Showing posts with label Rick Baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Baker. Show all posts

5/26/2014

Maleficent Special Effects Make-Up Artist Reveals Rare Photo of Spielberg's Lost Project

Rick Bakers 'The Night Skies' alien
Mark Turner 
Fantastic Almanac 
05/26/2014

Make-up effects wizard Rick Baker released another photo of the ill-fated late 70's/early 80's Steven Spielberg film; The Night Skies, a story about the real-life alleged alien encounters of the famed Kelly–Hopkinsville Kentucky encounter, where a family's farmhouse was attacked by mysterious beings. As is often the case with Hollywood, projects sometimes never see the light of day. This one would however spawn E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, turning the alien into a friendly companion for a boy named Elliot.

Mr. Baker said in his Tweet "Unhappy days, film shut down. I wanted to change the body of the ET, the mantis like arm placement just didn't work imo"

Always busy, Rick Baker's latest work can be seen on this summers most famous monster Angelina Jolie as Maleficant.

Earlier released photo story here: Effects Wizard RICK BAKER shares a rare look at a CREATURE from SPIELBERG's never-made 'THE NIGHT SKIES' 05/22/2014

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5/22/2014

Effects Wizard RICK BAKER shares a rare look at a CREATURE from SPIELBERG's never-made 'THE NIGHT SKIES'

"I always feel like somebody's watching me"
Image:Rick Baker/The Night Skies
Mark Turner 
Fantastic Almanac
05/22/2014

The make-up effects wizard behind the frightening non-CG metamorphosis of a man into a wolf in American Werewolf in London and the many creature effects in Michael Jackson's Thriller, Rick Baker recently released a rare photo on his Twitter page from a never completed 1970's film project titled; The Night Skies. 

Alien creature from the proposed The Night Skies./Rick Baker at right./Image: Rick Baker
In the post, Mr. Baker states that this was a work in progress and that the eyes were not finished. He then asks his followers to "Cover the top of his head and tell me who he looks like." @TheRickBaker

The story of the Night Skies was developed by Steven Spielberg and centered around a family being terrorized by sinister looking aliens.

As it often happens in Hollywood, some of the greatest ideas never make it to the silver screen. Maybe someday this vision of otherworldly eeriness can be brought to the life.  

So, who do you think the alien resembles? Feel free to comment below. 



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