Beyond Atlantis (1973)

Interesting facts

• Filmed in: Philippines

Beyond Atlantis is a 1973 American-Filipino science fiction horror film directed by Eddie Romero, written by Charles Johnson, based on a story by Stephanie Rothman, and starring Patrick Wayne and John Ashley.

Production

The film was also known as Sea Creatures or Sea People.

The budget, variously estimated at $200,000 or $250,000, was higher than usual for movies shot in the Philippines at the time due to the use of underwater photography. Producer John Ashley admitted that the movie was meant to be a ripoff of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but he had high hopes for it because he liked the script so much.

At one stage, Ashley was going to direct it, but "the production end of it got so spread out that I felt that for me to attempt to produce, direct and appear in it would be really difficult."

Ashley said that the original intention was for the lead characters to discover the people living underwater, and "for the most part they were going to be topless". However Larry Woolner, the head of Dimension Pictures, thought that they had the chance to make a slightly more ambitious film. They wanted to cast Wayne, and one of his requirements was that the film be made PG.

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