A chat with Carl WeathersАрхивная копия от 23 июня 2021 на Wayback MachineBullz-Eye.com. Interview date: 24 September 2009. «CW: Okay, here’s what happened. Here’s the genesis. *I* was the genesis of that movie. (Laughs) We were shooting “Predator,” and Joel Silver, the producer, and I were talking, and I knew he loved a certain kind of movie, so one day I said to him, “Well, why don’t I write a story?” I wrote a story, the title “Action Jackson” happened one day when I was talking to one of the crewmen from Australia. On “Predator,” we had three crews: an American crew, an Australian crew, and a Mexican crew. We were shooting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and a crewman from Australia said to me one day, “I was in like Action Jackson.” I said, “There’s my title.”»
A chat with Carl WeathersАрхивная копия от 23 июня 2021 на Wayback MachineBullz-Eye.com. Interview date: 24 September 2009. «CW: ... Well, the original story that I wrote was about a guy finding this stuff in a cannery, and I thought we could shoot it in San Jose. I turned the 5-page summary…or however long it was…in to Joel, he took and handed it to another guy named Robert Reneau, and he came up with a different story using the same title and the same character. And, bang, that’s how it started. And from the time I gave Joel the idea, 11 months later, I was under contract to Lorimar and we were making the movie. That’s how it happened.»
Action Jackson IMDb. «Officer Kornblau: Yeah, some say he didn't even have a mother. That some researchers at NASA created him to be the first man to walk on the moon without a space suit.»
A chat with Carl WeathersАрхивная копия от 23 июня 2021 на Wayback MachineBullz-Eye.com. Interview date: 24 September 2009. «CW: Okay, here’s what happened. Here’s the genesis. *I* was the genesis of that movie. (Laughs) We were shooting “Predator,” and Joel Silver, the producer, and I were talking, and I knew he loved a certain kind of movie, so one day I said to him, “Well, why don’t I write a story?” I wrote a story, the title “Action Jackson” happened one day when I was talking to one of the crewmen from Australia. On “Predator,” we had three crews: an American crew, an Australian crew, and a Mexican crew. We were shooting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and a crewman from Australia said to me one day, “I was in like Action Jackson.” I said, “There’s my title.”»
A chat with Carl WeathersАрхивная копия от 23 июня 2021 на Wayback MachineBullz-Eye.com. Interview date: 24 September 2009. «CW: ... Well, the original story that I wrote was about a guy finding this stuff in a cannery, and I thought we could shoot it in San Jose. I turned the 5-page summary…or however long it was…in to Joel, he took and handed it to another guy named Robert Reneau, and he came up with a different story using the same title and the same character. And, bang, that’s how it started. And from the time I gave Joel the idea, 11 months later, I was under contract to Lorimar and we were making the movie. That’s how it happened.»
