Under Siege (1992) on Netflix
The battleship Missouri is headed for decommissioning, and its cook, Casey Ryback, a former Navy SEAL, clashes with Commander Krill. Then mercenaries seize the ship for its nuclear warheads.
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Plot summary
At Pearl Harbor, the President announces that the battleship Missouri will be decommissioned in California. Casey Ryback, the ship's cook and a former Navy SEAL, is preparing food for Captain Adams's birthday, against the wishes of the executive officer, Commander Krill, who has ordered catering and entertainment brought aboard by helicopter. Krill provokes a scuffle with Ryback. Without the captain's approval he cannot put Ryback in the brig, so he has him shut in the walk-in fridge with Marine Private Nash as guard. The helicopter delivers a musical band, caterers and Jordan Tate, a Playboy Playmate. The crew assembles for the party.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Under Siege (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In a 2018 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Pamela Anderson said she had been a contender for the role of Jordan Tate but was dropped after refusing to sleep with Steven Seagal.
- Gary Busey has claimed in later interviews that Steven Seagal sexually harassed Erika Eleniak on set, but Eleniak has denied that Seagal ever acted inappropriately with her during casting or filming.
- Steven Seagal employed Robert Booth Nichols, a self-described former espionage artist, alleged mob associate and con artist, as a technical advisor, and Nichols also appears in the film in a small speaking role.
- When the original title Dreadnought did not test well with audiences, the marketing department came up with Last to Surrender, which J. F. Lawton and Steven Seagal hated; Seagal fought to have it changed and the film became Under Siege.
- At the time of its release, Under Siege was the most successful film that had not been screened for any critics beforehand.
- The original script called for battleships being blown up, and as written the project, then called Dreadnought, would have cost $100 million-plus to make; it was brought down to the $30 million range.
- Under Siege made heavy use of Introvision, a front-projection process that let foreground actors interact with projected backgrounds without the heavy cost of traditional bluescreen effects; Outland, Megaforce, Army of Darkness and The Fugitive used it too.
