From, Horrorasylum, "Michael Myers (also known as The Shape) is a fictional character and the principal antagonist of the Halloween film series, except Halloween III: Season of the Witch. He is usually portrayed by experienced stuntmen. The name of Michael Myers comes from writer / director John Carpenter's foreign distributor, Michael Meyers, for Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). As gratitude for this film's distribution and overseas success, Carpenter gave this name to his main character of the 1978 independent film project, initially called The Babysitter Murders, now entitled Halloween. John Carpenter and Debra Hill originally developed the character. Michael Myers never speaks and his "adult" face is rarely seen in any of the films. The original William Shatner mask in the first Halloween installment, had its eye sockets cut out wider, the skin toned by white paint, and the hair teased out. The character also wears dark blue mechanic's coveralls, and black army boots. The subsequent masks, different in each film, base their appearance upon this mask."From TVGuide,
Shatner Fast Facts:
* Began acting career as a child on Canadian radio.
* Early TV career included memorable turns on The Twilight Zone and an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with future Star Trek costar Leonard Nimoy.
* Shared TV's first interracial kiss on the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren" with Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura.
* Mask of killer Michael Myers in the original Halloween (1978) was a likeness of his Star Trek character, Captain Kirk, painted white.
* Title of his memoir Get a Life! (1999) was derived from a 1986 Saturday Night Live skit spoofing fans of Star Trek.
* Varied (and much spoofed) music career includes cult classic The Transformed Man (1968), featuring unique covers of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," and Has Been (2004), with Ben Folds, Aimee Mann, Henry Rollins and others.
* Third wife Nerine Kidd drowned in the swimming pool of their Los Angeles home on August 9, 1999. Although the two had been estranged, they reconciled shortly before she died.
2 comments:
The mask never looked as good in the sequels as it did in the original. I wonder if they kept casting Shatner's face as he got fatter.
That made me laugh. But you're right, the cheeks keep getting rounder and the texture all lumpy. He should've gone with a hard plastic mask, like a goalie mask or something. Nahh...that'd never work.
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