Cut Scenes
Before leaving Santa Fe, there may have been a few scenes cut out
with Kat in her old school. According to the Junior Novelization of Casper, Kat was really
excited about getting a part in the play. Then her father ran in and grabbed her out of
school so they could go find ghosts in Maine.
This picture of Kat and Dr. Harvey comes from a trading card. It is not certain whether
this shot is from a scene cut from the movie or just set up as a promotional picture.
After Dibs gives Dr. Harvey the flowers, a scene was cut where they read a card stuck in
the bouquet.
After their first meeting with the Ghostly Trio, Kat and Dr. Harvey prepared for a night
in the car while they discussed what just happened.
There was a scene where Dr. Harvey tried to convince the Ghostly Trio to
"cross-over." He used a sign that showed the meaning of the word DEATH according
to the "living impared."
Soon after the DEATH session, the ghosts had him flying throught the air on his couch.
(This may be why Kat said to Vic "...he kinda hit the ceiling..."
While the Harveys were getting used to their new house, Carrigan and Dibs were in the town
hall looking at a blue-print of the mansion. They discovered a large cavern under the
house, where they suspected the treasure to be.
As Carrigan and Dibs were in a restaraunt at the harbor, Dr. Harvey came racing down the
hill in his chair (which was being pushed by the Ghostly Trio) and splashed into the
water. This scene must have come after the scene where Fatso pretends to be Dr. Harvey's
deceased wife, Amelia.
There was a scene where Kat was startled by a ghost costume being carried by in the halls
of her new school. Also, in the scene where no one votes for the party at Amber's place,
she originally stared at Vic long enough to make him raise his hand, and when the class
ends, it's actually Casper ringing the school bell after tying everyone's shoe-laces
together.
There is also hints about another scene that was cut
or was not even made. It comes from an interview with Bill Pullman about Casper:
Pullman also has unfinished business with the film's spectral characters. "We're
working on a song, the ghosts and I," he chuckles. "It's the film's big number.
I sing it with the ghosts and fly around with them! It's fun to get a chance to do
that."
"When Steven Spielberg, Brad [Silberling] , Colin [Wilson, co-producer] and I talked
about this at our first meeting, I told them that, when I read it, it got me back in touch
of that sense of flying you have as a kid. Ghosts and spirits are free of gravity and
that's a very exhilarating, liberating, mysterious place to be, like Peter Pan."
"If we do it well, you'll get that sense of feeling your spirit flying, not just
pulling off the fact that you look graceful in a harness," he jokes. "To get
that feeling would be locking in on what makes this movie great for all audiences, not
just kids."
In the scene where the Ghostly Trio made Dr. Harvey
change into different characters like Rodney Dangerfield and Mel Gibson, he was also
supposed to change into Steven Spielberg. The directors face was cut, however, to feature
the Cryptkeeper from Tales of the Crypt. |
