This is a criminally underrated flick
A lot of credit goes to the casting director, I think. Harold Ramis was set to direct, and he wanted Alec Baldwin in the lead role, who turned it down. Kevin Kline and Steve Martin also passed, and when Tim Allen was picked, Ramis quit.
- Sigourney Weaver lobbied [new diector} Parisot to cast her, insisting that Madison needed to be blonde and have large breasts to capture the humor of a sci-fi production.
[15] She admitted she was surprised when she actually got the role.
[7 She wore a blonde wig (which she kept after production) and an enhanced bosom, which many of the crew said gave Weaver a totally new personality. Weaver often left the set in costume and returned to her hotel to admire herself, saying that she "loved being a starlet".
[12] - wikipedia
Sam Rockwell's scenes as Crewman # 6 were some of the best parts