Written and directed by Willard Huyck, writer of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and close collaborator with George Lucas on several other projects, “Howard the Duck” is an infamous flop, a failure to translate the social satires of Marvel Comics’ anthropomorphic funny animal. A black spot in producer Lucas’s career, the film has had something of an afterlife as a cult film, a fact that The Hollywood Reporter has explored with a new 35th-anniversary oral history.
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Chief among the new things revealed about the making of the to-this-day utterly bizarre project is that Robin Williams – very understandably – quit the project within the first week of voice recordings for what was, at first, his part as Howard.
Continue reading ‘Howard The Duck’s’ Animatronic Beak Led Robin Williams To Quit Production Within A Week at The Playlist.
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Chief among the new things revealed about the making of the to-this-day utterly bizarre project is that Robin Williams – very understandably – quit the project within the first week of voice recordings for what was, at first, his part as Howard.
Continue reading ‘Howard The Duck’s’ Animatronic Beak Led Robin Williams To Quit Production Within A Week at The Playlist.
- 7/26/2021
- by Kambole Campbell
- The Playlist
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