Hard Target
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| Hard Target | |
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 Don't hunt what you can't kill |
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| Directed by | John Woo |
| Written by | Chuck Pfarrer |
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme Lance Henriksen Arnold Vosloo |
| Music by | Graeme Revell Tim Simonec Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
| Editing by | Bob Murawski |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Hard Target is a 1993 action film starring Jean Claude van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, Yancy Butler, and Wilford Brimley.
This film was produced on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the first American film directed by acclaimed Hong Kong action director John Woo.
[edit] Box office
- US gross takings: US$ 32,589,677
- International takings: $41,600,000
- Gross worldwide takings: $74,189,677
[edit] Trivia
- The scene that showed Lance Henriksen wearing a burning trench coat was real, unscripted and accidental. With the situation at hand, Henriksen continued acting and blended the incident into the story. The incident also explains why the actors, who played the henchmen, were so surprised at what happened to Henriksen. The look on their faces was genuine surprise.
- Originally, the film contained a boat chase, but Jean Claude Van Damme was adamant about changing it to a chase on horseback, as seen in the finished film. John Woo later recycled what was to be the boat chase when he directed Face/Off.
- The specialty handgun that Lance Henriksen wielded was also in another John Woo movie, Hard Boiled, used by the Mad Dog character.
- Several of the scenes in Hard Target were redone scenes from Hard Boiled, the last Hong Kong film that John Woo directed before working in America.
