Swordfish (2001)

Swordfish (2001)

Director: Dominic Sena

Synopsis

A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear (John Travolta) wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) to help him.

Male Deaths

• Tate Donovan [Senator Reisman's Assistant]
• Vinnie Jones [Marco]
• William Mapother [Gabriel's Crew]
• Rudolf Martin [Ax Torvalds]
• Sam Shepard [Seantor James Reisman]
• Kirk B.R. Woller [Lawyer]
• Unknown Actor [Larry]

Female Deaths

• Halle Berry [Ginger] (faked)
• Marina Black [Tammy]
• Drea de Matteo [Melissa]

Gallery

William Mapother

Marina Black

Kirk B.R. Woller

Sam Shepard

Tate Donovan

Drea de Matteo

Halle Berry

Vinnie Jones

Trivia

• Vinnie Jones was going to do a stunt, but John Travolta stopped him, and a stuntman did it instead. The wire broke, and the stuntman fell sixty to seventy feet onto a concrete floor, breaking his spine.
• Halle Berry agreed to the topless scene because she wanted to overcome her fear of doing nude scenes. An alternate version was also shot with her wearing a bikini top.
• In the scene where Stanley (Hugh Jackman) and Agent Roberts (Don Cheadle) are reviewing their past dealings, Roberts accuses Stanley of hacking into the U.S. government's Carnivore system, and Stanley claims he did it because the government was illegally spying on U.S. citizens' e-mails. This plot line was likely considered a far-fetched notion to viewers of a movie that was released three months before the September 11, 2001 attacks, and more than a year before real-life government spying, of the kind described in the movie, was exposed.
• John Travolta turned down the part of Gabriel six times. He finally changed his mind when he heard director Dominic Sena's take on it.
• At the time, the opening explosion was the most complicated visual effect in the history of Warner Bros. It was shot using Matrix-like effects from the 1999 film The Matrix by Frantic Films of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The effect has so many composites in it that the producers and director of the film could not determine what was real and what was created by computer.