The Fly is a 1986 American science-fiction psychological body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. It grossed USD 60. 6 million at the box office against its nine-million-dollar budget, becoming the largest commercial success of Cronenberg’s career. A sequel, directed by Chris Walas in 1989, was released in 1989 and won an Academy Award for Best Makeup. The sequel, The Fly 2, came out in 1998 and won a Golden Globe award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The Fly is a 1986 American science-fiction psychological body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. It tells of an eccentric scientist who, after one of his experiments goes wrong, slowly turns into a fly-hybrid creature. The score was composed by Howard Shore and the make-up effects were created by Chris Walas, along with makeup artist Stephan Dupuis. The Fly was released on August 15, 1986, to massive acclaim by critics and audiences. It grossed USD 60. 6 million at the box office against its nine-million-dollar budget, becoming the largest commercial success of Cronenberg’s career. A sequel, directed by Walas in 1989, was released in 1989 and won an Academy Award for Best Makeup, the only Oscar won by a film directed by Cronenberg in his career. The movie is based on George Langelaan’s 1957 short story of the same name and the 1958 film of the similar name, both of which were released in the same year. It is the only Cronenberg film to have been released in both English and Spanish. It was also the first film to be released in English in the United States, and the first of two planned sequels to The Fly. The sequel, The Fly 2, came out in 1998 and won a Golden Globe award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won a BAFTA Award for best screenplay for The Fly, which was co-directed by Seth Brundle and directed by David O’Brien.
The second sequel was also released in 1998, and won the BAFTAs for best picture and best director. The third, The Butterfly, was directed by Michael Haneke and released in 2002. The fourth and final film in the series was The Fly 3, released in 2004. The fifth and final installment was The Butterfly 4, which released in 2006. The sixth and seventh films in the trilogy were The Fly 4, The butterfly 5, and The Butterfly 6, as well as The Fly 7, which were both released in 2007. The final film was The The Fly 8, which opened in 2008 and was released by 20th Century Fox in the UK and the U.S. in 2009. The last film was released as a direct sequel to The Butterfly 3, in which Seth is reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Ronnie Quaife, after she had left him for another man. The films were released on the same day as a special edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of the Planet of the Apes, starring Tom Hanks and Kate Winslet, which also won an Oscar for best supporting actor. The sequels were released separately in 2010 and 2011. The first film was the last to be made into a TV series, The Chronicles of The Fly: The Last Fly, starring Heath Ledger and Tom Hiddleston, and in 2012, The Second Fly, the third film in The Fly series.
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