Executive Decision

Executive Decision (1996)

Timing: 2:12 (132 min)

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Release date

1996-03-15

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Silver Pictures

Genre

Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Budget

$55 000 000

Revenue

$121 969 216

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Director

Stuart Baird

Actors

Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, David Suchet, BD Wong, Len Cariou, Whip Hubley
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Scenario

Jim Thomas, John Thomas

Producer

Joel Silver, Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Steve Perry

Operator

Alex Thomson

Composer

Jerry Goldsmith

Artist

Robert Woodruff

Audition

Amanda Mackey, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Zoraida Sanjurjo López

Editing

Stuart Baird, Dallas Puett, Frank J. Urioste
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• The film featured a real Boeing 747-200 airliner (serial number MSN 21541) belonging to American Int Airways (tail number N707CK), painted in Oceanic colors. Interestingly, in reality, in 1988, this very aircraft, then owned by Kuwait Airways (tail number 9K-ADA), was hijacked by terrorists.
• The film was created with the direct support of the Pentagon. A real flight of F-14 fighters from the VF-84 squadron, nicknamed "Jolly Rogers", took part in the filming. In fact, this was one of the squadron's last operations before it was disbanded.
• Initially, Halle Berry refused the role in this film, but when she was offered a million dollars for the work, she agreed. It was her first million as a fee for a film.
• According to John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal attacked him during filming, trying to intimidate the actors and crew. John claimed he laughed at what Seagal said, thinking it was a joke, but Seagal proved otherwise, slamming him into a wall.
• Paramount Studios, originally developing the project, sold it to Warner Bros. in exchange for the rights and script to 'Forrest Gump' (1994). 'Executive Decision' was considered a potentially successful project, unlike 'Forrest Gump', which was experiencing script and casting problems. Furthermore, some Warner executives feared that a similar project to 'Rain Man' – the protagonists of both films have a mental disorder – would not be successful.
• Although the film's plot involves a liner making a forced hard landing, losing an engine, and sustaining hull damage, the aircraft itself was not damaged in reality and remained in service until 2004.
• As in many other Hollywood films, 'Executive Decision' features the fictional airline Oceanic Airlines. It was specifically invented to avoid creating a negative image by vividly depicting a hijacking and a plane crash during landing for any real airline.
• The beginning of the film features a fantastical, dramatically charged scene of a passenger Boeing-767 docking with a stealth bomber, the F-117x Remora. In reality, such a docking scenario, with a sleeve for crew transfer, is impossible. The US Air Force uses docking with a tanker aircraft, utilizing a telescopic refueling boom.
• Paramount Pictures, originally developing the project, sold it to Warner Bros. in exchange for the rights and screenplay to "Forrest Gump" (1994). "Oblivion" was considered a potentially successful project, unlike "Forrest Gump," which was experiencing script and casting issues. Furthermore, some Warner executives feared that a similar project to "Rain Man"—as the protagonists of both films have a mental disorder—would not be successful.
• At the beginning of the film, there is a fantastical and dramatic scene of a passenger Boeing 767 docking with a stealth bomber F-117x Remora. In reality, such a docking of aircraft, with a sleeve for crew transfer, is impossible. The US Air Force uses docking with a tanker, using a telescoping refueling boom.