The Green Slime

The Green Slime , Ganm Daisan G Uch Daisakusen? is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and produced by Walter Manley and Ivan Reiner. It was written by William Finger, Tom Rowe and Charles Sinclair from a story by Reiner. The film was shot in Japan with a Japanese director and film crew, but a nonJapanese cast of Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel and Luciana Paluzzi.

The Green Slime was a coproduction between MetroGoldwynMayer and Toei. MGM provided the funding and script while Toei provided the film crew and location to shoot the film.The original storyline for The Green Slime originated in Italy, where MGM also had dealings. Years before The Green Slime went into production, MGM had contracted Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti to direct what was originally intended to be a series of four television movies about the adventures of a space station called Gamma One. Margheritis films in the series consisted of Wild, Wild Planet, War of the Planets, War Between the Planets and Snow Devils, all created over a period of three months and released in 1965. MGM was impressed with Margheritis films and released the four films theatrically. Gamma One producers Manley and Reiner were eager to take advantage of these films and made The Green Slime as an unofficial fifth entry in the film series. The only connection the film had to Margheritis films is the space station, retitled Gamma Three, which had a similar design as the one in Margheritis films. ........

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