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榮 獲 《 第 一 屆 美 國 電 影 學 院 大 獎 》 提 名 最 佳 影 片 、 最 佳 導 演 、
最 佳 攝 影 、 最 佳 剪 接 及 最 佳 製 作 設 計
獲 《 時 代 周 刊 》 選 為 全 年 最 佳 電 影 第 三 位
獲 《 全 國 影 評 人 學 會 》 選 為 十 大 最 佳 影 片 第 六 位
改 編 自 真 人 真 事 戰 爭 驚 慄 電 影

1 月 17 日 末 路 救 兵

最 後 一 小 時 的 任 務 ， 竟 變 成 十 五 小 時 的 慘 戰 … …

1993 年 10 月 ， 索 馬 利 大 飢 荒 ， 美 國 派 出 特 種 部 隊 中 的 表 表 者 Delta Force 及 Rangers 逮 捕 索 馬 利 軍 閥 穆 罕 默 德 阿 帝 的 爪 牙 及 維 持 秩 序 。 他 們 在 「 黑 鷹 」 (BLACK HAWK) 接 載 下 前 往 摩 加 迪 沙 鄰 近 地 區 ， 豈 料 善 意 的 救 災 行 動 反 而 受 到 索 馬 利 人 的 反 抗 。 索 馬 利 軍 以 重 型 武 器 還 擊 ， 兩 架 「 黑 鷹 」 被 擊 落 ， 特 種 部 隊 由 於 沒 有 接 載 工 具 離 開 ， 被 迫 困 在 摩 加 迪 沙 鬧 市 之 中 ， 與 索 馬 利 軍 發 生 激 烈 巷 戰 ， 一 個 預 計 一 小 時 的 簡 單 任 務 ， 竟 然 足 足 打 了 十 五 小 時 ， 傷 亡 數 十 人 ， 這 是 繼 越 戰 後 美 軍 最 激 烈 的 一 次 意 外 之 戰 。

在 整 個 突 擊 任 務 中 ， 索 馬 利 有 超 過 五 百 人 被 殺 ， 而 美 軍 特 種 部 隊 亦 付 出 了 沉 重 代 價 ， 十 八 人 戰 死 ， 超 過 七 十 人 重 傷 。 一 個 任 務 ， 竟 變 成 一 場 劇 戰 ， 讓 這 群 缺 乏 實 戰 經 驗 的 特 種 部 隊 慘 嘗 了 戰 爭 的 殘 酷 ， 但 也 令 他 們 學 到 了 英 勇 、 無 私 和 戰 爭 的 真 義 。

台 前 幕 後 金 像 陣 容 奧 斯 卡 矚 目 鉅 獻

由 金 牌 監 製 謝 利 畢 咸 瑪 (Jerry Bruckheimer) 繼 《 珍 珠 港 》 後 ， 再 一 次 把 真 實 戰 事 搬 上 大 銀 幕 ， 讓 觀 眾 再 次 感 受 戰 爭 的 殘 酷 。 這 次 他 找 來 了 奧 斯 卡 金 像 導 演 ， 曾 執 導 金 像 電 影 《 帝 國 驕 雄 》 的 列 尼 史 葛 (Ridley Scott) 掌 舵 ， 加 上 《 珍 珠 港 》 第 二 男 主 角 佐 斯 夏 利 (Josh Hartnett) 和 《 情 迷 紅 磨 坊 》 男 主 角 伊 雲 麥 葵 格 (Ewen McGregor) 主 演 。 至 於 其 他 幕 後 班 底 ， 也 曾 是 獲 獎 無 數 的 金 像 人 才 。 如 此 皇 牌 組 合 ， 電 影 還 未 上 映 便 已 獲 得 多 項 權 威 的 提 名 及 殊 榮 ， 亦 被 行 內 人 視 為 奧 斯 卡 最 佳 影 片 大 熱 呢 ！

