Trivia / Chill Factor

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $70,000,000. Gross: $11,263,966.
• Creator Killer: The financial failure of the film killed the careers of writers Drew Gitlin and Mike Cheda and the directorial career of Hugh Johnson before they started. While Gitlin and Cheda haven’t written anything since, Johnson continued to act as a cinematographer until his death in 2015.
• Fake American: Englishman Peter Firth as Colonel Andrew Brynner.
• One-Book Author: The sole directorial effort of cinematographer Hugh Johnson and the sole writing credit of writers Drew Gitlin and Mike Cheda.
• Star-Derailing Role: One of a handful of bombs that followed Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Oscar win for Jerry Maguire.