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\nEraser <\/em>director Chuck Russell had a major problem on the 1995 set of his Arnold Schwarzenegger-led actioner. He and his team caught wind of the fact that their third-act set piece had just been pulled off by Tom Cruise and Brian De Palma on the recently wrapped Mission: Impossible<\/em>. With Eraser<\/em> scheduled to release a month after the first installment in Cruise\u2019s now-signature action franchise,\u00a0Russell and co. pivoted on the fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThe CIA heist scene where Tom Cruise drops in on wires, I had Arnold doing almost exactly the same thing to get a disc out of the CIA, and we had to rewrite it to instead have Arnold get into the enemy company, Cyrez, another way,\u201d Russell tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> in support of Eraser<\/em>\u2019s 30th anniversary 4K release. \u201cI at least changed that much. I didn\u2019t want to have exactly the same scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Tony Puryear and Walon Green, Eraser<\/em> chronicles Schwarzenegger\u2019s U.S. Marshal character, John \u201cEraser\u201d Kruger, who serves as the last line of defense for witnesses who\u2019ve been compromised while in Witness Protection (WITSEC). From staging their deaths to erasing their identities, he goes the extra mile. Vanessa Williams\u2019 Lee Cullen then presents him with his most dangerous case yet, as she uncovers that her employer, Cyrez, is planning to sell electromagnetic rail guns to terrorists on the black market.<\/p>\n

\n\tOddly enough, the name of that defense contractor, Cyrez, nearly derailed Eraser\u2019<\/em>s release date in June of \u201896. Russell shot the movie with the company branded as Cyrex, but during post-production, the eleventh-hour discovery of a company called Cyrix forced a mad scramble.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWarners offered the company some money, but they said, \u2018Look, we really do this. There\u2019s no [amount of] money you can offer us.\u2019 So at the last minute, we had to change the letters in at least 70 shots,\u201d Russell recalls. \u201cWe went out to every effects company because they all had to be done very quickly within a week. So that was breathtaking, especially in those days when we had to deliver physical film. We almost missed the delivery ahead of our big opening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, during a conversation with THR<\/em>, Russell also discusses another coincidence involving Schwarzenegger\u2019s character name, as well as The Mask<\/em>\u2019s role in him landing the directorial job.<\/p>\n

\n***<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nAs painful as it is to say, happy 30th anniversary of <\/strong>Eraser<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t(Laughs<\/em>.) I appreciate the irony. I\u2019m honored that it has a new audience and demand for it, but 30 years? Really!?<\/p>\n

\nI remember seeing TV spots for <\/strong>Eraser<\/em><\/strong>, but at the time, I never connected the dots that it was the same director as <\/strong>The Mask<\/em><\/strong>. One would think that you\u2019d keep riding the comedy wave or that the industry would insist on it. So how did <\/strong>Eraser<\/em><\/strong> become your next move?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve jumped genres. People have mentioned that about my career. I started with horror, and I didn\u2019t want to get stuck with horror. The original intention was for The Mask<\/em> to be a horror film, so I worked hard to turn it into a comedy. New Line, thankfully, believed in me and let me go that way with both Jim [Carrey] and Cameron [Diaz], who were still new at the time. But I love action movies, and I had a jones to do an action movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nArnold Schwarzenegger was at the peak of his powers in 1995. <\/strong>True Lies<\/em><\/strong> had come out a year earlier. How much wining and dining did you have to do to get him on board?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSchwarzenegger approached me; it wasn\u2019t the other way around. He loved The<\/em> Mask<\/em>, and I saw the opportunity to do a big studio movie with all the bells and whistles. The Mask <\/em>looks like [a studio film]. We all worked hard to make it look absolutely great, but it was an independent film that picked up studio distribution. New Line eventually became a part of Warners. So Eraser<\/em> was an opportunity to work with the whole studio system and see what making a movie on that scale was like. I had an idea, but you\u2019re really kind of a ringmaster with hundreds of crew members and dozens of trucks. And in the case of Eraser<\/em>, there were a lot of pyrotechnics and action sequences to carefully design.<\/p>\n

\nArnold and Sly Stallone were often in the mix for the same roles. If one said no, the other said yes. Was that actually the case here?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know both sides of the story, but there was a friendly competition. Arnold is a very competitive guy, which is part of his charm. He was competitive, with a sense of humor, regarding Sly. I\u2019ve met Sly before, and he\u2019s also a great guy. So it was a healthy competition. [Writer\u2019s Note: The internet rumor has long been that Stallone said no to <\/em>Eraser, but I later found a quote in which co-writer Tony Puryear denied the claim, noting that Warners originally backed the project with Arnold in mind because they hadn\u2019t worked with him yet<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

