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Tara Aquino<\/b>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Scanners<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 4. CRONENBERG SHOT TWO ENDINGS TO SCANNERS<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong> 5. ACCORDING TO LACK, THE SCANNERS<\/em> SCRIPT WASN\u2019T EVEN WRITTEN WHILE FILMING. 6. MICHAEL IRONSIDE WORE DUSTIN HOFFMAN\u2019S EYES FROM LITTLE BIG MAN<\/em> IN A CRUCIAL SCENE. Tara Aquino\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 10 Mind-Blowing Facts About Scanners. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 4. CRONENBERG SHOT TWO ENDINGS TO<\/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":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","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\/14813","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=14813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14815,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813\/revisions\/14815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nAccording to Michael Ironside, who played Darryl Revok, he and Stephen Lack filmed a less exciting version of the ending. \u201cWith one ending, we had this psycho-battle between my brother and I and it didn\u2019t work, we shot it right up until Christmas and sent the script to [special effects wizard] Dick Smith in New York and asked him what he could come up with in terms of cutting edge makeup,\u201d Ironside explained. \u201cYou know, something that would give us a more memorable battle and a different ending. Dick then came up with the idea of the exploding heads and that was a very collaborative thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>It\u2019s no surprise that Cronenberg allegedly called Scanners<\/em> his most frustrating film to make. In addition to delays in filming, the script wasn\u2019t even completed when production commenced. \u201cNot only was\u00a0Scanners<\/em> <\/i>not rehearsed, but it wasn\u2019t written,\u201d Lack told Film Comment<\/em>. \u201cDavid was coming in with pink, blue, and yellow pages for the day for the version of the script that we were doing, and he was working on it right there. As a result I had to deal with the dialogue in such a way that I was not reacting to things, because the information hadn\u2019t been given to my character in the linear progression of the story. If you chop it up and look at it, 50 percent of my dialogue is not an assertion of anything but rather a question: \u2018You called me a Scanner, what does that mean?\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re part of an organization, who are you?\u2019 Everything is a freaking question!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>Scanners<\/em>\u00a0was all about making its special effects work at all costs, which is why Ironside\u2019s story about his peculiar eyes at the end of the film fits in perfectly. \u201cThere\u2019s a scene \u2026 where I\u2019m set on fire and my head comes up and those scleras they put on your eyes, they had scratched all my corneas,\u201d Ironside recalled. \u201cSo the contact lenses they had made for me to change my eye color didn’t fit properly because my eyes had been scratched. Dick Smith happened to have with him Dustin Hoffman\u2019s eyes from Little Big Man<\/em> and they were actually oversized, and you wouldn’t normally do this because they have to be fitted, but when you see me come out from under that coat at the end of Scanners<\/em>, those blue eyes of mine are Dustin Hoffman\u2019s from Little Big Man<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"