Submerged

Submerged (2005)

He found the enemy... on the wrong side.

Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into heartless killers.

Date of release
2005-05-06
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (145)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director
Anthony Hickox

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Bulgaria

Submerged is a 2005 American action film directed by Anthony Hickox, who also wrote it with Paul de Souza and produced with Michael P. Flannigan, Daphne Lerner and David Varod. The film stars Steven Seagal, William Hope, Vinnie Jones and Christine Adams. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on May 31, 2005.

Production

Director Anthony Hickox later said the script was "brilliant... It started life as a full on horror and sci-fi. I just thought wouldn’t it be great if you were stuck at the bottom of the ocean with fucking aliens on your submarine! So that was the original idea, and we story boarded it and we designed the creatures; like these little, mini kind of crab insects that could go down the drains of the submarine so you’d never know when they were comin…

The lead character was supposed to be a bitter old drunken captain. Hickox described his project as "The Thing in a submarine" or "The Thing meets Das Boot".

"It was really interesting", said Hickox. "And then Seagal came on board".

According to Hickox, Seagal said that he liked the script; but, three weeks before shooting was to start, Seagal called him and said: "I don't think this movie should be on a submarine". He also wanted an opera scene and said that "I've decided I don't like aliens and I don't like monsters. I don't want to be in a monster movie".

The director said "that's why it ended up like it did. We had no clue what we were doing: no script, and the whole mind control thing in the final film was made up the last week before shooting! It was really insane. At that point, again, I should have quit, but I needed the cash".

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