Marred by a troubled production, Event Horizon was a box office flop in 1997.
But time has been kind to the sci-fi horror movie.
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In the spring of 1997, movie journalism was dominated by discussions of doomed ships.
It was just so huge, there was no way to control it, Silva said.
Paramount was willing to foot a generous budget, too something in the region of $60 million.
But the deal came with a catch: withTitanicdelayed, Paramount had a gap in its summer schedule.
The studio wantedEvent Horizonready for August 1997, giving Anderson just six weeks to edit the movie.
The screening was, Anderson admitted, Disastrous.
It didnt go well at all.
Although financed by an American studio,Event Horizoncarries a distinctly gloomy, British sensibility.
In some sequences, this cutting and reordering creates something new and startling.
Theyre despatched to explore theEvent Horizon, an experimental vessel lost years earlier and previously assumed destroyed.
Regrettably, its likely that well never see an extended directors cut that more accurately reflects Andersons original intentions.
AfterEvent Horizonwas chopped down in the summer of 97, the trimmed footage was unceremoniously dumped.
Its a sorry reflection of how shunnedEventHorizonhad become in the run-up to its release.
Event Horizonis a flawed film, but it also has flashes of brilliance.
A sci-fi horror with an unusually large budget, its sets are cavernous and full of detail.
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