Background MEDICINE MAN is based on what was to be one of many ‘million-dollar screenplays’ of the time; it was directed by the acclaimed action director John McTiernan, who had previously helmed such solid thrillers as Predator and Die Hard. Sean Connery was executive producer as well as star, portraying Dr. Robert Campbell. Lorraine Bracco…
There are many stories involving a central character who awakes after a long sleep. Let’s see… we have Rip Van Winkle and Sleeping Beauty. Moving into the film medium, there are Gene Roddenberry’s pilots GENESIS II and PLANET EARTH, featuring the science of cryogenics and similarly, the Chuck Heston PLANET OF THE APES. STAR TREK…
In the age of Glasnost, Russian woman Katya Orlova attempts to pass secret defence information to British publisher Bartholomew Scott Blair. The documents are intercepted by British Intelligence and they use an unwilling Blair to meet with Katya to find out more about the enigmatic Dante… The Film - Background The Russia House (1990) is…
The following interview took place at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios on March 4. Jerry Goldsmith took time off from his chores on Peter Hyams’ futuristic thriller OUTLAND to discuss some of his recent scores and plans for the immediate future. We talked about his recent career, with the odd comment from Arthur Morton (Goldsmith’s regular…
Constellation Films’ 1996 presentation of The Ghost and the Darkness (released in 1997 in the UK) is based on a true story, chronicled in ‘The Man-Eaters of Tsavo’ by Lt. Col. J. H. Patterson, first published in 1907. Unfairly dubbed “Jaws on land” at the time of the film’s release, it starred Val Kilmer as…
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