Monday, November 11, 2013

Television and Cinema Verities #95


"When I did the picture, we had a script that did not have the last few pages. The script at the end said... I forget now how it was worded, but it made it clear that there was an ending that they were going to keep secret until they shot it. My assumption was, "Oh, boy, this is going to be a good ending. This is Disney, these guys know what they're doing, they're really gonna put something great out there." And when I saw the picture, I was really confused about what that ending was all about. So, with the exception of the ending, I liked the picture a lot..."

- Robert Forster describes the making of The Black Hole (1979), in a year 2000 interview with Keith Phipps at A.V. Club.

(And to read my review of The Black Hole, don't forget to check out my book, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of the 1970s).

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