Michael Douglas was considered - he wasn’t available. Everybody except Jack Nicholson had to do it for $100,000 a week. Matthew Barry: The film would not be greenlit with the budget Tim wanted until we had Nicholson. He has an incredible command of what he wants. But he wanted to do something different.ĭanny DeVito (Rude Gambler):I don’t like to miss anything that Tim’s doing if he has a part for me. At the time, he was making $25,000 a show. Jack Black came in and auditioned, and he was just hysterical. Pierce Brosnan was just off playing James Bond. Matthew Barry (casting director): At the time, everybody wanted to work with Tim. Pierce Brosnan, Jack Nicholson, and Rod Steiger on the set of Mars Attacks! Sunset Boulevard/Corbis Historical/Getty Images And we were getting the sense that if the other studio across town is making Independence Day, which is going to be Roland Emmerich and kind of serious, then the Tim/Warner Brothers version should just be kind of fun. A lot of the female characters were strippers and drug addicts. The original draft was also a lot darker than the movie. Jonathan’s script had an index at the back, which to this day I’ve never seen on any other script. Scott Alexander (writer): The script had a lot of cool ideas in it, but it was impossible to follow the stories.
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Jonathan Gems: They brought in these two very good professional screenwriters, Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander. “If the burning cows are in the next draft, you will be fired.” It’s always funny when studios fight to kick stuff out. We can’t have burning cows.” I said, “It’s not real cows that are burning.” But they said, “No, you cannot do that – animal cruelty.” I think it was the 11th draft, they said, “If the burning cows are in the next draft, you will be fired.” So I did try but I couldn’t think of anything better, so I did deliver the new script with the burning cows. Every time I did a new draft, they’d say, “The cows are still in.
They told me you can’t have burning cows at the beginning of the film. 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. “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.
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