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May 10, 2007 - 12:07 AM
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Jeff Bond
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I got the test disc for Fantastic Voyage today--it's pretty great despite the fact that I have a full-length audio commentary on it (for more aesthetically-pleasing voices, tune in for the 3-way commentary with melifluous Nick Redman and Jon Burlingame helping me out). The extra features are fascinating with storyboards and production art.
But here's the coolest part: there's a deleted scene that's been talked about before, that takes place just after Stephen Boyd's character has been introduced to the CMDF headquarters by Edmund O'Brien. O'Brien demonstrates the shrinking process to an incredulous "Grant" by showing him miniaturized monkeys on a microscope slide.
The deleted scenes feature illustrates the sequence through storyboard panels and script pages. Now in the script pages all of the Stephen Boyd characters dialogue is attributed to someone named FLINT--the other characters refer to him as Mr. Flint and like Stephen Boyd in Fantastic Voyage, he's a bit of a wisecracker--only moreso. So what? Well, some of you may recall that the producer of Fantastic Voyage was Saul David, who also produced the Derek Flint spy spoof movies with James Coburn...and the way these script pages read it looks like at some point Fantastic Voyage was planned as an entry in the Flint series! The timing would make sense, and it also adds perspective to the long-recounted story of how Leonard Rosenman was first asked to provide a swinging jazz score for Fantastic Voyage--a request that probably sounded insane for a sober-minded science fiction epic, but NOT for a crazy spy spoof about secret agents being injected inside a human body. Psychedelic, man!
I have never heard ANYTHING about this connection before--Saul David left that, and absolutely everything else you might want to know about the movies he made, out of his self-serving, painfully dull autobiography. But I would love to get to the bottom of this...
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Jeff, this is just the kind of thing that makes being a genre movie fan love the reason he's loving it! This sounds great.
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But here's the coolest part: there's a deleted scene that's been talked about before, that takes place just after Stephen Boyd's character has been introduced to the CMDF headquarters by Edmund O'Brien. O'Brien demonstrates the shrinking process to an incredulous "Grant" by showing him miniaturized monkeys on a microscope slide.
This scene appears (more or less) in the Dell comic book adaptation that was issued at the time of the film's release.
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Not having read it since I was twelve, I can't recall if Isaac Asimov's "novelization" of the screenplay (the only time the famoed science fiction-science fact author did one) contained the scene. Do you know?
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Jeff, I hope the other two commentators let you get a word in.
On the dvd for COCAINE COWBOYS there are two commentators. One of them (the director , i think) completely dominated the talk. To the point of interrupting every time the other guy tried to say something!
brm
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Jeez, what a geek!
ah, but does he have have the Milton Bradley game?
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Aw, that game's from the shitty Saturday morning cartoon show that bore little resemblance to the movie! 
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Remember that Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the early Bond films, split with longtime partner Cubby Broccoli to make films on his own. In the early 1970s he was set to make a FANTASTIC VOYAGE-like film called The Micronauts, but the cameras never turned on it. All that was left was a series of fairly successful kids' toys that had been planned as a merchandising tie-in.
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I don't know who is responsible for the final version of the score...If they had gone with the "flint version" it would have been a date piece of camp rubbish in the same line of "Diabolik"
Morricone's "Diabolik" is both beautiful and at times danceable. I always think of it as his answer to Barry's "Goldfinger."
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I've read it several times, and I don't remember it.
The best part of the book (which I could never get past, so it's all I've read) was the cover. Talk about a bastard of science:
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