Details

Release year: 1998

Storyline

U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder.

Top credits

Directors

Stuart Baird

Writers

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones — Samuel Gerard
Wesley Snipes — Sheridan
Robert Downey Jr. — Royce
Joe Pantoliano — Renfro

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Did you know

• For shooting the scenes on the plane, director Stuart Baird and production designer Maher Ahmad looked at real prisoner transfer planes, but were disappointed to find that they looked just like regular planes. As such, they came up with the design of the plane seen in the film - the feet restraints, the cage door, the mechanical locking system, the open toilet, et cetera.

• For the scene where Sheridan (Wesley Snipes) escapes by swinging onto a moving train, which was shot in East Harlem, New York, stuntman Clay Donahue Fontenot performed the stunt as it is seen in the film - he swung from the building on a seventy foot long reinforced cable, and landed on the roof of a train station alongside a passing train. Because of the logistics of the scene, no safety net or airbag could be used, making it a one time only shot. It took ten weeks to plan the shot, and eight hours to set it up. It lasts for seven seconds in the film.

• Wesley Snipes disliked shooting scenes where he is in water (of which there are two in the film), as he cannot swim.