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HWSBHD - Event Horizon (1997) feat. Annamarabella
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In today's episode, we ask ourselves a simple question: "How Would Sean Bean Have Died" in 1997's science fiction horror film, "Event Horizon". I am joined by Ko-fi Ambassador and incredible writer Annamarabella.
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Special Episode on Sean Bean's Uncast Roles
00:00:57
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So welcome to a special episode of On Second Watch where we are officially in Sean Bean Halloween. And we're going to explore the movies that Sean Bean was not cast in and answer the ultimate question. How would Sean Bean have died in the 1997 science fiction horror film, Event Horizon? We get to decide his role. It might be a lead or supporting character, a new character or some random cameo.
00:01:25
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and decide how he would
Guest Introduction: Ana Marabella
00:01:26
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die. And today we are joined by my fellow Kofi ambassador, Ana Marabella. Yes. Hi. Oh, thank you for joining and you're in Germany. Is that correct? Yes, correct. Awesome. So thanks. Thanks for joining. Try to find a good time slot and it seems like this, this worked out okay. So, so why don't you tell everybody a little bit about who you are and where they can find your work.
00:01:48
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Yeah, so yeah, hi, I'm from the future, six hours ahead. Yeah, I'm a writer and very, very baby streamer. And I mainly, I write original fiction, I write essays, I write book and TV and movie reviews.
00:02:08
Speaker
I also write specifically queer book reviews, which I do on rainbowshelf.blog. And mainly you can find me on kofi.com forward slash grumble, which is where you'll find my commissions and all my writing and my videos, all that good stuff. For those on Bullhorn actually listening to this live or checking out afterwards, I just dropped a link to her Ko-fi page. So you can definitely check that out and highly recommend it. You got some good stuff out there.
00:02:38
Speaker
Awesome. So this is a unique episode because we're experimenting with some new technology and we already ran into a couple challenges, but hey, it's part of the journey. So for those on Bullhorn, you can actually listen to this live. And if you're listening to your, this episode on a normal podcast or of your choice, you're missing out on some opportunities to join us. You could join as a call-in user, like my friend Ana Marabella is right now, or you can chat with us while we're live and also answer or ask some questions.
00:03:07
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and even share some of your own thoughts on how Sean Bean would die in this film. Check that out. We'll keep experimenting with this and fine tune it, and I'll share some feedback with the developers on what works and what doesn't work. But we're gonna have some fun here. Let's jump into
Why 'Event Horizon'?
00:03:21
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this. Event Horizon, why did you choose this film when I was trying to look for some horror or Halloween films to talk about this month? What about Event Horizon? It was like that your go-to movie. Basically Sam Neill.
00:03:34
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I'm not by any length of the imagination like a horror movie buff. I am a bit of a science fiction buff, but I'm not in a horror movie. I'm not very good with horror, basically.
00:03:51
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It's on streaming at the moment here in Germany and I saw, huh, Sam Neill. I like Sam Neill. So I went into it not knowing much about the movie, not knowing anything about like its troubled production history, because it was basically like Paramount's backup for Titanic, which was stuck in production hell at the time. So they rushed Event Horizon out.
00:04:15
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I did know that it had a bit of a cult following. And in choosing this movie, I also like did some more research into Sam Neill's horror movie work.
Ana's Sci-Fi Horror Passion
00:04:24
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He's back called catalog, so to speak, which is extensive, as I have learned. And it's just, yeah, I love sci-fi horror, especially like I love the alien movies. I love the alien isolation, like the game, even though I can't play it for longer than half an hour at the time.
00:04:40
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And the supporting cast is amazing, like it's got Lawrence Fishbourne, Julie Richardson, Jason Isaacs is in it. I mean, this movie came out when I was seven, so I missed it at the time, but I had to see it. And I was rewarded by coming away with a reasonable fear of Sam Neill.
00:05:03
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Yeah, I think we were chatting about this and my introduction to Sam Neill was in Jurassic Park and he's just, you know, the grumpy, but he becomes just, you know, this loving father-like figure to these kids. I'm like, oh, Sam Neill is pretty sweet. And then I watched this movie and he's like, he starts off as kind of like, you know, everyone's just kind of pick it on him. He's just the doctor aboard the spaceship. And then, holy crap, it changes that. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. As I told you, my first introduction to Sam Neill with Hunt for Red October, which is also very, very different movie. Yeah.
00:05:33
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Also kind of in close space, just, you know, underwater and slightly less demonic. Right. So it's, um, you know, uh, that Sam Neil, uh, can do it all, I guess. And he's, uh, you know, every time I'm going to picture his face now, instead of seeing something from Jurassic park, I see him smiling and disappearing into the shadows. And that's, it's going to creep me out. Yeah. Gotta like watch something cuddly after that. Right. A little bit.
00:06:01
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Let's jump into this a little bit. The way this works is we just pick where Sean Bean might reside in this film and find the various ways that we could kill him.
