1 00:00:08,925 --> 00:00:10,594 Let's go! 2 00:00:10,594 --> 00:00:12,345 Over the course of two decades, 3 00:00:12,345 --> 00:00:14,890 Harrison Ford had built an impressive resume. 4 00:00:14,890 --> 00:00:16,808 I'm Deckard, Blade Runner. 5 00:00:16,933 --> 00:00:19,728 With an equally impressive list of directors. 6 00:00:19,728 --> 00:00:22,856 Behind the scenes, some collaborations were anything but. 7 00:00:22,856 --> 00:00:24,524 Ridley would say, "Mate, I hired you 8 00:00:24,524 --> 00:00:25,859 because you're good at what you do. 9 00:00:25,984 --> 00:00:26,943 Just go do it." 10 00:00:26,943 --> 00:00:27,986 Harrison's not like that. 11 00:00:28,111 --> 00:00:29,863 He's a collaborator. 12 00:00:29,988 --> 00:00:31,531 But after completing his latest trilogy. 13 00:00:31,656 --> 00:00:33,033 Henry Jones. Jr. 14 00:00:33,158 --> 00:00:34,701 And after Alec Baldwin 15 00:00:34,826 --> 00:00:36,912 put Broadway ahead of blockbusters. 16 00:00:37,037 --> 00:00:38,663 The game is up. 17 00:00:38,788 --> 00:00:39,956 Harrison decided it was time 18 00:00:39,956 --> 00:00:42,709 that he started calling the shots. 19 00:00:42,834 --> 00:00:44,044 And on his next project. 20 00:00:44,169 --> 00:00:46,046 Harrison had director approval. 21 00:00:46,171 --> 00:00:48,048 {\an8}The project, bringing Tom Clancy 22 00:00:48,048 --> 00:00:50,425 {\an8}from the printed page to the silver screen. 23 00:00:50,425 --> 00:00:52,594 Everybody was reading Tom Clancy novels. 24 00:00:52,594 --> 00:00:54,095 - The role-- - Get down! 25 00:00:54,095 --> 00:00:55,806 Harrison was a perfect Jack Ryan. 26 00:00:55,806 --> 00:00:57,474 You're going to jail, pal. 27 00:00:57,474 --> 00:00:58,809 But to become Jack Ryan, 28 00:00:58,809 --> 00:01:00,769 Harrison Ford would have to contend 29 00:01:00,769 --> 00:01:02,854 with an eccentric author. 30 00:01:02,979 --> 00:01:05,148 Tom Clancy dressed in fatigues. 31 00:01:05,148 --> 00:01:07,734 In a Sherman tank out on the front lawn. 32 00:01:08,652 --> 00:01:11,112 But would Harrison approve the right director? 33 00:01:11,112 --> 00:01:12,823 - I have a problem. - Or would he once again 34 00:01:12,823 --> 00:01:15,534 find himself at odds with another filmmaker? 35 00:01:15,534 --> 00:01:17,035 I will fucking destroy you. 36 00:01:17,035 --> 00:01:18,120 He'd sent a message. 37 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:19,746 The script was inadequate. 38 00:01:19,871 --> 00:01:21,498 Director was incompetent. 39 00:01:21,498 --> 00:01:23,250 I did not sign up for this. 40 00:01:23,375 --> 00:01:25,502 Harrison might have called him Lurch behind his back, 41 00:01:25,627 --> 00:01:27,087 or maybe not always behind his back. 42 00:01:27,087 --> 00:01:29,673 This Aussie upstart director 43 00:01:29,673 --> 00:01:31,550 who thinks he knows everything. 44 00:01:31,675 --> 00:01:34,553 Ford would either take control or lose it. 45 00:01:34,678 --> 00:01:37,681 He was aware that he had this authority. 46 00:01:37,681 --> 00:01:41,017 He had opinions about every aspect 47 00:01:41,017 --> 00:01:43,061 of the movie making process. 48 00:01:43,061 --> 00:01:44,896 He said, "Roll the camera." 49 00:01:44,896 --> 00:01:46,481 And I said, "No, Harrison, I'm not gonna do it." 50 00:01:46,481 --> 00:01:48,733 You don't talk that way to me. 51 00:01:48,733 --> 00:01:50,110 Ford had taken the wheel, 52 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:51,778 but would he crash and burn? 53 00:01:51,903 --> 00:01:53,113 It would've gone through his window 54 00:01:53,113 --> 00:01:54,948 and it would've decapitated him. 55 00:01:56,158 --> 00:01:57,701 We are shut down. 56 00:01:57,701 --> 00:01:59,119 You've gotta get outta Mexico. 57 00:01:59,244 --> 00:02:01,580 The audience were just not happy. 58 00:02:01,580 --> 00:02:03,081 It just was unrealistic. 59 00:02:03,206 --> 00:02:04,958 This is impossible, we're never gonna finish. 60 00:02:05,083 --> 00:02:06,668 Jesus. 61 00:02:06,877 --> 00:02:09,045 I thought this is my last Hollywood movie 62 00:02:09,045 --> 00:02:11,047 and probably my last movie ever. 63 00:02:44,915 --> 00:02:46,750 The 1980s would be known 64 00:02:46,750 --> 00:02:48,627 as the Decade of Blockbusters, 65 00:02:48,752 --> 00:02:51,671 with Harrison Ford among those leading the charge. 66 00:02:51,671 --> 00:02:54,174 Thanks to groundbreaking collaborations with-- 67 00:02:54,299 --> 00:02:55,717 George Lucas. 68 00:02:55,717 --> 00:02:57,719 - And of course-- - Steven Spielberg. 69 00:02:57,719 --> 00:03:00,096 Not to mention collaborations with legends 70 00:03:00,096 --> 00:03:01,765 - such as-- - Ridley Scott. 71 00:03:01,765 --> 00:03:03,350 - I don't work here anymore. - Mike Nichols. 72 00:03:03,475 --> 00:03:05,268 - The Earth moved. - Roman Polanski. 73 00:03:05,268 --> 00:03:07,270 You picked up the wrong suitcase. 74 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:09,272 Peter Weir. 75 00:03:09,272 --> 00:03:10,774 {\an8}"Witness," where he gets 76 00:03:10,774 --> 00:03:12,609 {\an8}his first Oscar nomination, right? 77 00:03:12,609 --> 00:03:14,277 Ford had been the driving force 78 00:03:14,277 --> 00:03:16,279 for countless filmmakers, 79 00:03:16,279 --> 00:03:19,199 but was eager to take the wheel and chart his own path. 80 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:20,909 And I don't think he wants to direct, 81 00:03:20,909 --> 00:03:22,994 {\an8}but I think that he has things to say. 82 00:03:22,994 --> 00:03:26,206 "Say" is exactly what Harrison was looking for. 83 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:30,127 "Say" in every aspect from script to director. 84 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:33,880 {\an8}His success as an actor was not by accident. 85 00:03:34,005 --> 00:03:35,799 I know what I'm doing. 86 00:03:35,799 --> 00:03:37,968 He was not there to just read the script. 87 00:03:37,968 --> 00:03:40,887 Ford wanted more influence and authorship. 88 00:03:41,012 --> 00:03:42,848 He just needed the right project. 89 00:03:42,848 --> 00:03:44,182 - Captain? - Yeah? 90 00:03:44,307 --> 00:03:47,894 Harrison's combination of action star, 91 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:51,356 and thinking man made him a perfect Jack Ryan. 92 00:03:51,356 --> 00:03:54,067 Jack Ryan, the CIA analyst 93 00:03:54,192 --> 00:03:56,862 who always ends up in the field in danger. 94 00:03:56,862 --> 00:03:58,238 But to tell that story, 95 00:03:58,363 --> 00:04:00,782 we need to go back to the early eighties 96 00:04:00,782 --> 00:04:04,202 where an aspiring novelist was first putting ink to paper. 97 00:04:04,327 --> 00:04:07,330 {\an8}Tom Clancy, before his success as a writer, 98 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:09,166 {\an8}he was an insurance salesman. 99 00:04:09,166 --> 00:04:11,042 You're in good hands with Allstate. 100 00:04:11,042 --> 00:04:12,878 While supporting his family, 101 00:04:13,003 --> 00:04:16,715 he was writing books on the kitchen table at night. 102 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:18,925 Every major publisher passed. 103 00:04:19,050 --> 00:04:20,760 Clancy only found a home 104 00:04:20,886 --> 00:04:24,764 when the tiny Navy focus publisher strayed from its lane. 105 00:04:24,890 --> 00:04:28,393 In October of 1984, Tom Clancy's first book, 106 00:04:28,518 --> 00:04:30,896 "The Hunt for Red October" hit shelves. 107 00:04:30,896 --> 00:04:35,025 And I was a big fan of all that CIA spook stuff. 108 00:04:35,025 --> 00:04:37,861 It was the story of a Soviet submarine captain 109 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:40,238 who looked to defect to the United States. 110 00:04:40,363 --> 00:04:42,741 Clancy's novel immediately caught the eye 111 00:04:42,866 --> 00:04:44,701 of film producer Mace Neufeld. 112 00:04:44,701 --> 00:04:48,622 "The Omen" was his first feature film that he produced. 113 00:04:48,747 --> 00:04:51,708 {\an8}"The Hunt for Red October" was brought to Mace's attention. 114 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:53,710 {\an8}He thought it was fabulous. 115 00:04:53,710 --> 00:04:55,921 To say Mace was ahead of the Clancy curve 116 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:57,756 would be an understatement. 117 00:04:57,756 --> 00:05:00,759 Mace Neufeld purchased "Hunt for Red October" 118 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:03,094 when it was still in a manuscript form. 119 00:05:03,220 --> 00:05:04,638 And being an early adopter 120 00:05:04,763 --> 00:05:06,264 certainly had its perks. 121 00:05:06,389 --> 00:05:11,102 {\an8}Mace told me that they got the rights for $5,000. 122 00:05:11,102 --> 00:05:13,104 Mace would eventually attach 123 00:05:13,104 --> 00:05:16,274 director John McTiernan and sell the picture to Paramount. 124 00:05:16,274 --> 00:05:18,276 Paramount were very interested 125 00:05:18,276 --> 00:05:20,278 and it was an ongoing discussion. 126 00:05:20,278 --> 00:05:22,280 And then eventually it was green lit. 127 00:05:22,405 --> 00:05:24,699 And when it came to casting Jack Ryan, 128 00:05:24,699 --> 00:05:27,661 Mace knew there was only one man for the job. 129 00:05:27,786 --> 00:05:29,412 It's dangerous out here. 130 00:05:29,538 --> 00:05:32,124 Well, Mace had a very long relationship with Harrison. 131 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:34,960 They had worked together on "Frisco Kid" 132 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,837 years and years before. 133 00:05:36,962 --> 00:05:38,380 What's more now, you ain't got no money. 134 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:41,132 I believe that Mace had talked to Harrison 135 00:05:41,258 --> 00:05:43,260 about "Hunt for Red October." 