Travis wrote:Sounds like this movie was the beginning of the end for Dolph in some ways.
Well, in distributors minds he had proved he couldn't not attract any crowd in the theaters, every title since UNIVERSAL SOLDIER had flopped (including JOHNNY MNEMONIC even though he got critical praise for it) so of course there was less and less effort to put production value into his films, and the companies he was now working with were manly working the direct to video circuit...
Travis wrote:I mainly remember hating the title when it came out because it was like they were trying to confuse people into thinking it was the George Clooney movie with a similar name.
It was probably convenient in Nu Image's mind, although the director told me the title change was more because:
"the nuclear missile used in the film is the last one made by the American army and is called "Peacekeeper". And because it means ‘keeper of the peace’, I thought it could also symbolize the action of Dolph throughout the film as well.”.
The original working titles were RED ZONE (with a slightly different script that was more similar to AIR FORCE ONE apparently), and then HELLBENT.