Executive Decision
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Producer Joel Silver likes action movies and has created some of the
biggest in film history, including the Lethal Weapon series, the
Die Hard series, the Predator series, Commando (1985),
48 Hours (1982) and The Matrix (1999). He likes stories about
an ordinary guy forced to perform extraordinary tasks, and that's what drew
him to Executive Decision. Silver had worked with screenwriting
brothers Jim and John Thomas on the Predator series and "admired
their abilities to build suspense and tell a story." He knew they could
come up with a script that would set his everyman yet another series of
Herculean tasks, and in Executive Decision, Kurt Russell's
character, Dr. David Grant, was that man. Silver then sought out editor
Stuart Baird and encouraged him to make his directorial debut. Baird was
the editor of such previous Silver hits as Die Hard 2: Die Harder
(1990), Demolition Man (1993) and the Lethal Weapon films,
and from these they had established a solid working relationship. Although
Alex Thomson is credited as cinematographer, he was replaced by Don
Burgess, because Baird thought Thomson was working too slowly. The film was
made with the cooperation of the Department of Defense, though the military
still does not have airplanes that can pass passengers back and forth as
depicted in the film. The actual airports used as locations are San
Bernardino, Mojave and Van Nuys. Aerial filming took place in Key West,
Fla.; Mobile, Ala.; and Puerto Rico.
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