![]() ![]() Sam Neill as Weir in 'Event Horizon.' Paramount Pictures I've always considered that with all of my movies. The character is now being played by this very elegant woman who will be much better in the role and much more striking. The main antagonist of the movie was written as this kind of beefy, tough, 45-year-old guy. Martin story called In the Lost Lands, and we flipped one of the characters from a man to a woman. I'm prepping a movie right now that is an adaptation of a George R. Is that something you've ever been able to do since, or what is that unique to Event Horizon?Īnderson: No, I've done that on a lot of movies. Thompson: For many of the roles, you read both men and women, and it paid off exceptionally well. I think that's the power of keeping it short and concise as we did. I've had so many people come up to me and describe the terrible things they've seen in that imagery that I never shot, but because it's very brief, they've imagined it. I think the power of that imagery comes from the fact that it is very restrained and how much we show of it. Have you ever thought about doing more with that and either adding more in or, as you love art, creating an exhibition out of some of the more elaborate images?Īnderson: I haven't. You shot a lot of footage, and we only see a tiny bit. You spent a lot of time filming those a lot of work went into them, including hours of preparation. Thompson: We see flickers of the Hell scenes throughout the movie. I don't think American audiences knew who he was then, but you can draw a direct line between what Jason was doing in Event Horizon and some of his bigger studio movies after that. ![]() Jason Isaacs gave a very intense performance. I let him run amok, as it were, and I'm very happy with the results. With Sean Pertwee's character, a lot of the Sean Pertwee persona is very present in Event Horizon. A lot of the quirks of their characters definitely came from them. Thompson: You're a very capable director you're given this studio movie, but how much of what we see is because of their guidance?Īnderson: In terms of the performance, I was very much led by them, and I was very open to letting them experiment and try different things. When Laurence Fishburne talks to you about acting, you listen. They were very giving in terms of their experience, support, and advice they would offer, which helped the movie a lot. My background was not from theatre, I hadn't had a tremendous amount of experience working with actors, and they were on a different level. It was only my third film, and I was working with some very experienced people, like Laurence and Sam. I think what came out of the conversations we had was more character stuff. That was already locked in before we started to shoot, and it had to be because these were huge and elaborate builds. I was heavily influenced by the work of painters like Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, the photography of Joel-Peter Witkin, and the architecture of the Event Horizon ship was based on Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. You'd meet and talk about the movie, but I wondered how much of the stuff you discussed in those get-togethers influenced the final film.Īnderson: I think the movie's look was set before we started shooting. Thompson: Event Horizon's producer, Jeremy Bolt, mentioned on a Blu-ray feature that you all used to hang out at Soho House when he was new on the London scene. ![]() (Left to right) Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Jason Isaacs in 'Event. ![]()
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