D-Tox

D-Tox (2002)

Survival is a Killer.

A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.

Date of release
2002-01-04
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (749)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Thriller, Horror, Crime
Director
Jim Gillespie

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $55M
  • Filmed in: Vancouver

D-Tox is a 2002 American action film directed by Jim Gillespie and starring Sylvester Stallone. The supporting cast features Tom Berenger, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker, Robert Patrick, Stephen Lang, Jeffrey Wright, Courtney B. Vance and Kris Kristofferson. The film had a limited release in the United States on September 20, 2002, under the title Eye See You by DEJ Productions.

Production

In December 1997, it was announced a Brian Grazer produced film from Imagine Entertainment about Witness Protection starring Sylvester Stallone was in the process of being greenlit at Universal. In July 1998, the film was formally announced under the title of Detox with Jim Gillespie slated to direct from a script by Ron Brinkenhoff who'd previously worked as a staff researcher for Imagine.

The film was shot in Washington, D.C. and Vancouver.

After the film was finished in 1999, Universal decided to screen it to a test audience but all the screenings of the first cut were met with negative reception from audiences. The film was then shelved for quite some time while re-shoots and story changes were being done. Composer John Powell wrote two complete scores for the film, one of which was rejected.

In an interview with Ain't It Cool News in December 2006, Sylvester Stallone was asked why the film did not get a wide release and then answered:

It's very simple why D-Tox landed in limbo. A film is a very delicate creature. Any adverse publicity or internal shake-up can upset the perception of – and studio confidence in – a feature. For some unknown reason the original producer pulled out and right away the film was considered damaged goods; by the time we ended filming there was trouble brewing on the set because of overages and creative concerns between the director and the studio.

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