No Way Out - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of No Way Out or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to No Way Out

[alyssa]

Gene Hackman and Fred Dalton Thompson reunited on Class Action four years after this film. Unlike this film, they had no scenes together.

[jim]

Some, though not all, scenes supposedly inside the Pentagon were filmed there. Most of the locations underwent significant remodeling post 911.

[violet]

In addition to the Orion Pictures Corporation studio, filming locations were Annapolis (the sailing scene); Maryland; Arlington; Virginia; Baltimore; Washington DC; and even Auckland, New Zealand. The Pentagon wouldn't allow filming inside the building (the hallway scenes were filmed at the Dept of Interior), but they did allow the entrance to make an appearance, just as long as they shot the scene quickly (the reason Costner rushes to the lobby). The breakfast scene between Brice and Pritchard was filmed at the Hotel Washington.

[mathew]

Michelle Pfeiffer turned down the role of Susan Atwell.

[harry]

Remake of the 1948 film "The Big Clock".

[richard]

Kevin Costner reunited with two of his costars, Gene Hackman and Will Patton, on Wyatt Earp and The Postman, made 7 and 10 years after this film.

[bernice]

Kevin Costner did actually roll over the hood of a moving car during one of the chase sequences. According to the film's original press material, an insurance executive approached director Roger Donaldson after that stunt and said: "Don't you ever... ever... EVER... do that again!"

[claude]

The subway Farrell boards in the chase scene is actually the Metro Line in Baltimore.

[ava]

Will Patton would later in his career play an antagonist, who like his character Scott Pritchard, happens to be gay in 2004's The Punisher as Quinton Glass.

[kristina]

When Susan snaps the Polaroid of Tom Farrell, his arms are not in the positions that they are in when the Polaroid negative is being viewed as evidence later in the film.

[kenzi]

"No Way Out" is one of two films where Gene Hackman plays a powerful politician who kills his mistress during a fit of rage. The other is the 1997 film, "Absolute Power", where Hackman plays President of the United States.

[aaron]

Many people consider Tom Farrell as the performance that launched Kevin Costner's career as a leading man.