Gone Fishin' (1997)

Interesting facts

Gone Fishin' is a 1997 American comedy film starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover as two bumbling fishing enthusiasts. Nick Brimble, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, and Willie Nelson co-star. It is the only collaboration between Glover and Pesci outside of the Lethal Weapon franchise. Christopher Cain directed the film. J. J. Abrams and Jill Mazursky wrote the film's script.

Production

When Gone Fishin' was in the early stages of development during the early 1990s, the roles of Joe and Gus were first offered to John Candy and Rick Moranis. Both turned it down as they were busy with other projects. Once the film was given the greenlight in 1995, Joe Pesci and Danny Glover were eventually cast as the leads. John G.

The production went over-schedule and over-budget, eventually coming in at a final cost of $53 million. Most of the movie was filmed around The Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida.

As with many of Pesci's 1990s films, Pesci's friend, employee and former Four Seasons guitarist Tommy DeVito makes a cameo appearance.

During production of the film, stuntwoman Janet Wilder was killed when a boat that was made to jump a ramp into a group of other boats in one of the scenes went awry. Instead of completing that stunt, the speedboat containing Pesci and Glover's stunt doubles flipped upside down and collided with two separate boats, landing into the set containing film crew and extras where it struck Wilder and killed her.

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