Adventure Inc. - Publicity

Publicity

Fireworks International went into Cannes with Adventure Inc., and with its star Michael Biehn worked the Croisette hard to promote the show. Biehn was also joined by executive producer Gale Ann Hurd, who got for Biehn roles in The Terminator and Aliens: both films they did with Hurd's then husband James Cameron. Now divorced, she and Biehn hoped to make a splash with this TV show.

The main character is Judson Cross, a seafaring adventurer-for-hire, and was originally Ms. Hurd's idea, based partly on the real-life exploits of Barry Clifford, who is Ms. Hurd's close friend. "It's not common in television to have a character inspired by real events and real character," she said.

Ms. Hurd maintained that the one big difference between film and television was budgets and in relation to her films, Adventure Inc.'s budget was "a very small percentage." But it was legendary guerrilla film-maker Roger Corman that helped Ms Hurd to deliver the series on time and on budget. "What I think prepared me for television was my time with Roger Corman, where we neither had time nor money to finish our projects," she said. "Instead of as a negative, though, I've come to see it as a positive thing."