Creature (1985) on Netflix
NTI researchers on Titan find an ancient laboratory holding a container that keeps an alien creature alive. Captain Mike Davison and the crew of the Shenandoah are sent to the moon.
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Plot summary
Two geological researchers working for the American corporation NTI find an ancient alien laboratory on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Inside sits an egg-like container that keeps an alien creature alive. Two months later their ship crashes into the space station Concorde, which orbits Earth's Moon, its pilot dead in his seat. NTI sends the Shenandoah to Titan under Captain Mike Davison, with Susan Delambre, Jon Fennel, Dr. Wendy H. Oliver, David Perkins, Beth Sladen and security officer Melanie Bryce. In orbit the crew pick up a distress call from a ship owned by the rival West German firm Richter Dynamics.
Cast
- John Stinsonas Astronaut #1
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Creature (1985)
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- Patti Davis, daughter of U.S. president and former actor Ronald Reagan, auditioned for Creature, but arrived surrounded by Secret Service agents. Although she gave a good reading, director William Malone passed on her, thinking her entourage could disrupt the film's tight schedule.
- About one and a half weeks before the shoot, the producers found extra money to hire Klaus Kinski and add prestige to the film. Kinski took the role for his son Nanhoï, a fan of space adventure films.
- Kinski proved difficult: he sometimes refused to show up for the lengthy make-up sessions, forcing Jill Rockow to carry him to the make-up room, and groped a make-up artist; his agent, when told, appeared unsurprised. He also groped co-star Diane Sallinger in a scene that remains in the final cut.
- Because no dedicated film studio could be booked in time, the production built 24 sets inside a disused industrial warehouse near Burbank Airport, and filmed no exteriors.
- The main monster was operated by four or five people pulling cables, in addition to the performer inside the suit.
- Malone convinced Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to lend him original artifacts from Forbidden Planet to decorate the Titan lab, implying his creature was a specimen the Krell had collected in their travels.
- Trans World executives rejected Malone's dystopian screenplay called Murder in the 21st Century in January 1984 for its limited commercial appeal, and asked him for a new pitch at a single night's notice. He unearthed the first pages of an unfinished screenplay from his personal archive, and his backers greenlit it immediately.
