Starman

Starman (1984)

Timing: 1:55 (115 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1984-12-13

Country

United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Delphi II Productions, Michael Douglas-Jarry J. Franco Productions

Genre

Science Fiction, Romance, Drama, Fantasy

Budget

$22 000 000

Revenue

$28 744 356

Website

http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/starman/

Director

John Carpenter

Actors

Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen, Tony Edwards, John Walter Davis, Ted White, Dirk Blocker, M.C. Gainey
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Scenario

Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon

Producer

Larry J. Franco, Michael Douglas

Operator

Donald M. Morgan

Composer

Jack Nitzsche

Artist

Audition

Jennifer Shull

Editing

Marion Rothman
All team (71)

• Producer Michael Douglas considered several directors, including Mark Rydell, Adrian Lyne, John Badham, and Tony Scott, before choosing John Carpenter.
• Preparing for the role of an alien, actor Jeff Bridges studied ornithology and the behavioral patterns of birds, from which he borrowed some nuances, in particular, sudden, jerky head movements. Bridges assumed that there would be nothing human about the alien, and that in a human body it would act and move like an animal.
• At Columbia Pictures, work on the script was underway at the same time as another project about a visit to Earth by aliens. They didn't want to shoot both films at once, so management had to choose which film would be shot first. The second script was realized as Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982). It became extremely popular, and Columbia Pictures put "The Man from Earth" on the shelf for almost three years before it saw the light of day.
• When Jeff Bridges' character comes out of the house naked, it seems as though his hair is standing on end. This was achieved by filming Bridges hanging upside down, and then 'flipping' his image and overlaying it on an image of the surroundings.
• The film's director, John Carpenter, wanted the filming location to be "the United States itself," so the film crew had to travel extensively around the country before returning to California and finishing work on the film at The Burbank Studios.