Trivia / Flight of the Intruder

• Billing Displacement: Fourth-billed Rosanna Arquette hardly appears.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $35 million. Gross, $14 million.
• Backed by the Pentagon: The producers used a connection to the military to scrounge up an aircraft carrier for the movie.
• Creator Killer: For John Milius.
• Focus Group Ending: The original ending featured a court martial scene where Ed O'Neill played a JAG prosecutor. The test audience laughed at the sight of him and yelled "Al Bundy!". The scene had to be reshot with Fred Thompson playing the part.
• Follow the Leader: The novel was only the second fiction publication by the Naval Institute Press, the first being The Hunt for Red October.
• The Other Marty: Originally, Ed O'Neill played the prosecuting attorney in the court martial scene. The moment he appeared at a test screening, people laughed at the sight of Al Bundy in an army uniform. The scene had to be reshot with Fred Thompson in the role.
• Star-Derailing Role: This film ended Brad Johnson's career in Hollywood movies and reduced him to roles in straight-to-video features.
• Stillborn Franchise: This movie's failure did not lead to adaptations of the other Jake Grafton novels.
• Write What You Know: Stephen Coonts was an A-6 Intruder pilot in Vietnam before he became an author.

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