Trivia / The Rookie (1990)

• Divorced Installment: Rumor has it that the script was re-worked to be the sixth potential Dirty Harry film.
• Fake Nationality: Puerto Rican Raúl Juliá and Brazilian Sônia Braga play Germans.
• One for the Money; One for the Art: Clint Eastwood agreed to do this movie in exchange for Warner Bros. letting him make his personal movie project, White Hunter, Black Heart.
• Real-Life Relative: Clint Eastwood's son Kyle Eastwood co-wrote the theme song with Michael Stevens.
• What Could Have Been:
  • This movie was to be directed by Craig R. Baxley starring Matthew Modine and Gene Hackman in 1988, but the production was stopped by the Screen Actors Guild strike.
  • Scott Spiegel originally wrote this as a starring vehicle for Sean Connery.

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