真 人 真 事 改 編 製 作 不 容 忽 視

《 黑 鷹 十 五 小 時 》 是 改 編 自 一 本 暢 銷 戰 爭 紀 實 ， 由 美 國 記 者 麥 克 保 頓 記 載 美 軍 特 種 部 隊 在 1993 年 於 索 馬 利 執 行 秘 密 任 務 時 的 覆 沒 過 程 。 這 一 場 美 國 官 方 及 軍 方 都 絕 口 不 提 的 慘 痛 戰 役 ， 被 謝 利 畢 咸 瑪 看 中 並 改 編 成 劇 本 搬 上 銀 幕 。 其 實 這 場 戰 事 規 模 並 不 大 ， 特 種 部 隊 也 只 不 過 百 餘 人 ， 戰 場 亦 不 過 是 數 街 之 距 ， 歷 時 一 天 的 戰 役 正 附 合 了 古 典 希 臘 戲 劇 的 特 色 ： 同 一 人 物 、 同 一 時 間 、 同 一 地 點 的 三 一 律 ， 正 好 給 製 作 人 一 個 好 題 材 去 製 作 一 部 張 力 澎 湃 的 戰 爭 片 。 為 了 令 電 影 更 迫 真 、 更 具 震 撼 力 ， 謝 利 畢 咸 瑪 和 列 尼 史 葛 不 惜 拉 大 隊 遠 赴 北 非 摩 洛 哥 取 景 ， 並 安 排 了 所 有 演 員 到 軍 營 接 受 軍 訓 ， 務 求 令 影 片 更 接 近 史 實 。 另 外 ， 他 們 還 請 來 了 數 位 軍 事 顧 問 ， 他 們 均 有 實 戰 經 驗 ， 在 他 們 的 協 助 下 ， 每 個 場 景 、 每 一 小 節 都 更 加 真 實 和 震 撼 。

Leave No Man Behind

"The story of combat is timeless. It is about the same things whether in Troy or Gettysburg, Normandy or the Ia Drang. It is about soldiers, most of them young, trapped in a fight to the death. The extreme and terrible nature of war touches something essential about being human..."

-- Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

"Surrender is not a Ranger word. I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy..."

--From the "Ranger Creed"

From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer, based on actual events, Black Hawk Down is the heroic account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in October 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to abduct two top lieutenants of the Somali warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as part of a strategy to quell the civil war and famine that is ravaging the country.

The U.S. troops come to Somalia with good intentions, hoping to save lives and not take them. Increasingly mired in the incomprehensible, feudal politics of Somalia-

in which one clan has been pitted against another for a millennium-the soldiers are destined for a brutal education when the carefully planned mission takes unexpected turns... resulting in the U.S. military's single biggest firefight since Vietnam.

When the mission commences, it appears every man, woman and child in Mogadishu takes up arms against the Americans, turning the city into a deadly combat zone. And when two seemingly invincible Black Hawk helicopters are shot down over the city, the mission completely changes into a desperate race against time to rescue the surviving flight crews, and finally, the soldiers on the ground. Young Rangers and veteran Delta Force soldiers must fight side by side against overwhelming odds. For 18 harrowing hours, they remain trapped and wounded in the most hostile district of Mogadishu until a rescue convoy can be mounted to retrieve them. Outnumbered and surrounded, tensions flare, friends are lost, alliances are formed and soldiers learn the true nature of war and heroism.

What happened on October 3, 1993 might ultimately have been a footnote to history-but for the Americans who survived, that late afternoon's journey into night was to be the single defining moment of their lives.

For the U.S. soldiers who didn't, it was to be their epitaph, burned into the dusty streets of a helltorn African city most of them had never even heard of-an epitaph of bravery, commitment and selflessness.

These are the extraordinary men who fought the Battle of Mogadishu, and Black Hawk Down-a story of combat at once epic and intimate-closely follows them step-by-step throughout the conflict on the ground, in the air, and at the command center. Much of the story is experienced through the eyes of Staff Sgt. Matt Eversmann (JOSH HARTNETT), an idealistic young Ranger whose mettle is sorely tested when he is unexpectedly handed command of one of the four "chalks" assigned to secure the target building. However, we also experience the event with a myriad of other characters, including:

Ranger Spec. Grimes (EWAN McGREGOR), the desk jockey and crack coffee brewer whose long-held desire for "adventure" will finally be answered in the streets of Mogadishu, far away from the safety of his typewriter and desk at HQ...

Ranger Lt. Col. Danny McKnight (TOM SIZEMORE), the cool-under-fire leader of the "Lost Convoy" of Humvees, which undergoes relentless fire from Somali militia while trying to find the downed Black Hawk…

Sgt. First Class "Hoot" Gibson (ERIC BANA), a Delta soldier who's a legend even to his comrades in the elite Special Forces...

