USA: SAM NEILL TEAMS WITH LAURENCE FISHBURN AND KATHLEEN QUINLAN FOR THE FUTURISTIC SCI-FI HORROR FILM "EVENT HORIZON"

Record ID: 387134

  • Title: USA: SAM NEILL TEAMS WITH LAURENCE FISHBURN AND KATHLEEN QUINLAN FOR THE FUTURISTIC SCI-FI HORROR FILM "EVENT HORIZON"
  • Date: 2nd August 1997
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 8, 1997) (RTV-ACCESS ALL) KATHLEEN QUINLAN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS LAURENCE FISHBURNE ARRIVING AT PREMIERE OF "EVENT HORIZON" CUTAWAY TO CAMERAMAN LAURENCE FISHBURNE TALKING TO PRESS SAM NEILL AT PREMIERE PHOTOGRAPHER SAM NEILL (SOUNDBITE ENGLISH) SAYING," I THINK IT'S GOT HORROR ELEMENTS BUT IT IS ABOVE ALL IT'S A
  • Embargoed: 17th August 1997 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM lOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA24YY2PNC3E95D6U1K49HU013V
  • Story Text: "Jurassic Park's" Sam Neill has teamed with Laurance Fishburn and "Apollo 13" Oscar-nominee Kathleen Quinlan for the futuristic sci-fi horror film "Event Horizon" The film, which premiered in Los Angeles last week (August 8), takes its name from the scientific term for the presumed boundary of a black hole.

    "Event Horizon" is set in 2047. A rescue mission is sent to the outer reaches of the solar system to salvage the Event Horizon, a prototype spaceship missing for the last seven years.

    As the crew members search for survivors, they discover secrets that lie within the mysterious spaceship.

    Aboard the Daylight Space Station orbiting Earth, Dr William Weir (Sam Neill) awakens from a nightmare about his dead wife, Claire.

    Weir, a brilliant but troubled scientist, has been haunted for years by his wife's suicide and the disappearance of the Event Horizon.

    The prototype spaceship was designed by Weir to reach distant stars. Instead, the ship and its crew vanished without a trace.

    Now, seven years later, an emergency beacon indicates the Event Horizon has reappeared near the planet Neptune. The message has been presumably sent by someone aboard the ship.

    A mission is launched to salvage the ship and rescue any survivors of its crew. The ship assigned to the mission is the USAC (United States Aerospace Command) Lewis & Clark, a search & rescue ship named for the leaders of the famed expedition that crossed North America in 1805.

    The Lewis & Clark has just returned from a mission, and her crew was looking forward to a well-deserved leave. The orders to head out toward Neptune is not welcome news - but Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) leads a team of seasoned professionals: navigator Starck (Joely Richardson), emergency technicians Peters (Kathleen Quinlan) and Cooper (Richard T. Jones), engineer Justin (Jack Noseworthy) doctor D.J. (Jason Isaacs), and pilot Smith (Sean Pertwee).

    They accept their orders and embark with Weir on a 56 day journey to reach the Event Horizon. Once on board the stricken craft they find all is not well - in fact it seems the ship is posessed by evil forces.

    The filmed premiered in Britain at the Edinburgh Film Festival on Sunday (August 17).
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