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According to the below article about Barry's memoir:
<blockquote>Things really kicked off when Smith’s slated co-star George Clooney dropped out of the project as he believed Smith ‘had more funny lines than he did.’ Kevin Kline was duly drafted in, an actor who Sonnenfeld argues was a “lovely, talented guy” but allegedly there was some kind of rivalry between him and Branagh. That in turn (says Sonnenfeld) led to Kline overcooking his performance to outdo Branagh. This process is also known as ‘doing a Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever.'
The story continues that Sonnenfeld chose to ask Smith to play the film’s straight man as “we don’t want two funny people in our comedy and we’ll never get Kevin to be the ‘not funny’ one.”
Casting one of the late 90s’ red hot stars and then plucking away one of the key elements in their arsenal? Well, you can see why Sonnenfield believes the direction things took had a detrimental impact on the film’s impact upon audiences.</blockquote>
https://filmstories.co.uk/news/wild-wild-west-director-barry-sonnenfeld-on-what-went-wrong/
According to one of the writers, the studio requested new scenes to be filmed after the initial test screenings.
Faith No More's Ricochet is supposed to be about her. She was one of their singers in the beginning. The song was written on the day that Kurt died and was titled "Nirvana" initially on some setlists.
After BTTF, he wasn't exactly rivalling Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer when it came to being offered leading men roles.
In a 1994 article, Eric expressed interest in being directed by Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick. With the exception of Malick, Cruise was directed by all of them.
I guess there was no guarantee that the sitcom producer would agree because of the possibility of Fox wanting to leave Family Ties to pursue a movie career. Spielberg's excuse in the October 24, 1985 issue of Rolling Stone: <i>"I should have waited, and yet I wanted the film out for the summer."</i>
In the December 1988 issue of Box Office, one of the three casting directors (Mike Fenton) said: <i>"Everyone had just seen Mask, which Eric starred in and which Universal owned; and I think that the studio decided that Eric was going to become a very important actor. They thought it was a great idea to cast him in a role that was the exact opposite of the one in Mask, and Steven Spielberg allowed Universal to make that final decision."</i>
Sidney Sheinberg claimed that if Spielberg didn't want Stoltz then he could easily have said no given his power.
About CTH and the 2 weeks of rehearsals: https://twitter.com/gmfb/status/938896888589312000
Ironically, Stoltz was cast because he looked like Fox (something that Kathleen Kennedy hinted at in that documentary on the 2010 Blu-ray).
There was a sight gag ripped off from the opening sequence of Wheels on Meals.
Let's not forget that Eric wasn't that serious of an actor. Previously, he had been in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (the director originally wanted him for what became Sean Penn's role), Surf II and The Wild Life.
People always like to bring up Pulp Fiction as Eric's comeback role to comedy but he had already done that with his small role in Say Anything.
But I also think that his career options were limited after the firing, so he had to take what he could get in order to pay the bills.
Claudia Wells was originally considered but she ended up being too busy on a TV show like Fox, so it would appear that the producers realized that they might as well not film Jennifer's scenes until Claudia was available. They deliberately cast Melora knowing that she would be too tall for Fox.
It's like what happened with The A-Team. The role of Face was intended for Dirk Benedict but NBC wanted somebody else. Tim Dunigan was cast in the pilot but he was set up to fail because not only was he too young but he was too tall.
About the prom scenes, the following was taken from the below article: <i>"Going by the accounts of what people have said about filmed scenes, it seems like that prom scene wasn’t filmed because the number of extras would make it too costly."</i>
It should be noted that there was a budget cut in pre-production, hence the following passage: <i>"It would appear that the only way for BTTF to be finished in its then-current form would be to have Marty succeed in being a matchmaker after seeing George punch Biff and reunite with Lorraine. This would mean that a financial restriction might have forced Rob Zemeckis to rewrite the prom night scene so that Marty pulls out his photo and sees that his siblings are completely visible."</i>
https://popcultmaster.com/2019/03/21/to-heck-with-zemeckis/
Similarly, actor Courtney Gains talked about how he, himself, was still on the payroll despite how much time had gone by (implying that he had already filmed what was needed at that point).
http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2012/03/outlander-a-qa-with-courtney-gains/
One of the things that was said by a woman who claimed to work for Amblin is that the idea was to spend so much money that Universal couldn't back out when the time came to get Fox. I believe her because the Ultimate Visual History book contained similar info about Spielberg encouraging Zemeckis to keep on filming so that the film wouldn't be cancelled.
https://imgur.com/j52Cq78
Around the time that he was directing the Glee series, Eric wrote an article where he indirectly alluded to the BTTF situation. He said something like the number of directors who properly directed him in the '80s could be counted on one hand.
In the '90s, there was an interview that he did for the Bikini magazine where he said there are two kinds of directors who he had worked with - those who are like traffic cops and those who are like psychiatrists.
No, they had an opportunity to do something worthwhile in 2005 when DVD was all the rage, and in 2015 when those two books about BTTF were published.
Releasing the footage in its entirety would prove that they were just splitting hairs in order to get who they really wanted. Acting quality aside, the film-makers have always tried to play down the fact that principal photography was almost finished with Stoltz.
In the '80s, the story was almost told truthfully with the constant claim of "six weeks" but the story changed throughout the '90s - two weeks, three weeks, four weeks - because there was an attempt to do damage control. Bob Gale's excuse has always been that they don't want to make Stoltz look bad, but he already looks bad (especially when those three brief clips came out in 2010).
I've seen old Kung Fu movies whose endings were more anti-climactic.
The film was made in the same year that the game came out.
The Hungarian title is the best --> 2008: Year of the Rat.
The train scene reminded me of Predator 2.
New link: https://gonewiththetwins.com/split-second-1992/
I'm reminded of a thrash metal guitarist named Jim Durkin.
It was filmed in the same year (1991) as Alien 3, hence why they share Pete Postlethwaite and some crew members.
Both Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986) and Split Second are Rutger Hauer films that contain a scene where he has a male sidekick who enjoys being on top of Rutger's motorcycle.