“The
studios all said that westerns don’t work. I remember sitting alone and
thinking: the longest enduring genre in the history of motion pictures is the
western, starting with “The Great Train
Robbery”, which was produced by Thomas Edison in 1903, and is considered
the first narrative silent film. So all of a sudden it has fallen off the
studio radar? I couldn’t understand it. Finally I came to the realization, most
probably after other people, especially George Lucas, that the western is not
dead. It is alive and well, and living in outer space. So I wrote a film that
was about the harshness of the frontier.”
-director
Peter Hyams discusses the genesis of Outland (1981) in an interview at VanDammeFan.Net.
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