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Larry Ferguson is an American retired screenwriter and film director. As a screenwriter, his film credits include Highlander, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Hunt for Red October and Alien 3.
Larry Ferguson was born in 1940. He is a writer and actor, known for The Hunt for Red October (1990), Alien 3 (1992) and Rollerball (2002).
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Larry Ferguson was born in 1940. He is a writer and actor, known for The Hunt for Red October (1990), Alien³ (1992) and Rollerball (2002).
- Sean Connery Replaced Another Actor Two Weeks Into Filming
- Most Studios Turned The Film Down For Being Too Complicated
- Navy Admirals Hoped It Would Be Their Version of Top Gun
- Director John Mctiernan Had to Turn Down Die Hard 2 to Make The Film
- Sean Connery Shot His First Scenes Wearing A Ponytail Wig
- That Isn’T A Real Christopher Columbus Quote at The End
- They Filmed on Studio Sets Instead of Real Submarines
- There Are only Three Speaking Parts For Women in The Entire Movie
- Many of The Cast Had Served in The Military Before They Became Actors
- Russian Characters Switch from Speaking Russian to English and Then Back Again
One question that has often been asked of The Hunt for Red October is why Sean Connery, Scotland’s most famous actor, would wind up playing a Russian. In fact, Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for his performance in 1985’s Out of Africa, was initially cast as Ramius. However, two weeks into filming Bran...
Even though Tom Clancy’s 1984 novel was a best-seller, The Hunt for Red October didn’t enjoy the smoothest journey to the big screen. Producer Mace Neufeld optioned the film rights to Clancy’s novel in 1985, seeing the cinematic potential of the material. However, Neufeld quickly found that there weren’t many others in the film industry who shared ...
Producer Mace Neufeld had to approach the US Navy for approval before production could begin on The Hunt for Red October. There were concerns from some in the Navy regarding the subject matter of the film. The realistic nature of Tom Clancy’s novel meant that they were initially concerned the film would reveal details about top-secret technology. H...
The shots were called on The Hunt for Red October by one of the hottest directors in Hollywood at the time, John McTiernan. It was the fourth film directed by the American filmmaker, who rose to fame with his second feature-length movie, 1987’s Predator. However, McTiernan really became a big name off the back of the 1988 Bruce Willis action classi...
By 1990, Sean Connery had long since admitted to the world at large that he was bald, but he still tended to wear wigs on screen. On the set of The Hunt for Red October, however, the screen legend’s hairpiece proved to be a serious point of contention. Connery originally arranged his hair and make-up independently of director John McTiernan, and th...
In the final moments of The Hunt for Red October, Ramius poetically reflects, “And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home.” According to Connery’s character, this is a direct quote from Christopher Columbus. However, in reality, the legendary explorer who discovered America never said any such thing. Director John McTi...
The US Navy gave their full support to The Hunt for Red October and allowed the filmmakers to make use of real submarines. To this end, the crew shot footage of the USS Houston as a double for the USS Dallas on the exterior shots. However, when it came to shooting interior submarine scenes, shooting inside those infamously claustrophobic vehicles w...
Nowadays we hear a lot of calls for greater female representation in film – and The Hunt for Red October doesn’t hold up too well on that front. It’s such a predominantly male movie that it has a grand total of three female speaking parts. The most prominent of these is Gates McFadden, who co-stars as Cathy Ryan, wife of Alec Baldwin’s Jack. McFadd...
It’s not unheard of for Hollywood movies that centre the Armed Forces to feature actors who had previously served. However, in the case of The Hunt for Red October, a striking number of cast members were military veterans. Firstly, leading man Sean Connery himself served in the Royal Navy from 1946 to 1949, before becoming a bodybuilder and ultimat...
The Hunt for Red October makes an interesting creative choice regarding the prominence of its Russian characters. It was felt that shooting the Russian scenes entirely in that language and using subtitles would prove off-putting to audiences. Shooting in Russian would also have proved impractical given most of the actors were not actually Russian. ...
Fincher and his screenwriter Larry Ferguson set their ambitions slightly higher. 'I want people to realise that I'm not embarrassed by the film, there are certain things in it I really like....
- Mark Burman
Larry Ferguson is an American screenwriter and film director who worked on Highlander, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Hunt for Red October and Alien 3. See his biography, filmography, awards and trivia on TMDB.
Larry Ferguson is a screenwriter and director born in 1940, known for his work on Highlander, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Hunt for Red October and Last Action Hero. See his filmography, awards, ratings and collaborations with other actors and filmmakers.
