Sphere
Terror can fill any space.
Country
Genre
Budget
$80 000 000
Revenue
$37 020 277
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Michael Crichton, Barry Levinson, Andrew Wald, Peter Giuliano
Operator
Adam Greenberg
Composer
Artist
Norman Reynolds, W. Steven Graham
Audition
Ellen Chenoweth
Editing
Stu Linder
All team (155)
All team (155)
Short description
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the jellyfish attack scene, images of prop jellyfish were used in combination with computer graphics and footage of real jellyfish filmed in an aquarium nearby. To show the aggressiveness of the jellyfish, footage of real jellyfish was played at a speed 3-5 times faster than normal.
- Many scenes, including the conversation between Samuel L. Jackson and Dustin Hoffman about writing a report and what to do with Ted, played by Liev Schreiber, were entirely improvised.
- In this project, Samuel L. Jackson worked on weekdays, and on weekends he filmed with Quentin Tarantino in the thriller "Jackie Brown" (1997).
- The film's ending had to be rewritten and reshot because audiences at preview screenings refused to believe that the characters could survive without spending several weeks in a decompression chamber.
- At the 60th minute of the film, we see errors in the numerical sequence of the message: 1) the first word in the first line is "0032125[26]2632" (resulting in "HELOO."). It should be "00032125[25]2632"; 2) the third word of the second line is "290330[5]" (an odd number of characters), and it should be "290330[05]" ("WHAT"); 3) the last word of the third line is "0330[3]13130432" (an extra character) instead of "033013130432" ("HARRY.").
- At the 60th minute of the film, we see errors in the numerical sequence of the message: 1) the first word in the first line is “0032125[26]2632” (resulting in “HELOO.”) which should be “00032125[25]2632”; 2) the third word of the second line is “290330[5]” (an odd number of characters), and should be “290330[05]” (“WHAT”); 3) the last word of the third line is “0330[3]13130432” (an extra character) instead of “033013130432” (“HARRY.”)
- Many scenes, including the conversation between Samuel L. Jackson's and Dustin Hoffman's characters about drafting the report and how to deal with Ted, played by Liev Schreiber, were pure improvisation.
- On this project, Samuel L. Jackson worked on weekdays, while on weekends he filmed Quentin Tarantino's thriller 'Jackie Brown' (1997).
- At the 60th minute of the film, we see errors in the numerical sequence of the message: 1) the first word of the first line is "0032125[26]2632" (resulting in "HELOO."), but it should be "00032125[25]2632"; 2) the third word of the second line is "290330[5]" (an odd number of characters), but it should be "290330[05]" ("WHAT"); 3) the last word of the third line is "0330[3]13130432" (an extra character) instead of "033013130432" ("HARRY.")
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