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THERE ARE DRINKING GAMES IN THE DVD THAT THE CAST INVENTED - Click here to see them! The actual movie script is intentionally visible in three different scenes. Captain Carter's "belly button" was a screw-cap from a toilet, an idea put forth by Will Edwards. Director Chris Gabriel's dog, Rufus, not only appears in a sequence in the movie intentionally, he also made a cameo in one of the officer's club scene. Rufus had to be allowed to stay on set to keep him from crying outside. His tail is visible under the table at one point. This shot was left in the movie in honor of cheap 1950's special effects, like wires showing on space craft. In the opening sequence the jeep is seen driving off into the distance. At the end of this scene, Henry Clarke got the jeep stuck up to its axles in the soft, drifting sands. It took two hours to dig it out and the help of a motorcyclist who went and picked up an old pallet and brought it back to the production team. Originally, Captain Mason was a sergeant, but it helped the story more that he was an officer. He then became a lieutenant, but writer Chris Gabriel got tired of writing "lieutenant" and didn't want to abbreviate in the script. The names of the Trugollion "twins", Stattlarr and Wallldorrfff, are a reference to the two old guys on "The Muppet Show". The "control helmet" is a skate helmet that was purchased at a garage sale, some PVC insulation, parts from a model 1969 Mustang GT, and a CB antenna. It was then painted silver, as were all of the "alien" implements. There are two "control collars". Chris Gabriel had to run to the store to purchase another set up because he left the original collar at home the day of the shoot with Mason and Drake. Captain Carter's "belly button" was a screw-cap from a toilet, an idea put forth by Will Edwards. The screenplay was written in less than a month S4 was shot in 15 shooting days over three weeks.
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