![]() Dow and the city of Mobile, Alabama Alabama Film Commission Mobile Film Commission Hawaii Film Commission” and “USS Missouri BB63 was decommissioned Maand is now moored at Bremerton Naval Shipyard, awaiting her next call to service.”Īctor Dale Dye’s name appears in opening and end credits, with the end credits listing his name as “Dale A. Nix and the city of Fairhope, Alabama Mayor Michael C. A new “non-nautical” screenplay was commissioned for 1995’s Die Hard With a Vengeance (see entry).Ī sequel, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (see entry), was released in 1995.Įnd credits include the statements: “Special thanks to: USS Alabama Battleship Commission Mayor James P. The LAT reported that the “runaway success” of Under Siege impacted the third film in the Die Hard series, which featured a similar plot of terrorists attacking a cruise ship. ![]() Several reviews, including the HR and the Dec 1992 Box, compared Under Siege to Die Hard (1988, see entry). On, HR noted the film’s domestic box-office gross had surpassed $76 million. The final box-office results over the four-day Columbus Day holiday weekend were also expected to exceed the Oct weekend record of $14,147,340 set by 1989’s Look Who’s Talking (see entry). The DV reported that the film’s first three-day box-office gross was $14,097,770, breaking the Oct opening weekend record. The HR reported the film’s budget was $30 million. To “enhance realism,” director Andrew Davis and aerial cameraman Frank Holgate filmed footage of the ship in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, HI, sailing on the Pacific Ocean, and steering into the San Francisco, CA, bay. The filmmakers decided not to use stock footage of the USS Missouri. Most of the film’s interior scenes were shot on sound stages built in two vacant hangers at the Fairhope, AL, municipal airport. Used in combination with barges created for cameras and lights, the filmmakers had “tremendous flexibility” and were able to make it appear as if the ship were on the ocean rather than moored in a bay. The “blackout barge” was moved around the ship as needed to block out city buildings and lights. A 100 foot long barge was built with a sixty foot high framework along its entire length, and black cloth covered the framework. The “largest logistical problem” was to make the ship appear to be at sea. The script featured a situation on the USS Missouri, and the filmmakers were given permission from the USS Alabama Battleship Commission to renovate the Alabama to look like the Missouri. According to production notes in AMPAS library files, Mobile was chosen because the decommissioned USS Alabama was permanently moored as a tourist attraction and museum in Mobile Bay. Ī HR production brief reported principal photography began in Mobile, AL. ![]() Used in combination with barges created for cameras and. Seagal prevailed, and the film was retitled Under Siege.Ī HR production brief reported principal photography began in Mobile, AL. Seagal’s first four films had three-word titles, and it had become a “well-known Seagal trademark.” Seagal noted it was difficult to get studio executives to change their minds, and he reportedly wrote a “harshly worded letter” to the marketing executives declaring he would not accept the three-word title. However, Steven Seagal was upset with the studio’s insistence on a three-word title. ![]() marketing department came up with the title Last to Surrender. The title did not test well, and the Warner Bros. The DV reported the film was originally titled Dreadnought, which refers to a heavily armored vessel.
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