![]() ![]() “He was in a real spaceship with real sparks flying and there wasn’t a huge amount of blue screen or green screen work,” Anderson said. In the script’s NAR moments, Fishburne’s character was in such extreme situations that he could simply react – something made easier by practical sets and effects. He made copious notes in his script and something I would see quite frequently was ‘NAR.’ One time I went up to him and asked, ‘Fish, what does that mean?’ He said, ‘Paul, that means No Acting Required.” “They really helped me, and Fishburne in particular was a very giving man in terms of giving me pointers and nudging me in the right direction when it came to directing and judging good performances. “I think they all realized that it was only my third film and I didn’t come from a big theater background,” Anderson said. ![]() Anderson had the opportunity to collaborate with an ensemble of experienced actors for the first time in his career, and he made the most it. You don’t want to milk it too much.”īeyond the construction of Eisner’s script and Anderson’s sense of style, much credit for “Event Horizon” belongs to its sturdy cast. That was an important lesson for me, that horror is like comedy and there’s a right time to deliver the punch line. “So when Jason Isaacs turned up, nobody jumped. “Originally the bed was covered in maggots, which I thought was going to be great, but it was too much for the audience and they looked away,” Anderson said. One of the movie’s biggest scares happens when Lieutenant Commander D.J (Jason Isaacs) appears behind Lieutenant Peters (Kathleen Quinlan) just after she sees a vision of her dead son, but it didn’t work in the initial cut. So we scanned the cathedral into a computer, broke it apart, and then built all the constituent elements of the Event Horizon ship from Notre Dame.”Īnderson’s ability to find futuristic sci-fi corollaries for the components of Notre Dame – turning the gargoyles into antenna clusters, for example – is a big part of why “Event Horizon” remains as eerie as, say, Robert Wise’s “The Haunting.”ĭuring the “Event Horizon” test screenings, Anderson learned another lesson from Wise’s film: Even in a film as bloody as “Event Horizon,” less could be more. “I felt that the way avoid that was to make it a Gothic movie and to base it on one of the best pieces of Gothic architecture in the world, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. “I didn’t want ‘Event Horizon’ to be an ‘Alien’ wannabe or a ripoff,” Anderson said. ![]()
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