Navy Seals

Navy Seals (1990)

Born to risk, trained to win, they're Navy Seals.

During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.

Date of release
1990-07-20
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (295)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director
Lewis Teague

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: San Diego, Spain, Almería and 1 more

Navy SEALs is a 1990 American military action film, directed by Lewis Teague, written by Chuck Pfarrer and Gary Goldman, and produced by Brenda Feigen and Bernard Williams with consultant William Bradley. The film stars Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly, Bill Paxton, Dennis Haysbert, and Paul Sanchez.

Production

In the winter of 1986 Brenda Feigen, then an agent at the William Morris Agency, was introduced to Chuck Pfarrer through one of her clients. Pfarrer, an active-duty navy SEAL who wrote screenplays in his spare time, had just sold "The Crook Factory", a script about Ernest Hemingway's life. Feigen encouraged him to write a script based on his experiences.

Feigen wanted Ridley Scott to direct, but negotiations fell through. Producers met with Roger Donaldson to see if he was interested in directing, he read the script as a favor to Mike Medavoy, head of Orion, but he didn't like the script, in her memoir, Feigen wrote that the meeting with Donaldson was wasted time.

Richard Marquand was then hired as director, but his death in 1987 stopped pre-production until Lewis Teague was brought in as a replacement. Feigen says Teague had been originally recommended to her by Michael Douglas who had worked with Teague on The Jewel of the Nile.

He seemed innocuous, not too bright, but eager to make Navy SEAL (as it was still titled). What was odd about even our first conversation was that whenever I said anything, there would be a long silence before Lewis replied. And he had a quizzical look on his face, as though he didn’t quite understand what I was saying.

Several screenwriters were brought on to do rewrites. Gary Goldman wrote a new draft with Pfarrer, taking influence from the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone, and the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Teague disliked this script—Feigen wrote in her memoir, "directors are usually egomaniacs who always want their own script to be the one they shoot.

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