Prisoners
How far would you go to protect your child?
Country
Production
Budget
$46 000 000
Revenue
$122 127 446
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Kira Davis, Adam Kolbrenner, Edward McDonnell, Mark Wahlberg, John H. Starke, Robyn Meisinger, Stephen Levinson
Operator
Composer
Artist
Patrice Vermette, Elaine Wu, Marcos Romero
Audition
Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee
Editing
Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach
All team (227)
All team (227)
Short description
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jake Gyllenhaal came up with some of the details for Detective Loki's character himself (the tattoos, the signet ring, and the nervous tic).
- The scene in which Hugh Jackman's character attacks Paul Dano's character with a hammer was conceived on the spot.
- The first time Detective Loki needs to leave the Dover family's home, he is sitting in the car and talking to Keller Dover through the window – at that moment he has a match in his mouth, but the match abruptly disappears in the next shot.
- Leonardo DiCaprio was long considered for the main role, but eventually left the project.
- Towards the end of the film, when the father goes to Mrs. Jones' house, it is daytime outside. After they come outside a short time later, it is already night.
- In preparation for the role of Detective Loki, Jake Gyllenhaal reviewed 100 hours of video recordings of interrogations of detainees and suspects.
- Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve enjoyed working together on the thriller "Enemy" (2013) so much that Villeneuve cast Gyllenhaal as Loki without even holding auditions.
- Filming took place in Atlanta, Conyers (Georgia), and Derby (Connecticut).
- From Detective Loki's cards, you can learn his full name is David Wayne Loki.
- For the role of Holly, actress Melissa Leo wore a gray wig and hip pads. She also asked that the lenses of her glasses not be cleaned at the end of each shooting day.
- The film is set in Pennsylvania, but features billboards for the Atlanta law firm "Morgan and Morgan" positioned above a liquor store.
- The car that covers the pit where the girls, and later Hugh Jackman's character, were held is a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am.
- Originally, Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale were planned to star in the leading roles, with Bryan Singer set to direct.
- When Holly points a gun at Keller in the kitchen, she dramatically cocks the hammer. However, in the following shot, when the gun is shown in close-up, it is visible that the hammer is not cocked.
- Initially, the film was given an “NC-17” rating (not intended for viewers under 18), but after the torture scenes were slightly shortened and allusions to pedophilia were removed, the rating was changed to “R” (viewing by persons aged 17 requires the presence of an adult).
- In this film, Hugh Jackman plays the role of a father whose daughter is kidnapped. He was considered for a similar role in "The Lovely Bones" (2009), but Mark Wahlberg was cast instead, and he could have played the lead role in this film.
- Initially, it was assumed that the police would never find the hero played by Hugh Jackman, and that he would remain missing.
- Hugh Jackman was attached to the project even when Antoine Fuqua was slated to direct. Both subsequently left the project. After several years of development, Hugh Jackman re-committed to the leading role.
- The line with which Melissa Leo’s character addresses Hugh Jackman’s character and offers him another drink was invented by the actress herself. She felt that Jackman hadn’t drunk enough for the scene to look believable.
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