Trivia / Strange Invaders

• Ability over Appearance: The Mrs. Benjamin government agent character played by Louise Fletcher was originally scripted as a man and described as being a Bob Balaban-type bureaucrat.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $5.5 million. Box office, $1,362,303.
• Creator Killer: Director Michael Laughlin did not hang around Hollywood for much longer.
• Franchise Killer: This was meant to be the second part of a trilogy that had begun with Strange Behavior, but the weak returns got the third part sent into orbit.
• What Could Have Been: Charles Bigelow was originally written with Michael Murphy in mind but his casting was rejected by EMI Films. Powers Boothe, Mel Gibson and Michael Keaton were also considered.

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