The Truman Show
On the air. Unaware.
Country
Production
Budget
$60 000 000
Box office
$264 118 201
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Scott Rudin, Andrew Niccol, Edward S. Feldman, Adam Schroeder, Lynn Pleshette
Camera operator
Peter Biziou
Composer
Artist
Dennis Gassner, Eric Pender, Jason Wardle
Audition
Howard Feuer
Editing
Short description
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
What's left behind the scenes
- Andrew Niccol had to rewrite the script 16 times to fully align with the director’s vision.
- Dennis Hopper had already been chosen for the role of Christophe, but he was forced to leave the project shortly after the first day of filming.
- Truman's yacht is named "Santa Maria" at the end of the film. This is the same name as Christopher Columbus's flagship in his first expedition to America.
- Harry Shearer played the role of Mike Michaelson, the host of a TV show. In a very similar film, “Ed from TV,” which tells the story of the creation of a television channel where you can watch the life of a man named Ed 24 hours a day, he played an analogous role.
- Jim Carrey, while working on this film, wanted to prove to everyone that he could play not only fools, but also quite serious dramatic roles. For this reason, it was forbidden for anyone on set to utter phrases or lines from Jim's previous 'silly' films.
- When Truman speaks with Marlon (the vendor who fills the vending machine with chocolate bars), Marlon displays two yellow packages, then a brown one appears, followed by more yellow ones – one extra (he added a fourth).
- The film’s director, Peter Weir, decided to present his work in a 1.66:1 format, bringing the image closer to a television format.
- Many plot elements were borrowed from Philip K. Dick's 1957 novella, "The Preserved View." This work tells the story of a man from 1998 who is kept in isolation, being led to believe it is 1957.
- The main character’s name is likely a kind of allusion to the film's plot and a play on words, as the syllable “tru-” sounds similar to the English word true – truth, and “-man,” in turn, means man.
- The film was originally going to be directed by screenwriter Andrew Niccol. However, because he asked for too much money, the studio decided to find another director. Among the candidates were Brian De Palma, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Barry Sonnenfeld, and even Steven Spielberg.
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