In an interview, he cites his influences, including The Worlds of If Magazine (yay! another personal fave), and explains how the script evolved and eventually reached someone who helped get it made. Yet my love for the adventure was also rekindled some loves you can never leave behind, no matter how imperfect they may be.ĭirector Joe Dante explains what happened from his perspective in the 65-minute documentary A Science Fiction Fairy Tale: The Story of EXPLORERS, which tells the whole tale behind the film.įar more than a 'making of' extra,' the doc starts where it should, with writer Eric Luke, who worked at the A Change of Hobbit science-fiction bookstore in Westwood, California - yay! I visited that store frequently in the 70s and early 80s - and dreamed up the story. I remember being surprised by where the story went, and how the film concluded, a memory that was rekindled by watching the theatrical cut, included on Disc 2.
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Gentle and fantastical in tone, the film moves along easily to greater adventures, arriving at a destination where the tone skews somewhat toward unexpectedly wacky avenues, simultaneously becoming more personally touching and even poignant. Darren then becomes a scrounger and a constructor, someone who can take their ideas and refine them into something that could, well, fly! Ben has been having wild, though very specific technical dreams that he shares with Wolfgang, who then proceeds to make them into a rough reality. Darren is open to the ideas they speak about with contagious enthusiasm Ben is more wide-eyed and idealistic, while Wolfgang favors a scientific approach. Jones (?!) Middle School.īen and Wolfgang love reading science-fiction paperbacks, which is something I can readily identify with, even though I was older than them in 1985. They come together out of a shared sense that they are not part of the mainstream at Charles M. Ben and Wolfgang are out-and-out geeks who are often bullied, but come from loving families, while Darren lives with his abusive father and his father's girlfriend. What I got was something that was both better than I expected and simultaneously not what I expected at all, an experience that I was finally able to recreate when I dove into a new, 2-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray from Shout Select, which I highly recommend.īen (Ethan Hawke), Wolfgang (River Phoenix), and Darren (Jason Presson) form the collective protagonist.
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Primed especially by director Joe Dante's funny, genre-twisting Gremlins (1984), as well as his weird and wild segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and his superior werewolf movie The Howling (1981), and also as a longtime science-fiction devotee, I was more than ready to disappear into what sounded like a juvenile SF adventure, according to the trailer, following three young teenagers who construct their own spacecraft and venture into space. In the summer of 1985, Explorers opened and I was eager to see it.
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The film is now available on Blu-ray from Shout Select.