136 00:05:43,260 --> 00:05:45,136 "The Hunt for Red October" 137 00:05:45,262 --> 00:05:48,181 had the potential to reunite Ford with his old movie dad. 138 00:05:48,306 --> 00:05:49,474 Junior? 139 00:05:49,474 --> 00:05:51,476 Sean Connery was cast as Ramius. 140 00:05:51,601 --> 00:05:53,311 A game of chess. 141 00:05:53,311 --> 00:05:55,021 As well as another famous movie dad. 142 00:05:55,147 --> 00:05:56,565 It is useless to resist. 143 00:05:56,565 --> 00:05:58,817 It was terrific to have James Earl Jones 144 00:05:58,817 --> 00:06:00,318 to play Admiral Greer. 145 00:06:00,318 --> 00:06:02,028 What's important enough to get you on a plane 146 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:03,363 in the middle of the night? 147 00:06:03,488 --> 00:06:04,948 Everything was in place 148 00:06:04,948 --> 00:06:06,867 to make an epic Harrison Ford movie. 149 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:08,368 From my understanding, yes. 150 00:06:08,493 --> 00:06:09,870 And he turned it down. 151 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:11,538 Oh, it turns out 152 00:06:11,663 --> 00:06:14,100 while Harrison wanted a larger role behind the camera, 153 00:06:15,125 --> 00:06:18,753 he wasn't looking for a smaller role in front of the camera. 154 00:06:18,753 --> 00:06:23,258 "The Hunt for Red October" is less Jack Ryan's story 155 00:06:23,258 --> 00:06:25,844 because the Sean Connery character, Ramius, 156 00:06:25,969 --> 00:06:27,512 is so, so prominent. 157 00:06:27,512 --> 00:06:29,848 The only sound they will hear is our laughter. 158 00:06:29,848 --> 00:06:32,392 So who landed the coveted covert role? 159 00:06:32,517 --> 00:06:33,518 Alec Baldwin. 160 00:06:33,643 --> 00:06:35,395 How did you know that? 161 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,899 Alec Baldwin was terrific in the Jack Ryan role. 162 00:06:38,899 --> 00:06:40,776 You don't miss much do you? 163 00:06:40,776 --> 00:06:43,361 But the role of movie star, not so much. 164 00:06:43,487 --> 00:06:45,197 At that point, he was fairly young. 165 00:06:45,197 --> 00:06:47,449 He was uncomfortable being a star. 166 00:06:47,449 --> 00:06:50,076 Eventually Baldwin found his Jack Ryan. 167 00:06:50,202 --> 00:06:52,078 I know how he's gonna get the crew off the sub. 168 00:06:52,204 --> 00:06:53,538 When "The Hunt for Red October" 169 00:06:53,538 --> 00:06:56,416 pulled into theaters in March of 1990-- 170 00:06:56,541 --> 00:07:00,337 "Hunt for Red October" was very, very well received. 171 00:07:00,337 --> 00:07:02,506 The film was enormously successful. 172 00:07:02,506 --> 00:07:05,967 The Jack Ryan adaptation grossed 200 million 173 00:07:05,967 --> 00:07:10,263 on a $30 million budget, which can only mean one thing. 174 00:07:12,182 --> 00:07:14,518 Paramount Pictures dearly wanted this 175 00:07:14,518 --> 00:07:16,937 to become a tentpole franchise. 176 00:07:17,062 --> 00:07:20,190 Clancy's Jack Ryan catalog had grown by three, 177 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:23,068 yet the spotlight felt squarely on "Patriot Games" 178 00:07:23,193 --> 00:07:24,986 and "Clear and Present Danger." 179 00:07:24,986 --> 00:07:28,323 The question Paramount faced, did Jack Ryan have legs? 180 00:07:28,323 --> 00:07:31,076 When Mace was coming back from the premiere 181 00:07:31,076 --> 00:07:33,453 with Frank Mancuso of Paramount, 182 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:37,874 they had a discussion about optioning "Patriot Games" 183 00:07:37,874 --> 00:07:40,001 and "Clear and Present Danger." 184 00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:41,086 Centered on the clash 185 00:07:41,086 --> 00:07:42,420 between Ireland and England, 186 00:07:42,546 --> 00:07:45,173 "Patriot Games" came at a price. 187 00:07:45,173 --> 00:07:47,884 Paramount shelled out 2.5 million, 188 00:07:47,884 --> 00:07:50,470 but not without one major caveat. 189 00:07:50,595 --> 00:07:53,139 The Paramount lawyers were obviously smart enough 190 00:07:53,139 --> 00:07:57,269 to own Jack Ryan in perpetuity. 191 00:07:57,394 --> 00:07:59,104 And all that was left to do 192 00:07:59,104 --> 00:08:01,815 was to pick which Jack Ryan story would be next. 193 00:08:01,815 --> 00:08:03,650 John McTiernan had suggested 194 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:06,444 that the second film should be "Clear and Present Danger." 195 00:08:06,570 --> 00:08:09,406 So "Clear and Present Danger" was on deck. 196 00:08:09,406 --> 00:08:12,325 But Paramount and Mace did not agree with him. 197 00:08:12,451 --> 00:08:15,078 "Patriot Games" dealt more with the family 198 00:08:15,078 --> 00:08:19,416 and really setting up Jack Ryan's personal background. 199 00:08:19,416 --> 00:08:22,627 It was felt that that would be the best story 200 00:08:22,627 --> 00:08:24,421 to go with first. 201 00:08:24,421 --> 00:08:27,090 Only John McTiernan didn't see it that way. 202 00:08:27,090 --> 00:08:29,468 He felt that the subject matter was trite 203 00:08:29,593 --> 00:08:32,095 and didn't have the same appeal 204 00:08:32,095 --> 00:08:34,222 as "The Hunt for Red October." 205 00:08:34,222 --> 00:08:37,142 Losing John McTiernan would be a huge setback, 206 00:08:37,142 --> 00:08:39,311 but Paramount could still move forward 207 00:08:39,436 --> 00:08:42,439 as long as they had the face of their budding franchise. 208 00:08:42,439 --> 00:08:44,232 - Black coffee? - I think I need some coffee. 209 00:08:44,232 --> 00:08:46,485 Alec Baldwin was walking into the offices 210 00:08:46,610 --> 00:08:48,195 and charming the hell outta everybody. 211 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,905 But there was a problem. 212 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:53,200 He wanted to go to do the Broadway play-- 213 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:54,659 Was it "A Streetcar Named Desire"? 214 00:08:54,785 --> 00:08:57,287 - It was. - He wanted to change 215 00:08:57,287 --> 00:08:59,664 the shooting dates so he could go do this. 216 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:02,501 Back in the '90s, you would claim a date 217 00:09:02,626 --> 00:09:04,169 up to a year and a half 218 00:09:04,294 --> 00:09:06,129 before you actually had the film ready. 219 00:09:06,129 --> 00:09:07,506 They had locked their dates. 220 00:09:07,506 --> 00:09:09,382 It was a big deal. 221 00:09:09,508 --> 00:09:11,551 As for Baldwin's Broadway aspirations-- 222 00:09:11,551 --> 00:09:14,387 It wasn't possible to do both. 223 00:09:14,513 --> 00:09:16,348 Cue the negotiations. 224 00:09:16,348 --> 00:09:17,516 - Margie. - Rather than 225 00:09:17,641 --> 00:09:19,017 look for a compromise, 226 00:09:19,017 --> 00:09:21,353 Baldwin not only held his ground, 227 00:09:21,353 --> 00:09:24,189 he came back with even more demands, including-- 228 00:09:24,189 --> 00:09:25,732 Total script approval. 229 00:09:25,732 --> 00:09:27,400 Alec Baldwin thought he held 230 00:09:27,526 --> 00:09:29,402 all the cards, only-- 231 00:09:29,528 --> 00:09:32,405 As much as Alec was great in "Hunt for Red October" 232 00:09:32,531 --> 00:09:34,616 it was really Sean Connery's movie. 233 00:09:34,616 --> 00:09:36,576 - Any more tea, anyone? - As a result-- 234 00:09:36,701 --> 00:09:40,163 I guess he expected that when he left the shop, 235 00:09:40,163 --> 00:09:43,291 the shopkeeper would run out and say, "Okay, you win." 236 00:09:43,291 --> 00:09:45,252 Yes? 237 00:09:45,377 --> 00:09:46,628 But Paramount didn't. 238 00:09:46,753 --> 00:09:47,963 So that's it? 239 00:09:49,131 --> 00:09:51,216 What a bad mistake, what a mistake. 240 00:09:51,341 --> 00:09:53,969 This left Paramount needing a new star. 241 00:09:53,969 --> 00:09:56,429 Luckily Mace saw the writing on the wall 242 00:09:56,555 --> 00:09:58,431 and had already begun discussions 243 00:09:58,431 --> 00:10:00,392 with a potential successor. 244 00:10:00,517 --> 00:10:03,353 Harrison was at Paramount on another movie 245 00:10:03,353 --> 00:10:05,063 that was in prep. 246 00:10:05,188 --> 00:10:06,690 It was a modern day Western, 247 00:10:06,690 --> 00:10:08,525 bringing Ford back to his roots. 248 00:10:08,525 --> 00:10:11,319 And then they had some issues in prep. 249 00:10:11,319 --> 00:10:13,029 I think their budget was going one way 250 00:10:13,029 --> 00:10:15,240 and so that was shut down. 251 00:10:15,365 --> 00:10:18,201 - Which means-- - When it didn't move forward, 252 00:10:18,201 --> 00:10:20,036 he became available. 253 00:10:20,036 --> 00:10:22,080 Available was only half the battle. 254 00:10:22,205 --> 00:10:24,583 The question remained, was he interested? 255 00:10:24,708 --> 00:10:27,085 Paramount said to send him the script. 256 00:10:27,085 --> 00:10:29,629 Harrison's only response? A number. 257 00:10:29,754 --> 00:10:32,549 Harrison wanted 9 million. 258 00:10:32,549 --> 00:10:34,301 That's nearly a third 259 00:10:34,426 --> 00:10:36,303 of "Hunt for Red October's" budget. 260 00:10:36,428 --> 00:10:38,180 The ball was in Paramount's court. 261 00:10:38,305 --> 00:10:40,974 All Mace Neufeld's team could do was wait. 262 00:10:40,974 --> 00:10:42,726 It was like a Sunday night. 263 00:10:42,726 --> 00:10:46,188 And I get a call, Baldwin's out and Harrison Ford's in. 264 00:10:46,188 --> 00:10:49,441 Who had final approval over the director. 265 00:10:49,441 --> 00:10:50,609 Ford had gone from 266 00:10:50,609 --> 00:10:52,777 every director's actor of choice 267 00:10:52,777 --> 00:10:55,113 to the one choosing the director. 268 00:10:55,238 --> 00:10:57,157 And it was just the beginning. 269 00:10:57,282 --> 00:10:58,784 Harrison wasn't easy sometimes. 270 00:11:04,206 --> 00:11:06,708 Paramount Studios had granted Harrison Ford 271 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:10,128 final approval over the director of "Patriot Games." 