FILM 2043: PHANTOMS
FILM 2043: PHANTOMS
TRIVIA: "Affleck, you the bomb in "Phantoms," yo!" was a phrase coined by Jason Mewes in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), and has been a popular phrase whenever Ben Affleck is mentioned in media.
The "flatworm theory" used in the movie (that flatworms can eat the remains of their own kind and absorb their knowledge) is based on actual tests given to flatworms which involved seeing how quickly they would make the "correct" turn at a Y-intersection after eating the previous experimenters. The results were more inconclusive than the film says.
An adaptation of the novel was originally set to be made in the late 1980s or early 1990s by New World Pictures and Allied Vision Entertainment, but was shelved after New World filed for bankruptcy.
Rose McGowan and Liev Schreiber appeared in Scream (1996).
