#EVENT HORIZON FILM MOVIE#

#EVENT HORIZON FILM MOVIE#

I was aware we were making a haunted house movie because that’s what Philip's script had always been, and I saw Notre Dame cathedral again and I walked around it. Related: The Alien movies ranked worst to bestįor me the concept came when I was in Paris.

I can’t go and do a generic space movie where we just sit with a production designer and draw some corridors. I thought, '2001' had NASA, Ridley had Giger, I've got to have something going into this. The look of the alien, the look of the alien spaceship was straight out of his art books. It was one man's life's work distilled down into this biomechanical look that was so different to anything anyone had seen before. 'Alien' ended up being much more advanced once we got to 2001 and we didn't have space stations that looked like that and no moon base. '2001' was all the research that they did with NASA to say, 'okay, what's it really going to be like?' They did the realistic version of space. They were strong and it made me realize they had such strong inception points. What really struck me, looking at ' 2001' and 'Alien,' was the strength of the look of those movies. : When discussing the techno-medieval style and sinister tone of 'Event Horizon' with production designer Joseph Bennett, visual effects supervisor Richard Yuricich and cinematographer Adrian Biddle, what were some influences you used in creating that world?Īnderson: Early in the pre-production process we screened a lot of movies, which was great because we all got to watch Robert Wise’s 'The Haunting,' we watched '2001,' and we watched 'Alien' again. I enjoyed creating Shang Tsung's island and the other stuff we built and here was an opportunity to create the entire world because it was all set on space stations and spaceships. I’d partly done that with 'Mortal Kombat' and I really enjoyed it. So it was all of those things, and I’d just done a PG-13 action movie so I really liked the idea of doing something that was darker and more visceral.

It was in space and it was a horror movie. Anderson: It was dark and I really liked that. : What attracted you to Philip Eisner's 'Event Horizon' script when you read it, as opposed to other projects you were being offered like 'X-Men?' His sci-fi horror film 'Event Horizon' was released in 1997. Anderson is an acclaimed film director, producer and screenwriter behind the 'Resident Evil' film franchise, 1998's 'Soldier,' 2020's 'Monster Hunter' and the original 'Mortal Kombat' from 1995.

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