20 Dec
2010
20 Dec
'10
12:20 p.m.
As an aside... that movie cost an insane amount of
money. $40M when it was
first made. There was an interesting tidbit of info in one of the
interviews on the Blu-ray extras. The Paramount execs were discussing who
would direct the second movie, and one of them asked the question "Can he do
it for less than 40 @#$@% million dollars?" ST:II cost something like $4M.
That was how Harve Bennett ended up captaining the ST:TOS movies. The
executive in question was Charley Bluhdorn, who it must be recalled was
responsible for several of Paramount's remarkable financial bombs such as
Paint Your Wagon. The Mission: Impossible cast recalls this ruefully as
their unit was routinely overbudget and attracted Bluhdorn's ire multiple
times for the excesses, which the production team usually ignored.
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