\nConsidering you directed <\/strong>A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors<\/em><\/strong> featuring Freddy Krueger, were you responsible for Arnold\u2019s character being named Kruger?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNo, that was weird. I intended to change it, but never did. It just seemed to stick. You\u2019re the first person who\u2019s mentioned this to me, and I thought it was an odd coincidence at the time. But it was not done by me. I came onto the movie after there had been a couple of drafts of the screenplay, and then I did my own director\u2019s polish.<\/p>\n

\nApparently, there were a lot of rewrites mid-production. How stressful was it to change plans at the last minute?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIn this case, I was deeply engaged in it. [Russell questions whether he should tell the following story<\/em>.] Mission: Impossible<\/em> shot just prior to us, and it had gotten back to us that there was an action scene that was almost exactly the same as one of ours. The CIA heist scene where Tom Cruise drops in on wires, I had Arnold doing almost exactly the same thing to get a disc out of the CIA, and we had to rewrite it to instead have Arnold get into the enemy company, Cyrez, another way. I at least changed that much. I didn\u2019t want to have exactly the same scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThese things are bizarre. They\u2019re very likely a coincidence, but when they happen, you\u2019ve got to respond on your feet. And frankly, it gets my adrenaline up. It was like, \u201cOkay, we\u2019re going to do an even better scene, but we\u2019ve got to write it tonight. We have to get a move on it.\u201d It brings a certain momentum to a film. No one wants this kind of thing, but it wasn\u2019t the end of us. I have a competitive side too, and I wanted to do our best with our team as well. So that was the nature of that rewrite. There weren\u2019t any new pages because of an actor\u2019s performance. The performances were wonderful. I cast it purposefully to raise Arnold\u2019s game and had him play against Jimmy Caan and Vanessa Williams.<\/p>\n

\nI knew that <\/strong>Eraser<\/em><\/strong> and the first <\/strong>Mission: Impossible <\/em><\/strong>came out within a month of each other, and the Vanessa Williams sequence where she covertly downloads sensitive information onto an optical disc was the one that actually reminded me of that <\/strong>Mission <\/em><\/strong>wire heist where Ethan Hunt (Cruise) transfers data onto an optical disc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Arnold scene that was too similar was the one rewrote. That [Vanessa Williams] scene doesn\u2019t particularly bother me because our movie had its own tone and everything. But whatever, I\u2019m a Tom Cruise fan. I love him. I\u2019ve worked with him. I executive produced Collateral<\/em>. So it\u2019s all good, and there was room for both films, for sure.<\/p>\n

\nYou had various advisers from the CIA and the U.S. Marshals\u2019 WITSEC [Witness Security]<\/strong> program. Did their insight add anything interesting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes, as a matter of fact. What\u2019s fun is when you get that level of expert advice and one guy from WITSEC and one guy from the CIA disagree on how an op would be handled. I wanted the film to be fun entertainment, but also have a level of authenticity to it. So we engaged those guys. I kept telling the CIA that they\u2019re not the good guys in this story and to not be upset with me. But I made sure they read the script, and they were cool with it. It\u2019s wonderful collaborating with agencies like WITSEC and the CIA. It was a big deal for me.<\/p>\n

\nEraser<\/em>\u2019s electromagnetic rail guns seem like a sci-fi invention, but they do exist in a much larger, real-life form, just not the handheld version in the movie.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThat was my whole take. It was the other thing that was new to the script. In the original script, everyone was running around for a disc. Thank God we changed that because that\u2019s what Mission: Impossible<\/em> did in that first episode. I said, \u201cLook, I don\u2019t want to [just] do a disc. I\u2019ve seen it a million times. There\u2019s such a thing as a rail gun. Let me tell you about it.\u201d I happened to be familiar with the tech, and I knew it would be brutal if they were able to miniaturize it into a long rifle size.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the movie came out, I got a very interesting back-channel compliment from Naval Intelligence that said I got the rail gun right. I thought that was cool. So I wanted to add a near-future element to it, and it\u2019s something fun that people seem to remember about the movie.<\/p>\n

