boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (09/21/84)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Jerry Boyajian) > From: LFeinberg.es@XEROX.ARPA > The movie "Brainstorm" had very much the look of the director > [Walter?] Cronenberg, who directed Scanners, Videodrome, and a > couple other movies. This "look" was evidenced in the casting, the > subject and script, and in the high-tech institutional shots > throughtout the movie. Can anyone tell me if he was ever associated > with the movie? Was he the original director before Natalie Wood's > death put the movie on hold? Nope. It was Doug Trumball all the way. A few points: (1) It's David Cronenberg. (2) The only similarity I could see in the casting was the male lead Christopher Walken in both BRAINSTORM and Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE. Cronenberg tends to use Canadian bit-players, and/or moderate-unknowns. BRAINSTORM was star-studded. (3) The only similarity that I could see in the story is that Cronenberg has a fetish for plots of a biological (or, more accurately, physiological) nature. It would be stretching things to say that BRAINSTORM had a similar theme, but the point *could* be argued. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA