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| FORTRESS In The Year 2017, One Corporation Is Building A Fortress For The Ultimate Takeover...Your Mind. "Visionary Sci-Fi...Scary And Original!" Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES "A Slam-Bang Sci-Fi Blowout!" Betsy Sherman, THE BOSTON GLOBE The Year Is 2017. The First Child Is Yours. The Second Is "Theirs". After losing their first baby, John and Karen Brennick dare to have another. caught trying to cross the border, the ex-war hero and his pregnant wife are sentenced to a sadistic futuristic prison buried 33 stories beneath the earth. Computers control inmates' bodies and minds, and newborn infants are being used to create a new breed of human robots. No one has ever gotten out alive. But not even the most overwhelming technology can extinguish one man's passionate love for his wife and child. Total Running Time Approx. 95 Minutes Rated: R Fortress Liner Notes All films take much hard work and dedication to create. Yet, on the rarest of occasions, there is a special feeling that fills a production - the feeling that everyone involved is putting their heart and soul into the project so it may come to fruition. This was the case with FORTRESS. The biggest challenge was to complete the ambitious film at the moderate budget of $15 million. Producers John Flock and john Davis brought the project to village Roadshow Pictures. It was decided that the Warner Roadshow Movie World Studios in Australia would be the perfect place for filming. Producers found the local crew and construction team to be a blessing: they built sets that would have been two to three time more expensive had they been built in Los Angeles. Director Stuart Gordon, who called Christopher Lambert the most committed actor he's ever worked with, said it was the actor who guided the production. Lambert became involved in almost every aspect of filmmaking from script to design to casting. The actor even insisted on doing his own stunt work. Gordon suggested on a few occasions the Lambert use a stand-in because his face wouldn't be on camera anyway. Lambert wanted to do the scene regardless. Lambert accompanied gordon and production designers to various prisons to do research on prision layouts and learn what direction prisons may take in the future. The FORTRESS prison is loosely based on a facility in California known as the 'supermax', which is loaded with high-tech video surveillance equipment. Crews worked around the clock to build the four-story prison, making it the largest single set in Australia's filmmaking history. Fortress wsa sequeled by Fortress 2 Re-Entry, whcih was directed by Geoff Murphy |
| FORTRESS 2 Re-Entry Locked in a prison orbiting 26,000 miles above Earth. Escape was never thought possible...untill now. In the not-so-distant future, Earth is controlled by a giant corporation called Men-Tel. After escaping from a maximum security prison known as The Fortress, renegade John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife and son are fugitives on the run. But Brennick is soon apprehended again an dplaced in a futuristic state-of-the-art maximum security prison recently completed by Men-Tel. Orbiting 26,000 miles from earth, the prison houses the plant's most fiierce criminals, forcing them to perform dreaded space labor amidst meter showers and other harsh elements. Here, Brennick is locked down by hi-tech security jail cells and surrounded by an elaborate system of computer surveillance devices, including a camera placed inside his body. If Brennick ever wants to be re-united with his wife and son, he has no hope but to try to escape - an idea that was never thought possible... untill now! Total Running Time Approx. 92 Minutes Rated R |