Collateral (2004) on Netflix
Cab driver Max Durocher accepts $600 to drive Vincent to five stops in Los Angeles in one night. When a body lands on his cab, Vincent forces Max to keep driving.
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Plot summary
Max Durocher drives a cab in Los Angeles and puts his earnings aside toward a limousine business of his own. One evening he takes federal prosecutor Annie Farrell as a fare, and their conversation ends with her business card in his hand. His next fare is Vincent, who says he is in town for one night to close a real estate deal and offers Max $600 to drive him to five stops, plus $100 more if they reach the airport on time. At the first stop a body drops onto Max's car. Vincent is a hitman, and he makes Max put the corpse in the trunk and drive on. Detective Ray Fanning arrives at the scene, where the dead man was a police informant.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Collateral (2004)
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- When he was 17 years old, Australian writer Stuart Beattie took a cab home from Sydney Airport and had the idea of a homicidal maniac sitting in the back of a cab with the driver nonchalantly conversing with him, trusting his passenger implicitly.
- Adam Sandler was considered for the role of Max but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with Spanglish, and Beattie wanted the studio to cast Robert De Niro as Max, once again making him a taxi driver, though the exact opposite of Travis Bickle. The studio refused, insisting on a younger actor.
- Val Kilmer was originally cast as Detective Fanning but exited to star in Oliver Stone's Alexander, so Mark Ruffalo took the role instead. Dennis Farina, initially cast as Agent Pedrosa, had to exit due to scheduling conflicts with Law & Order and was recast with Bruce McGill.
- Mann chose the Viper FilmStream High-Definition Camera to film many of the film's scenes, the first such use in a major motion picture, in order to capture the unique lighting effects present in Los Angeles's nightlife.
- In the weeks leading up to filming, Cruise worked covertly as a FedEx deliveryman; Mann stated the goal was for Cruise not to be recognized. Mann also had Cruise train in firearm use and hand-to-hand combat with a retired SAS soldier.
- After three weeks of filming, cinematographer Paul Cameron left the project due to creative differences with Mann, and Dion Beebe was brought on to replace Cameron.
- The music heard as the FBI race to the Fever nightclub is the Vangelis composition “Moxica and the Horse”, which was not written for this film at all but composed for 1492 Conquest of Paradise.
