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Kazaam (/ k ə ˈ z æ m /) is a 1996 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Paul Michael Glaser, written by Christian Ford and Roger Soffer based on a story by Glaser, and starring Shaquille O'Neal as the title character, a 5,000-year-old genie who appears from a magic boombox to grant a 14-year-old boy three wishes.
- You May Recognize The Director
- The Movie Was Born from A Tragic Event
- Shaq Had Always Dreamed of Doing A Movie
- Kazaam Bombed with Critics
- Max Previously Worked with Robert de Niro
- The Screenwriters Almost Had Turtle Power
- Capra Didn’T Know Who Shaq Was
- Shaq Was Like A Big Kid on Set
Paul Michael Glaser, the director of Kazaam, was a big television star in the 1970s — he played Detective David Starsky on Starsky & Hutch, which ran on ABC from 1974 to 1979.
When Glaser’s wife, Elizabeth Glaser, died in 1994 from complications from AIDS, Glaser was devastated and vowed to throw himself into a creative outlet. It was then that he was asked to make a movie with Shaq, and the rest is history.
Shaq had already made millions as a basketball player, but he had one dream left — making a movie. When GQ magazine asked him why he did Kazaam, Shaq said, "I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no?...
Gene Siskel named Kazaam as one of his least favorite movies of 1996, and although Roger Ebert didn’t put it on his list, he said, “Kazaam is a textbook example of a film deal,” Ebert wrote, “in which adults assemble a package that reflects their own interests and try to sell it to kids.” Ouch.It currently holds an 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
When Francis Capra landed the role of Max in Kazaam, he always already used to working with big stars — in more ways than one. He had just finished filming A Bronx Tale with Robert De Niro, and he was also in Free Willy 2with a giant orca whale. Perhaps Shaq was just like all the other stars Capra had acted with.
Roger Soffer and Christian Ford, who wrote Kazaam , didn’t really get along, but they were hired at first to write a film that was tentatively called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, which would have been the fourth movie in the TMNTseries. Luckily, the world didn’t need that movie, and it was scrapped due to problems between the cr...
In an oral history of Kazaam, Capra said, “I was the most non-athletic kid in the world; I thought Shaq was a football player at the time.” Luckily, he was able to figure it out before he and Shaq met.
And when Capra and Shaq did meet, the conversation turned to one of the most famous 1990s games of all time — Mortal Kombat. So much of Capra and Shaq’s conversation revolved around video games that Shaq gave Capra a copy of Shaq-Fu , his own Sega game, to take home with him. I feel much more educated about Kazaamnow, don’t you? Excuse me; I’m off ...
Jan 12, 2016 · Synopsis: After finding a boom box that happens to contain a magic lamp, Max (Francis Capra) awakens a rapping genie named Kazaam (Shaquille O'Neal) who offers to change the young boy's life by...
Jan 20, 2016 · The behind-the-scenes story of the film—as told by its director, star, writers, costume designer, and production manager—is surprisingly moving.
Dec 26, 2016 · The Shazaam trutherism Tait reports on started on the Mandela effect subreddit.) Mass universe-hopping is unlikely. The truth is much simpler: Human memory is really, really malleable. Elizabeth...
Kazaam is a 1996 comedy film where basketball star Shaquille O'Neal plays a rapping genie. The story is about a kid named Maxwell "Max" Connor (Francis Capra) who stumbles into an abandoned building and finds a magic boombox containing Kazaam (Shaquille O'Neal): an actual genie. Naturally, the kid doesn't believe what he sees but Kazaam ...
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