272 00:11:10,253 --> 00:11:12,297 - Among the contenders-- - Kenneth Branagh. 273 00:11:12,422 --> 00:11:14,174 Kenneth Branagh turned it down. 274 00:11:14,299 --> 00:11:15,717 - The reason-- - He wasn't sure 275 00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:19,054 {\an8}if an Irish guy that grew up in England 276 00:11:19,054 --> 00:11:21,765 {\an8}should be doing a film that, you know-- 277 00:11:21,765 --> 00:11:24,100 Is about the British-Irish conflict. 278 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:25,685 Yeah, fair point. 279 00:11:26,394 --> 00:11:30,190 One country the Irish didn't have a problem with, Australia. 280 00:11:30,190 --> 00:11:32,567 {\an8}I started making films when I was 18 281 00:11:32,567 --> 00:11:35,070 and then I sold parts to my friends. 282 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:37,614 The more they paid me, the bigger the role. 283 00:11:37,614 --> 00:11:39,533 Sounds like extortion. 284 00:11:39,658 --> 00:11:42,202 But soon Noyce would find international acclaim with 285 00:11:42,327 --> 00:11:44,329 -"Dead Calm." - Is there anybody on deck? 286 00:11:45,247 --> 00:11:46,832 Not that I can see. 287 00:11:46,832 --> 00:11:48,291 The film would introduce Nicole Kidman 288 00:11:48,291 --> 00:11:49,751 to international audiences. 289 00:11:49,751 --> 00:11:51,670 - John Ingram, my wife, Rae. - Hi. 290 00:11:51,670 --> 00:11:53,672 And put Phillip Noyce on the map. 291 00:11:53,672 --> 00:11:55,423 Execs at Paramount knew of him 292 00:11:55,423 --> 00:11:57,801 and he was put forth for "Patriot Games" 293 00:11:57,801 --> 00:12:01,179 And suddenly I'm on a plane 294 00:12:01,304 --> 00:12:03,640 to Harrison's ranch in Wyoming. 295 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,183 But it wasn't "Dead Calm" 296 00:12:05,183 --> 00:12:06,518 that caught Ford's attention... 297 00:12:06,518 --> 00:12:08,270 - Wow. - ...but rather Noyce's 298 00:12:08,270 --> 00:12:10,230 - political drama. -"Newsfront." 299 00:12:10,355 --> 00:12:12,482 As well as Noyce's B-movie outing, 300 00:12:12,482 --> 00:12:15,527 A low budget action film starring Rutger Hauer 301 00:12:15,527 --> 00:12:17,529 called "Blind Fury." 302 00:12:17,529 --> 00:12:19,322 Nice doggy. 303 00:12:19,322 --> 00:12:21,199 The two films couldn't have been any more different, 304 00:12:21,199 --> 00:12:22,868 but Harrison liked both of them. 305 00:12:22,868 --> 00:12:24,161 More importantly, 306 00:12:24,161 --> 00:12:26,204 the films showed Noyce's range. 307 00:12:26,329 --> 00:12:28,540 Harrison responded to the combination 308 00:12:28,665 --> 00:12:31,293 of being able to direct action, 309 00:12:32,544 --> 00:12:35,380 but also having a political bent. 310 00:12:35,380 --> 00:12:37,465 So I was pre-approved. 311 00:12:37,465 --> 00:12:40,135 To celebrate, Tom Clancy invited Harrison 312 00:12:40,135 --> 00:12:42,596 and Phillip to his home in Chesapeake Bay. 313 00:12:42,596 --> 00:12:45,265 It had been a long trip and I was jet lagged 314 00:12:45,390 --> 00:12:48,310 and made the terrible mistake of going to sleep. 315 00:12:48,310 --> 00:12:51,521 This was perceived as being an insult. 316 00:12:51,521 --> 00:12:54,399 And that was the end of my relationship with Clancy. 317 00:12:54,524 --> 00:12:55,901 That might be for the best. 318 00:12:55,901 --> 00:12:58,153 Hopefully Clancy would respond better 319 00:12:58,153 --> 00:13:01,114 to screenwriter Peter Iliff, who was hard at work 320 00:13:01,239 --> 00:13:02,866 adapting the final confrontation. 321 00:13:02,866 --> 00:13:07,454 {\an8}In the book, you're following the POV of the bad guys, 322 00:13:07,579 --> 00:13:09,790 {\an8}penetrating the property. 323 00:13:09,915 --> 00:13:12,459 Harrison Ford and director Phillip Noyce 324 00:13:12,459 --> 00:13:14,461 disagreed with this point of view. 325 00:13:14,586 --> 00:13:17,339 They felt the point of view should be from Harrison Ford. 326 00:13:17,464 --> 00:13:19,633 The rework scene would pull inspiration 327 00:13:19,758 --> 00:13:22,761 from one of cinema's greatest invasion films. 328 00:13:22,761 --> 00:13:24,596 Crowbars up. 329 00:13:24,596 --> 00:13:26,431 My wife takes all the credit for this scene. 330 00:13:26,431 --> 00:13:28,350 She calls it the "Home Alone" scene. 331 00:13:30,227 --> 00:13:31,603 It was her idea. 332 00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:33,313 I have to give my wife, Ruthanne, credit. 333 00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:36,358 Well, write it like "Home Alone." 334 00:13:37,526 --> 00:13:38,527 Okay, dear. 335 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:42,614 Ah! 336 00:13:42,614 --> 00:13:44,574 But for Ford and Noyce, 337 00:13:44,574 --> 00:13:47,118 the home invasion was just the tip of the POV iceberg. 338 00:13:47,244 --> 00:13:49,830 Peter Iliff's script was an accurate reflection 339 00:13:49,955 --> 00:13:53,583 of Clancy's fevered right wing story. 340 00:13:53,708 --> 00:13:55,669 Harrison was more interested 341 00:13:55,794 --> 00:13:59,381 in questioning the way that power was used. 342 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:00,590 Something wrong? 343 00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:01,925 There was a great deal of work 344 00:14:01,925 --> 00:14:03,760 that then continued on the script 345 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,346 once Harrison became involved. 346 00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:09,182 No one wants to upset someone so well versed 347 00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:10,809 on how people die. 348 00:14:10,934 --> 00:14:13,520 Tom did not like what Harrison and Phillip Noyce 349 00:14:13,645 --> 00:14:15,438 was doing with the movie. 350 00:14:15,438 --> 00:14:17,691 Clancy went after the head of the studio, 351 00:14:17,816 --> 00:14:19,860 who was one of the most lovely men I've ever met, 352 00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:21,194 Brandon Tartikoff. 353 00:14:21,194 --> 00:14:22,529 I always wanted to say this. 354 00:14:22,654 --> 00:14:24,656 - Hello, viewers. - Hello. 355 00:14:24,656 --> 00:14:26,283 Clancy railed into him-- 356 00:14:26,283 --> 00:14:28,326 This was the day of faxes, there was a fax. 357 00:14:28,452 --> 00:14:30,203 Clancy faxed angry, 358 00:14:30,328 --> 00:14:33,790 "You don't know what it's like to lose a child." 359 00:14:33,915 --> 00:14:35,333 But Tom Clancy had made 360 00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:37,878 one quite awful miscalculation. 361 00:14:37,878 --> 00:14:39,754 Brandon Tartikoff, 362 00:14:39,754 --> 00:14:41,840 his daughter, had been severely injured in a car crash 363 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,718 in Lake Tahoe over the winter holidays. 364 00:14:44,843 --> 00:14:46,011 Certainly not the way 365 00:14:46,011 --> 00:14:47,929 anyone wants to win an argument. 366 00:14:47,929 --> 00:14:52,517 When Clancy found this out, he was terribly ashamed 367 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:53,977 he had written this fax. 368 00:14:53,977 --> 00:14:56,229 And Clancy now has to concede 369 00:14:56,354 --> 00:14:58,356 because he's embarrassed himself. 370 00:14:59,566 --> 00:15:01,234 We reached a ceasefire agreement. 371 00:15:01,234 --> 00:15:04,529 So he agreed to stop denigrating us 372 00:15:04,529 --> 00:15:08,909 and to hold his words on the finished product. 373 00:15:09,034 --> 00:15:11,244 While Tom Clancy was holding his tongue, 374 00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:14,247 Harrison Ford had a lot to say about casting. 375 00:15:14,372 --> 00:15:16,750 Okay, we'll see you soon. Bye. 376 00:15:16,750 --> 00:15:18,585 Alec Baldwin and Harrison were different ages, 377 00:15:18,710 --> 00:15:21,505 so we needed to recast his whole family. 378 00:15:21,505 --> 00:15:23,924 We were at lunch talking about the wife role 379 00:15:24,049 --> 00:15:26,927 and of course every name was brought up. 380 00:15:26,927 --> 00:15:29,846 And he picked Annie Archer. 381 00:15:29,846 --> 00:15:31,598 And although Gates McFadden 382 00:15:31,723 --> 00:15:33,683 wouldn't be returning. Jack. 383 00:15:33,683 --> 00:15:35,352 You're going to miss the plane. 384 00:15:35,352 --> 00:15:36,603 This development would lead 385 00:15:36,728 --> 00:15:38,647 to another opportunity. 386 00:15:38,647 --> 00:15:41,441 I am sure, Commander, there are reasons for a First Officer 387 00:15:41,441 --> 00:15:43,485 to want to demonstrate his energy and alertness 388 00:15:43,485 --> 00:15:45,070 to a new captain. 389 00:15:45,195 --> 00:15:46,822 As for Jack Ryan's daughter-- 390 00:15:46,822 --> 00:15:48,949 Thora Birch was cast as their daughter. 391 00:15:49,074 --> 00:15:50,492 Granted, I was only nine. 392 00:15:50,492 --> 00:15:51,952 {\an8}It was very nerve-racking for me 393 00:15:51,952 --> 00:15:55,580 {\an8}because I was already a huge Harrison Ford fan. 394 00:15:55,705 --> 00:15:57,582 I mean "Indiana Jones." 395 00:15:57,582 --> 00:16:00,293 In my mind, like, "Wow, if I could pick a father to have 396 00:16:00,418 --> 00:16:02,337 to be my real life dad, 397 00:16:02,337 --> 00:16:03,630 I think I'm going with Harrison Ford. 398 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,590 Definitely going with Indiana Jones." 399 00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,342 For the audition, 400 00:16:07,342 --> 00:16:08,885 Thora was assigned the home invasion scene. 401 00:16:08,885 --> 00:16:10,971 I was just, like, having this 402 00:16:10,971 --> 00:16:12,889 rapid-fire conversation with myself. 403 00:16:12,889 --> 00:16:15,392 Like, "Okay, just go crazy." 404 00:16:15,392 --> 00:16:18,603 And so I went in screaming like a crazy ninny. 