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David Seltzer (Highland Park, Illinois; 1940) es un guionista , productor y director estadounidense, más conocido por escribir las célebres novelas La profecía (1976) y Bird on a Wire (1990). [2]
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Occupations. Screenwriter. producer. director. Years active. 1966-present. David Seltzer (born February 12, 1940) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for The Omen (1976) [1] and Bird on a Wire (1990).
- 1966–2006
- February 12, 1940 (age 83), Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
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American diplomat Robert Thorn and his wife Katherine are living in Rome, where Katherine gives birth to a boy who Robert is told died immediately. Hospital chaplain Father Spiletto persuades Robert to secretly adopt another baby whose mother just died in childbirth. Robert does not tell Katherine the child is not their own. They name him Damien. F...
Development
According to producer Harvey Bernhard, the idea of a motion picture about the Antichristcame after a discussion about the Bible with Bob Munger, a friend of Bernhard's. When Munger told him about the idea in 1973, the producer immediately contacted screenwriter David Seltzer and hired him to write a screenplay. It took a year for Seltzer to write the script. The film was considered by Warner Bros. Pictures, but the project did not move forward until optioned by Alan Ladd Jr. of 20th Century F...
Casting
Bernhard claims Gregory Peck had been the choice to portray Ambassador Thorn from the beginning. Peck got involved with the project through his agent, who was friends with producer Bernhard. After reading the script, Peck reportedly liked the idea that it was more of a psychological thriller rather than a horror film and agreed to star in it. He was at first displeased with the props and effects for making the death scenes but was relieved to find how restrained and non-exploitative they were...
Filming
Principal photography of The Omen began on October 6, 1975, and lasted eleven weeks, wrapping on January 9, 1976. Scenes were shot on location in Bishops Park in Fulham, London and Guildford Cathedral in Surrey. The Thorns' country manor was filmed at Pyrford Court in Surrey. The church featured in the Bishop's Park neighbourhood is All Saints' Church, Fulham, on the western side of Putney Bridge Road. The church used in the final climactic scene is St Peter's in Staines-upon-Thames. Addition...
American scholar Brad Duren argued that The Omen was part of a trend of films featuring cosmic horror that started with Rosemary's Baby in 1968, but the film was unusual at the time because it concerned the "end times" predicted in The Book of Revelation and focused on a form of premillennialism favored by American dispensationalists. Duren further...
An original score for the film, including the movie's theme song "Ave Satani", was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for which he received the only Oscar of his career. The score features a strong choral segment, with a foreboding Latin chant. According to Goldsmith's wife, Carol, the composer initially struggled with ideas for the score until one eveni...
Box office
The Omen was released following a successful $2.8 million marketing campaign inspired by the one from Jaws one year prior, with two weeks of sneak previews, a novelization by screenwriter David Seltzer, and the logo with "666" inside the film's title as the centerpiece of the advertisement.An early screening of the film took place in numerous U.S. cities on June 6, 1976. The film was a massive commercial success, opening in the United States and Canada on June 25, 1976, in 516 theaters. It gr...
Home media
The Omen was released on VHS by 20th Century Fox Home Video in 1980. A VHS reissue was released by Fox under their "Selection Series" in 2000. The same year, a special-edition DVD was released by 20th Century Fox Home Video as a standalone release as well as in a four-film set that included its three sequels.A newly restored two-disc collector's edition DVD of the film was issued in 2006, coinciding with the release of the remake. The film had its debut on Blu-ray in October 2008 as part of a...
Films
A novelization of The Omenwas written by screenwriter David Seltzer and released two weeks before the film. For the book, Seltzer augmented some plot points and character backgrounds and changed minor details, including some character names: Holly became Chessa Whyte, Keith Jennings became Haber Jennings and Father Brennan became Father Edgardo Emilio Tassone. The Omen was followed by three sequels: Damien: Omen II (1978), Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), and Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)...
Fishgall, Gary (2002). Gregory Peck: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-85290-4.Duren, Brad (2017). "Reckoning the Number of the Beast: Premillernial Dispensationalism, The Omen, and 1970s America". In J. Miller, Cynthia; A. Bowdoin Van Riper (eds.). Divine Horror: Essays on t...Lacey, Robert (1981). The Kingdom. San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-147260-2.Medved, Harry; Dreyfuss, Randy (1978). The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way). Popular Library. ISBN 0-445-04139-0.The Omen at IMDbThe Omen at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Omen at AllMovieThe Omen at the American Film Institute Catalog- $60.9 million (United States and Canada)
- Jerry Goldsmith
- $2.8 million
- Harvey Bernhard
La profecía ( The Omen) es una película de terror britano -estadounidense de 1976 dirigida por Richard Donner. La trama está basada en una idea original del productor Harvey Bernhard, quien contrató al guionista David Seltzer para preparar el guion.
Lecturalia. David Seltzer. País: Estados Unidos. Nacimiento: 1940. Biografía de David Seltzer. Escritor y guionista americano, David Seltzer es un autor de literatura de terror cuya obra más conocida es La profecía, novela y guión cinematográfico de 1976 que logró un gran éxito de público. Ha participado en esta ficha: Crusnik.
The Omen is the original film in the series, directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. The story introduces Robert Thorn, the American Ambassador in Italy who adopts the newborn Damien to replace the newborn that he has been told was stillborn.
David Seltzer es un guionista , productor y director estadounidense, más conocido por escribir las célebres novelas La profecía y Bird on a Wire .[2]