\nYou mentioned the villainous defense contractor, Cyrez, earlier. According to the internet, you had to change the name from Cyrex to Cyrez in post. It\u2019d be a breeze today, but was it quite the hassle in \u201895 or \u201896?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt almost affected the release of the movie. It did affect my final color timing on the crocodiles, which pissed me off because it has to be dark for the CGI to work. And the last pass on the CGI crocodiles, it got too bright. Right around then, in the sound mix, by a hysterical coincidence, one of my sound men decided to call information for the bad guy company name \u2014 Cyrex, as it was scripted \u2014\u00a0and got a number to call in Texas. Somebody really answered the phone, and they really were on a government contract to make weapons. So I don\u2019t know how legal missed it, but there was a real company with a similar name called Cyrix.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarners offered the company some money, but they said, \u201cLook, we really do this. There\u2019s no [amount of] money you can offer us.\u201d So at the last minute, we had to change the letters in at least 70 shots. We went out to every effects company because they all had to be done very quickly within a week. It was Murphy\u2019s law that the name of the company was on everything: helicopters, tops of buildings and cap-wearing guards. So that was breathtaking, especially in those days when we had to deliver physical film. It wasn\u2019t sent digitally through the internet. So we almost missed the delivery ahead of our big opening.<\/p>\n

\nWhen you watch the film now, do you see other ways in which your filming experience would be so much easier today?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI hadn\u2019t seen it in years. I revisited it [for the new 4K release]. I wanted to do the remix and the new colorization because it would become my new master. So I wanted to be involved, and they invited me to be involved. But I was impressed at how much we did physically. It really was an ambitious film in terms of the scope of the sets and the action. Yes, there was CGI, but it wasn\u2019t as perfected. It was pretty new still at that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMost of the action was well-staged physical action involving Arnold, my actors and my great stunt teams. We had an incredible parachuting team that did the plane sequence. So the stunt work was quite remarkable. But what I thought to myself recently was how I would be asked to use CGI for so much of this movie now. Real physical stunts bring a level of suspense to the audience. They can sense that the stunt was actually risky because it also increases suspense in the actors\u2019 performances. Real stunt work and physical action add to the thrill of the movie.<\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s been reported that you and producer Arnold Kopelson didn\u2019t click with one another. Was every decision a struggle?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve been hearing this lately, and I think it\u2019s gotten a little overblown. I would be happy to tell you if I had been wronged or something. But what happened was the original script was rather typical. It was Arnold with a handgun and fistfights. True<\/em> Lies<\/em> had also been out the year before, which I loved. So when I was asked to do Eraser<\/em>, I just said, \u201cArnold, we\u2019re going to have to do some things I\u2019ve never seen before in an action movie. We need three big action set pieces. Here are my ideas.\u201d And Arnold Schwarzenegger loved them. So maybe that was the source of what some people perceive as a conflict [with Arnold Kopelson]. Maybe [Kopelson] was happy to move ahead with the original version, but he never really came at me about it. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted [the new take], and he understood why I wanted it. So the studio agreed, and they got what they wanted, which was Arnold\u2019s next $100 million hit blockbuster. So the pressure was on me, and that\u2019s what we delivered.<\/p>\n

\nOne of the <\/strong>trailers<\/strong> has some shots of Vanessa Williams posing as a dead body, much like the mobster and his wife at the start of the movie. It looks like the same set and area rug were used in both cases. Did you film those pieces for the trailer at the same time as the movie\u2019s opening sequence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s in a trailer?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nYes, the Vanessa Williams trailer footage mirrors the movie\u2019s opening. There\u2019s exterior shots of the same house too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI do not remember shooting both. We shot that [opening] sequence in New York. Vanessa was there for scenes in New York, but I don\u2019t recall pulling her into that sequence for a few shots. Look, it\u2019s been 30 years. Maybe I\u2019m misremembering. So that could have been done by marketing, and the area rug was handy. Who knows? Marketing teams get creative sometimes, so that\u2019s an interesting fact that I didn\u2019t know or recall.<\/p>\n

\nLastly, what day on set recurs most often in your mind?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019d be some of the stuff at the end with the boxcar in the air. There was stunt folk on it, and I always have good stunt craft. I\u2019ve done it for years. Nobody\u2019s gotten hurt. But on the day, I remember thinking, \u201cOnce I say action, this is out of my control.\u201d Fortunately, it all went well. But that\u2019s rather personal. I had my own reasons. I would not have shot it if it was actually dangerous, but I just had a feeling that day. Ultimately, everything worked out fine, and it was all good. It may not be a fun anecdote, but that\u2019s what comes to mind.<\/p>\n

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