![]() So it wasn't surprising that we got our hat handed to us a little bit at the box office. I mean, it is a fun movie, but it doesn't fit that mold. Event Horizon, it's not a fun summer popcorn movie. That was really when we should have been released. ![]() It's like, we're a really dark, disturbing science-fiction movie, we should be in the fall, we should be Halloween, or in November. You know: Oh, my God, you want to release my movie in the middle of the summer? To compete against a Harrison Ford movie where he plays the President of America? That sounds great! Of course, what I should have been was really concerned, like: Oh, my God, we're going to get killed. Looking back, if I'd been more experienced as a filmmaker, I would have pushed back against the studio about the release date. Anderson's haunted house in space movie has developed a devoted cult following so large and vocal that Amazon is now developing a TV series to give us more of the terrifying sci-fi horror concept. Though it flopped back in 1997, Paul W.S. Anderson Event Horizon (1997) Watch Now Stream Subs HD Rent 3. Whenever I bump into him, he's always very pleasant, and I love him as a filmmaker. It's been 25 years since Event Horizon first hit theaters, and the film continues to grow in esteem. 5 Rating 73 6.6 (192k) Genres Horror, Science-Fiction, Mystery & Thriller Runtime 1h 36min Age rating R Production country United States, United Kingdom Director Paul W. No! Listen, Cameron has been very vocal about how he likes my Alien vs. ![]() The end result was, the majority of what you see onscreen is real, and reality holds up well, whereas nothing dates as fast as cutting-edge CG. Given a choice between having Laurence Fishburne on a blue screen and building an upside-down set into which we stuck Laurence upside-down and spun him round and round, we'd do. And if you can't do it for real, do as much as possible for real." Instead of going with cutting-edge CG, we would build big models of the spaceships, we would build big interiors for the sets, we'd try and do as much practical as possible. I said to Richard, "How did you manage that?" And he said, "Just do it for real. You looked at their visual effects 15 years afterwards and they just didn't look dated, they looked like they'd just been made. He'd worked on all these terrific movies like Blade Runner and 2001. In Theaters: 22 August 1997In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship 'Event Horizon'. ![]() I think one of the reasons why the movie continues to look really good is, I had an excellent visual effects supervisor, Richard Yuricich, whose favorite kind of visual effect was no visual effect. ![]()
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