Several reviews, including the HR and the Dec 1992 Box, compared Under Siege to Die Hard (1988, see entry). On, HR noted the film’s domestic box-office gross had surpassed $76 million. The final box-office results over the four-day Columbus Day holiday weekend were also expected to exceed the Oct weekend record of $14,147,340 set by 1989’s Look Who’s Talking (see entry). The DV reported that the film’s first three-day box-office gross was $14,097,770, breaking the Oct opening weekend record. The HR reported the film’s budget was $30 million. To “enhance realism,” director Andrew Davis and aerial cameraman Frank Holgate filmed footage of the ship in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, HI, sailing on the Pacific Ocean, and steering into the San Francisco, CA, bay. The filmmakers decided not to use stock footage of the USS Missouri. Most of the film’s interior scenes were shot on sound stages built in two vacant hangers at the Fairhope, AL, municipal airport. Used in combination with barges created for cameras and lights, the filmmakers had “tremendous flexibility” and were able to make it appear as if the ship were on the ocean rather than moored in a bay. The “blackout barge” was moved around the ship as needed to block out city buildings and lights. A 100 foot long barge was built with a sixty foot high framework along its entire length, and black cloth covered the framework. The “largest logistical problem” was to make the ship appear to be at sea. The script featured a situation on the USS Missouri, and the filmmakers were given permission from the USS Alabama Battleship Commission to renovate the Alabama to look like the Missouri. According to production notes in AMPAS library files, Mobile was chosen because the decommissioned USS Alabama was permanently moored as a tourist attraction and museum in Mobile Bay. Ī HR production brief reported principal photography began in Mobile, AL. Used in combination with barges created for cameras and.
Seagal prevailed, and the film was retitled Under Siege.Ī HR production brief reported principal photography began in Mobile, AL. Seagal’s first four films had three-word titles, and it had become a “well-known Seagal trademark.” Seagal noted it was difficult to get studio executives to change their minds, and he reportedly wrote a “harshly worded letter” to the marketing executives declaring he would not accept the three-word title. However, Steven Seagal was upset with the studio’s insistence on a three-word title. marketing department came up with the title Last to Surrender. The title did not test well, and the Warner Bros. The second Mexican dubbing was made by Regency, which is distributed mainly in Latin America and is being distributed on Disney+ in the countries that are available in the Star section.The DV reported the film was originally titled Dreadnought, which refers to a heavily armored vessel. The first Mexican dubbing was made by Warner and distributed to date in some territories such as the United States (recently being available on HBO Max). This film was broadcast on channel 7 of Televisión Azteca (TV7) in Mexico, it was broadcast in its entirety without commercial breaks from beginning to end, thanks to the sponsorship of a prestigious perfume brand for men that appeared randomly as an animated banner throughout the film. Blas García and Mario Sauret participated in both Mexican dubbings sharing the character of William Stranix ( Tommy Lee Jones).
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