![]() ![]() It is set and filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria in 31 days from August 16 to September 16, 2004.Īlison King said of working on the film: "It was filmed in Bulgaria. It was made by Emmett/Furla Films, a wholly owned subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corporation. At that point, again, I should have quit, but I needed the cash." We had no clue what we were doing: no script, and the whole mind control thing in the final film was made up the last week before shooting! It was really insane. The director said "that's why it ended up like it did. He also wanted an opera scene and said "I've decided I don't like aliens and I don't like monsters. "And then Seagal came on board." Īccording to Hickox, Seagal said he liked the script but three weeks before shooting was to start Seagal called him and said "I don't think this movie should be on a submarine". "It was really interesting," said Hickox. Hickox described his project as " The Thing in a submarine" or " The Thing meets Das Boot". The lead character was supposed to be a bitter old drunken captain. I just thought wouldn’t it be great if you were stuck at the bottom of the ocean with fucking aliens on your submarine! So that was the original idea, and we story boarded it and we designed the creatures like these little, mini kind of crab insects that could go down the drains of the submarine so you’d never know when they were coming." It started life as a full on horror and sci-fi. William Tapley as Ambassador Ron Higginsĭirector Anthony Hickox later said the script was "brilliant.After fighting off the soldiers and escaping from the sub, Cody and his crew realize that they must race to bring down Lehder before the rest of his soldiers claim them all. But they end up stuck on the sub with some of the mind-controlled soldiers. ![]() The team fights its way past a tank, destroys the base, and escapes on the sub. One team of Cody's men commandeers a submarine, while the others secure the base and rescue the prisoners. Fletcher tips off Lehder, and they quickly abandon Lehder's facility, leaving behind a few American prisoners as Trojan horses. Suspicious, Cody quickly jettisons Fletcher, who turns out to be in league with Lehder. ![]() Cody is promised that in exchange, he and his crew will be freed and cleared of the alleged misconduct that they were accused of and receive $100,000 each. The Navy recruits Cody and his talented crew to take Chappell and special agent Fletcher (William Hope) with them in an effort to destroy the facility and take down Lehder. Adrian Lehder (Nick Brimble), a scientist who heads a secret CIA experiment in mind control, programming soldiers to become virtually unstoppable killing machines when they are given the right commands. Taken to the terrorist base, they are brainwashed by Dr. A Delta Force commando team is sent to Uruguay to investigate, but they are quickly ambushed and captured. Chappell (Christine Adams) concludes that some sort of mind control device must have been used. Later, in Washington DC, intelligence analyst Dr. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, Secret Service agents are briefing the ambassador on a terrorist base when they suddenly go haywire and kill her and then themselves. Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he is in a military prison.Īt the U.S. soil a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on May 31, 2005.Ĭhris Cody ( Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U.S. The film stars Steven Seagal, William Hope, Vinnie Jones and Christine Adams. ![]() Flannigan, Daphne Lerner and David Varod. Submerged is a 2005 American action film directed by Anthony Hickox, who also wrote it with Paul de Souza and produced with Michael P. ![]()
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