Its first shot is of Jeff Goldblum’s scientist, Jeff Goldblum, and it’s one of the most important in the film. The Fly is a dream that becomes a nightmare. “When I was a kid, I puked on my tricycle”

The result was an almost perfect marriage of drama and extreme gore, and the director’s greatest box-office success. This would explain why, in the mid-80s, Cronenberg embarked on his first studio picture, and his first (and so far only) remake. Although Cronenberg wasn’t happy with all of it (“I thought the characters were awful, the dialogue trite and the ending bad”), he immediately saw how it would fit with his “body-oriented, very body-conscious” style of filmmaking. “My God, the writer has really rethought and reunderstood it” was Cronenberg’s reaction on reading Pogue’s script. His year of death is uncertain - some sources give it as, others as. In the 1950s and 1960s he wrote his memoirs, novels, and short stories that were made into motion pictures and which were featured on television. Langelaan was a friend of the occultist Aleister Crowley, claiming he was a spy and 'that by winning the confidence of the Germans in America, he had access to members of their inner circle.' He later explained that his ears were too large and that they had to be pinned back before he could be dropped into enemy territory.) He parachuted into occupied France on 7 September 1941 to make contact with the French resistance forces south of Châteauroux, arranged to meet Édouard Herriot, was captured on 6 October, imprisoned in the Mauzac camp, condemned to death by the Nazis, and escaped (16 July 1942) and returned to England to participate in the Normandy landings. (The operation was deemed necessary so as to remove features that were too distinctive. According to his memoirs, The Masks of War (1959), he underwent plastic surgery to alter his appearance before being dropped into France.

He was in F Section SOE with the rank of lieutenant. He is best known for his 1957 short story 'The Fly', which was the basis for the 19 sci-fi/horror films and a 2008 opera of the same name.ĭuring World War II, Langelaan worked as a spy and special agent for the Allied powers as part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).

George Langelaan was a French-British writer and journalist born in Paris, France. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.

The Fly by George Langelaan