Minority Report (2002) on Netflix
PG-1320022h 25mActionCrimeMysterySci-FiThriller
In 2054, a police unit called Precrime stops murders before they happen, reading visions from three clairvoyants known as precogs. Its chief, John Anderton, is named by them as a future killer.
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Plot summary
In 2054, a pilot program called Precrime runs in Washington, D.C. Three clairvoyants, the precogs, see homicides before they happen; officers then arrest the would-be killers, who spend the rest of their lives in comas. Precrime has eliminated nearly all premeditated murders in the city. John Anderton, the unit's chief, lost his son Sean years earlier at a public swimming pool and is addicted to neuroin. Danny Witwer arrives from the Justice Department to audit Precrime before a congressional vote on taking it nationwide, looking for flaws. Then the precogs show Anderton killing Leo Crow, a man he has never met, and Anderton runs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Minority Report (2002)
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- Minority Report was the first film with a fully digital production design. The crew used a system called "previz" to plan shots with Photoshop and 3D animation programs instead of painters.
- Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg each took 15% of the gross instead of any upfront salary to keep Minority Report's budget under $100 million, a gamble Spielberg had also made with Tom Hanks on Saving Private Ryan.
- Minority Report began as a sequel to Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger set to return, but Carolco Pictures went bankrupt in 1995 before it could secure funding or Schwarzenegger's interest, and the script was reworked into a standalone film.
- Spielberg offered the role of Witwer to Matt Damon, Iris Hineman to Meryl Streep, Burgess to Ian McKellen, Agatha to Cate Blanchett and Lara to Jenna Elfman; Streep declined, Damon had scheduling conflicts with Ocean's Eleven, and the rest were recast due to delays.
- Spielberg invited fifteen experts, including Douglas Coupland, Jaron Lanier and William J. Mitchell, to a three-day "think tank summit" in Santa Monica in 1999 to design a plausible future reality for the year 2054.
- PDI visual effects supervisor Henry LaBounta designed the Spyder robots after deep sea jellyfish, adding radiating bioluminescent lights to the bottom of the spiders.
- The film's negative was bleach-bypassed in post-production, reducing the color by about 40% to give Minority Report a desaturated, near black-and-white look with high-contrast shadows.
- Gary Goldman and Ron Shusett claimed Jon Cohen and Scott Frank used material from their script, and after a Writer's Guild arbitration they won a partial victory: no writing credits, but they were listed as executive producers.
