Patriot Games

Patriot Games (1992)

Timing: 1:57 (117 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1992-06-04

Country

United States

Production

Paramount, Mace Neufeld Productions

Genre

Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

Budget

$45 000 000

Revenue

$178 051 587

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Director

Phillip Noyce

Actors

Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Thora Birch, Sean Bean, Patrick Bergin, Polly Walker, James Fox, Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, Richard Harris
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Scenario

Producer

Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme, Charles H. Maguire

Operator

Donald McAlpine

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Audition

Amanda Mackey, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond

Editing

William Hoy, Neil Travis
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• Scenes at the CIA were filmed at the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. This was the last time the CIA granted permission to film on the complex's grounds.
• The attack on members of the royal family in London is based on real events. On March 20, 1974, an attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne. The perpetrator shot her bodyguard and driver, but was disarmed by a passerby.
• After reading the first draft of the script, the author of the novel on which the film is based, Tom Clancy (1947-2013), refused to participate in the project due to too many plot discrepancies between the original source and the future adaptation.
• Alec Baldwin was replaced by Harrison Ford in the role of the main character, so Jack Ryan's age was "adjusted" from 35 to 50.
• James Earl Jones became the only member of the cast of the thriller "The Hunt for Red October" (John McTiernan, 1990) to play the same character in this film.
• Richard Harris (1930-2002) was cast as IRA operative Paddy O'Neill after ten hours of continuous auditions.
• The buzzing sound heard when zooming in and out of the image was produced by opening and closing the disk drive on the computer's system unit.
• In the novel's finale, Jack Ryan and Sean Miller fight on a small island being engulfed by waves, and Miller ultimately drowns. A preview screening convinced its authors that the public disliked this ending, so it was changed to a fight on a motorboat.
• While freeing Sean Bean's character from imprisonment, Patrick Bergin's character says a phrase in Irish – which translates to "How are you?"