Phoenix Forgotten

Phoenix Forgotten (2017)

Timing: 1:27 (87 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2017-04-21

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

Atmosphere Entertainment MM, Cinelou Films, Scott Free Productions, The Fyzz Facility

Genre

Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Budget

$2 800 000

Revenue

$3 600 146

Website

http://phoenixforgotten.com/

Director

Justin Barber

Actors

Florence Hartigan, Luke Spencer Roberts, Chelsea Lopez, Justin Matthews, Clint Jordan, Cyd Strittmatter, Roberto Medina, Jeanine Jackson, David Carrera, Matt Biedel
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Scenario

T.S. Nowlin, Justin Barber

Producer

Ridley Scott, Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon, Wes Ball, T.S. Nowlin, Robert Jones, Michael Schaefer, Scott Karol, Wayne Marc Godfrey, David Hopwood

Operator

Jay Keitel

Composer

Mike Schanzlin

Artist

Audition

Fern Champion, Sharon Chazin Lieblein

Editing

Joshua Rosenfield
All team (61)

• The plot is based on the story of the "Phoenix Lights" – a series of optical phenomena (commonly referred to as UFOs) observed in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997.
• Archival footage from CNN was used in the scene of the press conference of Arizona Governor Fife Symington (1991-1995, 1995-1997), in which he ridiculed both the phenomenon itself and its witnesses.
• The final scenes of the film show a video camera falling out of a spaceship. The filmmakers actually attached a small camera to a weather balloon, and when the balloon burst, the camera fell. To the filmmakers' surprise, only the camera's casing and lens were broken upon impact, while all the internal mechanisms remained intact, and the camera continued to film.
• The plot is based on the story of the "Phoenix Lights"—a series of optical phenomena (commonly referred to as UFOs) observed in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997.