Suspect Zero

Suspect Zero (2004)

Who's next?

A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Date of release
2004-08-27
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (419)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Director
E. Elias Merhige

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Mexico

Suspect Zero is a 2004 psychological thriller film directed by E. Elias Merhige and starring Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, and Carrie-Anne Moss. The film was produced by Tom Cruise's co-owned company Cruise/Wagner Productions. It was a box-office bomb, failing to earn half of its estimated $27 million production costs.

Production

The film is based on a first draft by Zak Penn, which allegedly impressed Steven Spielberg so much in its depiction of serial killers' elongated middle fingers that he went home and checked his children's hands. After it was sold to Universal Studios for $750,000, Cruise/Wagner Productions became attached to the film, with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner producing.

In 2002, Cruise/Wagner Productions hired Bill Ray to rewrite Penn's original script. Changes included moving the action from Texas, making the lead character a burned-out, disgraced FBI agent rather than a rookie, and turning a maverick criminal profiler into a psychic with the power of remote viewing.

The film began shooting in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2002. The state was chosen because it offered tax-free incentives and financial funding to film companies using New Mexico. The program was established to entice film makers to the state.

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