Components of the supply materials stay within the movie. Stanley exacts revenge on the 2 mechanics who rip him off, however fairly than pressure automotive elements up areas so severely they want the “greatest proctologist on the town” to take away them, within the comics, each are very a lot lifeless, having had automotive elements pressured down their throats to graphic impact. In reality, The Masks film adaptation may have gone even additional than that had been it not for the enter of director Chuck Russell.
“I had seen the Darkish Horse comedian at considered one of my favourite comedian ebook shops and thought it was fascinating,” Russell tells Den of Geek. “It had this very putting cowl.”
Unbeknownst to him on the time, although, New Line Cinema had additionally taken observe and after optioning the fabric, the studio wished Russell to direct the movie adaptation. Russell had most just lately directed the gory underrated 1988 remake of The Blob, which itself adopted A Nightmare on Elm Road 3: Dream Warriors . The latter stays a fan favourite that’s usually credited as serving to the franchise get again on observe.
Stanley Is No Freddy
To New Line Cinema, Russell was completely positioned to translate the bloody mayhem of The Masks to the large display screen, particularly as early drafts pitched the idea as a darkish and disturbing horror film. In an interview with Forbes, creator Richardson recalled one aborted model specializing in “a mask-maker on the sting of city, slicing faces off corpses and placing them on youngsters and turning them into zombies.”
Russell had different concepts although.
“The early drafts had been horror and to me that was an issue,” Russell explains. “Whereas that picture of placing a masks on that involves life was distinctive and an enormous a part of the attraction, while you make the ensuing character a wisecracking killer, which is what he was within the comedian, it’s slightly too much like Freddy Krueger. After I checked out what they had been creating I concluded that, at greatest, it will be very by-product of A Nightmare on Elm Road. For instance, they’d have had The Masks pulling an ax out of a magical pocket, making some type of pun after which killing them.”
