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The Shocking Original Plan for Gizmo In ‘Gremlins’
The reddit AMA with director Joe Dante is providing all sorts of surprises.
We just shared this funny story from the set of The ‘Burbs, and now we have the following revelation about Gizmo from Dante’s 1984 Gremlins.
There’s more stories than I can count about the brilliance of Steven Spielberg, and the impact his had on movies outside of his own. His Amblin production house was behind Gremlins, which Dante directed. And while there was a darker and more violent vision scripted (Billy’s mom original gets decapitated with her head being thrown down the stairs), Spielberg’s influence saved it from becoming a vicious horror movie and transformed it into a holiday genre film for the entire family.
During the AMA, Dante was asked if he’d ever imagined what Gizmo would look like as a Gremlin. He dropped this bomb:
“He was originally supposed to turn into Stripe, before Steven Spielberg took a shine to him and decreed he should be the hero’s pal for the run of the story,” Dante revealed. “That sent the FX people into a tailspin, as he was designed only for the first few reels. But then he ended up the star of the show!”
How different would the movies have been? Well, I’m not quite sure Zach Galligan could have carried both on his shoulders, although Phoebe Cates will never lose my attention.
In other Gremlins fun, another user asked this hysterical question: “Everybody knows that you shouldn’t feed a mogwai after midnight. What time is it safe to start feeding them again?
“Depends which time zone you’re in…” joked Dante, “like if you’re in a plane and cross the time zone. See the control room scene in Gremlins 2 for further details!“
Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) Alien: Romulus will be unleashed in theaters nationwide on August 16, and Entertainment Weekly brings us two new images today.
The first image you’ll find below gives us another fresh look at the film’s Xenomorph, with Alvarez promising the outlet that it’s the most H.R. Giger-faithful Xenomorph of them all.
Entertainment Weekly writes, “… Alvarez promises [the Xenomorph’s design] is closer to H.R. Giger’s original creation than any other iteration.” The late H.R. Giger was of course integral to Ridley Scott’s Alien, designing the iconic monster the franchise is centered on.
The other image you’ll find below gives us a look at two of the human characters from Alien: Romulus, Archie Renaux’s Tyler and Cailee Spaeny’s heroine Rain Carradine.
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for their full preview of the upcoming film.
Here’s the full official plot synopsis for Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which comes in the wake of Disney reviving the Predator franchise in spectacular fashion with last year’s Prey…
“While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) leads the cast alongside Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.
Alien: Romulus takes place in between the first two films. It’s been described as “an original standalone feature,” one that “will focus on a group of young people on a distant world.”
Fede Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead). Ridley Scott is on board as producer for the film, the first movie in the franchise to be released by Disney.
Xenomorph in ‘Alien: Romulus’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
(L-R): Archie Renaux as Tyler and Cailee Spaeny as Rain Carradine in ‘Alien: Romulus.’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
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