Event Horizon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Event Horizon or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Event Horizon

[marc]

The filming of the gravity drive on fire caused a real fire that partially destroyed the set. A different set had to be built quickly while the old one was being repaired. In the end, the repaired set was only used for an additional day of filming.

[edgar]

This movie was produced entirely within the UK, including the special effects.

[janice]

Dr. Weir shares his name with a historical figure, Johann Weyer, also known as Wier or Wierus. He was a Dutch physician, occultist, and demonologist.

[scarlett]

From green-light to completion, the film took 10 months, an unusually short time for such a complex and effects-driven film.

[jesus]

The space suits worn by the actors weighed 65 pounds (30 kilograms) each. Laurence Fishburne nicknamed his "Doris." Due to the weight, standing upright in them for longer periods could lead to back injury, but sitting down was not possible either due to the backpack. Special "hanging poles" were constructed on the set, so the actors could rest on them between takes.

[liam]

The actors were stimulated to invent a back story for their characters. Jason Isaacs based his character on his own brother, who is a doctor. In his back story, his character had undergone extensive surgery as a child, explaining the large scar on his chest and the visions he received from the ship were of him completely cut open. Isaacs asked if he could take home the dummy in his likeness with the chest sliced open. The special effects department was quite shocked with this request, so they told him they still needed it (even though they didn't).

[ella]

Joely Richardson and Jason Isaacs appeared in The Patriot (2000).

[manuel]

For Jason Isaacs' death scene, the plan was originally for his entrails to be still attached to him as he hung over them. Isaacs was then supposed to raise his head, showing that he was still alive, prompting Laurence Fishburne's character to shoot him in the head to put him out of his misery.

[melinda]

Writer Philip Eisner visited the set while the space suit sequences were being filmed. The suits were so heavy that the actors risked back injuries, prompting Laurence Fishburne to stop between takes, point at Eisner, and shout mock-angrily: "You! You Eisner! You did this to me!".

[lynn]

The script originally described the Gateway machine as a smooth and featureless black orb, 10 meters (nearly 33 feet) in diameter, suspended in midair between large, rotating mechanical arms. It also was said to contain a stable black hole within it at all times (which the ship used as a power source), as opposed to briefly creating a temporary one. Paul Anderson decided to redesign it to involve interlocking circles as a homage to the puzzle box in Hellraiser (1987), which served as an inspiration.

[jessie]

The model of the Event Horizon includes a complete "X-Wing" from Star Wars as part of an antenna array. The model is visible on the lower portion of the Event Horizon during the first flyby by the Lewis & Clark.

[terry]

The rotational shot of the space station over earth took nearly a third of the film's visual effects budget.

[kristen]

Having just done a PG-13 movie, Mortal Kombat (1995), Paul W.S. Anderson was very keen to do something more mature and gruesome. This was why he turned down the chance to direct X-Men (2000).

[dustin]

The ship's central corridor has the shape of an eye, to symbolize that the ship is always keeping watch of its victims.

[jim]

The scene in which Weir explains how to bend space and time in order to travel huge Interstellar distances is paraphrased in Interstellar (2014). Romily uses the exact same demonstration to illustrate the theory - folding a piece of paper and pushing a pen through it while explaining it to Cooper.

[frances]

Production designer Joseph Bennett had to find a crew in Britain that could build and finish the sets in 4 weeks, before shooting began.

[jesse]

Laurence Fishburne (Miller) and Richard T. Jones (Cooper) previously appeared in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) as Ike Turner and Ike Turner, Jr.

[richard]

Andrew Kevin Walker wrote an uncredited draft of the script. Some of it ended up on screen, and one sequence was cut from the theatrical cut, where captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), upon entering the Event Horizon, finds a ripped-out tooth floating around. Other scenes appear as storyboards on the Special Collector's Edition, when Miller's crew is introduced for the first time on another rescue mission. On the DVD documentaries and commentaries, director Paul W.S. Anderson said he regretted having to delete these scenes, but they didn't help the film's pacing.

[claude]

Paramount had originally planned to release Titanic (1997) in July 1997, but when that film was plagued by delays, it had to be re-scheduled to December 1997. This left Paramount with a gap in its summer movie schedule, so they offered Event Horizon to Paul W.S. Anderson on the condition that the film be ready for an August 1997 release. This meant that the movie was officially greenlit a mere 10 weeks before production was due to begin. This had the unfortunate consequence that the production design was unnecessarily rushed, and it was the reason why many leading production designers turned the film down.