Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985) on Netflix
Edison Carter is a Network 23 reporter who chases corruption even inside his own employer. His new producer, Theora Jones, helps him dig into a fatal kind of subliminal advertising.
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Plot summary
In a near-future world, large corporations hold much of the power and shape public taste for ratings and money. Edison Carter reports for Network 23 and is determined to expose wrongdoing, even when his own employer is involved. Management pulls him off a story about an apartment explosion. His new producer, Theora Jones, agrees to keep looking into it despite pressure from above. The two find that the network's new subliminal advertising, called blipverts, can be deadly to some viewers. Bryce Lynch, a teenage computer expert who answers only to the network's chief executive, Mr. Grossman, built the blipverts, and Network 23 wants the secret kept.
Cast
- George Rossias Mahler
- Lloyd McGuireas Edwards
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985)
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- Matt Frewer created the illusion that Max Headroom was a computer-generated character by wearing prosthetic make-up, contact lenses and a plastic moulded suit while sitting in front of a blue screen; harsh lighting and editing effects heightened the CGI illusion.
- Matt Frewer tested for Max Headroom after a friend auditioned and suggested him instead; given only "a few lines" of dialogue, he improvised for more than ten minutes and impressed the production crew. Co-creator Annabel Jankel liked his casting polaroid's "unbelievably well-defined features."
- Max's origin was first proposed as an AI standing in for a human TV host late for his own show, to be revealed in five-minute segments across the first season of The Max Headroom Show; when Channel 4 opted for an hour-long TV movie instead, the story was expanded and the origin changed to crusading journalist Edison Carter.
- The character's name came from the "max. headroom" clearance signs over UK car park and garage entrances; after Max Headroom became popular, it became more common for such UK signs to read "max. height" instead.