405 00:16:18,603 --> 00:16:21,773 And, but then at the end of the audition, I saw Harrison, 406 00:16:21,898 --> 00:16:24,443 he kinda, like, turned around and he had, like, a little tissue 407 00:16:24,443 --> 00:16:26,820 and I think he was batting a tear. 408 00:16:26,945 --> 00:16:27,904 That's what some say. 409 00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:29,573 So I was like, "Oh, okay. 410 00:16:29,573 --> 00:16:30,657 I made Harrison Ford cry. 411 00:16:30,782 --> 00:16:32,075 This is good." 412 00:16:32,075 --> 00:16:33,410 And stepping into the role 413 00:16:33,410 --> 00:16:35,537 of Rebel Fighter, Sean Miller. 414 00:16:35,537 --> 00:16:37,622 Inspector Robert Highland. 415 00:16:37,747 --> 00:16:39,458 Sean Bean was very new. 416 00:16:39,458 --> 00:16:40,959 None of us knew who Sean was. 417 00:16:40,959 --> 00:16:42,836 With the cast locked, 418 00:16:42,961 --> 00:16:45,797 Harrison would stay hands- on every step of the way. 419 00:16:45,922 --> 00:16:49,593 Harrison had opinions about every single aspect. 420 00:16:49,593 --> 00:16:51,845 If there was a pot, Ford's finger was in it. 421 00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:55,015 There was always someone looking over my shoulder 422 00:16:55,140 --> 00:16:57,142 and that someone was Harrison Ford. 423 00:16:57,142 --> 00:16:59,436 But Noyce would remain the driving force 424 00:16:59,436 --> 00:17:01,688 behind pivotal scenes such as-- 425 00:17:01,688 --> 00:17:03,982 The attack on the royal car. 426 00:17:05,859 --> 00:17:07,736 Noyce had painstakingly laid out the scene. 427 00:17:07,736 --> 00:17:09,571 Drawing every shot in the film, 428 00:17:09,571 --> 00:17:12,657 then editing that and re-editing it and re-editing it. 429 00:17:12,783 --> 00:17:14,785 And then finally shooting what you're left with. 430 00:17:14,785 --> 00:17:16,661 {\an8}This was all great until-- 431 00:17:16,661 --> 00:17:19,581 Harrison had some script changes he wanted made. 432 00:17:20,582 --> 00:17:21,958 And I'll never forget, 433 00:17:21,958 --> 00:17:24,419 it's lunch and he has me sitting in the very car 434 00:17:24,419 --> 00:17:26,796 that the machine guns had been turned on. 435 00:17:29,007 --> 00:17:31,802 The windshield's all splintered with bullet holes 436 00:17:31,802 --> 00:17:33,136 and we're sitting in there 437 00:17:33,136 --> 00:17:34,888 and he just wanted a place to sit 438 00:17:35,013 --> 00:17:36,056 where he could talk to me about the script. 439 00:17:36,056 --> 00:17:37,682 And I'm fiercely taking notes. 440 00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:39,476 All of a sudden, Harrison came in 441 00:17:39,476 --> 00:17:41,812 with all these new storyboards. 442 00:17:41,812 --> 00:17:45,524 Every shot, every move has been talked about, 443 00:17:45,649 --> 00:17:47,025 has been agreed upon 444 00:17:47,025 --> 00:17:49,820 and has been visualized in a storyboard. 445 00:17:49,820 --> 00:17:51,863 Phillip had the unenviable task 446 00:17:51,863 --> 00:17:53,573 of telling Harrison Ford 447 00:17:53,698 --> 00:17:56,118 what he wanted just wasn't possible. Right. 448 00:17:56,243 --> 00:17:57,869 Oh. 449 00:17:57,869 --> 00:17:58,995 I believe what we did was pretty close 450 00:17:58,995 --> 00:18:00,872 to Harrison Ford's storyboards. 451 00:18:00,872 --> 00:18:05,210 Noyce was not the veteran filmmaker he is today. 452 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:06,920 What choice did he have? 453 00:18:07,045 --> 00:18:09,673 I came to Hollywood having made three or four films 454 00:18:09,673 --> 00:18:14,177 in Australia, but I'd never met the Hollywood animal. 455 00:18:15,971 --> 00:18:17,722 While confidence in the director's choices 456 00:18:17,848 --> 00:18:19,766 seemed to be at an all time low, 457 00:18:19,891 --> 00:18:22,561 the only thing that truly mattered was the footage. 458 00:18:22,686 --> 00:18:26,398 The studio did not like some of the earlier dailies. 459 00:18:32,154 --> 00:18:35,615 {\an8}We had a little bit of a rough start in London. 460 00:18:35,740 --> 00:18:39,202 {\an8}The studio did not like some of the earlier dailies. 461 00:18:39,202 --> 00:18:41,037 The studio began to wonder, 462 00:18:41,163 --> 00:18:44,583 was it a matter of production finding their sea legs 463 00:18:44,583 --> 00:18:46,209 or was it the man at the helm? 464 00:18:46,209 --> 00:18:49,045 Specifically the scene where Polly Walker 465 00:18:49,045 --> 00:18:51,131 executes Jimmy Boy. 466 00:18:52,924 --> 00:18:55,135 And some of the other stuff from that week 467 00:18:55,135 --> 00:18:58,180 with Cooley, the bookkeeper. 468 00:18:58,305 --> 00:18:59,723 And to you. 469 00:18:59,723 --> 00:19:01,725 Polly Walker's wardrobe was all wrong. 470 00:19:02,934 --> 00:19:04,978 The studio wanted her to show up 471 00:19:05,103 --> 00:19:07,856 not really drawing attention, 'cause she is a spy. 472 00:19:07,981 --> 00:19:09,900 She's got this red wig, 473 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:13,153 but she had this bright purple outfit on. 474 00:19:13,153 --> 00:19:15,780 They made Phillip Noyce reshoot a week. 475 00:19:15,780 --> 00:19:17,491 It was very costly. 476 00:19:19,201 --> 00:19:22,078 The reshoot, she's wearing gray tones. 477 00:19:22,204 --> 00:19:23,788 Good morning, Mr. Cooley. 478 00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:25,499 Despite eroding confidence 479 00:19:25,499 --> 00:19:28,168 in the film's director, cameras continue to roll 480 00:19:28,168 --> 00:19:29,920 on "Patriot Games." 481 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,088 {\an8}There's a sequence where one of the Irishmen 482 00:19:32,088 --> 00:19:34,841 is assassinated by one of his rivals. 483 00:19:34,841 --> 00:19:37,010 We'd written the classic, really tense 484 00:19:37,010 --> 00:19:39,221 sort of action sequence in there 485 00:19:39,221 --> 00:19:43,016 and Noyce decided to shoot it very subtle. 486 00:19:45,101 --> 00:19:49,523 So it seemed to me that setting the story to music 487 00:19:49,523 --> 00:19:51,066 that was on the TV 488 00:19:51,066 --> 00:19:54,236 was one way of invigorating the storytelling 489 00:19:54,236 --> 00:19:56,029 of this particular sequence. 490 00:19:56,029 --> 00:19:58,198 Ford thought the approach was, well-- 491 00:19:58,198 --> 00:19:59,825 - Crazy. - The problem was 492 00:19:59,825 --> 00:20:01,618 beyond storyboards. 493 00:20:01,618 --> 00:20:04,704 Harrison complained to the studio and the producer. 494 00:20:04,704 --> 00:20:06,540 What is the problem? 495 00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:08,124 But for once Phillip had a supporter. 496 00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:10,168 So I thought that was an interesting choice 497 00:20:10,168 --> 00:20:12,712 by getting more in the minutia, the fight of it. 498 00:20:12,712 --> 00:20:14,131 I said no. 499 00:20:15,132 --> 00:20:18,635 Again, I was just told to rewrite it as told. 500 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:21,054 But Phillip wouldn't fall so easily. 501 00:20:21,054 --> 00:20:22,681 I said, "Well look, you know, 502 00:20:22,806 --> 00:20:25,642 why don't I show him the cut sequence?" 503 00:20:25,642 --> 00:20:27,102 Wanna come down, look over what we got? 504 00:20:27,102 --> 00:20:29,521 And I did a couple of weeks later 505 00:20:29,521 --> 00:20:31,940 and all the problems went away. 506 00:20:33,316 --> 00:20:34,901 Phillip was earning Ford's trust. 507 00:20:34,901 --> 00:20:36,903 As for the script-- 508 00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:40,824 Clancy's novel also didn't allow the Jack Ryan character 509 00:20:40,824 --> 00:20:44,536 to question his own values, his own morality. 510 00:20:44,661 --> 00:20:46,788 You walk up to the IRA's bagman 511 00:20:46,788 --> 00:20:49,916 and in front of his guys, you threaten him? 512 00:20:50,041 --> 00:20:51,668 But questioning the status quo 513 00:20:51,668 --> 00:20:53,879 was never Peter Iliff's strong suit. 514 00:20:54,004 --> 00:20:55,589 You know, I'm just taking orders, you know? 515 00:20:55,589 --> 00:20:57,549 I'll write it, you know. You tell me to write it 516 00:20:57,674 --> 00:20:59,342 this point of view, that's how you're gonna get it. 517 00:20:59,342 --> 00:21:01,636 When it came to portraying the CIA, 518 00:21:01,761 --> 00:21:03,638 Phillip Noyce didn't just want to rely 519 00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:05,098 on Tom Clancy's novel. 520 00:21:05,098 --> 00:21:07,017 It felt like it was really important 521 00:21:07,017 --> 00:21:10,604 that Harrison should be taken to the CIA. 522 00:21:10,604 --> 00:21:12,939 Turns out the CIA were pretty big fans 523 00:21:12,939 --> 00:21:14,941 of Tom Clancy, not to mention-- 524 00:21:14,941 --> 00:21:16,735 Marquee name Harrison Ford. 525 00:21:16,735 --> 00:21:18,153 So, doors do get opened. 526 00:21:18,153 --> 00:21:19,905 Tony Farrow. 527 00:21:20,030 --> 00:21:21,948 Production had unprecedented access. 528 00:21:21,948 --> 00:21:23,784 We walked corridors 529 00:21:23,784 --> 00:21:25,243 that probably no civilians ever even walked. 530 00:21:25,368 --> 00:21:27,746 I took with me my 11-year-old daughter 531 00:21:27,871 --> 00:21:30,707 and it wasn't appropriate for her to go on the whole tour. 532 00:21:30,707 --> 00:21:32,793 So they offered a babysitter. 533 00:21:32,918 --> 00:21:35,253 Seeing the CIA didn't have a playroom, 534 00:21:35,253 --> 00:21:37,088 they had to improvise. 535 00:21:37,214 --> 00:21:39,382 There were all these people coming up on the screen. 536 00:21:39,382 --> 00:21:41,968 They were white, sort of heat signature. 537 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,095 Well, she didn't explain heat signature. 538 00:21:44,221 --> 00:21:48,975 But that became basis for the sequence. 