33 Things We Learned From David Cronenberg's 'The Fly' Commentary
15.09.11
With Dino De Laurentiis. The superintendent was interested in the way co-writer
Charles Edward Pogue had rewritten the source 1958 film, but Cronenberg felt the characters in the screenplay could have been differentiated more from characters in the aboriginal short story. Still he was impressed and surprised by how much the screenplay felt like something he would have written. The notion of the opening title card for THE FLY, the idea of it fluttering in, was done initially for the vapour’s teaser. Cronenberg liked it so much he incorporated it into the finished
cloud. Cronenberg auditioned several women for the Veronica Quaife r, but he wanted someone who could match
Jeff Goldblum ‘s Seth Brundle in his eccentricities and stature. The president and Goldblum finally decided to look towards Goldblum’s girlfriend at the circumstance,
Geena Davis . Cronenberg found that working with a licit-life couple meant he and the actors had to find
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