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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: Mars Attacks!
Description: Ack ack ackack ACK ACK!Based on the Topps trading cards of the same name, a movie version of Mars Attacks! first started gathering pace in the mid-80s, but without Tim Burton's involvement.After several years in development hell, screenwriter Jonathan Gems and director Tim Burton got involved, with a script which was costed by Warner Bros at $250 million to make. Not even Titanic would cost that much.To get the cost down, compromises had to be made, and while eight months of stop-motion work had been completed, the decision was made...