Have you done any of your special effects yet on video? I mean the actual finished, final special effects.
No. No.
On high definition.
No. No, I mean that’s... And again, as you say, that’s an area where one, I would use it.
Mm.
It’s just that, I don’t work a lot on special effects movies. And we didn’t use them, the real one I did was Masters of the Universe, and we didn’t really use, we weren’t using that there. I find all that fascinating, I mean like Terminator 2, some of the special effects in there are quite extraordinary to me.
They are indeed, yes. Yes.
And very revolutionary. But, no, and I quite like to do, I’d like to do... I don’t like special effects movies actually, because you spend so much time having to fit yourself in round what special effects do that it ceases to become your scene really in the end.
Mm.
But, that’s why I only did one, I turned down several, like, Flash Gordon and, I can’t remember what others, you know, because I didn’t want to do special effects. In the end, I thought... Well I missed Fatal Attraction because I wasn’t in the union, which I was very disappointed about, and Masters of the Universe was in the wings waiting, so, as I say, it got me into the union in the end. But, that was special effects, and that was quite interesting, it was very interesting as a film generally because the director was a first-time director, really didn’t know what he was doing. So Menahem Golan put me on the floor to block out all the scenes with him every night. So I was cutting in the daytime and blocking out the scenes on location at night, and getting no sleep. And...
No disrespect to you, that particular film I thought always had the Cannon aspect to it.
Oh definitely. Cheap.
Kind of, cheap, yes. [laughs]
Cheap, is what it was. Well that’s why you see it could have done with more interesting special effects. No it wasn’t, no, it wasn’t a film I’m particularly proud of actually at all, but it is, yah, in a way it is, because the way the director was shooting, it would never have gone together. I mean you know, people used to see the rushes and they used to say, ‘What are you going to do, how are you ever going to cut it?’ And in fact that it kind of looks OK when it’s finished, in itself, but you know those things, they’re not blatantly obvious, because the film was, I didn’t think the script was very good or anything about it, and they didn’t use He-Man very interestingly, and, you know, I mean... And Dolph is awful. The only thing that was quite good I thought, Frank Langella. But funnily enough, we’ve all stayed friends. I’m great friends with that director, I saw him just the other day when I was back in LA, and the actors, and Frank, we’ve all remained friends. It’s really strange.
[inaudible], was it Tobe... No it wasn’t Tobe Hooper was it?
No, it was Gary, Gary Goddard his name is. He’s never done another film. But he runs those big sci[??] shows that go, Universal tours have. And he’s got... I don’t think he’s got one in Euro Disney but he runs, you know those sci/side[??27:15] shows when you have, King Kong doing things or the, at a Universal Studio tour, he’s got a couple of those.
The sort of Disney [inaudible] really.
Theme thing. Yes.
Or, a theme park, yes.
Yes, theme park. He’s actually opening his own theme park in... He’s a multimillionaire, Gary, he doesn’t need to direct films. But all he really wants to do is direct films. But he’s just opening his own theme park in, just outside Tokyo. Seven floors of...