6 Underground
Short description
6 Underground follows a billionaire who stages his own death and puts together a small team of operatives from different countries. Recruited by their leader, known only as One, the six members are chosen for their skills and for their wish to leave their pasts behind. Working anonymously, they take on a dictator in the Central Asian nation of Turgistan.
Michael Bay directed the film, the fourteenth of the fifteen he has directed in chronological order, arriving between Transformers: The Last Knight and Ambulance. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote the screenplay, and Bay produced with Ian Bryce and Dana Goldberg for Skydance and Bay Films. Ryan Reynolds plays One, alongside Mélanie Laurent, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Adria Arjona and Dave Franco as the numbered members of the team. The production involved 58 credited cast and 132 credited crew members and carried a budget of 150 million dollars.
On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.1 from around 210,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.3 from roughly 5,300 votes. A film critics' rating of 4.8 from 97 reviews places it below both audience scores. The film runs 128 minutes and blends action, comedy and thriller elements.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene on the track in Las Vegas was filmed in Abu Dhabi, UAE – in the Ferrari World theme park and on the Yas Circuit racetrack. The heroes observe from the Viceroy hotel building.
- Several shots of Piazza del Campo – the central square of the Italian city of Siena, 80 km from Florence – were inserted into the opening scene in Florence.
- Scenes at the 'airplane graveyard,' which serves as the base for the main characters, were filmed at the Mojave Air & Space Port in the southwestern United States. It houses over 1,000 old aircraft, mainly commercial ones.
- The film's budget was $150 million, making it the second most expensive Netflix film after Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," which cost $175 million.
- In reality, the building described as the presidential palace is the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi, and the round building is the headquarters of a real estate firm called Al Dar Properties, also located in Abu Dhabi.
- Turkistan refers to Turkmenistan, hence the inscriptions on government vehicles are in Turkmen. The Third is studying phrases in the Turkmen language, and the national currency is the manat.
- The film was shot using cameras of 12 different models, in 16 different formats, and in 50 resolutions.
- At the 22nd minute of the film, the character “Seventh” looks through the scope of a rifle. In a wide shot, the weapon, along with the scope, is covered with camouflage netting, however, in the following frames, the image shown through the scope itself is clear and without any interference.
- At the end of the sixth minute, a truck damages the left side of the vehicle carrying the main characters, tearing off the side mirror. A few seconds later, the car continues moving in the frame without any signs of damage, and the mirror is clearly visible.
- At the seventh minute, as the main characters' car circles in a square in Florence, a gray bag lies on the asphalt behind a woman with a child. In the next shot (from above), the bag is hanging on the woman's shoulder.
- At the beginning of the film, as the heroes drive in a green car, shots from inside the car show that the roof has two sunroofs. In all exterior shots, we see that the car roof is completely green with no indication of sunroofs. It is evident that one car was used for interior shots and another for establishing shots.
- The opening scene featuring a car chase was originally planned to be filmed in Rome, but the idea was abandoned due to the poor quality of the road surface. Instead, filming was moved to Florence, and some scenes were shot in Siena.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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