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Hostage-taking | San Francisco, California
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Best Soundtrack | 1998
Budget 55,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 31,987,563 USD
One of the reasons why Eddie Murphy choose to star in Metro is because he wanted to play serious and dramatic role in more serious action film than his previous films were. Even before he accepted the role in Metro, around early 1995 he was originally going to star in another action thriller titled Sandblast. The script for the film was written by screenwriter Steven Maeda in 1993 and he sold it to Joel Silver, famous producer of many action hits, and Warner Bros. for $750,000.Described as both Die Hard and Cliffhanger in the desert sandstorm, the plot of Sandblast would have been very similar to the plot of John Woo's Broken Arrow (1996). It was gonna take place in Iraq desert after the Gulf War, and Murphy would play the lead role of ex-landmine expert and army specialist who has to help group of US commandos to stop the team of traitorous Green Berets from tracking down lost nuclear warheads which are somewhere in the desert wasteland, and while dealing with deadly terrain and huge sandstorm at the same time.Once Murphy quit from the project due to scheduling conflicts and then went on to star in Metro, Wesley Snipes was hired to play the main role and there were plans to hire Jean Claude Van Damme to play the main villain, but since Snipes' latest films weren't a success and Van Damme didn't want to play the villain, Warner Bros. cancelled the project in 1996 and so it was never made.
This was originally meant to star Harrison Ford.
This was Steve Porcaro's first major theatrical score as he had been a former keyboardist of the rock band, Toto as well as a session musician in LA.
The final scene was filmed at Mare Island Naval Base in Vallejo, California, one year after the base closed down.
The second of a five picture deal for Eddie Murphy with Disney that started in 1992. The other films include The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), Metro (1997), Mulan (1998), Holy Man (1998) and The Haunted Mansion (2003).
"[On watching a foreign film] Scott Roper: My eyes still hurt from reading that movie."
"[training McCall as a hostage negotiator] Kevin McCall: I'm Officer McCall, I'm unarmed, just want to make sure everybody gets out of her safely. Scott Roper: Okay, stop right there. Close your eyes. Kevin McCall: Okay. Scott Roper: Now tell me what you see. Kevin McCall: [keeping his eyes closed] I see a scumbag behind the counter with a sawed-off, nine-millimeter tucked away in his waistband. There's a female hostage down in front of the cereal rack with a red polka-dot dress. Another hostage three feet to her right, with blue jeans and a checkered shirt. A male hostage down, green shirt, white pants, in front of the candy rack. There's a female scumbag behind me with a gun tucked away in her shirt, trying to pass herself off as a hostage. And there's a special on toilet paper, four for $1.29. That's a lot of toilet paper. Am I right? Scott Roper: That's pretty good, you got good eyes. Kevin McCall: You like that? Scott Roper: Very impressive."
