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Receive no more
telephone calls
from telemarketers
selling junk.
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| Released By: | Paramount Pictures |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Director: | Joe Dante |
| Screenplay: | Eric Luke |
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"But don't you wonder what's out there?
I mean, up in the Universe, on other planets?"
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After receiving messages in their dreams, three young friends build a spaceship out of old discarded junk and meet the aliens transmitting them. |
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During the shooting of a TV movie Surviving, River's agent Iris Burton contacted his family with news that a casting director wanted River to test for a big-budget science-fiction feature. This was the big break the Phoenix's were looking for - the director in question was Joe Dante who had just had great success with Gremlins. River described the opportunity as "a movie kid's dream." |
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"I was immediately impressed by River's fresh and natural acting ability. We liked his acting so much that we ended up offering him the part that was furthest away from his real persona" said Dante who cast River as the geeky boy-scientist Wolfgang Müller. Ethan Hawke was cast as Ben Crandall and Jason Presson was given the roll of the streetwise kid Darren Woods - the part River had originally read for and the type of character he would go on to play in his next film Stand By Me.
"But this is just the movies. This isn't the way we really are!
Don't you know that?"
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