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Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American science fiction black comedy film [3] directed by Tim Burton, who also co-produced it with Larry J. Franco. The screenplay by Jonathan Gems was based on the Topps trading card series of the same name .
Lisa Marie Smith (born December 5, 1968), known professionally as Lisa Marie, is an American actress and model.She is best known for her roles with Tim Burton: Vampira in Ed Wood (1994), Martian Girl in Mars Attacks (1996), Lady Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Nova in Planet of the Apes (2001).
Mars Attacks is a science fiction-themed trading card series released in 1962 by Topps. ... Warner Bros. released Tim Burton's feature film adaptation Mars Attacks!.
Now, with “Mars Attacks!,” Burton has in effect remade “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” Wood’s signature work, on a budget. A very big budget.
Elfman and Burton reunited for Mars Attacks!. Based on a popular science-fiction trading card series, the film was a hybrid of 1950s science fiction and 1970s all-star disaster films. The coincidence made it an inadvertent spoof of the blockbuster Independence Day, which had been released five months earlier.
She played Aunt Marion in Damien: Omen II and had key roles in Beetlejuice (directed by longtime Sidney fan Tim Burton), for which she won a Saturn Award, and Used People. Her final role was in Mars Attacks!, another film by Burton, in which she played an elderly woman whose beloved records by Slim Whitman help stop an alien invasion from Mars.
Jonathan Gems (born 1952, in London) is a British playwright and screenwriter mostly known for his work on Mars Attacks! (1996), directed by Tim Burton. [1] [2] He also wrote the film's novelization.
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