Jeff Sanderson (WILLIAM FICHTNER), a Delta sergeant whose brilliant professionalism is put to the test during the battle...

Maj. Gen. William F. Garrison (SAM SHEPARD), the two-star commander of Task Force Ranger, who watches helplessly from the distant Joint Operations Center as two Black Hawks go down in flames, and the mission takes on painful new dimensions...

Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant (RON ELDARD), pilot of Black Hawk Super Six Four, the second of the choppers shot down over the city...

Capt. Mike Steele (JASON ISAACS), the appropriately-named, by-the-book Rangers' commander on the ground…

Chief Warrant Officer Cliff Wolcott (JEREMY PIVEN), the popular Black Hawk pilot known to his friends as "Elvis," the first to go down in the battle...

Ranger Staff Sgt. Jeff Struecker (BRIAN VAN HOLT), who survives the initial hell of battle, only to return in an attempt to help his comrades...

Ranger Pvt. First Class Todd Blackburn (ORLANDO BLOOM), whose 60-foot fall to the ground from Black Hawk Super Six One sets off a devastating chain of events…

Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart (JOHNNY STRONG) and Master Sgt. Gary Gordon (NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU), Delta snipers whose voluntary defense of the survivors of the second crashed Black Hawk-against what they knew were staggering odds-would bring both men the Congressional Medal of Honor...

Specs. Shawn Nelson (EWEN BREMNER) and Lance Twombly (THOMAS HARDY), who become separated from their chalk at the beginning of the mission and have to fight their way across the decimated city in an effort to rejoin their comrades...

...And so many others, portrayed in the film by a large ensemble of newcomers and experienced actors from both sides of the Atlantic that includes GABRIEL CASSEUS, KIM COATES, HUGH DANCY, IOAN GRUFFUDD, THOMAS GUIRY, CHARLIE HOFHEIMER, DANNY HOCH, ?ELJKO IVANEK, GLENN MORSHOWER, BRENDAN SEXTON III, RICHARD TYSON, STEVEN FORD, IAN VIRGO, GREGORY SPORLEDER, CARMINE GIOVINAZZO, CHRIS BEETEM, TAC FITZGERALD, MATTHEW MARSDEN, KENT LINVILLE, ENRIQUE MURCIANO, MICHAEL ROOF, TY BURRELL, BOYD KESTNER and JASON HILDEBRANDT. Playing the key Somali characters are TREVA ETIENNE, ABDIBASHIR MOHAMED HERSI, RAZAAQ ADOTI and GEORGE HARRIS.

Ridley Scott, one of the most honored filmmakers of our time, has enjoyed extraordinary success with two back-to-back international hits, Gladiator (nominated for 12 Academy AwardsO and winner of the OscarO, Golden Globe and British Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year) and the box office sensation, Hannibal. Scott's other films-some of them among the most influential in the medium's history-have included Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise and Black Rain.

Jerry Bruckheimer is one of the most successful producers of all time, whose films have become ingrained in popular culture and have earned over $12.5 billion in film, television, video and recording receipts. Among his motion pictures are the Memorial Day 2001 box office smash hit Pearl Harbor, Remember the Titans, Gone in 60 Seconds, Enemy of the State, Armageddon, Con Air, The Rock, Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop and Flashdance.

For the film, Jerry Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott have assembled a remarkable team of behind-the-camera artists, including director of photography SLAWOMIR IDZIAK (Proof of Life, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog series), production designer ARTHUR MAX (Academy AwardO nominee and British Academy Award winner for Gladiator who also collaborated with Ridley Scott on G.I. Jane), costume designers SAMMY HOWARTH-SHELDON (assistant costume designer for Gladiator, which won the OscarO in that category) and DAVID MURPHY (Hamburger Hill), film editor PIETRO SCALIA, A.C.E. (also an OscarO nominee and British Academy Award winner for Gladiator who won an Academy AwardO for editing Oliver Stone's JFK) and composer HANS ZIMMER, who created the heralded scores for both Gladiator and Hannibal, among many others. VFX Supervisor TIM BURKE and special effects supervisor NEIL CORBOULD both won Academy AwardsO for their work on Gladiator. The second unit director is ALEXANDER WITT, who also worked on Gladiator, as well as on Jerry Bruckheimer's Remember the Titans.

