It's once again something else that seems to only happen in the movies. So Kathy arranged with him to send a large plane to the island the next day to take the cast and crew out. "He was the pilot that was in our movie and he just happened to be a pilot of a four-engine 707, a cargo plane and he was between flights. "It was the young man that flew the biplane in Raiders of the Lost Ark," the director shared. To get everyone safely off the island, producer Kathleen Kennedy "jogged to the airport" and then hitchhiked her way to Honolulu," where she eventually bumped into someone she recognized, Spielberg told EW. The cast and crew being emergency airlifted to Los Angeles, where they finished filming.ġ4. On the last day of production, Hurricane Iniki-the most powerful storm on record to hit Hawaii-touched down. "Not only a nice promise to get, but to have it be one of the biggest box-office smashes of all time?" Mazzello said. After initially auditioning for Spielberg for 1991's Hook and being told he was "too young," Joseph Mazzello was cast as Tim after the director vowed to get him in another movie. "I heard later on that Steven had watched a few girls on tape that day, and I was the only one who ended up waking his sleeping wife off the couch and she came running through the hallway to see if the kids were all right."ĩ. Christina Ricci was in consideration for Lex Murphy, but Ariana Richards won the part for an unusual reason. "I was called into a casting office, and they just wanted me to scream," Richardson shared. I hope you don't do that.' I might have even advocated on the spot, and I came back and lo and behold I had a little part in it."Ĩ. "I'd quickly read the book in preparation and Steven said, 'Since we scheduled this meeting, there's an idea afoot to combine the two characters, to absorb your character into the Sam Neill character,'" the actor explained. But Goldblum revealed that his character was almost cut from the movie. During a 30th-anniversary screening of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark in 2011, Spielberg let slip that Harrison Ford passed on the role of Dr. "I would have made an R-rated, scare-the-crap-out-of-you movie and you made it just scary enough."ģ. "It was the very best thing that could have happened because I would have made it like Aliens," Cameron said. Titanic director James Cameron revealed in a 2021 conversation with Spielberg that he was hours away from making a bid before discovering he had already lost out to Jaws filmmaker. Universal bought the film rights to Chrichton's novel for $2 million before it was released in 1990. director about his book Jurassic Park. Spielberg's interest was immediately piqued and the other film was scrapped-but years later, the filmmaker helped to develop the story into the iconic medical drama E.R., which ran for 15 years on NBC.Ģ. Steven Spielberg and author Michael Crichton were in the early stages of developing a movie based on Crichton's time as an emergency room physician when he told the E.T.
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