Man on Fire

Man on Fire (1987)

For an ex-CIA agent, the job of bodyguard for a 12-year old girl should have been a breeze…

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.

Date of release
1987-09-04
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (88)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Élie Chouraqui

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Man on Fire
  • Filmed in: Milan and Lake Como

Man on Fire is a 1987 action thriller film directed and co-written by Élie Chouraqui, produced by Arnon Milchan, based on the 1980 novel by A. J. Quinnell. It stars Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Joe Pesci, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Paul Shenar, and Jonathan Pryce. Glenn plays Christian Creasy, an ex-CIA agent hired as a bodyguard to the daughter of a wealthy Italian family, who is targeted for kidnapping.

Production

Tony Scott was originally slated to direct, but the studio balked because at the time they felt he was not accomplished enough to pull off the project. He would go on to direct the 2004 film adaptation, with Denzel Washington as Creasy.

Producer Arnon Milchan wanted Sergio Leone to direct Robert De Niro, while Scott wanted either Marlon Brando or Robert Duvall as his leading man when he was slated to direct. The screenplay underwent several revisions.

The music score for Man on Fire was provided by English film composer and music conductor John Scott. A cue from the film's score – titled "We've Got Each Other" in the soundtrack album – was later incorporated into the score for the 1988 film Die Hard. (The cue can be heard near the end of the film when John McClane and Holly Gennaro exit the Nakatomi Building and McClane sees Sgt. Al Powell face to face for the first time.)

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