{"id":20595,"date":"2018-07-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20595"},"modified":"2018-07-04T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:20:17","slug":"15-facts-about-john-carpenters-christine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20595","title":{"rendered":"15 Facts About John Carpenter’s “Christine”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sean Hutchinson at Mental Floss posted 15 Facts About John Carpenter’s Christine<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

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2. JOHN CARPENTER SIGNED ON SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WANTED A JOB.<\/strong>
\nKobritz approached John Carpenter after the critical and financial failure of his 1982 adaptation of The Thing, which is now widely regarded as one of the filmmaker\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

The pair previously worked together on Carpenter\u2019s 1978 TV movie Someone\u2019s Watching Me! and Carpenter agreed to take on the project because he wanted to jump immediately into another movie after his first high-profile box office flop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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8. KEVIN BACON WAS ORIGINALLY CAST AS ARNIE.<\/h4>\n

Carpenter held auditions in California and New York, looking for the right fresh faces for the teen characters in the film, and he found the perfect newcomer for Arnie:\u00a0Kevin Bacon.<\/p>\n

The now-famous actor\u2019s only other significant work at the time was bit parts in\u00a0Animal House<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Friday the 13th<\/em>, and Kobritz and Carpenter thought Arnie\u2019s transformation from dweeby hero to suave villain was a perfect fit for Bacon. But after being cast, Bacon\u00a0dropped out\u00a0when he was offered a starring role in\u00a0Footloose<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Carpenter went back the the drawing board to cast Arnie, and eventually found actor Keith Gordon in a play in New York City. Carpenter initially took to Gordon as Arnie because of the actor\u2019s previous appearance in Brian De Palma\u2019s thriller\u00a0Dressed to Kill.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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7. CARPENTER DIDN\u2019T WANT TO CAST MOVIE STARS.<\/h4>\n

Columbia execs wanted a star-studded cast to round out their King adaptation, and suggested that Brooke Shields\u2014coming off the hit film\u00a0The Blue Lagoon<\/a>\u2014<\/em>be cast as Leigh, and Scott Baio be cast as Arnie. But Carpenter didn\u2019t want recognizable faces in the movie as a way to stress that the titular car was the real star of the movie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean Hutchinson at Mental Floss posted 15 Facts About John Carpenter’s Christine.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… 2. JOHN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595","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=20595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20596,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions\/20596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}