Sabotage
Short description
Sabotage follows John "Breacher" Wharton, who leads an elite DEA task force known for taking down major drug cartels. After a raid on a cartel safe house, the team quietly keeps millions of dollars for itself instead of turning the money over. When the cash disappears and someone begins killing the members one at a time, the surviving agents turn on each other while trying to identify who is behind the attacks.
David Ayer directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Skip Woods; Ayer also produced it. It sits between End of Watch and Fury in the run of features Ayer directed, and it was made with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead as Breacher. The supporting cast includes Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello and Harold Perrineau.
The film was released in March 2014 and runs 110 minutes. Made for about 35 million dollars, it returned roughly 22 million worldwide, a shortfall against its production budget. Audiences on TMDB rate it 5.6 out of 10 from more than 1,500 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 4.4 out of 10 from 115 reviews, placing the two broadly in the same low range.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming took place from October 15 to December 13, 2012.
- Working titles for the film were “Breacher” and “Ten”.
- Kate Mara and Isla Fisher auditioned for the role eventually taken by Malin Akerman, but later Akerman dropped out of the film due to pregnancy and was replaced by Mireille Enos.
- Dawn Olivieri was considered for one of the roles.
- For his role in this film, Arnold Schwarzenegger spent three months perfecting his weapons handling skills. He trained at a SWAT base in Los Angeles.
- David Ayer reported that "Sabotage" was significantly cut by the studio to make the film more action-packed, thereby changing the original idea of a detective thriller. The original version of the film was rumored to be around 3 hours long.
- Initially, the film had a completely different ending in two versions with slight differences: after Caroline and John detained Lizzy, she began to confess, and John shot her before she could say more and discreetly disappeared. Caroline and her colleague Jackson went to the lake to pick up the money. John also showed up there, stabbed Jackson with a knife, and began to fight with Caroline in the water. The film's director, David Ayer, shot 2 versions of this scene: Caroline escapes, and John confronts two police cars. When he tries to leave with the money, he kills the police officers and prepares to drive away in one of the cars. In the first version, Caroline appears at that moment and kills John. In the second, John shoots Caroline before she can pull the trigger and drives away in the car. Both versions were rejected by the producers, and they forced Ayer to shoot another ending where Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes an anti-hero, but not a villain.
- While surveilling John "Breacher" Wharton, the agents of the security service have rain on their windshield, while the person being pursued has clear weather.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
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