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Nov 13

TOY STORY 2 was released 26 years ago today. The second entry in Pixar’s beloved series, and regarded one of the great animated sequels, the story of how it was made will make you realise you can’t rush art…

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Toy Story had released in 1995 as a smash hit, groundbreaking animation and cultural phenomenon. Production company Pixar Animation Studios had plans for a sequel a month before the release but, like most animated sequels, it was expected to be a straight-to-video film.

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John Lasseter had directed Toy Story but, busy working on A Bug’s Life, he hired young animator Ash Brannon to helm the sequel. Excited by Lasseter’s idea of Woody being hunted by a toy collector, Disney (who owned Pixar) decided to make Toy Story 2 a theatrical release.

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Nov 9

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN was released 18 years ago today. One of the most successful movies of the Coen brothers, and acclaimed as one of the great book-to-screen adaptations of the 21st century, missing the story of how it came to be is like losing a Chigurh coin toss…

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In 2005, American author Cormac McCarthy’s 9th novel – No Country For Old Men - published. The 1980-set story of a drug deal on the Mexico-US border that goes wrong, McCarthy had originally written the tale as a screenplay and, before long, Hollywood was interested.

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Producer Scott Rudin purchased the rights to McCarthy’s novel and knew who he wanted to handle the adaptation – sibling filmmaking duo Ethan and Joel Coen. At the time they were working on adapting James Dickey’s To The White Sea but set that aside to work with Rudin.

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Nov 7

STARSHIP TROOPERS was released 28 years ago today. Among the most popular films of director Paul Verhoeven, and a classic sci fi/action satire, the making of story is as outrageous as the film. Would you like to know more…?

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In the mid-1990s, RoboCop co-writer Ed Neumeier came up with an idea for his next screenplay. A future-set science fiction action film, it pitched humans against an alien species from the other side of the galaxy and was called Bug Hunt At Outpost 9.

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Neumeier took his idea to Jon Davidson, who had produced RoboCop. Noticing the similarities to Robert Heinlein’s 1959 novel Starship Troopers – and surprised to see the rights were available – Davidson licensed Heinlein’s book for Neumeier to adapt.

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Nov 5

INTERSTELLAR was released 11 years ago today. The 9thfeature film of director Christopher Nolan, and one of the biggest science fiction epics of the 21st century, the story of how it was made will have you wondering at our place in the stars…

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Having worked together in 1997 on science fiction drama Contact, producer Lynda Obst and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne came up with an idea for a movie about “the most exotic events in the universe” and wrote a treatment for a story called Interstellar.

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In 2006, the 8-page treatment drew the attention of Steven Spielberg and he came on board to direct, with Paramount Pictures set to distribute. In 2007, British screenwriter Jonathan Nolan was hired to write a screenplay.

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Oct 30

DONNIE DARKO was released 24 years ago this week. A cult classic that launched the career of Jake Gyllenhaal as a Hollywood star, the making of story is as out there as talking rabbit…

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In 1997, 22 year old USC graduate Richard Kelly wrote his first screenplay. Completing it in 28 days, it was set in 1988, influenced by the teachings of Stephen Hawking, and told a story of a schizophrenic young man who travels through time. He called it Donnie Darko.

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Kelly showed the script to a young producer called Sean McKittrick, who would recall “I’d never read anything like it.” Together, the two wrote further drafts, shortening the screenplay from 150 pages to 128 pages, and refined the ending.

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Oct 26

THE TERMINATOR was released 41 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great science fiction/action films of the 1980s, and the film that launched the career of writer-director James Cameron, the story of how it was made absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until it is read…

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In 1981, James Cameron was a former special effects artist who had been promoted to direct his first feature film – Piranha II: The Spawning. The young filmmaker didn’t last long, reportedly getting fired after just 2 weeks. It wasn’t a waste of time, though…

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During the release of Piranha II, Cameron was in Rome and became ill. Falling into a deep fever sleep, Cameron dreamt about a robotic killer – as he would later put it “metal death figure coming out of a fire” – and thought it might make a good slasher flick.

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