

The cast includes: Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai, Jeff Goldblum as New Jersey, Pepe Serna as Reno, Lewis Smith as Perfect Tommy, Christopher Lloyd as John Bigboote, Vincent Schiavelli as John O'Connor, Clancy Brown as Rawhide, Ronald Lacey as President Widmark, Carl Lumbly as John Parker, Ellen Barkin as Penny Priddy, William Traylor as General Catburd, Rosalind Cash as John Emdall, Jeff Goldblum as Ed, Yakov Smirnoff as Artie, Damon Hines as Scooter Lindley, Bill Henderson as Casper Lindley, and Dan Hedaya as Jon Gomez. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is distributed by 20th Century Fox. Koenekamp, and Jordan Cronenweth as head of cinematography.Įach episode of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is 102 minutes long. Richter, and Neil Canton as producer, Michael Boddicker in charge of musical score, and Fred J. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ended in 1970.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a TV program that first aired in 1970. It's never explained how Lizardo does not age after Whorfin possesses his body (Lizardo appears to be the same age in the present time as he was in 1938).The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Quotes.Whorfin's true Lectroid form was never seen onscreen all we ever see of him is Whorfin possessing the body of Emilio Lizardo.

(In the first scene that Whorfin and Buckaroo Banzai shared - where Whorfin tortures Banzai for information - actor Peter Weller frequently burst out laughing at the "Italian/Martian" accent Lithgow was using.)

Actor John Lithgow imitated the voice of Roberto Terminelli, a tailor on the Fox Studios lot, and had him speak all of Whorfin/Lizardo's dialogue into a tape recorder which Lithgow used to copy the accent. While they were in a home for the criminally insane in Trenton, New Jersey, drugs helped Lizardo gain partial control of the body but after his escape from the home, Whorfin took complete control.ĭuring a pitched battle at Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, when the Panther ship was launched in an attempt to return to Planet 10, Lizardo/Whorfin and all the remaining Red Lectroids were killed when the ship was destroyed by Buckaroo Banzai and John Parker. Lizardo and Whorfin regularly combated for the control of Lizardo's body. Practically all deeds done by Lizardo since that time were done by Whorfin. There he was grabbed by alien hands and was possessed by John Whorfin, after which he returned to Earth and appeared to go violently insane. Professor Hikita frantically tried to stop Lizardo, since not every aspect of the experiment was ready, but it was too late and Lizardo passed partially through the wall to the 8th dimension. He sat on a sled-like vehicle and started moving toward the wall. Lizardo chose himself to be the first to try the experiment. Emilio Lizardo built a very crude version of the OSCILLATION OVERTHRUSTER in an attempt to demonstrate that a person can pass through solid matter. In 1938, at Princeton University in New Jersey, Professor Hikita and Dr.
