![]() There was some exterior shooting, mainly for Murdoch’s flashbacks - for example Murdoch’s house was burned down at Palm Beach, while the beach location was also an exterior, digitally enhanced shoot. A tail credit reads “studio facilities furnished by Fox Studios Australia”. It was the first big budget runaway production to use the space in this way, and as well as the studio shoot, some of the roadways show off Showground roads and buildings. Locations: the film was mainly shot in the then old Sydney Showground spaces which were in the process of becoming Fox Studios. 79 (though earlier it had been as low as. In the 'making of', director Alex Proyas puts the budget at US$27 million, and RBA data here lists the exchange rate at the time the film was shot as being around. Others put it as low as A$20 million ( Sun-Herald, 15th September 1996). An A$40 million figure was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on 23rd October 1997. A$35-40 million - the budget was variously guessed at in the press, complicated by casual use of A$ and US$. Production company: tail credit identifies Dark City Productions Pty Limited as the author of the motion picture for the purpose of copyright and other laws, and copyrights the film to Dark City Productions Pty Limited.īudget: US$27 million, c. The director’s cut version begins differently, and for a more detailed synopis of this preferred version, with cast details and full spoilers, see the very bottom of this site's 'about the movie' section. Their endless journey brought them to a small blue world in the furthest corner of the galaxy …our world! Here they thought they had finally found what they had been searching for …my name is Doctor Daniel Paul Schreber …I am just a man, I help the Strangers conduct their experiments …I have betrayed my own kind …” (Schreber looks at his pocket watch and a midnight ‘tuning’ begins, along with head credits) They had mastered the ultimate technology - the ability to alter physical reality… by will alone! They called this ability ‘tuning’ … but they were dying, their civilisation was in decline …and so they abandoned their world, seeking a cure for their own mortality. Schreber: “First there was darkness …then came the Strangers. ![]() One of the reasons that the original short cut was reviled and involved much creative gritting of teeth was the insistence of New Line that a voice over narration by Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) be placed at the start of the show which pretty much explained everything: Murdoch is at the centre of a terrifying nightmare - only problem is, he’s very much awake.įrom the director of The Crow, comes a mind-altering journey to the place where everything is controlled - even your memories - Dark City. He escapes into the city and plunges headlong into a labyrinth of twisted truths, hideous crimes and heartstopping pursuits. He has no recollection of the killings, in fact, he has no memory of anything.Ī phone call warns him that men are coming to get him. ![]() John Murdoch awakens in the bath of a strange hotel to discover that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. Not since “Blade Runner” has one film taken you to the heart of a terrifying world and left you there … There was also a short synopsis, remembering that this was the short 100 minute version, and starting with a comparison likely to irritate the creative team: “An ingeniously conceived film, an original that reverberates like a familiar nightmare.” On the rear, The Movie Show was given top blurb spot: The Roadshow VHS release went with the obvious at the top of the front of the slick: “From the Director of The Crow”, while the pitch ran “The city was built to see what makes us tick. (Note: this listing contains many spoilers). ![]()
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