Sean Bean as Mr. Smith: A Hypothetical Casting
00:06:09
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And I came up with two, I think, but in the spirit of the show, how about we kick things off with you, if you don't mind? Yeah, sure. I sort of did it between, do I cast him in a new role? Do I recast someone? The obvious choice sort of was Ensign
00:06:27
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FM Justin, who's, he doesn't get a lot of characterisation, he gets not bumped off relatively quickly, he doesn't die, but he does end up trying to like, punt himself out of the airlock, and ends up in a catatonic state. So while getting knocked off early is definitely in Sean Bean's mealhouse, there is another role perfect for him, which is Mr Smith, the pilot.
00:06:53
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Played by Sean Pertwee. So, you know, simple to switch out the last name and there you have it. I love Sean Pertwee. I love him dearly. And his part as the pilot is great for Sean Bean simply because of one line, namely where Sam Neill's character, Dr. Weir, explains how all the folding space in half to get from point A to point B works. And he says, see, you can't actually do that.
00:07:21
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And that to me just had amazing one does not simply energy. Exactly it does. So I thought, okay, you know what, Mr. Smith, you're going to get an improvised recasting and you're going to end up dead. And pilot Mr. Smith doesn't really have as many closed shades that the others get. It's just sort of, you know, it's a one and done type of thing. His character takes the explosive to the face, right? Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:49
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And he's got, like, he opens up the thing where not going to say who, but someone hid it there and he finds it and he's got six seconds left. So that's it. And what I love about him is that he's this classic, like, sci-fi pilot, ex-soldier. I mean, he's British, so presumably ex-marine probably, uh, got the military tattoos to show for it. And also seeing Sean Bean with a shaved head is not something you get a lot. So... You really don't know.
00:08:15
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Yeah, I actually googled, and that man for most of his life has had longer hair than I have for most of my life. So there you go. Yeah, that was just exclusive to the face, seemed right for him. It's probably the quickest way that anyone's ever killed him in this segment, so that's all right.
00:08:33
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That's true. There is another, um, my, my second choice, which was the straight up stabbing, uh, that I told you about was, um, Jason Isaacs, the ship's doctor, DJ. He dies in, I think the most gruesome way I have ever seen in a movie or game. It's pretty brutal. You know, just getting through the sector alive is not nice. No, it's not, not how I choose to go.
00:09:00
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No, and he's still conscious for most of it. And I, I mean, I do feel that Sean Bean would make the most of that. Oh yeah. He's he'd lean into that hard. Yeah.
Imagining Sean Bean's Death Scenes
00:09:11
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So that, that, that would be my second choice, but it is grim. Oh, very cool. I like those. Those are, those are deep and deep cuts to some of, uh, other Sean Bean moments as well. So I love it. Perfect. So thanks for that. So here's, here's, here's what I was thinking. So my thought when I'm looking at this, this event horizon ship,
00:09:29
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It looks like the most dangerous ship in the world, just a walk on. It looks like, I was thinking yesterday, it looks like a giants hover bike crossed with a pogo stick. That's what that ship looks like. With plenty of spears and spiky, pointy things in every direction. It just does not look nice. I don't know who would architect to look that way, Sam Neill. But so my thought is Chump Bean could have just been a janitor aboard the event horizon, just doing his job, trying to keep the ship clean.
00:09:58
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Yeah. He might've just, you know, lost his footing while mopping or tripped over some water. And then literally any room that you would fall on in that ship, you'd be impaled. Yeah. Just get, get impaled on his bike. That's it. Yeah. Or maybe he fell into that crazy spinning cheese grater tunnel that was probably just done for effect. But, uh, you know, I've walked through those tunnels at haunted houses. It's very disorienting. So you're very easily could fall over and just get chopped up by that thing. Oh yeah. For sure. Cheese grater is, is a great
00:10:28
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Descriptive for that one. That's, that's definitely what I saw in this thing. So the other one I had was that he could have been one of the crew members of the Lewis and Clark. And while the entire crew started experiencing these, these horror hallucinations of things from their past, he could have been, he could have been seeing all these things from his past as Sean Bean, the actor and the way that Sean Bean has died before. So he could have envisioned getting dropped from a satellite in GoldenEye or
00:10:57
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being beheaded as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. Or my personal favorite is when he's getting trampled by cows and falls off of a cliff. That last one is, I got to look up this movie, but I was looking at a super cut on YouTube of all the ways Sean Bean has died in film. And yeah, like somebody, somebody startles cows and they chase after him and he, they, they literally fly off of a cliff. It is the most obscene, crazy thing I've seen of anyone meeting their
00:11:27
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their end, but it always sticks in my head as my favorite. I'm going to lean on that one a little bit. So he's walking down, you know, one of the corridors and all of a sudden he hears mooing and he looks around. He's like, what the heck am I hearing these space cows? All of a sudden these cows are chasing after him and he's running away from him down this corridor. Similar to another crew member falls down this chasm and hits all these spiky pointy things along the way down and falls to his death.