The executive producers of Black Hawk Down are SIMON WEST, longtime Jerry Bruckheimer associates MIKE STENSON and CHAD OMAN and two-time Academy AwardO winner BRANKO LUSTIG, who previously produced Schindler's List and Ridley Scott's Gladiator and Hannibal. The screenplay is by KEN NOLAN, based on the book by MARK BOWDEN. Black Hawk Down has been rated R by the MPAA for intense realistic graphic war violence and language.

About the Production

October 3, 1993: The Mission

It might have been relatively simple... if anything in war can be termed simple. A quick extraction from a target building in downtown Mogadishu, Somalia of two lieutenants and other "Tier One" associates of brutal warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, leader of the Habr Gidr subclan, determined to maintain power over his increasingly anarchic country, even at the price of starving and killing his fellow Somalis. U.S. soldiers were in Somalia as part of a multi-national United Nations force that were attempting to maintain some kind of peace and prevent the mass starvation that had erupted across the East African nation, killing some 300,000 people-partially from famine, partially because warlords such as Aidid were hoarding food provided by the peacekeepers and killing their own countrymen as they attempted to collect relief packages. One of the Habr Gidr clan's response to the U.N. efforts was to ambush 24 Pakistani soldiers under the world body's flag and literally eviscerate them.

By capturing Aidid's lieutenants, the U.S. hoped to cut off the warlord at his feet, whittling away his power bit by bit. Thus, under the command of Gen. William F. Garrison, a mission was devised to capture the clan leaders who would be meeting in a house near the Olympic Hotel on Mogadishu's downtown Hawlwadig Road. About 75 U.S. Rangers in four separate chalks would fast-rope down from four Black Hawk helicopters to provide cover for a Delta assault force of about 40 men, which would storm the building, "extract" the targeted clan members and bring them to a convoy of 12 Humvees and trucks that would travel up Hawlwadig to pick up the prisoners and return them to the U.S. base some three miles outside of the city near the Indian Ocean.

The mission was scheduled to begin at 3:42 in the afternoon and last, perhaps, 45 minutes to an hour. Night vision goggles and other special equipment were left back at the U.S. base three miles away near the Indian Ocean... they wouldn't be needed. But when Black Hawks Super Six One and then Super Six Four were shot down within 20 minutes of each other, the mission took a fateful turn from an assault into a rescue mission. The city was essentially a hornet's nest as American soldiers on the ground found themselves under heavy fire from well-armed Somali civilians. The battle that ensued would rage all through the night and into the morning of October 4, resulting in 18 Americans dead, 73 injured and huge casualties among the Somalis who waged furious war on soldiers who were perceived as enemies and invaders.

Mission Timeline

October 3, 1993

October 4, 1993

March 8, 2001: A New Mission

3/8/01: The first day of filming in Kenitra, Morocco on Black Hawk Down, a motion picture based on the acclaimed book by Mark Bowden that explored, in great detail, the Battle of Mogadishu. From the time he read Bowden's book in galley form, producer Jerry Bruckheimer knew that it was time for a new mission: to bring it to the screen as vividly and authentically as possible. It was executive producer Simon West who first brought the book to Bruckheimer's attention.

"I read the book before it came out in bookstores, and fell in love with it," states Bruckheimer. "I've always liked to tell stories that involve brotherhood amongst men, caring about somebody else's life more than you care about your own. And that's what these Rangers, Delta Force soldiers and pilots did. It was more important to get their buddy home alive than it was to save themselves. It's heroism under fire, and that's a powerful subject for any film."

Mark Bowden, a journalist of repute for The Philadelphia Inquirer, began working on the story some two-and-a-half years after it was fought, when it had already begun to fade from the news, perceived by the media as a military fiasco and early foreign affairs failure of President Bill Clinton's administration. Bowden became intrigued by the details of the battle itself and its aftermath. Who were these men who fought on that long day's journey into night? What were their feelings? After some initial research, the battle was humanized for Bowden when he was invited by Jim Smith-the father of Cpl. Jamie Smith, a Ranger who was tragically killed in the battle-to a dedication ceremony of a building being named in the young man's honor. There he met about 12 Rangers who had fought in Mogadishu with Jamie, and all agreed to be interviewed. This was the beginning of a path which led Bowden to years of additional research, a multitude of interviews and an actual, perilous journey into Somalia in the summer of 1997. The book that emerged, entitled Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, was published in 1999 to great acclaim for its detail and evenhandedness.

