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Uss Eldridge | Based On Novel Or Book
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1985 | Stewart
Budget 9,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 8,103,330 USD
Back in 1980, AVCO Embassy Pictures asked John Carpenter, who served as an executive producer on this film, to write and direct this film after the successes of Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980). However, Carpenter showed them Escape from New York (1981) (which he wrote years earlier), and they did that instead.
This film is widely believed to be based on a real-life and ill-fated experiment with invisibility and force fields in the 1940s. However, to the best of any factual knowledge, no such experiment ever occurred, and the story was the work of an eccentric loner, Carl Allen, who sent notes on the "experiment" to the government in the 1950s, and whose story was later leaked. Despite the lack of any factual evidence, the story has become an urban legend, and favorite of conspiracy theorists, who point to the lack of evidence as proof that it's being covered up.
At the time of its release, it had the fastest theatrical-to-video window in film history (it opened in August and was released on video by late October).
Although John Carpenter is listed as executive producer on this film, he and director Stewart Rafill never met in person.
Stewart Rafill re-wrote the screenplay so that a love story developed between the characters David (Michael Paré) and Alison (Nancy Allen). Rafill also removed a lot of scientific dialogue concerning explanations for the why and how of the time travel element of the film.
"Jim Parker: Isn't that - water up ahead? David Herdeg: No. This is a desert. And that's a mirage. Jim Parker: [later, walking through the flooded plain] How much longer you think this mirage is gonna last?"
"David Herdeg: [sees President Ronald Reagan giving a speech on television] Hey, I know this guy. Is this another movie? Allison Hayes: [smiles] No, David, it's not another movie."
