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In December 1980,  Altered States attempted to use the powers of the previous two decades to make a sci-fi masterpiece, but ended up making a lovable bizarrerie that heralded the onset of the '80s. The film was the brainchild of renowned screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky ( The Hospital, Network), who purportedly wanted to rewrite the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story as a Hollywood vehicle to sell to producer Dino De Laurentiis. Chayefsky worked up a treatment for the screenplay, but was encouraged by a producer to turn it into a novel instead (never an auspicious sign for a writer of his abili...

In December 1980,  Altered States attempted to use the powers of the previous two decades to make a sci-fi masterpiece, but ended up making a lovable bizarrerie that heralded the onset of the '80s. The film was the brainchild of renowned screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky ( The Hospital, Network), who purportedly wanted to rewrite the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story as a Hollywood vehicle to sell to producer Dino De Laurentiis. Chayefsky worked up a treatment for the screenplay, but was encouraged by a producer to turn it into a novel instead (never an auspicious sign for a writer of his abili...