The curse of an unseen movie: "Atuk"

  If you have never heard of this movie, don't worry. Not many have. What is "Atuk?"  It was suppose to be a movie about a fat Eskimo that goes from Alaska to New York City or something like that. The Inuit for it would be Grandfather, but I digress.

 It was going to be something big for Hollywood of course to make a screenplay about it. But first, they needed an actor to portray Atuk. They chose John Belushi, one of the great funny men of the 80's. He read the script and was enthusiastic about it. But sadly, he died of a drug overdose and they had to choose somebody else.  
   They then went with Sam Kinson. He wanted to make a few changes to the script and walked away from, halting the movies production. Sadly, Sam Kinson was killed in a car crash while his wife (who was in the car at the time) survived the crash. 
     
   Soon they felt there had been a curse to this "Atuk" Movie, but Hollywood just thought it had to be an urban legend and gave the script to John Candy. He agreed to the movie, then suddenly died of a heart attack in 1994. In that same year, the curse claimed another life. One of the writers, Michael O'Donahough, died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
       Eventually the script was given to another comedian, Chris Farley (who idolized John Belushi's work) and agreed to be in the movie. He even showed the script to his SNL friend, Phil Hartman. Sadly both of them died. Chris from a drug overdose and Phil was murdered. 

After all that, taking the lives of six great people, Hollywood decided to can the film and to never let the script see the light of day again, but then again, could it just be a coincidence that six people died from reading the script and thought curse had been real??? or was it just suspicion feeling that if another comedian touched the "Atuk" script they would die? Who knows.


Hollywood is known to have many curses, weather it be from movies or actors. The curse age of dying at 27 already took Amy Winehouse's life. Poltergeist has a curse they say which caused that small girl to die at a young age, but then it could have been a coincidence, could it???


The question is, do you believe in urban legends??? Ciao for now bloggers