Does Actor Derek de Lint Resemble Nastassja Kinski & Director Roger Corman? The Day The World Ended
2Poltergeist The Legacy (1996-99) actor Derek de Lint may resemble actress Nastassja Kinski & movie director Roger Corman. The link may be through Corman's 1955 sci-fi movie Day The World Ended. A loosely connected movie entitled The Day The World Ended starring Nastassja Kinski was made for Cinemax in 2001. Material from Corman's original 1955 movie can be seen in this. Samuel Z. Arkoff who worked with Corman at AIP and ARC is a producer on the newer film.
Connections:
Helen Shaver was Dr. Rachel Corrigan in 4 seasons of Poltergeist The Legacy with Derek de Lint, also in The Amityville Horror in 1979. Margot Kidder was also in the first Amityville movie and Lois Lane in 4 Superman movies in the 1970's / '80's with Christopher Reeve. Reeve was in a made for TV movie, The Great Escape II with Derek de Lint.
An girl passenger shown in American Graffiti (1973) may resemble director Roger Corman. Actress Candy Clark of this movie may also resemble Christopher Reeve. Clark was in Amityville 3-D in 1983. A definite reference to Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 (1963) can be seen in American Graffiti in the scene where Richard Dreyfuss sabotage's Holstein's Police Car. The title of the movie appears in the marquee above the movie theater. Coppola produced American Graffiti, Corman produced Dementia 13.
Director George Lucas of American Graffiti was reportedly offered the director position on Superman (1978) but turned the job down because he was working on the Star Wars (1977-83) movies.
Derek de Lint was originally cast as Connor McLeod in the Highlander TV series (1992) but reportedly withdrew, Adrian Paul eventually played this part (Duncan McLeod).
Candy Clark provided the voice of Stella Star (Caroline Munro) in Star Crash (1978). The Italian space opera was picked up to be distributed in America by Roger Corman's New World Pictures and led to the decision for the company to back Battle Beyond The Stars (1980).