"No matter how critically history records the policy decisions that led up to this fight," wrote Bowden in his conclusion of the book, "nothing can diminish the professionalism and dedication of the Rangers and Special Forces units who fought there that day." It was this approach to the matter that so intrigued Bruckheimer. "Mark Bowden really did an amazing job with his book," notes the producer, "and how he took it inside the lives of these young men and what they went through. With today's highly competitive mass media, life-altering events happen in 15-second sound bites, so the battle was very quickly forgotten. Hopefully, this movie will honor the lives of the young men who sacrificed so much."

To bring Bowden's book to the screen, Bruckheimer called upon Ridley Scott, one of film industry's acknowledged visionaries, a man whose work had altered, influenced and irrevocably changed filmmaking as we know it.

Bruckheimer already had a longtime association with Ridley's brother Tony Scott, who had directed five of the producer's megahits: Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide and Enemy of the State. However, he hadn't yet had the opportunity to collaborate on a feature with Ridley Scott, whom Bruckheimer deems "one of the greatest directors living today. He's a world-renowned artist as a filmmaker. Ridley's movies have lives of their own."

"I had a relationship with Jerry Bruckheimer for years," notes Ridley Scott, "but the last time I worked with him was about 30 years ago when I was directing a tire commercial in San Francisco, and Jerry was the producer for the agency. After we finished, we were driving back to the hotel, and Jerry said 'You know, this is my last job.' I asked him what he was going to do, and Jerry responded that he wanted to produce movies.

"And I said, 'Oh, yeah? Sure!,'" recollects Scott with a laugh. "Through the years, Jerry and I had talked about doing something together. Then he contacted me about a project which he thought might be good for me called Black Hawk Down."

Ridley Scott remembers full well his response to the actual incidents. "I was in London at the time, and I recall watching BBC News and seeing this tragic sight of what was clearly two bodies that were being seriously mauled. And I realized, my God, those are U.S. troops. I'd already spent 20 odd years in and out of the United States, and I pretty well had a handle on how Americans respond to such things. I knew that it would be a giant shock to the system, seeing that being pushed into the forefront of their lives on the television sets at home."

Scott was not surprised when the battle and its aftermath quickly began vanishing from news broadcasts. "Those of us who live in protected societies tend to forget how lucky we are to be born in them," notes the filmmaker. "Witnessing the kind of events that occurred in Mogadishu makes one start to grasp what it's like to live in third world countries. But protected societies also tend to be somewhat isolationist, and they like to close down and shut out the horrors. I think that when you're coming from such a successful society-and America is regarded as the most successful and wealthiest society in the world-there's a cozy comfort zone that one tends to wrap oneself up into.

"The feeling back then," continues Scott, "was whether it was worth it to send Americans to fight in a part of the world that 90 percent of the people couldn't even identify on the map. But I think that the events of this past year proved that you have to, because if you don't-if you let things slip past you, even though for the moment they apparently have nothing to do with you-they will come back around the other side and bite you."

After Ridley Scott read Mark Bowden's book, he was immediately taken with the idea of filming it. He had already re-created ancient warfare in Gladiator, and with Black Hawk Down saw the opportunity to tell a timeless and timely story of men in combat. Although there have been war films by the thousands, very few have set out to portray, in detail, just one battle rather than sweeping conflicts. For Black Hawk Down, Scott sought to create an unflinching, uncompromising portrait of war, with all of its attendant horrors, heartbreak and, at times, undeniable heroism.

As in the book, Scott was determined to create a story of combat which eliminated any information except that which was occurring during the battle. It was not in his interest to create "backstories" for each of the soldiers, or for the audience to learn their histories before or after the battle. Anything revealed of their personal world emerged in their actions during the mission.

A great challenge facing Bruckheimer and Scott was how to translate the complexities of Bowden's book into a viable feature film. "The event itself took about 16 hours from the start of the mission until it ended, and of course we can't spend 16 hours in a theatre," notes Bruckheimer.

