Terminators 2

Terminators 2 (1987)

The Time Guardian

Prega che non sia troppo tardi.

Una città terrestre del futuro sfugge viaggiando nel tempo alla minaccia di terrificanti cyborg. Provenienti dal Quarantesimo secolo, in due prendono contatto nel 1988 con una geologa australiana, Annie, per respingere insieme il mortale pericolo.

Data di uscita
1987-12-03
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (51)
Durata
1 h 45 min
Generi
Fantascienza, Azione
Regista
Brian Hannant

Cast

Curiosità

  • Incassi: 97,7K A$

The Time Guardian is a 1987 Australian science fiction film directed by Brian Hannant, co-written by John Baxter and Hannant, and starring Tom Burlinson, Nikki Coghill, Dean Stockwell, and Carrie Fisher.

Production

Brian Hannant had been drawn to the rock formation at Wilpena Pound in South Australia while making Mad Max 2. This inspired him to write a script with John Baxter in the early 1980s. According to Baxter the script was originally called Time Rider, about a geologist who, while investigating magnetic anomalies around Wilpena Pound in South Australia, encounters a man from the future, who is a scout sent back in time to find a home for his people,…

[The] early scripts contrasted present and future lifestyles, and involved, in addition to the love story, and elegiac relationship between the girl and Prenzler, an old man in the nearby town who held the key to certain incidents in her future. There were elements of satire: conceived as descendants of contemporary polluters, our Jen-Diki were variously the remnants of a mining conglomerate or of a labour union.

Hannant and Baxter received two Australian Film Commission grants and had their script optioned to two local production companies. They eventually sold it to Chateau Productions, and succeeded in raising finance from New World Pictures and with the help of Antony I. Ginnane at Hemdale Film Corporation. According to Hannant the $8 million budget was raised in two days but of that $1 million went to brokers.

Producer Tom Wilkinson said "Here at last was a special effects story that had originality, pace and a big idea. The waiting has been worthwhile. We wanted to make sure we had the right combination of leading actors and the right technical skills because those will be the real making—or unmaking—of the movie."

Eight weeks before shooting, Hannant says Hemdale presented him with a re-write of the script by an American writer. Hannant tried to incorporate changes but says he did not have enough money. John Baxter quit the project and the shoot was cut from 13 weeks to nine. Hannant left the film during post-production ("one step ahead of being fired," according to Baxter) and some extra scenes were shot by the editor.

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