LifeForce (1985) 12-12

The initial first cut of Lifeforce, as done by Tobe Hooper, was 128 mins long, which was 12 minutes longer than the final version, with mostly scenes on the space shuttle Churchill cut.

According to Nicholas Ball, who played the main British astronaut Derebridge, it was felt that there was too much material in space and so the majority of the Churchill scenes were deleted. Also, most of Nicholas Ball's performance ended up on the cutting room floor according to an interview he gave on the UK talk show Wogan in 1985.

Patrick Stewart said in interviews that he was disappointed at the cuts made to the film and that Tobe Hooper was his favorite director to work with.[citation needed]

According to interviews with Bill Malin, who plays one of the male vampires, the film went over schedule so some important scenes were never shot and also that the film was shut down at one time because they had run out of money.[citation needed]

Despite being credited on the US domestic cut, the following actors were deleted from that cut of the film: John Woodnutt, John Forbes-Robertson and Russell Sommers. The Churchill commanding officer Rawlins, played by Geoffrey Frederick, was British, but in post-production it was decided to re-voice him by Patrick Jordan, a US performer. Also in the US version, some of Geoffrey Frederick's voiceover heard on the Churchill is also dubbed.
The film was edited for its U.S. theatrical release by Tri-Star Pictures to a 101 min domestic cut version that was partially re-scored by Michael Kamen, with a majority of Henry Mancini's original music still left remaining. The original 116 min international theatrical cut version, which is now currently available on video and DVD, contains more violent and erotic footage that Tri-Star cut from the domestic version, along with the entirety of Mancini's full music score in place of Kamen's occasional music cues placed at the last minute for U.S. domestic prints of the film.
Lifeforce was released on June 21, 1985 to disappointing box office returns. The film opened in fourth place, losing the head-to-head release battle against the Ron Howard sci-fi film, Cocoon. In total, Lifeforce earned $11,603,545 at the US box office, a poor return on its estimated $25 million dollar budget.

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[ArmyDogsProductions1]

I'm writing the remake.

There will be some changes in the characters.

[ArmyDogsProductions]

I'm beginning to write the screenplay, in the hopes of doing a remake.

If I'm going to do a remake, I would star Liam Hemsworth as the main

character; Carlsen, and Italian actress; Marta Gastini, of "The Rite.",

as the Space Girl.

[JSwiftMedia]

Tobe tried really hard with this movie, but it just didn't come together for me. Mathilda May was fun to watch, but the plot was just too ham-fisted for me to get into the groove of things. I now await the inevitable PG-13, 3D "remake" any day now. . .