Halloween...
The Anthology Movie Series...
that could have been.
John Carpenter's original concept was to have a different story for each of the Halloween movies.
His first Halloween movie was about a metal patient named Michael Myers who had escaped. After the success of the first Halloween film Carpenter wanted to continue with other stories that all had the Halloween theme.
John Carpenter didn't want to do yet another Michael film. He never wanted to do a second one because he felt the story had already been told, but with enough studio pressure, he gave in. But sure enough he decided to kill off Michael Myers in the second film, which he does. With Myers out of the way Carpenter could start his Halloween anthology films with Halloween III :Season of the Witch.
After Halloween III opened up to disappointed fans who were looking forward to the return of Michael Myers, the studio forced Carpenter to bring Myers back, and so John Carpenter quit.
Today Fans of the Halloween franchise debate on whether or not Halloween III should be considered in the series.
The night he came home.
The night no one
comes home.
HOW THE X-FILES INFLUENCED TELEVISION FOREVER.
Soon after the success of The X-Files we began to see an alarming rate of television shows with the word "files" in them.
The Justice Files
Cold case files
You can't watch shows like Fringe, Bones, Supernatural, and even Roswell without thinking of The X-Files.
The X-Files was the first television show to have it's entire season on DVD. As a sort of experiment to see if it would sell. Which eventually open the gates for every series on televison to be available on DVD.
The Series started on Sept. 10, 1993, declaring �The truth is out there.� Entertainment Weekly replied, �We know — this show's a goner.�
HOW THE X-FILES INFLUENCED TELEVISION FOREVER.
THE VOLTRON THAT THE AMERICAN
The proposed "Voltron II" episodes (so called because they took place in the "Middle Universe") were to have been based on Lightspeed Electroid Albega. Although Albegas toys were marketed in the United States under the "Voltron II" name, the series was never actually aired there. Due to the extreme popularity of the Lion Voltron and lack of popularity of the Vehicle Voltron series, World Events Productions eventually elected against another alternate Voltron, and plans to adapt Albegas were aborted. Matchbox, however, did produce and market toy versions of the three robots (Black Alpha, Red Gamma, Blue Beta) under the Voltron name
KIDS NEVER GOT TO SEE.
Via: Wiki
When Sean Connery had left the James Bond series Eon films started to look for a new actor to portray the role of James Bond. After many auditions they found and went with a total unknown. A 29 yr old Austrian car salesman who had become an English model, George Lazenby. The press constantly compared him to Connery. Before the public got a chance to judge Lazenby for themselves the British press portrays him as a trouble maker on the set and feuding with his co-stars.
The press wanted someone to shoot down. Unbeknownst to Lazenby and everyone else; no one was prepared when Lazenby’s advisor makes an announcement to the press that Lazenby wasn’t going to do another Bond picture. When the producer’s were questioned about this they said; it was the first that they had heard of it and so they let Lazenby go. Lazenby didn’t feel that James Bond was going to go on anymore with movies like Easy Rider and changes going on in the culture. He figured this short haired character in a suit isn’t going to make it. When the film was release it set several box office records.
THE 007 YOU MAY NEVER
HAVE HEARD OF.
To this day he regretted at least not doing a second Bond film. Today most Bond fans consider Lazenby to be one of the best Bonds. Some fans consider his Bond more closely resembles the character in Ian Fleming's novels as a more humanize Bond compared to Connery’s emotionless superman. He may not have been Sean Connery, but he definitely had what it needed to play James Bond and was a perfect replacement despite having no prior acting experience. He had style and panache.
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