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The Fly Movie Behind The Scenes

Making The Fly

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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The Fly Picture
First live test...

Production

Go behind the scenes on the 1986 Horror / Occult movie starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel

Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo, Michael Copeman, David Cronenberg, Carol Lazare, Shawn Hewitt Update Cast


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More action sequences other than the arm-wrestling were cut from the final release including one where a baboon and a cat mutate together and Seth has to beat it to death with a pipe.
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The Fly's vomit was made from Honey, eggs and milk.
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The designers studied graphic books on disease to help develop "The Fly".
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It took roughly five hours to apply the make up to Seth.
Thanks to John
Michael Keaton was the first choice to play Seth Brundle but turned the role down.
Thanks to Omar
In the movie, Seth points out something on his hip when he is crawling on the wall. Originally, he had a third arm grow out of there, which he ripped out! They said they had to take that part out of the movie because it was too graphic and gory. The people were fainting and vomiting in the screening.



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Deleted Scenes

There are often scenes cut from the final version of a movie. Sometimes these will have been seen by preview audiences, or be included in Blu-ray or DVD extras etc.




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Alternate Versions

Sometimes, there will be several versions of a movie floating about on cable, tv or video etc. Other times, a Director may release a special cut of the movie on Blu-ray or DVD.




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