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Frank Langella considers Dawg to be one of his three favourite roles (the other two are Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon (2008) and Skeletor in Masters of the Universe (1987)), because he got to not only be a pirate, but a scenery-chewing over-the-top bad guy pirate. Apparently, the man loves being able to just go for broke in a role.
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Renny Harlin spent $1 million of his own money to rewrite the script. Carolco was in so much debt that they couldn't afford it.
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Due to the casting distractions, Renny Harlin hadn't really been able to pay attention to the sets and production design. When he finally did, he didn't like any of it. It all had to be redesigned and rebuilt in a rather short time frame-and then the script had to be rewritten to accommodate the changes. Both had a lot to do with driving the film's budget way up.
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Renny Harlin: [flag] Shopfront window. See also the goofs entry.
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Renny Harlin is famous for pushing actors to do their own stunts whenever possible. While promoting the film, Geena Davis appeared on talk shows with clips of her doing stunts over and over (including one take where she fell out of the window too soon, rolled down the roof and under the carriage) and explained the bruises and injuries she sustained while filming.
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The film is often blamed for killing the pirate movie until Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). It's more accurate to say it failed to relaunch the genre, since not many pirate films had been made before it.
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Several years later, Matthew Modine explained some of the reasons why the film's costs spiraled out-of-control. Among other things, dozens of cases of V8 juice were shipped out to Malta, expressly for Renny Harlin and Geena Davis. An entire room of V8 was left towards the end of the shoot, so it was served to everybody. Every scene had three cameras in constant use, resulting in yards and yards of film used for every shot.
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Oliver Wood was the film's original director of photography. When he broke his ankle in an accident on set, Peter Levy immediately replaced him. The injury cost Wood his next job on Broken Arrow (1996). Levy replaced him there, too.
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Matthew Modine was cast partly because he is an experienced fencer.
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Geena Davis and director Renny Harlin got married during production.
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George Murcell's last feature film.
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In her first scene, Morgan says to the man she seduced "I got your balls!". Balls is slang word for male genitals.
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Matthew Modine described Oliver Reed - "I'd heard these stories about Oliver Reed I think it is all bunk. Oliver was a gentleman. Sure, he had a reputation as a man who enjoyed a drink. But only off set. His reputation as an actor is stellar. Professional. I stand by that. God rest his soul."
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Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, Jeff Bridges, Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Sheen, Russell Crowe, Tim Robbins, Gabriel Byrne, and Michael Keaton all reportedly turned down the male lead role.
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Shot at Mediterranean Studios in Malta, the same studio where box office bombs Orca (1977), Raise the Titanic (1980), and Popeye (1980) were shot.
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Dawg's outfit matches that of pirate captain Kit Oloard.
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Mario Kassar decided to start production by building sets, ships, and other logistical details in Malta before the first revised draft of the script was ready. He also sold the foreign distribution rights before the first revised draft.
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At one point, Geena Davis and Renny Harlin begged to be let go from the film, knowing it would be a disaster. The studio refused.
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