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Douglas Monce · 05-05-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Patrick H.

This has always been my impression as well. James Cameron's on about equal status, but there's a been a lot more said about his on-set behavior. Of course, some of that might just be the overall ordeal of some of his productions, but that's another thing about Spielberg...I think he learned enough from his first couple films not to stretch himself or his crews to the breaking point. Later on, when he started producing, it took him another couple films to figure out what that role was (compare the stories behind 'Poltergeist' to those from 'Back to the Future'). The 'Twilight Zone' incident, though, is it's own whole mess that involves a LOT of people.

Anyway, back to the discs at hand, I know I'll probably end up getting these. The Lucas camp seems to have this annoying-yet-consistent methodology of "pay twice and build your own comprehensive boxed set."

I think if Hooper had been a functioning director on the set on day one, Spielberg would probably have let him alone to do it. After all Spielberg had produced 3 films for other directors before that and had never taken over the production. But he wasn't about to let the production come to a halt because the director was having personal problems, so he took over. I don't know what else he could have done other than fire him and hire another director, which would have killed Hooper's directing career.

Spielberg had almost no involvement in the Twilight Zone accident at all. Landis and his producer were totally in charge of that part of the production. There is a very good book about the incident called Special Effects by Ron LaBrecque that really gets into the details of that production.

Doug