subject to my leaky memory but substantially accurate.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