539 00:21:48,975 --> 00:21:51,311 - That is a kill. - And what came next 540 00:21:51,436 --> 00:21:53,814 would make everything before look easy. 541 00:21:53,939 --> 00:21:54,981 You wanna know what it is? 542 00:21:54,981 --> 00:21:57,234 The finale of "Patriot Games." 543 00:21:57,234 --> 00:22:01,112 A fight to the death between Sean Bean's character 544 00:22:01,112 --> 00:22:03,073 and Harrison Ford's character. 545 00:22:03,073 --> 00:22:04,741 He's waiting. 546 00:22:04,741 --> 00:22:05,867 The battle was to take place 547 00:22:05,867 --> 00:22:07,786 above the Chesapeake Bay. 548 00:22:07,911 --> 00:22:11,331 Sean Bean and Harrison somehow are at each other's throats 549 00:22:11,456 --> 00:22:13,041 and they fall in the water 550 00:22:13,041 --> 00:22:14,876 and they're so busy strangling each other 551 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:18,255 that you're seeing a shot of two bodies sinking. 552 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:22,759 And then disappear into the ocean 553 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:24,886 {\an8}in a vice-like grip. 554 00:22:25,011 --> 00:22:28,098 And you don't know who's gonna rise to the surface. 555 00:22:28,223 --> 00:22:30,976 Leaving the audience wondering, "Who was it?" 556 00:22:31,101 --> 00:22:33,228 Well, I thought I wanted to know, but now I'm not so sure. 557 00:22:33,228 --> 00:22:34,771 Well, it's Harrison Ford. 558 00:22:34,896 --> 00:22:36,106 The understated ending 559 00:22:36,106 --> 00:22:38,150 was a victory for Phillip Noyce. 560 00:22:38,150 --> 00:22:40,026 We previewed that ending 561 00:22:40,026 --> 00:22:43,238 and the audience were just not happy. 562 00:22:43,238 --> 00:22:46,158 Jack, you listening? They felt that retribution 563 00:22:46,283 --> 00:22:48,160 had to be more absolute. 564 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,037 Three weeks before the film came out 565 00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:53,874 there we were reshooting the ending. 566 00:22:53,874 --> 00:22:56,001 To do that, they needed the cast. 567 00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:57,377 Where are you taking me, Marty? 568 00:22:57,377 --> 00:22:59,296 And the Chesapeake Bay, 569 00:22:59,296 --> 00:23:01,089 which happened to be on the other side of the country. 570 00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:02,340 {\an8}There was a real problem, we didn't 571 00:23:02,340 --> 00:23:04,301 {\an8}know how we were gonna do that. 572 00:23:04,426 --> 00:23:08,138 The solution, Paramount's own backlot tank. 573 00:23:08,138 --> 00:23:12,184 We surround it with a wall of black, probably 70 meters. 574 00:23:12,184 --> 00:23:16,021 Wave machines, rain towers, boats on gimbals. 575 00:23:16,146 --> 00:23:17,856 Phillip had everything he needed 576 00:23:17,856 --> 00:23:20,859 to give the audience exactly what they wanted. 577 00:23:20,984 --> 00:23:24,946 Still, I hesitated in giving the audience 578 00:23:24,946 --> 00:23:28,700 the absolute kill shot that they had demanded. 579 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:30,076 Mace suggested it was time 580 00:23:30,202 --> 00:23:32,120 to workshop a new ending. 581 00:23:32,245 --> 00:23:35,499 And they were talking about having the fight in the boat. 582 00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:41,004 David Ellis, our second unit director, made the suggestion 583 00:23:41,129 --> 00:23:44,341 that perhaps Sean could fall on the anchor. 584 00:23:46,510 --> 00:23:49,721 And that way too, Jack Ryan is not killing him. 585 00:23:49,721 --> 00:23:53,975 It's an accident within a fight. 586 00:23:53,975 --> 00:23:55,393 To make the premiere, 587 00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:57,979 reshoots went on all hours of the night 588 00:23:58,104 --> 00:24:00,941 and Ford did all he could to keep spirits high. 589 00:24:00,941 --> 00:24:02,234 More coffee, anyone? 590 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:03,777 I'd love some. Yeah, I remember 591 00:24:03,902 --> 00:24:05,195 two o'clock in the morning 592 00:24:05,195 --> 00:24:06,822 he said, "You could do with a cup of tea." 593 00:24:06,947 --> 00:24:08,031 So he handed me this cup of tea, 594 00:24:08,156 --> 00:24:09,950 which was straight Scotch. 595 00:24:11,118 --> 00:24:12,452 Is everyone all right? 596 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,287 With a brand new ending, 597 00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:18,291 {\an8}"Patriot Games" was released in June of 1992. 598 00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:24,464 The first review was from Variety 599 00:24:24,464 --> 00:24:26,800 and it was extremely negative. 600 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,134 I read it in the newspaper. 601 00:24:28,260 --> 00:24:29,845 But perhaps the review 602 00:24:29,845 --> 00:24:31,388 should have landed in the literary column. 603 00:24:31,388 --> 00:24:34,432 It attacked the film for the politics 604 00:24:34,432 --> 00:24:36,226 of the original novel. 605 00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:38,436 And generally the reviews were positive. 606 00:24:38,562 --> 00:24:41,356 However, the film was not as successful 607 00:24:41,481 --> 00:24:43,942 {\an8}as "The Hunt for Red October," as it turned out. 608 00:24:44,067 --> 00:24:46,069 Nevertheless, "Patriot Games" was a hit, 609 00:24:46,069 --> 00:24:49,072 pulling in nearly $180 million worldwide 610 00:24:49,072 --> 00:24:52,909 {\an8}on its $45 million budget, which was more than enough 611 00:24:52,909 --> 00:24:55,078 {\an8}to green light Clancy's next book. 612 00:24:55,078 --> 00:24:56,913 "Clear and Present Danger." 613 00:24:56,913 --> 00:24:58,457 Ford was on board. 614 00:24:58,582 --> 00:25:01,251 I want back in. But it remained to be seen 615 00:25:01,251 --> 00:25:04,004 what would become of the film's polarizing director? 616 00:25:04,129 --> 00:25:07,257 When John Goldwyn, head of production at Paramount, 617 00:25:07,257 --> 00:25:09,926 offered me the second film, I jumped at it. 618 00:25:10,051 --> 00:25:12,429 The director and star were to be reunited, 619 00:25:12,429 --> 00:25:15,515 only this time Harrison's dominating presence 620 00:25:15,515 --> 00:25:19,186 would only be the beginning of Phillip Noyce's concerns. 621 00:25:19,186 --> 00:25:22,022 And that led to an enormous quarrel 622 00:25:22,022 --> 00:25:23,940 between myself and Harrison. 623 00:25:29,196 --> 00:25:30,989 In "Clear and Present Danger," 624 00:25:31,114 --> 00:25:33,992 Jack Ryan would take on Colombian drug traffickers. 625 00:25:34,117 --> 00:25:37,120 To prepare, Director Phillip Noyce had traveled to Bogota. 626 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:40,832 {\an8}That country of Colombia was not a safe place to visit 627 00:25:40,832 --> 00:25:43,084 {\an8}Because of the drug cartels. 628 00:25:43,084 --> 00:25:45,295 Unfortunately, Phil was there 629 00:25:45,295 --> 00:25:47,047 to research drug cartels. 630 00:25:47,172 --> 00:25:50,091 We made contact with some journalists down there 631 00:25:50,091 --> 00:25:54,429 and they arranged for me to meet some of the people 632 00:25:54,429 --> 00:25:58,058 in the Cali Cartel, which was the rival 633 00:25:58,183 --> 00:26:01,520 to Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel. 634 00:26:01,645 --> 00:26:05,023 I went to visit this woman who was the chief money launderer 635 00:26:05,148 --> 00:26:06,525 for the Cali Cartel. 636 00:26:06,650 --> 00:26:08,360 - And these two are--? - They're brothers. 637 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:10,237 Phillip had created a cover story 638 00:26:10,237 --> 00:26:12,030 for his fact-finding mission. 639 00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:15,075 We were making a film about an American gem dealer 640 00:26:15,075 --> 00:26:17,160 that had worked in Colombia. 641 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,538 So his cover was that he was making a 642 00:26:19,538 --> 00:26:21,873 - different movie? - Does that make any sense? 643 00:26:21,998 --> 00:26:23,375 I don't know. 644 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:25,001 When she asked me about the character, 645 00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:27,754 I forgot who the fictional character was 646 00:26:27,754 --> 00:26:29,881 that we were supposedly making the film about. 647 00:26:29,881 --> 00:26:33,176 And the next minute I feel the barrel 648 00:26:33,176 --> 00:26:36,054 of an Uzi pressed into the back of my neck. 649 00:26:36,054 --> 00:26:37,931 She said, "I don't know who you are, 650 00:26:38,056 --> 00:26:39,516 but you better get outta here." 651 00:26:41,142 --> 00:26:42,394 Unscathed and full of ideas, 652 00:26:42,394 --> 00:26:44,354 Phillip Noyce returned to the US 653 00:26:44,354 --> 00:26:46,189 eager to get to work on the script. 654 00:26:46,189 --> 00:26:49,067 Harrison, Mace Neufeld, the producer and myself 655 00:26:49,192 --> 00:26:53,530 all agreed we needed to do substantial rewriting. 656 00:26:53,530 --> 00:26:56,408 Because even with the series screenwriter Don Stewart 657 00:26:56,533 --> 00:26:58,451 returning for a third outing. 658 00:26:58,577 --> 00:27:01,288 There was a lot of detail in the novel 659 00:27:01,413 --> 00:27:04,583 that Don Stewart hadn't captured in his first pass. 660 00:27:04,583 --> 00:27:09,588 So what we did, we divided the script up into three parts. 661 00:27:11,214 --> 00:27:12,424 Steve Zaillian was tapped to write the scenes 662 00:27:12,424 --> 00:27:13,550 with the president. 663 00:27:13,550 --> 00:27:15,302 Let's turn this thing around. 664 00:27:15,427 --> 00:27:17,095 While Donald Stewart tackled the scenes 665 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:19,055 - with James Earl Jones. - There's one of them now. 666 00:27:19,055 --> 00:27:20,557 And that left one element 667 00:27:20,557 --> 00:27:22,559 and that was the action sequences. 