Started by Darkoo, Dec 17, 2011, 02:26:48 PM
Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Jan 08, 2012, 05:05:40 AMWas Hurt the first choice? Now that I've never heard....not that it isn't true....was this information in the bluray boxed set?
QuoteJohn Hurt was Ridley Scott's first choice to play Kane in Alien, but Hurt was committed to filming in South Africa and had to turn down the part. Jon Finch, who had risen to fame both as a theatre actor in Britain and in lead roles in Zeffirelli's Romeo And Juliet (1969), Polanski's Macbeth (1970) and Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972), stepped in. On the first day of shooting, Finch fell ill with the cameras on him, appearing to turn yellow and lifeless. Ridley Scott stopped the shot and had to get Finch helped out of his navigator's chair on the Nostromo set. Sent off to hospital, the actor was diagnosed with diabetes. Scott spent that evening talking a now-returned John Hurt into the part at his Hampstead home, and went on to work with Finch again in Kingdom Of Heaven (2005). The shot where Finch fell ill is included, with the actor's permission, on the Alien Quadrilogy extras, though I don't know if that was the only thing he filmed.
Quote from: Weezus Christ on Jan 07, 2012, 11:53:23 PMthe difference is that i posted ideas for consideration and i got a ton of "NO THATS WRONG" with little or nothing to back it up.the best retort ive gotten was "the whole internet is wrong, this one book is right and thats proven!"
Quote from: SiL on Jan 08, 2012, 01:43:34 AMHurt was the first choice -- or at least, asked before Finch. Couldn't do it. They got Finch. He got sick, Hurt freed up.Everybody's right. He was first choice and a late addition. The two aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
Quote from: Valaquen on Jan 08, 2012, 08:16:41 AMThat is absolutely not the response you were given. If you can't conduct a dialogue with others, then don't bother. Saves us the trouble.
Quote from: Valaquen on Jan 07, 2012, 04:00:13 PMQuote from: Weezus Christ on Jan 07, 2012, 03:32:55 PMQuote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Jan 06, 2012, 06:14:34 PMThe wiki report is quite frankly....wrong, as is so much on the internet. I'm reading A L I E N vault and it also backs up the claim that John Hurt was a last minute addition to the film.prove it.It's been done. Frankly, you're acting the child. Either contribute to the forum or leave.
Quote from: Weezus Christ on Jan 07, 2012, 03:32:55 PMQuote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Jan 06, 2012, 06:14:34 PMThe wiki report is quite frankly....wrong, as is so much on the internet. I'm reading A L I E N vault and it also backs up the claim that John Hurt was a last minute addition to the film.prove it.
Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Jan 06, 2012, 06:14:34 PMThe wiki report is quite frankly....wrong, as is so much on the internet. I'm reading A L I E N vault and it also backs up the claim that John Hurt was a last minute addition to the film.
Quote from: OmegaZilla on Jan 08, 2012, 01:46:01 PMAbout how this is Mission to Mars but in the Alien universe?http://th295.photobucket.com/albums/mm142/Rikuo86/Meme/th_spray_trollface_copy.png
Quote from: psychonaut25 on Jan 09, 2012, 12:06:35 AMQuote from: OmegaZilla on Jan 08, 2012, 01:46:01 PMAbout how this is Mission to Mars but in the Alien universe?http://th295.photobucket.com/albums/mm142/Rikuo86/Meme/th_spray_trollface_copy.pngMission to mars is quite retarded movie....
Quote from: OpenMaw on Jan 08, 2012, 11:26:20 PMWhat was he suffering from then?
Quote from: wmmvrrvrrmm on Jan 09, 2012, 07:29:37 PMQuote from: OpenMaw on Jan 08, 2012, 11:26:20 PMWhat was he suffering from then? Finch says that after three days he had "an extremely bad bronchile attack" whatever that is.
Quote from: ChrisPachi on Jan 09, 2012, 09:48:03 PMQuote from: wmmvrrvrrmm on Jan 09, 2012, 07:29:37 PMQuote from: OpenMaw on Jan 08, 2012, 11:26:20 PMWhat was he suffering from then? Finch says that after three days he had "an extremely bad bronchile attack" whatever that is.Asthma.-Chris