Conspiracy Theory
What if your most paranoid nightmares had just come true?
Country
Budget
$75 000 000
Box office
$136 982 834
Director
Actors
Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan, Terry Alexander, Alex McArthur, Rod McLachlan, Michael Potts, Jim Sterling
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Joel Silver, Richard Donner, Jim Van Wyck
Camera operator
John Schwartzman
Composer
Artist
Paul Sylbert
Audition
Marion Dougherty
Editing
Frank J. Urioste, Kevin Stitt
Whole Team (120)
Whole Team (120)
Short description
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film has a moment where the protagonist, while fleeing a chase, ends up in a cinema where another film by Richard Donner, "Lady Hawk" (1985), is being shown: Rutger Hauer appears in the episode.
- It was released in Russia under the title "The Mystery of the Conspiracy".
- The secret CIA program codenamed MK-ULTRA did indeed exist. It was carried out between 1953 and 1973, when the then-Director of the CIA ordered the program to be shut down and all documentation destroyed. Part of the documentation (around 20,000 items) survived and was made public in 1977.
- The scene in which his character – a taxi driver – tells his passengers about a conspiracy theory was conceived by Mel Gibson himself.
- Richard Donner (1930-2021) met the screenwriter Brian Helgeland at the gates of Warner Brothers studio, where he was holding a one-man picket with a sign that read “Ready to write scripts for money.” Donner asked what this meant, heard in response that Helgeland wrote scripts but was currently unemployed, and decided to take a chance and give him an opportunity.
- Filming took place from October 14, 1996, to February 7, 1997.
- The film features a scene where the protagonist, while escaping pursuit, finds himself in a movie theater showing another film by Richard Donner, “Lady Hawk” (1985): the scene includes Rutger Hauer.
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