Forsaken - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[elmer]

Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Wincott previously appeared together in The Three Musketeers

[beth]

Reunites Demi Moore and Donald Sutherland after their appearance in Disclosure (1994).

[kristen]

Previous to this film role, Donald Sutherland also played a father of a son who died via drowning in Ordinary People (1980). And he also played the father of a daughter who drowned in Don't Look Now (1973).

[russell]

The movie was shot at the CL Ranch of Calgary, Alberta right after Discovery Channel's Klondike (2014) had wrapped, meaning the town had to be quickly transformed from a booming city circa 1890 to a not-so-booming town in the wild west circa 1870.

[edgar]

This will be the second film in which Donald Sutherland and his son, Kiefer Sutherland, are in scenes together. Both Sutherlands shared brief screen time together in the 1983 film "Max Dugan Returns" (which was Kiefer Sutherland's film debut). They also both starred in A Time to Kill (1996), though did not act together in that film.

[ivan]

The original editor's cut of the film was over 3 hours and 15 minutes. The original script had a B storyline with a young couple played by Landon Liboiron and Siobhan Williams. Their relationship paralleled that of John Henry Clayton and his lost love Mary Alice Watson. Liboiron played a young gunslinger who ran with the bad guys and glorified the life of a gunslinger, when the protagonist was doing the opposite. The producers decided to just reduce the film to all the scenes that involved the father-son relationship and started adding back all the other scenes that supported that relationship, and left everything else on the floor. An opening action scene that showed John Henry and the gunfight that changed his life was also cut: the only shots that remained are the three haunting images that open the film.

[wesley]

Kiefer Sutherland was motivated to craft a film that he could do with his father Donald, so he enlisted writer Brad Mirman to write a western story about a father and son, to be played on screen by a father and son. Kiefer claimed that they had waited years for the right script to come along, but with Donald approaching 80 it was the point that they felt it had to be done sooner rather than later.

[tamara]

According to Jon Cassar, the most difficult thing about working with Michael Wincott was getting his character's wardrobe right.

[kristina]

Re-unites "24" stars Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Wincott, and Greg Ellis. And director Jon Cassar.

[toni]

Reverend Samuel Clayton (Donald Sutherland) shares his name with Ward Bond's character in The Searchers (1956).

[ella]

John Henry is also the real name of Doc Holliday.

[jessie]

Reunites co-stars Kiefer Sutherland and Demi Moore who previously appeared together in A Few Good Men (1992).

[michele]

Kiefer Sutherland and director Jon Cassar started talking about making a western during their collaboration on 24 (2001).

[kenzi]

Kiefer Sutherland figured that the filming of this movie was the longest amount of unbroken time he had spent together with his father in his whole life.

[linda]

The film takes place in 1872.