by Jox on 15 Oct 2015, 13:16
At the time THE PEACEKEEPER was greenlit, SILENT TRIGGER was barely completed and not released yet and Dolph's films could still get a $10-12 million budget and a two-months shooting schedule.
And in this case, Nu Image was only 4 years old, and just starting to get "bigger stars" (than David Bradley, Michael Paré or even Frank Zagarino), so they were betting on this one, and SWEEPERS for which -believe it or not- they gave even more money and time to make).
THE PEACEKEEPER was also the last Dolph movie of that era to be released theatrically in some important countries like Japan and Italy (plus other minor territories).
THE MINION would inaugurate the real lower budgets (here between $3 and 6 million) and short schedules (23-24 days in this case), that got shrunk by the time the movie got into production (Dolph had been signed on it for more than a year by then).