The Contender - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Contender"
The Contender (2000)
Timing:
2:6 (126 min)
6.667/10
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6.34/10
1082
1082
6.9/10
26000
26000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Willi Bär
Producer
Marc Frydman
Producer
Douglas Urbanski
Producer
James Spies
Producer
Executive Producer
Maurice Leblond
Executive Producer
Rainer Bienger
Executive Producer
Writer
Casting
Mary Jo Slater
Casting
Editor
Michael Jablow
Editor
Art Direction
Halina Gebarowicz
Art Direction
Costume Design
Matthew Jacobsen
Costume Design
Stunts
Ronnie Rondell Jr.
Stunts
Daniel W. Barringer
Stunts
Hubie Kerns Jr.
Stunts
Production Design
Alec Hammond
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
Loyd Catlett
Stunt Coordinator
Set Decoration
Eloise Crane Stammerjohn
Set Decoration
Original Music Composer
Larry Groupé
Original Music Composer
Unit Production Manager
Oriana Robertson
Unit Production Manager
Co-Producer
Scott Shiffman
Co-Producer
Steve Loglisci
Co-Producer
Director of Photography
Denis Maloney
Director of Photography
What's left behind the scenes
- Gary Oldman and producer Douglas Urbanski complained after the film’s release that “DreamWorks Pictures” studio had altered the initially well-balanced script to conform to the liberal worldview of its leadership (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen).
- During post-production, a storyline about the father of Senator Lane Henson was cut from the film. The character was named Oscar Billings, and was played by Philip Baker Hall. He was a former corrupt governor who used his connections to secure a place for his daughter in the U.S. Senate without her knowledge. This became known, and Hall committed suicide. Director and screenwriter Rod Lurie cut all of this from the film for runtime reasons and because he believed audiences wouldn't believe the senator could get away with accusations of nepotism so easily.
- According to Jeff Bridges, he deliberately made his character, President Jackson Evans, resemble his own father, Lloyd Bridges, who passed away in 1988.
- Jeff Bridges and Gary Oldman agreed to star in the film only after learning that Joan Allen would be playing the lead role.
- The idea for the film came to Rod Lurie when he was presenting Joan Allen with an award, and he jokingly said that he should write a script so she could win another award for working in it. Allen replied that if he ever actually wrote a script, she would definitely read it. Lurie only took a couple of weeks to write the screenplay.
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