Evolution (film)
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| Directed by | Ivan Reitman |
| Produced by | Joe Medjuck Ivan Reitman Daniel Goldberg |
| Written by | David Diamond Don Jakoby David Weissman |
| Starring | David Duchovny Orlando Jones Julianne Moore Seann William Scott |
| Music by | John Powell |
| Cinematography | Michael Chapman |
| Editing by | Wendy Greene Bricmont Sheldon Kahn |
| Distributed by | - USA - DreamWorks - non-USA - Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 8, 2001 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$80,000,000 |
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Evolution is a 2001 comedy sci-fi movie directed by Ivan Reitman. It is based on a story by Don Jakoby who converted it into a screenplay along with David Diamond and David Weissman. The movie was originally written as a serious horror science fiction film, until director Ivan Reitman re-wrote much of the script. A short-lived animated series, Alienators: Evolution Continues, that was loosely based on the film was broadcast months after the movie was released.
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Ira Kane and Harry Block discover an extraterrestrial organism in an asteroid that has crashed to Earth. Though initially a simple goo it rapidly evolves into a variety of creatures including primates and pterodactyl species that threaten to take over the sleepy town of Glen Canyon, Arizona.
Soon the government (and army), led by Allison Reed and Russell Woodman who are quite familiar with Ira Kane, attends the scene and attempt to control the situation. Unfortunately, the aliens mutate rapidly when set on fire and their method of destroying the alien lifeform via napalm actually boosts its growth and it comes down to Kane, Block and a few friends to save everyone.
It is discovered that selenium, an ingredient in some dandruff shampoos, is as poisonous to the alien life-forms as arsenic is to humans. This idea is brought about by performing the same translation of movements (Knight's move in chess: down two and right one) in the periodic table from nitrogen (the primary element in the alien life-form) to selenium as from carbon (the primary element in humans) to arsenic.
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| David Duchovny | Colonel (Ret.) Dr. Ira Kane, PhD. |
| Julianne Moore | Dr. Allison Reed, PhD. |
| Orlando Jones | Professor Harry Phineas Block |
| Seann William Scott | Wayne Grey |
| Ted Levine | Brigadier General Russell Woodman |
| Ethan Suplee | Deke Donald |
| Michael Bower | Danny Donald |
| Pat Kilbane | Officer Sam Johnson |
| Ty Burrell | Colonel Flemming |
| Dan Aykroyd | Governor Lewis |
| Katharine Towne | Nadine |
| Gregory Itzin | Barry Cartwright |
| Ashley Clark | Lieutenant Cryer |
Kyle Gass, Sarah Silverman, Richard Moll, Tom Davis, Miriam Flynn, and John Cho have cameo appearances.
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- During the lengthy shooting in Page, Arizona, Dan Aykroyd entertained locals by checking ID cards for guests at a bar, unofficially greeting people at Wal-Mart, and visiting locals for a cup of coffee in their homes.
- Because the film was shot (but not set) in December, DreamWorks asked the locals to delay putting up their Christmas decorations. Following the shoot, DreamWorks paid the city employees overtime to decorate the town in time for Christmas.
- The clumsiness of Julianne Moore's character was her idea.
- The three main characters perform a commercial for "Head & Shoulders" at the end of the movie. Ivan Reitman's son came up with the idea.
- David Duchovny turned down a role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones to appear in this movie.
- The three-eyed smiley face used as the logo of the film in marketing was borrowed from the comic book Transmetropolitan. Producers had to get permission from DC Comics to use it and were licensed by Smileyworld Ltd., owner of the smiley face trademark, to use it for advertising and commercial purposes.
- All of the on-campus, classroom, lab and professor's office scenes were filmed at California State University, Fullerton, in Fullerton, California. The building used for the movie was Miles D. McCarthy Hall, which is currently home to the College of Natural Science and Mathematics.
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