668 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:25,187 And those writing duties went to John Milius, 669 00:27:25,187 --> 00:27:27,981 whose work ranged from "Conan" to "Apocalypse Now." 670 00:27:28,106 --> 00:27:30,859 He was brilliant. He was outstanding in every way. 671 00:27:30,984 --> 00:27:32,486 With the new script in place, 672 00:27:32,611 --> 00:27:34,988 it was time to bring back the old cast. 673 00:27:34,988 --> 00:27:37,991 {\an8}The great James Earl Jones was coming back. 674 00:27:38,116 --> 00:27:39,576 Watch your back, Jack. 675 00:27:39,701 --> 00:27:41,328 Jones wasn't the only one returning. 676 00:27:41,328 --> 00:27:43,663 Ann Archer was back as Cathy Ryan. 677 00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:45,582 Well what does that mean? 678 00:27:45,582 --> 00:27:48,418 Along with Ford's onscreen daughter, Sally. 679 00:27:48,418 --> 00:27:49,628 When they asked me to return, 680 00:27:49,628 --> 00:27:51,588 'cause I was just thrilled. 681 00:27:51,588 --> 00:27:54,049 {\an8}Until I read the length of the part and then not so much. 682 00:27:54,049 --> 00:27:55,967 - Bye, honey. - Bye, dad. 683 00:27:55,967 --> 00:27:58,470 New characters would mean new additions 684 00:27:58,470 --> 00:28:00,138 to the cast. 685 00:28:00,263 --> 00:28:01,932 {\an8}That was my first Hollywood experience. 686 00:28:01,932 --> 00:28:04,476 {\an8}I was very nervous, which was good for Ritter. 687 00:28:04,601 --> 00:28:07,145 I'm not gonna be the only one left without a chair 688 00:28:07,145 --> 00:28:08,980 when the music stops. 689 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:11,399 Phillip Noyce says, "I think he looks too young. 690 00:28:11,566 --> 00:28:12,984 Don't you?" 691 00:28:14,528 --> 00:28:16,112 We're gonna get him some glasses. 692 00:28:16,112 --> 00:28:17,280 We're gonna shave his hair a little bit. 693 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,615 We're gonna gray it. 694 00:28:18,615 --> 00:28:20,116 All right, he's old enough now 695 00:28:20,116 --> 00:28:22,202 to be the Deputy Director of Operations. 696 00:28:22,327 --> 00:28:24,538 I call it the way I see it, that's my job. 697 00:28:24,663 --> 00:28:26,706 And when it came to casting John Clark, 698 00:28:26,832 --> 00:28:28,583 the no nonsense operative. 699 00:28:28,583 --> 00:28:33,130 Revenge is a very, very, very dangerous motivation. 700 00:28:33,130 --> 00:28:35,674 We'd worked with Willem Dafoe before 701 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:38,552 on John Milius's "Flight of the Intruder." 702 00:28:38,677 --> 00:28:41,346 Well, don't worry, it won't affect my decision. 703 00:28:41,346 --> 00:28:45,475 So it was fantastic to have Willem come on board. 704 00:28:45,475 --> 00:28:47,352 Looking forward to taking some leave 705 00:28:47,477 --> 00:28:49,229 with that young wife and kids? 706 00:28:49,229 --> 00:28:52,065 Also joining the cast, Ann Magnuson, 707 00:28:52,190 --> 00:28:54,401 who was an unorthodox choice at the time. 708 00:28:54,401 --> 00:28:56,194 I wanna pump the paw of the paparazzi 709 00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:57,571 who popped it. 710 00:28:57,571 --> 00:29:00,323 {\an8}I had been appearing on an ABC sitcom 711 00:29:00,323 --> 00:29:02,033 called "Anything But Love" 712 00:29:02,159 --> 00:29:03,451 with Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis. 713 00:29:03,451 --> 00:29:05,245 I'm having a Kodak moment. 714 00:29:05,370 --> 00:29:06,746 While the odds were against her, 715 00:29:06,872 --> 00:29:09,100 Magnuson only needed to impress one person. 716 00:29:09,100 --> 00:29:11,668 Harrison made the final decision. 717 00:29:11,668 --> 00:29:13,670 Thank you, Harrison. 718 00:29:13,670 --> 00:29:16,047 Inhabiting the role of the duplicitous villain, 719 00:29:16,047 --> 00:29:18,091 - Felix Cortez. - Cortez. Cortez. 720 00:29:18,216 --> 00:29:20,677 - Joaquim de Almeida. - Phillip asked me 721 00:29:20,802 --> 00:29:23,930 {\an8}if I could put myself on tape, well dressed. 722 00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:25,223 {\an8}And I put myself on camera. 723 00:29:25,348 --> 00:29:27,559 {\an8}And that's how I got the job. 724 00:29:27,559 --> 00:29:29,227 No more senseless violence. 725 00:29:29,227 --> 00:29:30,562 With the cast assembled, 726 00:29:30,562 --> 00:29:32,314 it was time to start filming and-- 727 00:29:32,314 --> 00:29:34,107 I guess they're supposed to be in Colombia, 728 00:29:34,232 --> 00:29:35,692 even though it was shot in Mexico. 729 00:29:35,817 --> 00:29:37,611 Yeah, that's probably for the best. 730 00:29:37,736 --> 00:29:42,032 I feel an Uzi pressed into the back of my neck. 731 00:29:42,032 --> 00:29:43,992 {\an8}You know, we wanted to create the violence. 732 00:29:43,992 --> 00:29:46,328 {\an8}We didn't wanna actually find it. 733 00:29:46,328 --> 00:29:48,121 What they found 734 00:29:48,246 --> 00:29:49,623 was the road ahead wasn't getting any smoother. 735 00:29:49,748 --> 00:29:52,334 Production struggled to secure a location 736 00:29:52,334 --> 00:29:54,127 affectionately known as-- 737 00:29:54,127 --> 00:29:56,171 {\an8}We called it The Kill Zone. 738 00:29:56,171 --> 00:30:01,218 A highly sophisticated attack on four or five SUVs. 739 00:30:01,384 --> 00:30:03,595 Because even with Milius and Noyce 740 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,222 making constant changes to the script-- 741 00:30:05,222 --> 00:30:06,640 He came to the set. 742 00:30:06,765 --> 00:30:08,600 He was working with Phillip on that script. 743 00:30:08,725 --> 00:30:11,144 The location scouts had found the perfect street, 744 00:30:11,269 --> 00:30:14,231 and with rocket launchers and explosives in tow, 745 00:30:14,231 --> 00:30:17,484 all production needed was a quick yes from the city. 746 00:30:17,484 --> 00:30:19,319 What they got was a quick-- 747 00:30:19,444 --> 00:30:20,403 No. 748 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,282 Hard to believe 749 00:30:24,282 --> 00:30:25,742 the people didn't want to convert their local businesses 750 00:30:25,742 --> 00:30:27,410 into a kill zone. 751 00:30:27,410 --> 00:30:30,288 We looked all over South America, no. 752 00:30:30,413 --> 00:30:32,249 Mexico City, no. 753 00:30:32,249 --> 00:30:34,584 Quito, Ecuador, no. 754 00:30:34,584 --> 00:30:37,337 I realized that it was gonna be impossible 755 00:30:37,337 --> 00:30:39,005 to film in a real location. 756 00:30:39,005 --> 00:30:42,092 We had to construct our own street. 757 00:30:43,385 --> 00:30:45,095 We actually built that whole street. 758 00:30:45,095 --> 00:30:46,429 Way out in the middle of nowhere 759 00:30:46,429 --> 00:30:49,099 on a soccer field in Mexico City. 760 00:30:49,099 --> 00:30:51,476 It was pretty much built with telephone poles 761 00:30:51,476 --> 00:30:53,687 to support the facades of the street. 762 00:30:53,812 --> 00:30:55,272 With the street built, 763 00:30:55,272 --> 00:30:57,149 all that was left was blowing it up. 764 00:30:57,274 --> 00:30:59,484 - We hired-- - Joe Lombardi 765 00:30:59,609 --> 00:31:02,612 - and Paul, his son. - Who had been responsible 766 00:31:02,612 --> 00:31:06,658 for those extraordinary explosions in "Apocalypse Now." 767 00:31:08,285 --> 00:31:09,578 The Lombardis had yet to meet a set 768 00:31:09,578 --> 00:31:11,163 they couldn't obliterate. 769 00:31:11,872 --> 00:31:13,665 What do you think? 770 00:31:13,665 --> 00:31:17,210 They designed these rocket propelled grenades 771 00:31:17,335 --> 00:31:18,753 that really were rocket propelled. 772 00:31:18,753 --> 00:31:20,172 It's crazy. 773 00:31:21,465 --> 00:31:23,467 But then they were guided towards their target 774 00:31:23,467 --> 00:31:25,302 by a line. 775 00:31:26,595 --> 00:31:27,846 {\an8}Did blow up as a car would blow up. 776 00:31:27,971 --> 00:31:29,639 Real explosions. 777 00:31:29,639 --> 00:31:31,683 Those real explosions caused real concern 778 00:31:31,683 --> 00:31:34,811 when Harrison Ford insisted on really doing his own stunts. 779 00:31:34,811 --> 00:31:38,356 Harrison always wanted to be as close to the action 780 00:31:38,482 --> 00:31:40,066 as possible. 781 00:31:40,066 --> 00:31:41,401 Ultimately, the dangerous sequence 782 00:31:41,401 --> 00:31:43,403 forced Phillip Noyce's hand. 783 00:31:43,528 --> 00:31:46,656 But a director's nightmare 784 00:31:46,656 --> 00:31:49,117 is that you injure one of your actors. 785 00:31:50,744 --> 00:31:53,622 And the recurring nightmare is that I kill one of them. 786 00:31:54,664 --> 00:31:56,099 I said, "It's just too dangerous 787 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:59,795 for you to do this particular shot, Harrison." 788 00:32:00,795 --> 00:32:02,380 Ford's response-- 789 00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:04,382 I did not sign up for this. 790 00:32:04,382 --> 00:32:07,093 Sometimes there was things between Harrison and Phillip. 791 00:32:07,093 --> 00:32:09,846 And that led to an enormous quarrel 792 00:32:09,846 --> 00:32:11,806 between myself and Harrison. 793 00:32:11,806 --> 00:32:14,893 Neither side would budge until eventually-- 794 00:32:15,018 --> 00:32:16,853 Mace Neufeld calls me in and he says, 795 00:32:16,853 --> 00:32:19,814 "Listen, I can finish this film without you, 796 00:32:19,814 --> 00:32:21,775 but I can't finish it without Harrison." 797 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:23,777 Harrison is the boss. 798 00:32:23,777 --> 00:32:25,779 I mean, there's nothing you can do. 799 00:32:25,904 --> 00:32:28,657 So he drove in the scene. 