Invasion U.S.A.

Invasion U.S.A. (1985)

America wasn't ready...but HE was!

A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.

Date of release
1985-09-27
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (365)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Action, Thriller
Director
Joseph Zito

Casting

Interesting facts

Invasion U.S.A. is a 1985 American action film produced by Cannon Films, and starring Chuck Norris. It was directed by Joseph Zito. It involves the star fighting off a force of Soviet/Cuban-led guerrillas.

Production

The film was the first in a six-film contract Chuck Norris signed with Cannon Films following the success of the Missing in Action films.

Norris said he got the idea to make the film after reading an article in Reader's Digest that said hundreds of terrorists were running loose in the United States. "I thought, 'Boy, that's scary,'" he said. "'What if some guy on the order of a Khomeini or a Khadafi mobilized those guys and started sending them out to every major city?'...

"We're trying to make a statement here", he added. "This is about the people of the United States."

The film was given a $12 million budget, twice what Norris films had normally gotten before. There was a sequence in the everglades costing $2 million. Norris' fee was almost $2 million. Shooting took ten weeks.

Norris says he wanted the role of the female journalist to be played by Whoopi Goldberg, who had been an extra in A Force of One. Goldberg was enthusiastic. However, the director, Joseph Zito, overruled Norris. "Needless to say I have never used that director again", wrote Norris later.

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