8 Million Ways to Die

8 Million Ways to Die (1986)

Death comes to all except those who deserve it most.

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.

Date of release
1986-04-25
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (156)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Thriller, Crime
Director
Hal Ashby

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Eight Million Ways to Die

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia. It was Ashby's final film, and the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen. The screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, an uncredited Robert Towne and David Lee Henry.

Production

Oliver Stone began writing a film adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel Eight Million Ways to Die, the fifth of Block's Matthew Scudder series of novels, after its release in 1982. It was originally intended to be directed by Walter Hill and star Nick Nolte. The film went into turnaround before being revived by Stephen J. Roth and the Producers Sales Organization in 1985. They cast Jeff Bridges and Jamie Lee Curtis in the primary roles.

Production began in July 1985 in El Segundo, California, but Towne had not finished his script revisions yet. As a result, Bridges, Arquette, and the film's director Hal Ashby were forced to improvise many of the film's scenes until Towne finished his writing in August 1985. After the film was completed, the PSO fired both Ashby and his editor Robert Lawrence, and hired Stuart H.

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