Star Martin Sheen had a heart attack midway through filming, possibly brought on by the stress of the project.
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“I think the jungle is vile and debased and full of lewdness and obscenity.”Īpocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Vietnam War movie, is widely regarded by critics as one of the greatest war films ever made, and is equally famous for the catastrophes that befell the production while it was being filmed.Ī typhoon demolished the vast sets early on in production. “I have a very stark view of the jungle,” he said. It all left Herzog with a pretty dim view of the jungle. Finally disagreements between local tribe members, who had been hired as crewmembers, and Kinski led to threats to murder the notoriously temper-prone star. One crew member was bitten by a poisonous snake and had to self-amputate his foot, the cast were driven insane by mosquitoes, at one point the camp was burned down by enraged locals.
Herzog, who is no stranger to unconventional shooting methods (he hypnotised his entire cast for his film Heart Of Glass in 1976), not only decided to recreate the feat for real, demanding his cast manually haul a 320 tonne ship, he shot much of the movie in the middle the Peruvian jungle, leading to his original star, Jason Robards, departing early suffering from dysentery.īut the disasters didn’t stop there. Werner Herzog’s classic film Fitzcarraldo tells the story of a wealthy rubber baron (played by Klaus Kinski) who is determined to haul a steamship over a mountain deep in the jungle. Actor Ed Harris also had a terrifying experience when he nearly drowned shooting a scene.Ĭameron never dismantled the set, and it rotted away in the watery depths until the power station was demolished in 2007. Actors spent so much time under water they had to decompress before surfacing (to avoid suffering a serious condition that can afflict divers called ‘the bends’, in which nitrogen bubbles form in the diver’s blood, possibly causing heart attacks and strokes). Shooting in this unusual location was dangerous and difficult. To recreate the pitch black depths of the ocean Cameron shot much of his film in one of the containment tanks at a half-finished nuclear power plant in Gaffney, South Carolina.Ĭameron filled the tank with seven million gallons of water but even though the water was 40 feet deep, there was still too much light, so the director used vast tarpaulins and millions of tiny black floating balls to produce pitch-black conditions underwater. Director James Cameron’s underwater adventure The Abyss was set deep below the Caribbean Sea.