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About
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
Theatrical
Dec 20, 1985
Box Office
$12.3M
Budget
$40.0M
Return
0.3x
DVD / Blu-ray
Mar 27, 2001
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Writers
Edward Khmara, Barry Longyear
Producers
Stanley O'Toole, Stephen J. Friedman
Music
Maurice Jarre
Studio
Bavaria Film, SLM Production Group, Kings Road Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
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Quotes
See all →Reflections on Isolation and Understanding
Quotes about Enemy Mine
*], {{cite news|via=Google Newspaper Archives|work=]|date=April 1986|title=The Making of Enemy Mine|url=https://archive.org/details/Monsterland_09_April_1986_c2c_salt_of_the_earth/page/n31/mode/2up?q=enemy+mine|first=Michael|last=Mayo|number=9|pages=32-35, 41}}
[[Edward Khmara; [w:Monsterland|Monsterland]
Development Challenges of Enemy Mine Screenplay
Quotes about Enemy Mine
Before we wrote the screenplay, we tried to get the studios interested in the story. It was turned down everywhere. But again, after the screenplay was done, there was quite a bit of studio interest. We finally went with 20th Century Fox. Then they started having trouble finding a director. Either the ones they wanted weren't available, or wanted to go in such a different direction with the story that they were unacceptable. Finally, Richard Loncrane was hired.The first draft of my screenplay took ten months, which is a very long time. When I started working with Richard, I would fly to London or he would fly here. He had a wonderful, very exciting vision of the film, but at the same time, it might have exceeded what was possible. What you see on the screen today is maybe 75 script pages. The script Loncrane and I started shooting with in Iceland was 140 pages long.
Reflections on Alien Friendship in Enemy Mine
Quotes about Enemy Mine
*Blair Clark, as quoted in Berger, H. & Marshall, J. (2002), Masters of Make-Up Effects: A Century of Practical Magic, Wellbeck Publishing, p. 138, ISBN 978-1-80279-001-6
Changes in Direction and Character Design
Quotes about Enemy Mine
After we'd been shooting for about a month, the studio wasn't happy with what they were seeing, so they hired Wolfgang Petersen as the new director. ... We reset and resculpted with a new design concept, although it wasn't all that different from Drac's original look, which I always thought was cool. He looked more like an iguana, and dark grey, peppered with small, iridescent patches.
Cast
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Dennis Quaid
Willis Davidge
L
Louis Gossett Jr.
Jeriba 'Jerry' Shigan
B
Brion James
Stubbs
R
Richard Marcus
Arnold
C
Carolyn McCormick
Morse
L
Lance Kerwin
Joey Wooster
B
Bumper Robinson
Zammis
J
Jim Mapp
Old Drac
S
Scott Kraft
Jonathan
L
Lou Michaels
Wilson
H
Henry Stolow
Cates
H
Herb Andress
Hopper
J
Jack Luceno
Drac Movement
B
Barry Stokes
Huck
U
Ulrich Günther
Daggett
C
Colin Gilder
Chavo
C
Charles M. Huber
Kranzer
F
Frank Henson
Lump
J
Jazzer Jeyes
Scarbreath
D
Doug Robinson
Walker
