Box Office Bomb: — Budget, $17-18 million. Box office, $2,641,357. This film baffled Siskel & Ebert on what to say about it, and its bizarre concept very likely made it hard to succeed.
Dueling Movies: The film shares a lot of similarities with Kafka, another film released in 1991. That one focused on Franz Kafka instead, and was also a loose adaptation of his overal body of work with the writer's avatar as the protagonist. Both even have Ian Holm in them!
Deleted Scene: The Restored Text edition of Naked Lunch contains an appendix that collects some material omitted from the original version of the novel, most memorably the conclusion to Carl's examination by Dr. Benway.
Fake American: Salvador Hassan O'Leary, whose real accent suggests an Italian origin, but who picked up a Texan accent and the habit of wearing cowboy boots and a ten-gallon hat at all times during his time in the oil-drilling business.
Fake Brit: A.J., whose British accent 'waned with the British empire'.
What Could Have Been: At one point, Frank Zappa approached Burroughs with the idea of adapting the novel as a musical - an idea that Burroughs quite liked.
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