Terminal Velocity

Terminal Velocity (1994)

It's not the fall that kills you...

A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.

Date of release
1994-09-23
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (297)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Action, Thriller
Director
Deran Sarafian

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California

Terminal Velocity is a 1994 American action film directed by Deran Sarafian, written by David Twohy, and starring Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, and Christopher McDonald. It follows a daredevil skydiver (Sheen) who is caught up in a criminal plot by Russian mobsters, forcing him to team up with a freelance secret agent (Kinski) in order to survive.

Production

Based on David Twohy’s original spec script which sold to Hollywood Pictures for over $500,000 Kevin Reynolds and Tom Cruise were initially slated as director and star, but commitments prevented this.

The final stunt, which features Sheen at the wheel of a Cadillac Allanté falling to earth, was a mixture of bluescreen and camera work, as a real car was suspended beneath a helicopter and then a reverse zoom made it seem as if it were in free-fall.

Portions of the film were shot in Palm Springs, California. Other filming locations were Alabama Hills (Lone Pine, California); a windfarm near Tehachapi, California; Douglas, Arizona; Flagstaff, Arizona; Little Colorado River Canyon, Arizona; Moscow, Russia; Phoenix, Arizona; San Bernardino, California and Tucson, Arizona, where a cameo appearance by Martha Vasquez of its station KVOA was filmed.

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