Event Horizon
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Short description
In 2047, a rescue ship is sent to the edge of the solar system after an experimental vessel reappears near Neptune. The Event Horizon, built to travel faster than light, vanished on its maiden voyage years earlier with its crew. The rescue team, which includes the scientist who designed the missing ship, is ordered to locate the wreck, determine what happened and look for survivors. Once aboard, they find no crew, and the vessel appears to harbor something malevolent, while strange visions begin to affect those who enter it.
Paul W. S. Anderson directed the film, the third of fourteen features in his career in chronological order, following Mortal Kombat and preceding Soldier. Philip Eisner wrote the screenplay, with Andrew Kevin Walker also credited, and Jeremy Bolt, Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin produced. Laurence Fishburne stars as Captain Miller, alongside Sam Neill as the designer William Weir, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones and Jack Noseworthy.
Released on August 15, 1997, the British-American production cost around 60 million dollars and returned roughly 27 million worldwide. It runs 96 minutes and blends horror, mystery and science fiction. On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from about 214,000 votes, and on TMDB the same score from a far smaller tally. A critics' rating of 5.4 out of 10 from 96 reviews places it below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The spacesuits worn by the actors during filming weighed approximately 25 kilograms each.
- Filming of the picture took place from November 18, 1996, to March 14, 1997.
- Paul W.S. Anderson had to cut around 20 minutes of particularly brutal scenes for the film to receive an R rating.
- The airlock number where the 'Lewis and Clark' docks with the 'Event Horizon' is 13.
- The film was entirely produced in the United Kingdom.
- The post-production period was shortened from six to four weeks because Paul W.S. Anderson was obliged to prepare the film for release in August 1997.
- Building the sets for the film (from finding contractors to the final result) took 4 weeks.
- Andrew Kevin Walker rewrote the script, but his name is not mentioned in the credits.
- Paul W. S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt planned to make a director's cut of the film, but most of the negatives were lost or destroyed after post-production was completed.
- The working title of the film was "The Stars My Destination".
- Gary Sinise played one of the crew members on "Event Horizon".
- Each character's spacesuit features the flag of their home country.
- The idea of the chaotic space was borrowed from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where the Warp is essentially hell.
- The design of the starship 'Event Horizon' was modeled after Notre Dame Cathedral. Even its interior had many cross-shaped forms.
- Another translation of the film's title 'Event Horizon' is an astronomical term denoting the boundary in space, beyond which a body will no longer be able to overcome the pull of a black hole and will inevitably be absorbed.
- Initially, Paul W.S. Anderson wanted the film's soundtrack to be recorded by the group “Orbital”. However, studio executives opposed this idea. As a result, it was decided to combine orchestral music and techno: “Orbital” recorded the soundtrack to the film together with Michael Kamen.
- In the original version of the script, Philip Eisner suggested using the Event Horizon as a laboratory of an unknown alien race conducting experiments on the crew members. However, when Paul W.S. Anderson took the director's chair, he immediately proposed abandoning the aliens and making it a “haunted house in space.”
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