"It's pretty exciting," said Thomas of the film. "It's got some violence in it. I get to fire a gun."[1]
Principal photography went from August 8 to October 7, 1983. Filming took place in San Antonio, Texas, chosen because it was Thomas' hometown. The scenes depicting the exterior of the Alamo were filmed on location; however, the interior had to be recreated because they were not allowed to film inside the Alamo.[2]
In a 2012 interview, Coleman recalled:
I thought it was a great idea. I didn’t get along with the director [Richard Franklin]. He's since passed on, but he was... Well, I won't say that. But it was great working with that little kid. Henry Thomas. What a great kid. And a great actor. I'll tell you, though, it's amazing how many people have come up to me and said something to me about that film, including Timothy Bottoms... So Timothy came up to my table at Dan Tana's, where I was, uh, kind of a regular... Timothy says, "You don't know me from veal parmesan, but I just want to thank you for playing Jack Flack. You don't know what that movie means to my son and me." That happens to me two or three times a year. It's always either a father saying, "I saw that movie with my son," or a son saying, "I saw it with my dad." But then they say, "Seeing that movie was very important in my life." And that's always very nice to hear.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Maslin, Janet. "At the Movies", The New York Times, 1984-03-23.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedafi - ↑ Harris, Will. "Dabney Coleman on Boardwalk Empire and why WarGames doesn't make sense", The A.V. Club, 2012-10-23.