Naked Lunch
Exterminate all rational thought.
Country
Production
Budget
$16 000 000
Box office
$2 665 810
Director
Actors
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Peter Suschitzky
Composer
Artist
Carol Spier
Audition
Editing
Ronald Sanders
Whole Team (37)
Whole Team (37)
Short description
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
What's left behind the scenes
- The shooting of the writer’s wife was not a random plot twist. The author of the book on which this film is based, William S. Burroughs (1915-1997), accidentally shot his own wife, Joan, in Mexico during a party in 1951, when he announced that he would shoot a pistol “in the style of William Tell” (she had placed a glass of liquor on her head, he shot, but missed and killed her). Under Mexican law at the time, Burroughs served 13 days in a local jail.
- This film was initially intended to be the first by David Cronenberg not filmed in Toronto, but the authorities of the province of Ontario offered him attractive financial terms; moreover, the Iraqi army's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 put an end to plans to film in Morocco, so filming took place in Toronto.
- Seven hundred tons of sand were brought into the building of a former ammunition factory to film the desert scenes.
- To star in this film, Peter Weller turned down a role in "RoboCop 3".
- To star in this film, Peter Weller turned down a role in RoboCop 3.
- The plot point of the writer's wife being killed by a gunshot was not accidental. The author of the book upon which this film is based, William S. Burroughs (1915-1997), accidentally shot and killed his own wife, Joan, in Mexico during a party in 1951, after declaring he would shoot his pistol 'in the style of William Tell' (she placed a glass of drink on her head, he fired, but missed and killed her). Under Mexican laws of the time, Burroughs served a sentence of 13 days in a local prison.
- This film was intended to be the first David Cronenberg movie not filmed in Toronto, but the Ontario provincial government offered him attractive financial terms; furthermore, the Iraqi army's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 ended plans to film in Morocco, so the production took place in Toronto.
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