00:11:57
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That's it. The whole vision of these space cows kills them. Yeah. Oh, wow. Chased to your death by hallucinatory cows. Yeah. Again, not a way I'd like to go, but it's a little bit better than being gutted alive. Yeah. I didn't have anyone submit any of their own thoughts about how Sean Bean would meet his end here, but that's OK. I think, I especially like yours. I thought that was...
00:12:26
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That was, that was a perfect way to really tie it into the film in a fun, unique way. So, um, I'm going to vote yours are better than mine in this one. I like the, you know, tying it to, to the mechanic of, uh, of the hallucination that is, that is really clever because, um, yeah, just hunting Sean Bean into this movie and saying, Hey, would you like to remember all the ways you died? I like that.
00:12:55
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Sometimes it's just fun just to lean on it since he does die a lot, but he's a fun dude. I like the guy. We do this out of fun, so it's not anything malicious.
Fun with Sean Bean's Deaths
00:13:04
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I love Sean Bean. Me too. He's made a meme of it himself. You got to lean into it, right? He knows what happens. When I googled him yesterday in Image Search, there was one of the tweet where he holds up the piece of paper that says, don't kill me.
00:13:24
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Uh, yes, I, I specifically ignored that, uh, that image in my search for his, uh, history, but yeah, I mean, Sean Bean was sorry, but you know, you gotta die some more for our entertainment. You do. He's a good at it. Oh, absolutely. And, you know, we agreed to do this, this segment because we wanted to help find ways that he could break the record of the most onscreen. Uh, like I tell everybody, we're going to keep doing this until I get a cease and desist letter from somebody or some lawyer.
00:13:55
Speaker
And you know what, I'm just, I'm just here to have some fun. Exactly. Well, Anamara Bella, thank you so much for joining. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah. And you know, we met on Ko-fi, which is a fantastic platform. So if anyone has a creative idea or looking to explore, meet some awesome people, go create a free Ko-fi account. We're both ambassadors. You can reach out to us if you have any questions or thoughts. Um, it is by far to me the best platform for our
00:14:22
Speaker
Generating an income, doing the thing that you love and a creative outlet that you have. And plus they don't take any fees, which hurrah, that's the best part, you know, when you're starting out. And they, I mean, they welcome any format, like anything that you do, you can support via Ko-fi. It's not limited to art or to writing. You can do pretty much anything. I've seen software developers, a lot of great cosplayers, people, you know, making, making things, board games, you know, it's just,
00:14:51
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It's, it's endless. So just if you have an idea, just, just see how it would work out for you. There's a lot of great ways to take advantage of it. And you know, like, um, we recorded, you know, for the cookie guide for new creators. Um, we did a little segment and you know, my segment was, um, where people just starting out and literally just use it as a tip jar. If you're not sure yet, if you haven't found your niche yet, just set it up, use it as a tip jar. It's a great way of just getting people to see that you're out there.
00:15:20
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Oh, very good. So thank you again for joining and having fun and killing Sean Bean in some fun ways on Event Horizon. It was a good excuse to watch this film again, because it's been a very long time. I watched it relatively recently, though I say recently and during the pandemic time has just ceased to have all meaning, but I have watched it relatively recently. But I did also look through it again this weekend just to get some ideas. And it's still, even though
00:15:49
Speaker
As far as I know, they cut about 40 minutes worth of story just cut out of it. The director Paul Anderson was not happy as I understand it, but it's still a pretty good movie. Yeah, you could see where there's some bits cut out. It shifts around a bit. There's some plot ridges missing where you think, wait.
00:16:13
Speaker
Yeah, but when you're up against a production company, it's sometimes hard to keep your creative control over a product, especially when it's a backup plan, a Titanic, you know,
Lost Footage of 'Event Horizon'
00:16:22
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so... Yeah, and I did look it up, and apparently they did approach him to do a director's cast. But it turned out that all the material that got cut, or that got edited out, was destroyed. Oh, that's right. Yeah, I remember reading that too. So they couldn't even restore it. Backup your stuff, guys.
00:16:42
Speaker
Exactly. Well, maybe in the spirit of everything having a remake or a sequel, maybe we'll see a redo of Event Horizon in the future with modern CGI and who knows, maybe Sean Bean. Yeah. We'll see what happens. So thanks again for joining. Really appreciate it. If anyone wants to join us for these awesome recordings, just reach out to us. I have a plan to do a ton of Sean Bean casting and killing this Halloween season. So pick your favorite Halloween movie.
00:17:10
Speaker
Nice. And reach out to us, and we'll get it recorded. So Anamara Bell, thank you so much for joining. Thank you. And we'll see you on Ko-fi. Yeah. I look forward to the upcoming episodes. I'll definitely listen in.