![]() ![]() ![]() UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel trained Reeves how to throw the ball, but in Neuheisel’s words, Reeves was hopeless. The character’s name was based on legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana. Point break being a surfing term for a wave that hits a piece of land extended from the coastline. ![]() It was changed to Point Break near the end of the shoot. Another option was Riders On The Storm, but it was decided that, as that is the title of a Doors song, it would confuse cinemagoers. But that all changed when they saw the dailies of Reeves in action.Īfter the studio came round to the idea of Reeves in the lead, they even considered changing the name of the film to Johnny Utah. And, of course, his radical turn as Theodore Logan in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989). Bigelow saw an action star in Reeves, but the studio wasn’t so sure about, based on his dramatic roles in the likes of River’s Edge (1986), Dangerous Liaisons (1988). The other actors in the frame were Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Willem Dafoe, Val Kilmer and Matthew Broderick.īigelow insisted that Reeves was the best fit for Utah, despite Swayze himself auditioning for the part. Keanu Reeves wasn’t the only one in the picture as the quarterback punk Johnny Utah. And when they don’t pass judgment and bring a deeper level of truth to it, wonderful things can happen.” Gary Busey had a more layman’s terms view about working with a female director, “women are better with details, they just have that over men. Swayze said “women often do macho guy movies a lot better than guys do ’cause they have the ability to stand back. On set, Bigelow emersed herself into the action, she was in the plane directing the actors, or on a surfboard, just out of shot during the surfing scenes.Īll the actors on set loved working with her. The cast gushed with praise for their director The Godfather, Frank Sinatra and links to the MafiaĤ. Because you can learn from that.”īigelow and Cameron together on the set of Strange Days (1995) We see things the same way a lot, and differently a lot, which is nice. He described being married to another film maker as a very good thing, saying “I had to look at every foot of her dailies on Point Break and she had to look at every foot of mine on Terminator 2. This was Cameron’s first executive-producer credit, he was also making Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) at the time. Bigelow was attracted to the relationship of the two leads, saying “it’s a little more complicated when your good guy is seduced by the darkness inside him and your villain is no villain whatsoever, he’s more of an anti-hero.” Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron were the new power couple in Hollywood, they were looking for her next directing gig, and came across the Point Break script. Bigelow was attracted by the relationship between the two lead characters Ridley Scott directing Black Rain, the film he chose to work on after Point Breakģ. Rick King said that Scott spent more time in pre-production than he did on the entire film. In 1987, Ridley Scott was contracted to direct, and spent 5 months in pre-production before backing out. The film had a long gestation period before hitting the screens in 1991. Kathryn Bigelow wasn’t the original director Even though he retained sole writing credits, producer/director team James Cameron and Katheryn Bigelow did drastic re-writes to the script.Ģ. He had to continue his day job as a waiter, and wrote the screenplay at night. Illif was only paid $6000 for the screenplay. ![]() Rick King pitched the film as ‘Tom Cruise joins the FBI’. Peter Illif was drafted in to write the screenplay, having previously wrote the screenplay for sci-fi skate classic Prayer Of The Rollerboys (1990). He thought, surfing…and bank robbery? Genius. When taking a break from learning to surf, King read an article in LA Weekly about Los Angeles being the robbery capital of America. The idea for Point Break came from co-producer Rick King, who has a story credit. We’ve got the full behind the scenes story of Kathryn Bigelow’s wet western, by way of 20 incredible facts about Point Break. Unheard of in the era, Kathryn Bigelow was the women behind the camera, bringing spiritual enlightenment and sensitivity to the ultimate macho genre, and in doing so, made a cult classic. Point Break came at the tail end of the action movie boom in the 80s and 90s. ![]()
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