The Abyss (1989)
Director: James Cameron
Summary[]
Formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth.
Male Deaths[]
- Michael Biehn (Lt. Hiram Coffey)
- Kidd Brewer Jr (Lew Finler)
- Robert Searle (Tommy Ray Deitz)
- Dick Warlock (Dwight Perry)
Female Deaths[]
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Lindsey Brigman) [revived]
Trivia []
- Ed Harris punched James Cameron in the face after he kept filming while he was nearly drowning.
- Ed Harris has publicly refused to speak about his experiences working on the film, saying "I'm not talking about The Abyss and I never will". The only register with Harris speaking about his experiences doing the movie is in the documentary Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' (1993). Similarly, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio said "The Abyss was a lot of things. Fun to make was not one of them."
- During the resuscitation scene, Ed Harris wasn't acting to Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in many of the shots. He was yelling at thin air. During the scenes she did appear in, he was pounding and slapping her for real. Mastrantonio stormed off the set when she was informed that the camera broke in the middle of the scene and she refused to perform such difficult sequence one more time.
- Cast members had to become certified divers before filming began.
- Michael Biehn claimed that he was in South Carolina for five months and only acted for three to four weeks. He remembered one day being ten meters underwater and "suddenly the lights went out. It was so black I couldn't see my hand. I couldn't surface. I realized I might not get out of there."
Gallery[]
Michael Biehn