800 00:32:28,907 --> 00:32:29,908 Go! 801 00:32:31,368 --> 00:32:32,327 It was all him. 802 00:32:34,329 --> 00:32:35,914 Fortunately, nobody got hurt on that. 803 00:32:35,914 --> 00:32:37,541 After watching the dailies, 804 00:32:37,541 --> 00:32:40,377 Phillip realized how valid his concerns were. 805 00:32:40,377 --> 00:32:41,753 And we saw something 806 00:32:41,878 --> 00:32:44,381 just in front of the windscreen fly past. 807 00:32:44,381 --> 00:32:46,591 It was a huge pole 808 00:32:46,591 --> 00:32:48,802 that ended up a hundred yards 809 00:32:48,927 --> 00:32:50,929 over the other side of the football field 810 00:32:50,929 --> 00:32:52,389 that we were filming on. 811 00:32:52,389 --> 00:32:53,765 It would've gone through his window 812 00:32:53,890 --> 00:32:55,892 and it would've decapitated him. 813 00:32:56,893 --> 00:32:58,520 As it turns out, 814 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,939 building and blowing up a street takes time. 815 00:33:01,064 --> 00:33:04,442 We only had four days on paper to do it. 816 00:33:04,442 --> 00:33:06,361 It just was unrealistic. 817 00:33:06,361 --> 00:33:08,238 As word of the drama in Mexico 818 00:33:08,238 --> 00:33:09,865 made its way to Hollywood, 819 00:33:09,865 --> 00:33:12,576 Paramount decided it was time to put their foot down. 820 00:33:12,576 --> 00:33:15,287 We're in a little cafe with Phil Noyce having breakfast. 821 00:33:15,412 --> 00:33:17,456 And he got this message from the studio. 822 00:33:17,456 --> 00:33:19,833 "Due to new projections for overruns 823 00:33:19,958 --> 00:33:21,418 in the first unit schedule 824 00:33:21,418 --> 00:33:23,420 and the budget of the entire film, 825 00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:26,506 and per today's conversations with Mace Neufeld..." 826 00:33:26,506 --> 00:33:28,967 Nothing good involves the word "per." 827 00:33:28,967 --> 00:33:32,179 "...the following is to be instigated immediately." 828 00:33:32,179 --> 00:33:33,513 You've gotta be out of here. 829 00:33:33,638 --> 00:33:34,931 They gave us an end date 830 00:33:34,931 --> 00:33:36,433 and they said, "Okay you guys, 831 00:33:36,433 --> 00:33:38,351 you've gotta get out of Mexico." 832 00:33:38,477 --> 00:33:41,771 By Monday or any expenses occurred by the production 833 00:33:41,897 --> 00:33:43,440 will be charged against you. 834 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:44,858 And I said to Phil, "What are you gonna do?" 835 00:33:44,858 --> 00:33:46,526 So I looked at this message 836 00:33:46,526 --> 00:33:48,862 and I'm thinking, "Okay, well this is impossible. 837 00:33:48,987 --> 00:33:50,030 We're never gonna finish." 838 00:33:54,868 --> 00:33:56,369 "Clear and Present Danger" 839 00:33:56,369 --> 00:33:58,872 had run over schedule and over budget. 840 00:33:58,872 --> 00:34:01,583 As a result, Paramount had given the production 841 00:34:01,583 --> 00:34:03,543 mere days to leave Mexico. 842 00:34:03,543 --> 00:34:05,212 So I looked at this message 843 00:34:05,212 --> 00:34:07,464 and I'm thinking, "Okay, well this is impossible. 844 00:34:07,589 --> 00:34:09,341 We're never gonna finish." 845 00:34:09,341 --> 00:34:11,510 And then it rained. 846 00:34:11,510 --> 00:34:13,970 You would think Phillip was a dust bull farmer, 847 00:34:13,970 --> 00:34:15,639 but the rain was a miracle, 848 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:17,933 delaying the production's stateside return. 849 00:34:17,933 --> 00:34:20,852 We had one sequence that required finishing, 850 00:34:20,977 --> 00:34:23,814 which was Harrison running across the building, 851 00:34:23,814 --> 00:34:26,900 hopping onto the helicopter and flying out of there. 852 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:30,529 Even Paramount agreed this scene was essential. 853 00:34:30,529 --> 00:34:32,656 But we couldn't film it 'cause it was raining. 854 00:34:32,656 --> 00:34:34,783 The rain delay gave Phillip the window 855 00:34:34,908 --> 00:34:36,827 he needed to shoot the interior scenes. 856 00:34:36,827 --> 00:34:39,496 Pick us up at the Lindo Coffee Factory. 857 00:34:39,496 --> 00:34:41,915 {\an8}All these action scenes with the soldiers. 858 00:34:43,542 --> 00:34:45,919 Paramount didn't want him to shoot all these scenes. 859 00:34:47,712 --> 00:34:52,050 Rain saved me, saved all of us from a massive mess. 860 00:34:52,175 --> 00:34:53,844 Well, this is good news. 861 00:34:53,844 --> 00:34:55,512 And it didn't just rain one day. 862 00:34:55,637 --> 00:34:57,931 And how long will you be staying? 863 00:34:58,056 --> 00:34:59,307 A few days. 864 00:34:59,432 --> 00:35:01,017 It rained for nine days. 865 00:35:01,143 --> 00:35:03,061 So during that nine days, 866 00:35:03,186 --> 00:35:05,772 even though we were meant to be out of there after two days, 867 00:35:05,772 --> 00:35:08,066 we filmed for another seven days. 868 00:35:08,066 --> 00:35:09,818 Giving Phillip Noyce time 869 00:35:09,818 --> 00:35:12,362 to film crucial scenes that had eluded him. 870 00:35:12,487 --> 00:35:14,406 I will take care of the one that got away. 871 00:35:14,406 --> 00:35:15,949 But that was great 872 00:35:15,949 --> 00:35:18,368 'cause then I did all my ending altogether. 873 00:35:18,368 --> 00:35:20,328 Including the pivotal final battle 874 00:35:20,453 --> 00:35:22,289 between Cortez and Ryan. 875 00:35:24,833 --> 00:35:26,418 But even though Harrison and Noyce 876 00:35:26,418 --> 00:35:28,336 clashed over Ford's insistence 877 00:35:28,336 --> 00:35:30,672 on doing his own stunts throughout the production... 878 00:35:30,672 --> 00:35:33,758 I said, it's just too dangerous. 879 00:35:33,884 --> 00:35:36,678 ...Harrison had one surprising request. 880 00:35:36,678 --> 00:35:38,638 He didn't want me to do the scene with him. 881 00:35:38,638 --> 00:35:41,558 He wanted my double to do the scene with him. 882 00:35:41,558 --> 00:35:42,976 Needless to say-- 883 00:35:42,976 --> 00:35:45,020 {\an8}Joaquim was, he was mad about that. 884 00:35:45,145 --> 00:35:46,688 I went to Phillip Noyce 885 00:35:46,813 --> 00:35:48,023 and I said, "No, I want to do the scene 886 00:35:48,023 --> 00:35:50,901 because a double cannot look back. 887 00:35:50,901 --> 00:35:53,779 I want to do the scene. I don't give a shit." 888 00:35:53,904 --> 00:35:55,864 He was mad. 889 00:35:55,864 --> 00:35:57,783 But it was a matter of safety. 890 00:35:57,908 --> 00:35:59,534 They didn't want him to get hurt. 891 00:35:59,659 --> 00:36:01,453 And by him you would assume 892 00:36:01,453 --> 00:36:02,829 they're talking about Joaquim. 893 00:36:02,829 --> 00:36:04,790 Harrison was afraid 894 00:36:04,915 --> 00:36:09,711 that Joaquim being inexperienced in a close quarters fight, 895 00:36:09,836 --> 00:36:12,088 would injure Harrison. 896 00:36:12,088 --> 00:36:14,508 Now, is this another of your theories, Ryan? 897 00:36:14,633 --> 00:36:16,635 Eventually Harrison relented. 898 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,595 I don't know what said to him, but it was right. 899 00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:20,806 While Joaquim literally won the fight, 900 00:36:20,806 --> 00:36:23,099 Harrison always wins the war. 901 00:36:24,976 --> 00:36:27,854 I'm behind Phillip and Harrison next to me 902 00:36:27,854 --> 00:36:30,398 and I ask production person, 903 00:36:30,398 --> 00:36:32,359 "Can you get me a glass of water?" 904 00:36:32,484 --> 00:36:34,903 And he looks at me, "Oh, here, I haven't touched it." 905 00:36:34,903 --> 00:36:38,615 So I take it, I put it-- Blah! It was vodka. 906 00:36:39,241 --> 00:36:40,951 Right over Phillip. 907 00:36:40,951 --> 00:36:42,869 Oh, they put water in your room, 908 00:36:42,994 --> 00:36:44,371 but I wouldn't trust it. I'd stick with the bottled stuff. 909 00:36:44,371 --> 00:36:46,164 I said, "Phillip, I'm sorry." 910 00:36:46,164 --> 00:36:48,166 The potential prank war 911 00:36:48,166 --> 00:36:50,710 would be cut short as the thing that brought them time... 912 00:36:50,710 --> 00:36:53,129 - And then it rained. - ...had ended, 913 00:36:53,129 --> 00:36:55,715 leaving them only one day left to shoot. 914 00:36:55,715 --> 00:36:58,468 Harrison's extraction from the roof. 915 00:36:58,468 --> 00:37:00,720 Ford muscled through the pain. 916 00:37:01,721 --> 00:37:02,889 He was climbing up ladders 917 00:37:02,889 --> 00:37:05,016 and running across a tiled roof, 918 00:37:05,016 --> 00:37:06,977 so it didn't seem to slow him down. 919 00:37:07,102 --> 00:37:08,645 And with clear skies, 920 00:37:08,645 --> 00:37:10,397 it was time to roll cameras. 921 00:37:10,397 --> 00:37:12,941 It also meant production was on borrowed time. 922 00:37:12,941 --> 00:37:15,485 We actually split into two groups. 923 00:37:15,485 --> 00:37:17,821 I took off with Don McAlpine 924 00:37:17,821 --> 00:37:20,949 and we went up into the coffee country and we blew, 925 00:37:20,949 --> 00:37:22,701 we blew up the house. 926 00:37:22,701 --> 00:37:24,911 Start the music. Finding a house to film 927 00:37:25,036 --> 00:37:28,790 can be a challenge, but finding a house to film blowing up. 928 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:29,916 Now, that's impossible. 929 00:37:30,041 --> 00:37:31,626 The lady that owned it 930 00:37:31,626 --> 00:37:33,712 had gone through a very bitter divorce. 931 00:37:33,837 --> 00:37:35,088 Which was great news. 932 00:37:35,213 --> 00:37:36,673 Well, for production. 933 00:37:36,673 --> 00:37:38,842 Target is set. 934 00:37:38,842 --> 00:37:40,594 We approached her about, you know, 935 00:37:40,594 --> 00:37:41,803 maybe destroying the house. 936 00:37:41,928 --> 00:37:43,096 She said, "Go for it. 937 00:37:43,096 --> 00:37:44,806 I hate this place." 938 00:37:44,931 --> 00:37:46,808 Target is acquired, and lift. 939 00:37:46,933 --> 00:37:48,810 Two birds, one bomb. 940 00:37:48,810 --> 00:37:50,520 But it wasn't that simple. 