{"id":1695,"date":"2021-06-01T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/how-we-made-short-circuit-by-steve-guttenberg-and-john-badham\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:36:50","slug":"how-we-made-short-circuit-by-steve-guttenberg-and-john-badham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/how-we-made-short-circuit-by-steve-guttenberg-and-john-badham\/","title":{"rendered":"How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A producer said: \u201cGreat \u2013 but can he dance?\u201d So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The second I read the script, about a robot becoming self-aware after being struck by lightning, I put it down and said: \u201cThis is a hit.\u201d It was a timeless story about an underdog, a friendship and being an outsider. It also had John Badham as director who had done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2016\/jun\/26\/lie-heart-disco-nik-cohn-tribal-rites-saturday-night-fever\">Saturday Night Fever<\/a> and War Games. He knew how to make a movie like this work. It felt like a piece that was going to be around a long time and I grabbed it with both hands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/may\/31\/how-we-made-short-circuit-by-steve-guttenberg-and-john-badham\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0581bc7e7975e41676d32ec4e41cbd6d864ea381\/0_217_3000_1801\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4aaf4dbbac5f5df24e952ae858a144d8\" title=\"How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham\" \/>\u2018A producer said: \u201cGreat \u2013 but can he dance?\u201d So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever\u2019<br \/>\nThe second I read the script, about a robot becoming self-aware after being struck by lightning, I put it down and said: \u201cThis is a hit.\u201d It was a timeless story about an underdog, a friendship and being an outsider. It also had John Badham as director who had done Saturday Night Fever and War Games. He knew how to make a movie like this work. It felt like a piece that was going to be around a long time and I grabbed it with both hands. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A producer said: \u201cGreat \u2013 but can he dance?\u201d So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever\u2019 The second I read the script, about a robot becoming self-aware after being struck by lightning, I put it down and said: \u201cThis is a hit.\u201d It was a timeless story about an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/01\/how-we-made-short-circuit-by-steve-guttenberg-and-john-badham\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}