Payback
Get ready to root for the bad guy.
Country
Production
Budget
$90 000 000
Revenue
$161 626 121
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Bruce Davey, Stephen McEveety
Operator
Composer
Chris Boardman
Artist
Richard Hoover
Audition
Marion Dougherty
Editing
Kevin Stitt
All team (111)
All team (111)
Short description
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
What's left behind the scenes
- Mel Gibson's character's first name is never mentioned throughout the film; everyone refers to him by his last name—Porter. When Reznik is asked about Porter's first name, he replies, "I don't know. He always calls himself Porter."
- Kevin Stitt and Brian Helgeland edited the new version of the film in 2005.
- Brian Helgeland was fired by the studio two days after receiving an "Oscar" for "L.A. Confidential."
- Kevin Stitt and Brian Helgeland edited a new version of the film in 2005.
- Reshoots of the film led to a year-long delay in its release.
- Porter's pistol is a Smith & Wesson Model 27 .357.
- The bar where Val meets Stegman is called 'Warrick's,' which is a reference to the Walter Matthau film Charlie Warrick (1973).
- The reshoots resulted in the film's release being delayed by an entire year.
- Deborah Kara Unger broke two ribs while filming the scene where Porter (Mel Gibson) brutally beats her.
- Scott Stambler wrote some of the music for the theatrical version of the film and also participated in the work on the director's cut. He recorded completely new music for the film in February 2006.
- Sally Kellerman voiced Bronson in the director's cut of the film. The audience only hears her voice, but does not see this character. In the theatrical version of the film, Chris Kristofferson played this character.
- The main change made to the film after Brian Helgeland's departure was making Chris Christopherson the primary villain.
- In an interview with a Hong Kong newspaper, Mel Gibson admitted that John Moore was responsible for the film's reshoots.
- In the director's cut, Porter (Mel Gibson) fires 13 shots from a six-shooter.
- After Brian Helgeland left the project, approximately one-third of the film was reshot.
- Deborah Kara Unger broke two ribs while filming the scene where Porter (Mel Gibson) violently beats her.
- Brian Helgeland was fired by the studio two days after winning the Oscar for L.A. Confidential.
- In an interview with a Hong Kong newspaper, Mel Gibson admitted that Johnemir was responsible for the reshoots.
- Throughout the entire film, Mel Gibson's character's first name is never mentioned; everyone refers to him by his last name – Porter. When Resnick is asked about Porter's first name, he replies: "I don't know. He always calls himself Porter."
- After Brian Helgeland left the project, about a third of the film was reshot.
- Almost all the phones in the film are rotary dial, not push-button.
- The main change made to the film after Brian Helgeland's departure was that Chris Kristofferson's character became the primary villain.
- Sally Kellerman voiced Bronson in the director's cut of the film. The audience only hears her voice but does not see the character. In the theatrical version, the character was played by Chris Christopherson.
- The bar where Val meets Stegman is called "At Warrick's," which is a reference to Walter Matthau's film "Charley Varrick" (1973).
- In the director's cut, Porter (Mel Gibson) fires 13 shots from a six-chambered pistol.
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