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Producer Michael Douglas considered several directors, including Mark Rydell, Adrian Lyne, John Badham and Tony Scott, before settling on John Carpenter.
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Jeff Bridges' character (Starman) walks in and buys a Cadillac "cash". In the film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Bridges character (Lightfoot) exclaims that one day he would like to walk up and buy a Cadillac with cash.
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This script was being developed at Columbia at the same time as another script about an alien visitation. The studio did not want to make both, so the head of the studio had to choose which film to make; he decided to make this one and let the other script go to a rival studio. The other script was for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. After ET became such a huge hit Starman sat on the shelf for almost 3 years before Columbia agreed to release it.
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The only John Carpenter film to have an Academy Award nomination (Jeff Bridges, Best Actor).
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The role of Starman originally went to Kevin Bacon.
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When Jeff Bridges walks outside the house naked and uses a 'marble' his hair seems to stand on end. This effect was actually created by shooting Bridges hanging upside-down and then matting the shot onto the background the right way up to give him a surreal look.
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According to John Carpenter in the audio commentary on Big Trouble in Little China, the main reason for which he directed 'Starman' was that after the box-office disaster of The Thing, he needed to make a movie that was the complete opposite of what 'The Thing' was so he could continue to work in Hollywood.
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As of 2000, the building and sign ("Bowdark's Bus Stop") used for the scene with the deer was long abandoned but still standing at an exit on I24 between Chattanooga and Nashville.
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