Where has the Event Horizon been?
Directed by the young British filmmakerPaul W.S.
Predator, and, most recently, 2020’sMonster Hunter.
(Left to right) Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Jeremy Isaacs in Event Horizon.Paramount Pictures
“That’s what’s nice about the 4K release.
I wanted to spread my wings.
Event Horizonspoke to movies I had loved as just a film geek.
Sam Neill in Event Horizon.Everett Collection
So it combined several things that I really loved.
I thought, well, I’m not just going to sit there idle while Kurt does that.
I wanted to do another movie in the meantime and then that ended up beingEvent Horizon.
Event Horizon.Paramount Pictures
You filmed the movie in London.
What springs to mind when you think about the shoot?
My God, I loved the shoot.
Joely Richardson in Event Horizon.Paramount Pictures
He’d worked on all these terrific movies likeBlade Runnerand2001.
I said to Richard, “How did you manage that?”
And he said, “Just do it for real.
Event Horizon steelbook.Paramount Pictures
If you could, do it for real.
You did put your cast through the ringer, physically.
Who did you make suffer the most?
Well, I don’t know.
I’m the director, I was having a delightful time.
You’d have to talk to the cast for them to give you their true feelings.
I remember Joely Richardson saying that she found the sets really oppressive.
Again, rather than sticking them just in front of a blue screen, they wereinthe Event Horizon.
We built these amazing gothic sets and they did have a kind of malevolent feel to them.
I asked him what “NAR” stood for and he said, “No acting required.”
All of the actors, really, they were great.
And Fishburne and Sam Neill in particular were very giving with their time.
I certainly, as a director, learned an awful lot from them.
They’re all English people and they’ve sent all the Americans onto the Event Horizon.
I don’t know if that says anything about English people.
When you watch a James Cameron movie, do you think, “You f—er”?
Listen, Cameron has been very vocal about how he likes myAlien vs. Predatorand how he likesResident Evil.
Whenever I bump into him, he’s always very pleasant, and I love him as a filmmaker.
I have no bad feelings towards him.
[But] I was enthusiastic.
To compete against a Harrison Ford movie where he plays the President of America?
That was really when we should have been released.Event Horizon, it’s not a fun summer popcorn movie.
I mean, it is a fun movie, but it doesn’t fit that mold.
Is it true that the studio executives were aghast when they saw the movie?
A lot of the so-called “Visions of Hell” I had directed on weekends.
When they saw it, they were just aghast at it.
As though somehow I was besmirchingStar Trekwith my horrible movie in space.
Will we ever see a longer version of the film?
The problem with the deleted material is that we were right before the DVD revolution whenEvent Horizonwas released.
We were going out on VHS in ancillaries.
So it’s just not there.
I’m hearing “Release the Anderson Cut!”
I reduced the running time of the disturbing images, but actually didn’t take much imagery out.
All I did was, what had been a three-second cut, sometimes became a three-frame cut.
I think it had the opposite effect of what the studio was imagining.
The flashes have allowed people to bring their own imaginations to the horror.
It’s pretty disturbing stuff.
Watch the trailer forEvent Horizonbelow.
