My Favorite Martian
The martian has landed. There goes the neighborhood.
Country
Genre
Budget
$65 000 000
Revenue
$36 850 101
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Jerry Leider, Robert Shapiro, Marc Toberoff, Barry Bernardi
Operator
Composer
Artist
Sandy Veneziano
Audition
Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins
Editing
Malcolm Campbell
All team (100)
All team (100)
Short description
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
What's left behind the scenes
- The exterior view of Tim's house (played by Jeff Daniels) with its staircase almost exactly replicates the corresponding sets from the original 1960s series.
- The exterior of Tim's house (played by Jeff Daniels), with its staircase, almost exactly replicates the corresponding sets from the original 1960s series.
- In the original series, Uncle Martin (played by Ray Walston) possessed three abilities: he could levitate, become invisible (when his antenna was raised), and read the minds of humans. In this project, Uncle Martin (played by Christopher Lloyd) is only capable of levitating and becoming invisible. He has some other abilities, but there is no question of reading human minds.
- Initially, Zoot (the living spacesuit) was a non-speaking character; he was only made a wisecracker during post-production.
- In the original series, Uncle Martin (played by Ray Walston) had three abilities – he could levitate, become invisible (with his antenna raised), and read minds (of Earthlings). In this project, Uncle Martin (played by Christopher Lloyd) can only levitate and become invisible. He has some other abilities as well, but reading the minds of Earthlings is out of the question.
- The original series lacked an episode in which the character played by Christopher Lloyd returned to Mars, so in the movie, he was given a line stating that he arrived here in 1963 and is now finally returning home.
- The original series did not have an episode where the character played by Christopher Lloyd returned to Mars, so the film gave him a line about arriving here in 1963 and finally returning home.
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