Jack Nicholson vs. James Cameron’s Aliens: The Battle That Almost Happened

Two years after closing the Mad Max trilogy, George Miller released a beautiful fantasy comedy in 1987: The Witches of Eastwick. the pitch Three wicked and independent young women suffer in the very puritanical small town of Eastwick, where many witches accused of dealing with the devil were once burned at the stake.

The three women meet every weekend and happily talk about everything. Until the day when an extravagant character, one Daryl Van Horne, takes up residence in the most luxurious residence in town…

Opposite Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Cher, Jack Nicholson portrays a character who has everything about the devil himself. But if she chooses to follow these witches and make their lives hell, they clearly won’t let her go…

Aliens of Eastwick

If Miller’s film didn’t shine at the box office at the time, despite its title, grossing just over $63 million, The Witches of Eastwick He doesn’t miss it and looks at himself with displeasure.

Aside from imagining the potential disaster, it could have been the obsession of the film’s producer, John Peters. As the director remindedThe latter, who had just seen James Cameron’s Aliens, was obsessed with the idea of ​​wizards confronting the same creatures. It was a potential key to the success of this fantasy comedy for him, which is still in the works.

So obsessed, in fact, that he even showed up one day on the set of the movie with a stuntman dressed as an alien creature and begged George Miller to put him in as many scenes as possible. I’m not joking.

Suffice it to say that the film will logically have no connection to the John Updkik book it was adapted from. Miller and Nicholson walked off the set in protest and agreed to return only on the condition that the producer would give in to his latest whim.