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Based On Novel Or Book | Writing
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Best Supporting Actress For | 1991 | Judy
Best Screenplay | 1991 | David
Best Supporting Actress | 1991 | Judy
Best Motion Picture | 1992 | Gabriella
Best Overall Sound | 1992 | Don
Best Sound Editing | 1992 | Richard
Best Achievement in Art DirectionProduction Design | 1992 | Carol
Best Achievement in Cinematography | 1992 | Peter
Best Achievement in Direction | 1992 | David
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role | 1992 | Monique
Best Screenplay | 1991 | David
Best Supporting Actor | 2012 | Ian
Best Actress | 2012 | Judy
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2012 | David
Best Art Direction | 2012 | Carol
Best Foreign Film | 1993
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | 1992 | Peter
Best Music Score | 1992 | Howard
Best Achievement in Costume Design | 1992 | Denise
1992 | David
Best Screenplay | 1992 | David
Best Soundtrack | 1992 | Ornette
Best Makeup FX | 1992 | James
Best Cinematography | 1992 | Peter
Best Supporting Actress | 1992 | Judy
Best Film | 1992
Best Film | 1992 | David
Best Film | 1991 | David
Budget 16,000,000 USD
The shooting of the author's wife is not a fictional incident. Source novelist William S. Burroughs did indeed accidentally shoot his wife Joan in the head in 1951 in Mexico in a "William Tell" stunt that went disastrously wrong. Mexican law at the time meant that Burroughs only served thirteen days in prison for killing his wife.
The movie is packed with characters based on real people and events from the life of Burroughs. Like Bill Lee, William S. Burroughs was an exterminator and drug addict, who accidentally shot his wife during a drunken game of "William Tell". Joan Lee is based on Joan Vollmer, Burroughs' deceased wife. Hank and Martin, Bill's fellow writers, are Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Burroughs moved to a section of Tangier, Morocco, known as the "International Zone", hence "Interzone". Tom Frost is based on Paul Bowles, and Kiki was the name of a young man Burroughs had a same-sex affair with in Tangier, while writing "Naked Lunch".
Peter Weller turned down the lead role in RoboCop 3 (1993) to appear in this movie.
This was originally going to be the first David Cronenberg movie to be made outside of Toronto, until a panicked Ontario Film Board offered him unparalleled financial inducements and incentives. As it transpired, however, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait scuttled any plans to film in Tangier, Morocco, so the entire movie ended up being made in Toronto anyway.
A desert was re-created on a Toronto soundstage by pouring seven hundred tons of sand onto the floor of a former munitions factory.
"Bill Lee: Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to."
"Tom Frost: They say you murdered your wife. Is that true? Bill Lee: Who told you that? Tom Frost: Word gets around. Bill Lee: It wasn't murder. It was an accident. Tom Frost: There are no accidents. For example, I've been killing my own wife slowly over a period of years. Bill Lee: What? Tom Frost: Well, not intentionally. I mean, on the level of conscious intention, it's insane, monstrous. Bill Lee: But you do consciously know it. You just said it. We're discussing it. Tom Frost: Not consciously. This is all happening telepathically, non-consciously. Bill Lee: What do you mean? Tom Frost: If you look carefully at my lips, you'll realize that I'm actually saying something else. I'm not actually telling you about the several ways I'm gradually murdering Joan."
