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  2. Jun 16, 2020 · The secrets behind The Omen don't need to be deciphered from cryptic biblical poems. You can find them all right here.

    • The Young Actor Who Played Damien Was Cast Because He Attacked The Director.
    • Damien Originally Had A Different name.
    • Damien Was Naturally Blonde.
    • Charlton Heston Was Considered For Robert Thorn.
    • Gregory Peck's Son Died by Suicide Shortly Before Filming began.
    • Damien's First Nanny Is Jack Palance's Daughter.
    • Lee Remick's Reaction to The Baboons Was Real.
    • Peck and Donner Had One Argument During Filming.
    • The Score Won An Oscar.
    • The Movie Came with A Terrifying Ad Campaign.

    When 4-year-old Harvey Stephens auditioned for the part of Damien, director Richard Donner had him act out one of the role’s more demanding moments. Donner invited Stephens to attack him, and attack he did—right in Donner’s privates. The ballsy move is the reasonStephens got the role.

    Screenwriter David Seltzer plannedto name his antichrist Domlin after the “total obnoxious brat” child of a friend, until his wife convinced him that it would be a horrible thing to do to the kid. (Not to mention friendship-ending.) He landed on Damien after Father Damien, who started the first leper colony in the Hawaiian islands.

    Stephens actuallyhad unruly blonde hair at the time when he was cast as Damien. To make him seem more like the devil’s spawn, his hair was straightened and dyed black.

    William Holden and Roy Scheider allegedly turned down the role of the American ambassador, and veteran actor Gregory Peck was cast instead. Holden later accepted the role of Robert’s brother, Richard, in the 1978 sequel Damien: Omen II.

    The tragedy was part of the reason the semi-retired Peck took the part of Robert Thorn. Peck’s agent encouragedhim to take the role, thinking it would be good for him to get out of the house and throw himself into his work.

    Early in the movie, there’s a horrifying scene in which Damien’s first nanny jumps out of a window and hangs herself during Damien’s birthday party. That nanny was played by Holly Palance, daughter of Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance. Her father later narratedThe Omen Legacy, a 2001 documentary about the making of the movie.

    There’s a scene in the movie where Damien’s mother takes him on an outing to a safari park. Apparently sensing Damien's evil, the baboons violently attack the car. To get the baboons to run at the vehicle, handlers refrained from feeding them the night before. When the scene was filmed in the morning, food was placed on and around the car, bringing...

    Peck wanted to angrily smash a bunch of stuff during the scene where Robert finds out his wife has died. Donner disagreed; he wanted to cut in on Thorn well after the discovery, not in the moment. Accordingto Donner, he and Peck argued about the scene for an entire day before Peck told him, “You’re wrong. I’m right. But you’re the director, and the...

    Composer Jerry Goldsmith almost didn’t attend the ceremony, as he had already been nominated for a number of Oscars and Grammys and didn’t think he could handle losing again. Luckily, he didn’t have to. “Ave Satani” was also nominated for Best Original Song. Of the 18 Oscar nominations Goldsmith received in his career, Best Original Score for The O...

    To promote the movie, gloom-and-doom posters and promotional materials went up all over the U.S. They contained uplifting messages such as: 1. "Good morning. You are one day closer to the end of the world.” 2. “Remember ... you have been warned.” 3. “It is a warning foretold for thousands of years. It is our final warning. It is The Omen.”

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_OmenThe Omen - Wikipedia

    The Omen is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens (in his film debut), Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern.

  4. Jun 29, 2021 · This number was plucked from chapter 13, verse 18, from the “Book of Revelation.” The added scripture was shoe-horned in to give the film some integrity to scare viewers with, very akin to the “based on a true story” gimmick of future scary movies.

  5. Apr 6, 2024 · Lightning strikes, plane crashes, and bombings plagued the cursed production of The Omen, leaving a trail of eerie events and tragic accidents.

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  6. Oct 22, 2019 · How The Omen Wrote the Bible on Satanic Horror. Screenwriter David Seltzer looks back at The Omen, its origins and the sequel he never wrote.

  7. The Omen is a media franchise, centering on a series of supernatural horror films, which began in 1976. The series centers on Damien Thorn , a child born of Satan and given to Robert and Katherine Thorn as a child.

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