Blue Steel

Blue Steel (1990)

For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy...becoming it.

Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!

Date of release
1990-03-16
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (477)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Kathryn Bigelow

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New York City

Blue Steel is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown.

Production

According to Kathryn Bigelow, the film came about as a result of interest Oliver Stone had in producing whatever she had wanted to do after a handful of years gestating a pitch about gangs (initially, it had started as a possible project for Walter Hill to produce at Universal). Stone had initially been interested in doing a project about gangs in South Los Angeles and having her write it with him but film commitments belayed that interest.

Red has referred to the script as "just a female version of The Hitcher", which he had written.

Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the original script had her nude during the final gunfight; she refused to film the scene, so it was rewritten to have her character dressed in a stolen police uniform.

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