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Islam | New York City
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Favorite Supporting Actor Suspense | 1999 | Bruce
Favorite Actor Suspense | 1999 | Denzel
Favorite Actress Suspense | 1999 | Annette
Budget 70,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 116,700,000 USD
According to an interview that screenwriter Lawrence Wright gave to CBS in 2007, the film was a box-office failure upon its theatrical release, "but it was the most-rented movie in America after 9/11." Wright also claimed that the initial release bombed because "Muslim and Arab protesters picketed the theaters. They were furious at being stereotyped as terrorists."
Bruce Willis was welcomed to the Pentagon where he received a crash course in briefings and information that, while unclassified, did give him a sense of what General Devereaux would deal with, both in general, and in the event of a major national crisis.
In several scenes, General William Devereaux is seen not wearing his U.S. Army uniform, instead he's seen wearing an ordinary suit. It is revealed that General Devereaux is actually holding a position in the President's cabinet while retaining his Army commission as a Major General, possibly National Security Advisor, or White House Chief of Staff. This resembled Alexander Haig, who was Richard Nixon's Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and later White House Chief of Staff, while retaining his General rank in the Army, or Colin Powell, who was Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor, while also retaining his General rank in the Army, and later known as "political General".
Jodie Foster turned down the role that went to Annette Bening.
George F. Miller broke the right side of his jaw in two places while working on this film.
"Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: [upon learning Devereaux's plans to torture Tariq] Are you people insane? What are you talkin' about? General William Devereaux: The time has come for one man to suffer in order to save hundreds of lives. Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: One Man? What about two, huh? What about six? How about public executions? General William Devereaux: Feel free to leave whenever you like, Agent Hubbard. Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard: Come on General, you've lost men, I've lost men, but you - you, you *can't* do this! What, what if they don't even want the sheik, have you considered that? What if what they really want is for us to herd our children into stadiums like we're doing? And put soldiers on the street and have Americans looking over their shoulders? Bend the law, shred the Constitution just a little bit? Because if we torture him, General, we do that and everything we have fought, and bled, and died for is over. And they've won. They've already won! General William Devereaux: Escort him out."
"General William Devereaux: The CIA didn't know the Berlin Wall was coming down until bricks started hitting them in the head."
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