The Omega Man - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "The Omega Man"
The Omega Man (1971)
Timing:
1:38 (98 min)
6.167/10
521
521
6.039/10
1967
1967
6.4/10
36000
36000
What's left behind the scenes
- The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, film producer Walter Zelzer (1914-2011) drove through the business district of Los Angeles on his day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
- This prompted the screenwriters, John William Corrington (1932-1988), Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson (1926-2013), to come up with the idea of making the friend of the main character, played by Charlton Heston (1923-2008), an African American woman, Rosalind Cash (1939-1995). It was the 1970s, and interracial relationships were not yet so common, but the screenwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
- The filmmakers wanted to shoot in a location that looked like an abandoned town, but building sets would have been too troublesome and expensive. One day, the film’s producer Walter Zelzer drove through the business district of Los Angeles on a day off and noticed that the streets were completely empty, so they filmed scenes in the appropriate setting on weekends there.
- The idea to cast Rosaline Cash, an African American actress, as the friend of the main character played by Charlton Heston came to the scriptwriters John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, and Richard Matheson. Interracial relationships were not yet widespread, but the scriptwriters decided that in a world where humanity was almost destroyed, racism would already be a thing of the past.
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