Luis Llosa’s “Anaconda” recently made /Film’s list of the most savage when-animals-attack horror movies, with Ryan Scott citing its memorable kills as the reason why it’s “the ultimate ’90s creature feature.” The 1997 horror-adventure focuses on a documentary film crew that encounters a snake hunter in the Amazon rainforest, all while tracking a legendary green anaconda of mythic proportions.
It features a slew of snakes and the star of the show, an animatronic anaconda designed by special effects supervisor Walt Conti, who previously engineered a full-size animatronic orca Willy of “Free Willy” and the miniature humpback whales of “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” The cast – among them Ice Cube, Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, and a baby-faced Owen Wilson – got cozy with lots of non-human co-stars, but local black wooly monkeys made both scouting and shooting a hazard.Longtime film site Film Scouts shares insights on the production of “Anaconda”; therein,
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