Jonathan Gems: I got in trouble with the studio because they would ask me to do changes, and sometimes I wouldn’t do them.
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Tim Burton (director):It was a strange and fun movie to make. But then we found out Steven Spielberg was doing a sequel to Jurassic Park.” Topps “Originally, it was going to be Dinosaurs Attack. And if you watch Towering Inferno when you’re stoned, it’s hilariously funny. Tim said, “Let’s do it as a disaster movie.” Tim and I actually watched Towering Inferno probably about a year before, and we were stoned. But then we found out Steven Spielberg was doing a sequel to Jurassic Park, and they were going to have dinosaurs attacking Los Angeles. Jonathan Gems: Originally, it was going to be Dinosaurs Attack. Larry Karaszewski (writer) : Tim, being the visual genius that he is, for him, it was about those cards. They had these fantastic little oil paintings of these atrocities. There were two sets, one called Dinosaurs Attack and another called Mars Attacks. These were cards that were like baseball cards. I was in a kind of gift store, and on the counter, I saw a complete collection of two sets of cards. It was difficult to find anything for him because he had everything. It was his birthday, and I was looking for a birthday present. Jonathan Gems (writer): I was working with Tim Burton on something else. Twenty-five years after Mars Attacks! delighted and baffled audiences on its December 13, 1996, release, Tim Burton, Jonathan Gems, composer Danny Elfman, Danny Devito, and eight others reveal to Inverse how the tale went from trading cards to pop-culture curio. killed the director’s planned Nicolas Cage Superman movie, in part because they were so frustrated with Burton. Burton’s career ultimately survived the blast, but not without one cinematic casualty.Īccording to Gems, studio execs at Warner Bros. Though the movie paid for itself and did receive some positive contemporary reviews, the production was so harrowing that Burton threatened never to direct another film again. “I don’t like to miss anything that Tim’s doing if he has a part for me.” “All the ‘hero’ figures in the film get killed,” screenwriter Jonathan Gems says. In the end, it’s the characters who seem the least heroic - a neglected teenager and his senile grandmother - who save the day by accident. Mars Attacks! is a parable about distrusting authority figures. And to look up and see that there's still plenty that isn't falsified makes it all the better.“At the time, everybody wanted to work with Tim.” Warner Bros.Īlthough the film is now a well-remembered Hollywood oddity - for Halloween this year, Kendall Jenner went as the terrifying Martian Girl played by Lisa Marie - its satirical, anti-establishment tone fell flat with mid-‘90s American audiences who didn’t appreciate the joke being on them. After a while, you begin to go along with the joke of Wood's career.
The rest of the cast and crew also deserve credit, mostly for succeeding in making such a strangely delicious film.
I couldn't have imagined someone better in that role. It can get tiresome watching Wood's undeserved success, but Landau works so impeccably well as a drugged up Lugosi. Martin Landau, who did win an Oscar for his turn as Bela Lugosi, is what makes this film work so well. It's also the first real time he played such a uniquely strange character, something he's got himself stuck into doing these days. He easily could have been nominated for an Oscar here. Johnny Depp, in his second Burton feature, begins to show exactly why he's one of this generation's greatest talents. I mean come on, this guy compares himself to Citizen Kane on multiple occasions.Īs for the performances, there's almost too many good ones to mention. Watching a man without any real talent as a filmmaker plow his way through studio executives and convince actors to join him in his quest makes it all the more amazing. The sheer absurdity of Wood's story is really where Burton tends to bring out his best work. Ed Wood has a clear beginning, middle, and end, but it's the stuff along the way that makes for the most entertainment. One of Burton's greatest qualities is the ability to develop a great journey for the characters. A man stumbles himself into Hollywood with little to no experience, and manages to garner decent budgets to make multiple films, that's Hollywood 101.
Although apparently much of the film's details were made up for the movie itself, it's hard not to get a kick out of Wood's story. Perhaps nobody more interesting than Edward D. It was just an interesting time to be involved in the film business. I really love when movies take place within the world of filmmaking, especially during the 1950's. But in all seriousness, Ed Wood may very well be the best directing job of Burton's career. Leave it to Tim Burton to direct a film about the "wackiest" filmmaker of all time.
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