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Jun 18, 1993 · Directed by. John McTiernan. "Last Action Hero" is about the same subject as almost every other feature film ever made: The possibility of blurring the line between the audience and the screen. We go to the movies so that we can vicariously live the lives of the characters who loom so glamorously above us, and the movies know that.
Nov 14, 2017 Full Review Alejandro Turdo Hoy Sale Cine In retrospective, Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero was a movie some how ahead of its time. Funny, self aware, poking fun at the Industry ...
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- John Mctiernan
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Production Itself Got Meta Early on.
- It Was Inspired by The Simpsons.
- Carrie Fisher, William Goldman, and Larry Ferguson All Did Rewrites.
- The Schedule Doomed The Movie from The outset.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Got AC/DC to Write A Song For it.
- They Hired A Cheaper Version of Alan Rickman.
- There Was An Overwhelming Number of Cameos in it.
- There Is Also An Overwhelming Number of References to Other Movies.
- It Was Both Art Carney's and Toru Tanaka’s Final Film.
- It Was The First Movie to Be Advertised on A NASA Rocket.
Original screenwriters Zak Penn and Adam Leff wrote what would become Last Action Hero as a film that would work both as an adrenaline-fueled action ride and as a goof on adrenaline-fueled action, but the sources they drew inspiration from soon invaded the project. Action icon Jack Slater’s name was originally Arno Slater as a nod to Arnold Schwarz...
Beyond the Schwarzeneggerific action flicks, Penn and Leff launched the project because of an unlikely source: Matt Groening’s irreverent cartoon. “The weird thing is that The Simpsons inspired it in the first place,” Penn said. “We thought, ‘if this show can destroy genres even as it embraces them, why can’t we do it in live action?’” By the time ...
Penn and Leff were replaced by Black and David Arnott, who were replaced by novelist and Oscar winner William Goldman (The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). Goldman earned a hefty $1 million fee which, according to Black, was to provide a safety net for producers. If it flopped, they could claim they did everything they could, in...
Regardless of any problems finding the right script (rewrites are common on all big movies), the movie had almost zero chance because there simply wasn’t enough time to make it. From the greenlight to Columbia Pictures’s expected release date of June 18, 1993, McTiernan and company had a bit over nine months to put together a wannabe blockbuster wi...
Last Action Hero was the first movie Schwarzenegger executive produced, and he had approval on every detail—right down to the marketing. Knowing that Jack Slater would need an explosive, memorable anthem, Schwarzenegger personally sought out AC/DC, but instead of asking for the rights to one of their hits, he asked them to write something new. Thus...
Just as Schwarzenegger was the model for the beefy, gun-toting hero, the villainous Benedict was based on Alan Rickman’s steely Hans Gruber from McTiernan’s Die Hard. The young boy (played by Austin O’Brien) who travels into the world of Jack Slater’s movies even breaks the fourth wall by referring to Benedict as Rickman at one point in the script....
Schwarzenegger also called in a lot of favors from co-stars and connections he’d made while ascending to the very top of global Hollywood stardom. Sharon Stone shows up as her Basic Instinct character alongside Robert Patrick as a Terminator 2 T-1000 in a background shot. Schwarzenegger’s then-wife Maria Shriver appears as herself, Danny DeVito voi...
References are to be expected with any spoof, but Last Action Hero smothers you with them. IMDB lists 68 references, which means there’s a reference to another movie every two minutes. They range from King Kong to The Wizard of Oz to Serpico to E.T., but of course the bulk of the callbacks evoke movies from Schwarzenegger, Black, and McTiernan. The...
Carney got his start in radio in the late 1930s before becoming a star on The Honeymooners and winning an Oscar for Harry and Tonto in 1974. In Last Action Hero, he plays Jack Slater’s favorite second cousin, whose death he’s avenging in Jack Slater IVbecause he’d avenged all his closer relatives in previous films. It was his last movie, and his la...
The advertising campaign for Last Action Hero was boisterous to say the least. There was the four-story-tall Jack Slater/Schwarzenegger inflatable at the Cannes Film Festival (which they also erected in Times Square), but they went even bigger by painting the movie’s logo on an unmanned NASA rocket. The first attempt at space-based advertising repo...
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In LAST ACTION HERO, Danny (Austin O'Brien) is the lonely child of a single mom (Mercedes Ruehl) who would rather live in the fantasy world of action movies about fictional cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) than in the real world of lonely nights, homework, and trying to make friends. When movie projectionist Frank (a great cameo by ...
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Sep 21, 2023 · Last Action Hero, directed by John McTiernan and written by Shane Black and David Arnott, is about a boy named Danny (Austin O’Brien), who has bruises staining his hands and a varsity jacket for ...
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Jun 18, 1993 · Last Action Hero: Directed by John McTiernan. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance. With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.
Last Action Hero is a 1993 American fantasy action comedy film directed and produced by John McTiernan and co-written by Shane Black and David Arnott. [5] It is a satire of the action genre and associated clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film. [6] The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack ...