941 00:37:50,645 --> 00:37:52,981 Unfortunately, we might as well have done it 942 00:37:53,106 --> 00:37:54,983 through visual effects. 943 00:37:55,108 --> 00:37:59,529 When the explosion erupted, the house was there one second, 944 00:37:59,654 --> 00:38:01,698 and then a 10th of a second later 945 00:38:01,698 --> 00:38:05,577 it had disappeared completely into a cloud of dust. 946 00:38:05,577 --> 00:38:07,829 Boom. 947 00:38:07,829 --> 00:38:09,456 Nothing was flying through the air. 948 00:38:09,456 --> 00:38:11,541 It was just obliterated by dust. 949 00:38:13,585 --> 00:38:14,836 Mother of God! 950 00:38:16,797 --> 00:38:21,593 So we ended up having to add debris and so on to the shot 951 00:38:22,302 --> 00:38:24,137 to make it look real. 952 00:38:24,137 --> 00:38:25,222 But at the moment, Phillip had his hands full 953 00:38:25,347 --> 00:38:26,681 with the extraction scene. 954 00:38:28,808 --> 00:38:30,602 He said, "Roll the camera." 955 00:38:30,727 --> 00:38:33,146 And I said, "No, Harrison, I'm not gonna do it." 956 00:38:33,271 --> 00:38:34,856 Get outta my chopper. 957 00:38:34,981 --> 00:38:36,942 The helicopter was gonna go up at an angle 958 00:38:36,942 --> 00:38:39,736 and I wanted to make sure that Willem had a safety line. 959 00:38:39,736 --> 00:38:41,613 Come on! 960 00:38:41,738 --> 00:38:42,823 Once the safety checks were complete, 961 00:38:42,823 --> 00:38:43,949 the scene was shot. 962 00:38:46,576 --> 00:38:49,746 But Ford's patience with his director had reached its end. 963 00:38:49,746 --> 00:38:52,666 For whatever reason, I asked for another take 964 00:38:52,666 --> 00:38:53,750 and he didn't want to do it. 965 00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:55,585 No. 966 00:38:55,710 --> 00:38:57,754 But it was clear the honeymoon was over. 967 00:38:57,754 --> 00:39:01,091 We need to talk. 968 00:39:04,636 --> 00:39:06,847 After two tumultuous productions, 969 00:39:06,847 --> 00:39:08,682 tensions between Harrison Ford 970 00:39:08,807 --> 00:39:11,726 and director Phillip Noyce were at an all-time high. 971 00:39:11,852 --> 00:39:14,980 {\an8}I asked for another take and he didn't want to do it. 972 00:39:14,980 --> 00:39:16,189 Phillip's hands were tied. 973 00:39:16,314 --> 00:39:18,024 Harrison is the boss. 974 00:39:18,024 --> 00:39:19,651 There's nothing you can do. 975 00:39:19,651 --> 00:39:20,944 Which means-- 976 00:39:21,069 --> 00:39:22,696 We didn't do take two. 977 00:39:22,696 --> 00:39:24,656 In March of 1994, 978 00:39:24,656 --> 00:39:26,616 principal photography was wrapped. 979 00:39:26,616 --> 00:39:29,536 On those two films, I had a free reign. 980 00:39:29,536 --> 00:39:31,872 I mean, the only person that disagreed with me 981 00:39:31,872 --> 00:39:34,499 - was Harrison Ford. - Good morning. 982 00:39:34,624 --> 00:39:35,959 After some time in the edit, 983 00:39:35,959 --> 00:39:38,295 Phillip thought it best to loop in Harrison. 984 00:39:38,295 --> 00:39:41,590 He felt that we needed a greater connection 985 00:39:41,715 --> 00:39:44,718 between Willem Dafoe and his character. 986 00:39:44,718 --> 00:39:46,678 What can you do to help me? 987 00:39:46,678 --> 00:39:49,014 Eventually Ford proposed a new scene. 988 00:39:49,014 --> 00:39:51,308 And when Harrison pitches something, one listens, 989 00:39:51,308 --> 00:39:53,685 especially when he's the lead in your film. 990 00:39:53,810 --> 00:39:56,813 And so we filmed another scene 991 00:39:56,938 --> 00:39:58,982 at Paramount in the foyer 992 00:39:58,982 --> 00:40:02,068 of the Sherry Lansing cinema there. 993 00:40:02,068 --> 00:40:05,197 - Sorry I'm late. - That was doubling as a hotel 994 00:40:05,322 --> 00:40:07,908 - in Bogota. - - Phillip quickly incorporated 995 00:40:07,908 --> 00:40:09,785 the new scene for Ford's approval. 996 00:40:09,785 --> 00:40:11,244 And this time-- 997 00:40:11,244 --> 00:40:12,746 He's not happy with the cut. 998 00:40:12,871 --> 00:40:14,247 And he wanted Paramount 999 00:40:14,247 --> 00:40:17,250 to send an editor up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1000 00:40:17,250 --> 00:40:20,128 for him to be able to, you know, try out a few things. 1001 00:40:20,253 --> 00:40:21,546 Which would ostensibly 1002 00:40:21,671 --> 00:40:23,131 cut Phillip out of the process. 1003 00:40:23,256 --> 00:40:24,925 I thought, well, this is the time 1004 00:40:24,925 --> 00:40:27,511 to play the only card I've got here, 1005 00:40:27,636 --> 00:40:29,846 which is to demand that we test. 1006 00:40:29,846 --> 00:40:31,306 If this didn't work, 1007 00:40:31,306 --> 00:40:32,724 the next time Phillip would see the film 1008 00:40:32,724 --> 00:40:33,892 would be in theaters. 1009 00:40:33,892 --> 00:40:35,727 So we took the film to test, 1010 00:40:35,852 --> 00:40:38,563 and the test went through the roof. 1011 00:40:38,688 --> 00:40:40,941 It was a much needed win for the director. 1012 00:40:41,066 --> 00:40:42,818 The movie started in the eighties 1013 00:40:42,818 --> 00:40:45,237 and went as close to a hundred as you could get. 1014 00:40:45,237 --> 00:40:46,696 And if it's not broke-- 1015 00:40:46,696 --> 00:40:47,781 Harrison was happy. 1016 00:40:47,906 --> 00:40:49,324 The studio were happy. 1017 00:40:49,324 --> 00:40:50,951 As a result, the shadow of Ford 1018 00:40:51,076 --> 00:40:52,911 slowly lifted from Phillip Noyce. 1019 00:40:52,911 --> 00:40:55,872 And I got to finish the film exactly as I wanted. 1020 00:40:55,872 --> 00:40:57,916 In August of 1994, 1021 00:40:57,916 --> 00:41:00,919 "Clear and Present Danger" exploded into theaters. 1022 00:41:03,046 --> 00:41:06,675 {\an8}"Clear and Present Danger" did extremely, extremely well. 1023 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,636 {\an8}The film turned its $62 million budget 1024 00:41:09,636 --> 00:41:13,682 {\an8}into a $215 million box office haul. 1025 00:41:13,807 --> 00:41:15,559 {\an8}It's also well-reviewed. 1026 00:41:15,684 --> 00:41:17,936 {\an8}Good news for Phillip Noyce and the franchise. 1027 00:41:18,061 --> 00:41:20,063 Harrison and I were contracted 1028 00:41:20,063 --> 00:41:22,774 to make a third Jack Ryan story, 1029 00:41:22,774 --> 00:41:24,151 "The Sum of all Fears." 1030 00:41:24,151 --> 00:41:25,652 Here we go again. 1031 00:41:25,652 --> 00:41:27,737 If you don't recall 1032 00:41:27,863 --> 00:41:30,282 Ford's third Jack Ryan adventure, there's a reason for that. 1033 00:41:30,407 --> 00:41:32,659 There was no next Clancy movie. 1034 00:41:32,659 --> 00:41:34,286 I don't know what happened. 1035 00:41:34,286 --> 00:41:36,788 Harrison was having difficulty with the script. 1036 00:41:36,788 --> 00:41:38,790 He just had trouble with the story. 1037 00:41:38,915 --> 00:41:40,667 If made, not only would it be 1038 00:41:40,667 --> 00:41:42,752 the darkest Jack Ryan story, 1039 00:41:42,752 --> 00:41:45,714 it would be the darkest Harrison Ford film. 1040 00:41:45,714 --> 00:41:47,007 The premise-- 1041 00:41:47,132 --> 00:41:49,134 The explosion of an atomic bomb 1042 00:41:49,134 --> 00:41:53,138 and the killing of tens of thousands of Americans. 1043 00:41:53,138 --> 00:41:55,932 But Phillip was determined to salvage the script. 1044 00:41:56,057 --> 00:41:59,686 I went with a writer to Harrison's apartment 1045 00:41:59,811 --> 00:42:01,104 for about three weeks 1046 00:42:01,104 --> 00:42:03,315 and then spent several hours each day 1047 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,358 talking about the adaptation. 1048 00:42:05,484 --> 00:42:09,362 Eventually, Harrison just said he wasn't willing to commit. 1049 00:42:09,362 --> 00:42:11,948 Ford's departure was a huge setback 1050 00:42:12,073 --> 00:42:13,950 for the franchise, 1051 00:42:13,950 --> 00:42:16,620 but Paramount believed they just may have found a successor. 1052 00:42:16,745 --> 00:42:21,208 Paramount proposed Ben Affleck as the new Jack Ryan. 1053 00:42:21,208 --> 00:42:23,627 - Are you Ryan? - Yes, sir. 1054 00:42:23,752 --> 00:42:24,836 But for Phillip Noyce, 1055 00:42:24,961 --> 00:42:26,296 there was only one Jack Ryan. 1056 00:42:26,296 --> 00:42:27,881 What is this, the paper chase? 1057 00:42:27,881 --> 00:42:30,383 And so I had, I withdrew as well. 1058 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:35,305 I mean, I loved seeing that 1059 00:42:35,305 --> 00:42:38,308 "Clear and Present" was playing every night at midnight 1060 00:42:38,308 --> 00:42:40,977 or thereabouts for years. 1061 00:42:40,977 --> 00:42:42,687 Could you play that again? 1062 00:42:42,687 --> 00:42:44,231 I know that because I have residuals. 1063 00:42:44,356 --> 00:42:47,025 And it should, it's a great film for that genre. 1064 00:42:47,025 --> 00:42:49,194 Together, the unlikely trio 1065 00:42:49,194 --> 00:42:52,322 of Tom Clancy, Phillip Noyce, and Harrison Ford 1066 00:42:52,322 --> 00:42:54,032 redefined the action thriller. 1067 00:42:54,157 --> 00:42:57,118 Get down! 1068 00:42:57,118 --> 00:43:00,914 They were films that were ahead of their time. 1069 00:43:00,914 --> 00:43:02,999 And despite the clashes between star 1070 00:43:02,999 --> 00:43:05,210 and director over two films-- 1071 00:43:05,210 --> 00:43:09,965 That he's involved in every aspect of the films 1072 00:43:09,965 --> 00:43:14,886 that he makes, but he wields that power with dignity, 1073 00:43:15,011 --> 00:43:18,098 restraint, respect. 1074 00:43:18,098 --> 00:43:21,768 That is inspirational, not challenging. 1075 00:43:21,893 --> 00:43:23,812 As for Ford, 1076 00:43:23,812 --> 00:43:27,107 Harrison wanted to continue making sophisticated thrillers. 1077 00:43:27,107 --> 00:43:28,817 And having played the hunter, 1078 00:43:28,817 --> 00:43:31,111 decided it was time to play the hunted. 1079 00:43:31,236 --> 00:43:33,196 I didn't kill my wife. 1080 00:43:33,196 --> 00:43:35,073 I don't care.