How we made: Paul Mayersberg and Tony Richmond on The Man Who Fell to Earth

'We had pig's blood lined up for a surgery scene but Bowie objected – so we used mine'Paul Mayersberg, screenwriterWe started working on the script, an adaptation of the book by Walter Tevis, in 1974. At one point, a TV company had wanted to turn Tevis's story into something like The Fugitive: an alien on the run who would have a different adventure each week. Instead, we wanted to show what the world – or America, at any rate – would look like from the point of view of an alien who crashl...

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