Question 1

What unusual production arrangement existed between the executive producer and director of The Philadelphia Experiment?

Accepted Answer

Although John Carpenter is listed as executive producer, he and director Stewart Raffill never met in person.

Question 2

What record did The Philadelphia Experiment set for video release timing?

Accepted Answer

At its release, it had the fastest theatrical-to-video window in film history, opening in August and releasing on video by late October.

Question 3

How did a Utah town benefit financially from the film's production?

Accepted Answer

The town needed funds for a new sewage system, so Stewart Raffill purchased a block of abandoned buildings and had them blown up for the film's destruction scenes.

Question 4

What was John Carpenter originally asked to do with this film before it was made?

Accepted Answer

AVCO Embassy Pictures asked John Carpenter to write and direct The Philadelphia Experiment after his successes with Halloween and The Fog, but he showed them Escape from New York instead.

Question 5

What time-travel event forms the basis of The Philadelphia Experiment's story?

Accepted Answer

Based on an "actual event" from 1943, a US Navy Destroyer Escort disappears from Philadelphia and sends two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

The Philadelphia Experiment

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