An American Werewolf In London Full Movie Part 1

Facts About 'An American Werewolf in London'In 1. John Landis took advantage of his newfound clout after directing the hit comedies Animal House (1. The Blues Brothers (1. An American Werewolf in London starred David Naughton as David Kessler, a young American human who becomes a werewolf while backpacking in England. Despite continued protests from his walking dead bestie, Jack Goodman (Griffin Dunne), that he should kill himself before he kills again, David hesitates—both because of the strange situation and because of his newfound romance with the nurse who treated his wounds, Alex Price (Jenny Agutter). Here are some facts about the predecessor to all horror films with a sense of humor, in honor of its 3. JOHN LANDIS WROTE THE SCRIPT WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER.

In 1. 96. 9, John Landis was 1. Kelly's Heroes (1. Yugoslavia. He first got the idea for An American Werewolf in London when he saw a man get buried feet first and wrapped in garlic, because it was feared he would come back to life. Throughout the 1. Landis had no success making his script a reality. No one would make this fu*king movie," Landis said in 2. There hadn’t been a werewolf movie in years.

When I finally got the opportunity to make it, there was The Howling (1. Wolfen (1. 98. 1), Teen Wolf (1.

Full Moon High (1. A FAMED JAMES BOND PRODUCER REFUSED TO GET INVOLVED. Landis tried to land producer Albert R. Broccoli for his project, after Landis made some uncredited rewriters on The Spy Who Loved Me (1. It turned out to be a non- starter; when Broccoli read the script, he told Landis, "Hell no, it's weird!"As a small consolation, the bus driver for the Piccadilly Circus scene in Werewolf was Vic Armstrong, who would later be employed as the stunt coordinator in James Bond movies, including Never Say Never Again (1. Tomorrow Never Dies (1. Die Another Day (2.

DAVID NAUGHTON WAS DOING PROMOTIONAL WORK FOR DR. PEPPER WHEN HE HEARD ABOUT THE AUDITIONS. Landis had been familiar with Naughton's commercial work for Dr. Pepper. He told Naughton they were both Peppers. The day after their talk, Landis called Naughton and asked him if he wanted to be a werewolf.

At the end of their meeting, Landis asked Naughton "to call him in the morning and I thought, this is odd but OK, I'll call you tomorrow. And next day he said, 'D'you want to be a werewolf?' And that was it."Dunne got the part after a 1. Landis. 4. THEY PURPOSELY SHOT IT IN FEBRUARY AND MARCH. Landis wanted bad weather for his movie. According to the production notes, the Welsh town of Crickadarn had snow, sleet, rain, and extensive sunshine all in one day. This caused problems for Naughton, because he was told to run as if it was warm.

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That's rather difficult to do because it's cold and you've got no shoes on and I don't jog in bare feet in any weather even back in California," he said. That's the hardest part, you're running in wooded areas, on slick paths, trying not to look like going, 'Ooh, ow, oh, ouch!' And they were saying, 'C'mon, it's warm, this is a dream, you're leaping, you're like a deer.' So I just had to go for it."5. IT WAS A VERY LONG MAKEUP PROCESS. The first thing special makeup effects designer and creator Rick Baker said to Naughton when they met was, "I feel sorry for you." On the days when David transformed, Naughton was picked up at 4: 3. Naughton said it was like "a long flight that never gets there."6. GRIFFIN DUNNE HAD HIS OWN TECHNICAL ISSUES.

During filming, Dunne tried to use the bathroom in the one trailer that had one. While doing his business, a driver hooked the trailer to his pickup and towed it away. DUNNE WAS TOLD TO STAY HAPPY AFTER DYING. Landis told Dunne that once he was back from the dead he should never sound like anything but in a "really good mood.”8. THEY SHOT THE MOVIE PRETTY MUCH IN ORDER."It's a little unusual to shoot a movie in sequence," Naughton noted.

We shot the opening first. It was scheduled to give Rick Baker as much time as possible to finish up on the things which would require special makeup, prosthetics, etc. So all his stuff was going to be shot at the back end of the 1. NAUGHTON REALLY WAS NAKED AND IN A CAGE WITH WOLVES. Naughton was not only fearful of the wolves, but he admitted later that he would have preferred it if the trainers weren't women. Do we have to have women trainers here, fellas?

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I'm naked you know!" he protested to Landis and his crew, to no avail. One of the wolves approached him during the take, which was not expected. Dogs will at least give you warnings that they're not comfortable with you but wolves just look at you with these very distant yellow eyes."1. LANDIS BRIBED THE LOCAL POLICE TO GET PERMISSION TO FILM AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS.

Landis set up a free screening of The Blues Brothers and invited 3. London's Metropolitan police force. They loved it—and, whaddaya know, suddenly I had permission to shoot in Piccadilly Circus," Landis said. They were allowed to film between 1 a. February nights. They were able to stop traffic three times for two minutes maximum. Watch Dinner For Schmucks Online Facebook. Before Werewolf, filming there had been banned for 1.

Landis made a cameo in the scene as a pedestrian who gets hit by a car and goes through a plate glass window. LANDIS TRIED TO GET AS MANY SONGS WITH "MOON" IN THE TITLE AS POSSIBLE. He managed to get the rights to songs like Van Morrison's "Moondance" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising," but failed at obtaining Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" and Bob Dylan's "Blue Moon" cover. Stevens, according to Landis, refused because he believed werewolves were real. Dylan declined because of his religious beliefs. LANDIS SHOT THE PORN FILM WITHIN THE FILM."When I was working [in London] in the 1.

I went to those little cartoon theaters they had, such as the Eros on Piccadilly," Landis explained. So in the original script, I had him going into the Eros and there was a Road Runner cartoon playing. But when I got back to London in 1.

So I had to change the script to show a porno called, in the best smutty British tradition, See You Next Wednesday. We made the porno ourselves and it was the first scene we shot. It starred Linzi Drew, who was a Page 3 girl at the time; she went on to have an impressive porn career."1. LANDIS REGRETS TONING DOWN SOME OF THE VIOLENCE. In order to get the movie down to an R rating, Landis had to tone down the sex scenes, and cut out a part where a piece of toast fell out of Jack's undead throat.

He also edited out a scene where the werewolf attacked a group of homeless men after preview audiences freaked out.