Klaus Kinski, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Terence Stamp either refused to participate in the project or simply fell through the cracks altogether. James Horner was approached for the soundtrack but passed. The roughly $25 million budget recouped only about half of that during its box office run. Over 1,000 actresses (pardon my anachronism?) were screened before the role of “Space Girl” was filled, which is odd considering she only has about four lines of dialogue and spends the great majority of the film in her birthday suit. Oh, and did I mention that the alien ship was modeled after an artichoke?
