This interview originally appeared with the Anchor Bay DVD release, printed on bi-fold leaflet, inside the clam shell. SMB - Did NASA have script approval? HW - They had to review the script. When they read the script there was hardly anything controversial about the material other than the fact these young people went up into space by way of an accident. They just wanted to to make sure that it didn't look like something NASA was responsible for. So of course in the story it

I was lucky to have a friend that worked at the NY office of Disney, in publicity. He sent me two tickets to see WATCHER at a an advanced preview at the Ziegfeld theater. Only the press attended this screening. After the screening Lynn-Holly Johnson on on stage to answer questions... It seemed on woman of the press didn't understand the ending of the film and she made a synde remark about the children in the film who did. Lynn-Holly preceded to describe an ending which wa

Conducted 1ll7l98 NOTE: There are spoilers here - watch the film before reading this interview. HE - This is the second film I've done where I kept a journal. The other was CAPTAIN EO. (for the Disney theme park.) God I have a lot a stuff. SB - How many different endings were considered when it was decided to change the Watcher in the Woods? HE - Well the film was released then it was pulled. The story department and various people at the studio all came up with endings. I ha

Original concept ad art not used I would like to make it clear as one who has been a consultant for about 20 years, to several companies what you are about to read is unusual and not common. WATCHER has been a unique and unfulfilling experience do in large to the company who produced it. My main goal in presenting and preserving this film was always for the memory of Tom Leetch, the initiator of this film whose vision should have gone unhampered, and courageous – like the c