Producer Gale Anne Hurd on the set of CLOCKSTOPPERS
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Hurd talks genre filmmaking

In an interview with CINESCAPE magazine to trumpet her latest genre entry, legendary producer Gale Anne Hurd discussed her work at blending teen fun with science fiction thrills in her new production, Jonathan Frakes' CLOCKSTOPPERS.

"In many respects, you still want to tell a good story," Hurd told us. "You want to have characters you are interested in. You want to have ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, so that the audience can relate. But in this case, we had teenagers as opposed to adults."

While STOPPERS ventures into an age range some of her other productions (TERMINATOR, ALIENS) shot over, Hurd tried to bring more then teeny-bopper fun to the film.

"In this case, it seemed natural that if you had a device that was able to essentially stop time and you had the power to do anything you wanted, there [were] going to be people who [would] want to use that for evil purposes," said Hurd, talking about bringing a hard edge of conflict to the story. "So, it seemed natural to the technology we created for the movie as opposed to something that was foisted upon it that was inorganic."

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