The Bodyguard (1992) on Netflix
Pop star Rachel Marron is receiving death threats from a stalker. Her manager hires Frank Farmer, a former Secret Service agent, as her bodyguard, and the two clash over her protection.
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Plot summary
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's secret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bodyguard (1992)
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- Kevin Costner contacted his friend Diana, Princess of Wales, about starring in a sequel, and she agreed; a first screenplay draft was finished the day before she died in 1997, after which the project was scrapped.
- Lawrence Kasdan's agent shopped The Bodyguard script around for two years, and Kasdan later said it was rejected 67 times before Warner Bros. head John Calley finally bought it in 1977 for just $20,000.
- "I Will Always Love You" became the film's central song only at the last minute, after initial plans by Costner to bring in "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" were canceled once that song was used in Fried Green Tomatoes and was a hit for Paul Young.
- Whitney Houston's win for Album of the Year, credited as both artist and producer of the soundtrack, made her the first black woman to receive that Grammy in that dual capacity, at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards.
- Steve McQueen dropped out of negotiations for the film because the producers waited too long to come to a deal and because of his worsening health. He never led a box-office film again, was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in December 1979 and died of that cancer in November 1980.
- On January 3, 1992, a fatal accident occurred on set in Downtown Los Angeles when a 33-year-old grip driver was pinned between two cranes carrying lighting equipment and died from his injuries; legal action against the manufacturers of the lifts ended in an out-of-court settlement.
- Whitney Houston was reportedly six months pregnant with her then-fiance Bobby Brown's child while shooting the film and its soundtrack, and miscarried in January 1992 but continued filming and recording.
