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Personal Details
Other Works:
Book:
"Monsters in the Movies"; Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (London); ISBN: 1405366974
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Publicity Listings:
2 Biographical Movies
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4 Print Biographies
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1 Portrayal
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15 Interviews
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7 Articles
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1 Pictorial
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Alternate Names:
John Landie | Landis
Height:
5' 10" (1.78 m)
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Personal Quote:
I always loved those 1960s films and the things
Richard Lester had done with
The Beatles, and I conceived
An American Werewolf in London (1981) with that spirit in mind. London was horror central, of course, home of Jack the Ripper, Jekyll and Hyde, so I wanted all that Victorian Gothic, but I also wanted to show the real London of 1981.
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Trademark:
The phrase "See You Next Wednesday". Supposedly, the phrase is the title of a film that Landis had an idea for at the age of 15. The title is a direct reference to a line in
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He describes the film as the kind of movie that a 15 year old adolescent boy would have made. He sometimes uses ideas from this movie, and when he does he puts the phrase in as a "homage". It is ...
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