![]() Entitled Altered States and based on Chayefsky’s 1978 novel, it sought to explore the extent of sensory deprivation, drawing on everything from the counter-cultural physicist John C Lilly’s scientific research to the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde narrative. The film that had brought them together was a deeply unorthodox project. And the third, the late William Hurt, was a Juilliard-educated actor who had no interest in pursuing a cinematic career and instead wanted to remain on the stage, where he had already established himself as one of the most exciting performers of his generation. The second, Ken Russell, was a British director and ageing enfant terrible whose operatic and heavily stylised visual sensibility both shocked and intrigued audiences. ![]() ![]() The first, Paddy Chayefsky, was the hottest screenwriter of the day, whose hyper-literate, mainly satirical works had won him three Academy Awards. They seemed to be the least compatible trio imaginable. Early in March 1979, three men assembled in a rehearsal room. ![]()
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