David Seltzer

And they're like, no, we actually, that doesn't work for us.

So David Seltzer was one of the contributing writers.

He is also the person who wrote the screenplay for The Omen.

So definitely different tone.

Now, on three separate occasions in three completely different places, well... three completely different places cast and crew were struck by lightning or involved in lightning related incidences during the production of the omen first in september of 1975 the commercial flight carrying gregory peck the lead of the film was carrying him to london it got struck by lightning while it was in midair and it made one of the engines go out now the pilots were amazing they eventually like very quickly got things back online within minutes and they were able to land the plane safely as planned, but pretty scary stuff.

A few weeks later, a separate flight carrying the executive producer Mace Newfield and a screenwriter David Seltzer was also struck by lightning, which resulted in a five-minute panic and a temporary engine failure yet again.

Not long after both of those lightning strike incidences, which so far had affected three people on the crew, Producer Harvey Bernhard was also nearly struck by lightning on the ground in Rome after a lightning bolt struck the ground just feet away from where he was standing.

That many people in a single production being involved in that many lightning strike incidences is like almost statistically impossible by everything I read.

Okay, so the original Omen starred Lee Remick and Gregory Peck, and it premiered June 6th, 1976, and is now considered an undisputed horror classic.

It was written by David Seltzer and directed by Richard Donner.

And the story concerns Robert and Catherine Thorne, a couple who unwittingly adopt a child who turns out to be the Antichrist.

hey, we've all been there.

Those

are the only two lyrics we really know.

It's released in 1976, written by David Seltzer, directed by Richard Donner.

Which I kind of forgot.

I have no idea.

The screenplay is weirdly credited to David Seltzer, but I'll have a few things to say about that when we get to the end, because David Seltzer, of course, wrote the original, The Omen.

Starring Liev Schreiber.

It has 103 credits, including Phantoms, Fear, RKO 281, Scream.

The screenplay was actually written by Dan McDermott.

But he was denied a writing credit by the WGA as the screenplay was determined to be too similar to the original script.

So David Seltzer gets the writing credit despite being uninvolved in the production of the remake in any way.

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Scary, but planes do get hit by lightning, and it's not that rare.

Then, separately, the film's screenwriter, David Seltzer, was flying over too.

His plane was also struck by lightning, and the executive producer, Mace Neufeld, reportedly had a plane hit by lightning on a different flight.

Three guys working on a movie about the devil.

Directed by Richard Donner.

Written by David Seltzer.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

And I don't think the cast is quite a big cast.

And it didn't stop there.

According to the sources, the screenwriter, David Seltzer, and the executive producer, Mace Neufeld, were on two entirely separate commercial planes on different dates, flying to different locations, and both of their planes were struck by lightning mid-flight.

The lead actor, Greg Repack, also had his plane struck by lightning while flying to London.

From a cognitive psychology standpoint, we must consider the environment these people were operating in.