This created a few problems! One of them being the fact the movie’s big name stars, like Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins, were signed up because they liked the looks of a “Mad Max” style movie set in a dystopian future. By the time they turned up on set, however, things had changed.
Two writers, Parker Bennett and Terry Runté, had been brought in to compile a revised, workable screenplay, and budget constraints meant that it wasn’t just special effects that had to go. Some lines of dialogue had to go as well.
Which didn’t sit too well with Dennis Hopper.
“We were drafted in to just look through the script at everything that hadn’t been shot and see if we could make any cuts, anything we could trim or shorten or do less of, because they were so far over-budget”, Bennett told fan site SMB The Movie Archive in a 2010 interview.
“So, we did that and we did it to the point where Dennis Hopper was hollering at me because I cut some lines of his. Like for half-an-hour he was hollering at me and made Terry and me look up the word ‘act’ in the dictionary.”
Being consummate professionals, they held their tongues and did just that.
Interview — Parker Bennett (Screenwriter) [SMBmovie.com, via Go Nintendo]
Stephen
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 8:28 PMDid they find the definition was “Dennis Hopper”? I don’t think so.
picky
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:15 PMi dont get it this movie was awesome
Jimu
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 9:12 AMwerd!
Michael
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 10:26 AMI know, I personally loved the movie.
Daniel Green
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:18 PMIs this just a ploy to get me to read the original article because maybe it didn’t get enough hits or something? I don’t see anything new worth noting here…
Digit-Aria
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 2:20 AMKotaku COMPLETELY underplayed this interview. They focused in on the most irrelevant section of the entire piece.
Check out the full thing; it featured quotes on which games they played, what inspired them, what the sequel would have been like and more. They pretty much explain the movie they WOULD have made.
AerintheADEQUATE
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:39 PMI imagine that Dennis Hopper always carried a tank of ‘unnamed gas’ on his belt and when he got really pissed off he’d silently turn the valve and stare at you as he brought the delivery mask to his face and sucked it into his lungs… and then, not before, was it officially and truly ON.
*chills*
Darren
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 8:04 AMIf I had signed up for Fallout but ended up doing Hello Kitty’s Island Adventure I would be pretty pissed as well.
Fallout Kitty.