Don Kaye Oct 22, 2019
Screenwriter David Seltzer looks back at The Omen, its origins and the sequel he never wrote.
In June 1976, 20th Century Fox released a horror film called The Omen. Backed by a vivid marketing campaign (“You are one day closer to the end of the world”), starring Hollywood legend Gregory Peck and shot by a little-known director named Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie), the relatively low-budget ($2 million) thriller became one of the biggest and most-talked about hits of that year.
Written by David Seltzer, The Omen featured Peck as Robert Thorn, a rising politician who is manipulated into adopting an orphaned baby after his own son dies in childbirth. But Thorn and his psychologically fragile wife (Lee Remick), who doesn’t know about the switch, are soon beset by unexplained “accidental” deaths, while Thorn is haunted by tormented figures who claim that little Damien is the Antichrist -- the son of the devil,...
Screenwriter David Seltzer looks back at The Omen, its origins and the sequel he never wrote.
In June 1976, 20th Century Fox released a horror film called The Omen. Backed by a vivid marketing campaign (“You are one day closer to the end of the world”), starring Hollywood legend Gregory Peck and shot by a little-known director named Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie), the relatively low-budget ($2 million) thriller became one of the biggest and most-talked about hits of that year.
Written by David Seltzer, The Omen featured Peck as Robert Thorn, a rising politician who is manipulated into adopting an orphaned baby after his own son dies in childbirth. But Thorn and his psychologically fragile wife (Lee Remick), who doesn’t know about the switch, are soon beset by unexplained “accidental” deaths, while Thorn is haunted by tormented figures who claim that little Damien is the Antichrist -- the son of the devil,...
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