Глубокий космос (1988)

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Deep Space is a 1988 sci-fi horror film directed by Fred Olen Ray, starring Charles Napier, Ann Turkel and Bo Svenson. Napier stars as a cop trying to stop the murderous rampage of an escaped creature engineered by the government.

Production

The film was originally going to be a sequel to William Malone's minor 1985 hit Creature, but director Fred Olen Ray hated the script and suggested filming one of his own instead. The director just happened to have an alien story written six years prior laying in his personal archive. The main character was originally the same as the one in Bulletproof, with the story written around him later tweaked to meet the needs of that film's producer.

Filming started on April 20, 1987. After principal photography, Trans World executives called for reshoots. While they pushed for more similarities with Alien in some areas, they also ordered the addition of a military conspiracy against Ray's wishes, making the monster a man-engineered bioweapon rather than an actual extraterrestrial, as was the case in the original screenplay.

The make-up and creature effects were done by a Sirius Effects team headed by Steve Neill, who had previously worked on the similar Galaxy of Terror and Forbidden World. According to Ray, the effects on Deep Space cost more than the entire budget of most of his earlier pictures. Sirius employee T.

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