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Mark Mancini<\/b>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 10 Facts About Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. IT\u2019S BASED ON A MAGAZINE SERIAL. 5. ORIGINALLY, THE MOVIE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A LOT FUNNIER.<\/span><\/strong> 8. THE PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE WERE LAST-MINUTE ADDITIONS. Mark Mancini\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 10 Facts About Invasion of the Body Snatchers. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. IT\u2019S BASED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14828,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions\/14828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>In November and December of 1954, Collier\u2019s magazine ran a three-part series that would come to be called \u201cthe year\u2019s most original story of suspense.\u201d Written by Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers wowed producer Walter Wanger, who began negotiating the story\u2019s movie rights before he\u2019d even read part two.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n\u201cI felt that pods growing into a likeness of a person would strike the characters as preposterous,\u201d Siegel recalled. \u201cI wanted to play it that way, with the characters not taking the threat seriously.\u201d Hoping to offset the scares, he filmed a number of comedic scenes, which were later cut out by Allied Artists, the film\u2019s distributor. \u201cIn their hallowed words, \u2018horror films are horror films and there\u2019s no room for humor,\u2019\u201d Siegel explained. \u201cI translated [this] to mean that in their pod brains there was no room for humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>Allied Artists didn\u2019t just cut a few jokes here and there; the studio also insisted on a completely different ending. Originally, the movie was going to close with a shot of Dr. Bennell watching hopelessly as truckloads of pods drive out into the distance. Wanting to end the film on a more hopeful note, Allied Artists came up with a slightly happier conclusion. Over his strong objections, Siegel was told to film a new intro and a new final scene (\u201cI reluctantly consented,\u201d he said.) The revamped opening puts Bennell in a police station, where he tells the story as anextended flashback. After the famous \u201cYou\u2019re next!\u201d sequence, his tale ends and, after a while, the authorities begin to believe him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"