Post by Stingray on Feb 10, 2008 18:13:09 GMT -4
[shadow=red,left,300][glow=red,2,300]The Hunt For Red October[/glow][/shadow]
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and starred Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan. Despite the book's best seller status, no Hollywood studio was interested in making it into a film because of its content. After one and half years, a high-level executive at Paramount Pictures read Clancy’s novel and agreed to develop it into a movie. The United States Navy was initially reluctant to lend their support because of the fear that top secret information or technology might be revealed but many of the admirals were fans of the book and reasoned that the film could do for submariners what Top Gun (also from Paramount) did for the Navy’s jet fighter pilots.
The Hunt for Red October received negative critical reviews from many major publications upon its theatrical release but was one of the top grossing movies of the year, grossing $122 million in North America and $200 million worldwide. The film won the Academy Award for Sound Editing in 1991.
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was directed by John McTiernan and starred Sean Connery as Captain Marko Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan. Despite the book's best seller status, no Hollywood studio was interested in making it into a film because of its content. After one and half years, a high-level executive at Paramount Pictures read Clancy’s novel and agreed to develop it into a movie. The United States Navy was initially reluctant to lend their support because of the fear that top secret information or technology might be revealed but many of the admirals were fans of the book and reasoned that the film could do for submariners what Top Gun (also from Paramount) did for the Navy’s jet fighter pilots.
The Hunt for Red October received negative critical reviews from many major publications upon its theatrical release but was one of the top grossing movies of the year, grossing $122 million in North America and $200 million worldwide. The film won the Academy Award for Sound Editing in 1991.