"The book is like a giant jigsaw puzzle of cause and effect," adds Scott. "As the pieces start to come together, it forms into the very anatomy of a war which takes place in 16 hours. I thought it was a fairly formidable task to put it in screenplay form."

Helping Bruckheimer and Scott to fashion the book into a workable screenplay was young writer Ken Nolan, who through 10 years of scribing in Hollywood had sold some scripts, but never seen his work come to fruition on screen. When Nolan read Bowden's book, "It was an amazing read," states the writer. "What struck me about Black Hawk Down was that it was a war book that put the reader right in the soldiers' boots."

"Condensing these events into two-and-a-half hours was difficult," Bruckheimer comments. "We knew that a certain amount of creative license would have to be taken, telescoping events and compositing some of the real people involved in the battle. You have to make choices while staying true to the subject, and hopefully we've made the right ones."

"The thing is, all these guys were heroes," adds executive producer Mike Stenson. "The reason they ended up in a 16-hour firefight was that they went to rescue their fallen comrades instead of going back to base and waiting for reinforcements. We wanted to make sure we paid tribute to the group while focusing on certain characters for dramatic purposes."

(In the film, the characters of Sgt. First Class "Hoot" Gibson, Spec. Grimes, Sgt. First Class Jeff Sanderson and Master Sgt. Chris "Wex" Wexler are fictionalized composites of real soldiers; however, the rest of those depicted bear the actual names of their real-life counterparts).

"The book follows the fortunes of almost 100 soldiers," notes Bruckheimer, "and of course, that would have been impossible on film. I think what's remarkable about the screenplay is that we still get to know 40 characters, and live the battle through their experiences."

"Audiences have to care about these men," adds Ken Nolan. "At the end of the day, I'm hoping that people will really make an emotional investment in these people and incidents."

The filmmakers decided that "The story will be seen through a number of eyes in a large ensemble," adds Bruckheimer, "but to a great extent through a young Ranger sergeant, Matt Eversmann, who takes over the command of Chalk Four after its leader, Beales, has an epileptic seizure the night before the mission.

"Eversmann's counterpart," explains Bruckheimer, "is a toughened Delta Force operator, known as 'Hoot,' who is the ultimate soldier, one of the most elite units of the U.S. Army. 'Hoot' has 'been there and done that,' and acts as a kind of mysterious older brother figure to Eversmann, who is inexperienced in actual combat."

As the screenplay came together, so did the rest of the primary production team. Coming into the Black Hawk Down fold in crucial positions were longtime collaborators of Ridley Scott's-most of whom had worked on Gladiator or Hannibal, or both. Many of Jerry Bruckheimer's associates also enlisted-most prominently Key Military/Technical Advisor Harry Humphries, who had worked with the producer on several projects from The Rock to Enemy of the State and Pearl Harbor. Humphries has also collaborated with Ridley Scott; he was an invaluable resource on the director's G.I. Jane.

"Jerry's the ideal person and friend for me to work with," notes Humphries, "because he's always looking for accuracy-as much as film will allow-and he's not going to compromise. He will always vote in favor of accuracy with respect to military or law enforcement activities, as opposed to the Hollywood view of how it should look."

Selected by Bruckheimer and Scott as director of photography was Slawomir Idziak of Poland, who had impressed both director and producer for his remarkably sensitive work and even experimental work on several of the late Krzysztof Kieslowski's films (including the great Dekalog series, The Double Life of Veronique and Blue), who had also demonstrated an ability to handle such bigger-budgeted action films as Proof of Life. Bruckheimer and Scott were impressed by Kieslowski's visual dexterity and experimental use of color washes to underscore atmosphere and psychology.

As he had on Schindler's List, Gladiator and Hannibal, executive producer Branko Lustig-with some 50 years of moviemaking experience around the world behind him-would handle the tremendous day-to-day responsibilities of keeping the production on track. "I am only here to help the filmmakers make the movie," notes Lustig, "and I knew as soon as I read the script that the production would be very difficult because of all the smaller stories being told within the larger framework of the film. Here we have nonstop action, often with incidents happening parallel to each other. And although Ridley is a master at controlling the set, I knew that shooting would be enormously complex."

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