(at around 1h 21 mins) In the scene where Anderton holds his breath in the bath, Steven Spielberg planned to create the rising air bubble with CGI, but Tom Cruise took the trouble and learnt how to do it himself.
Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg both agreed to forgo their usual fees to help keep the film's budget under $100 million. Instead, they accepted 15% of the film's box office takings.
All the 'Precogs' were given the names of well-known crime writers: Dashiell Hammett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
Three years prior to production commencing, Steven Spielberg assembled a group of sixteen prospective experts in Santa Monica to help him envisage the year 2054. That team included: Neil Gershenfeld, a professor at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Shaun Jones, director of biomedical research at DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency); William Mitchell, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT; Peter Calthorpe, a leading advocate of New Urbanism; Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of virtual reality technology; Douglas Coupland, author and commentator; Stewart Brand, author, scientist and co‑creator of the online community The Well; Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine; Harald Belker, a car designer; and John Underkoffler, the film's science and technology adviser.
Steven Spielberg recruited the world's twelve leading contortionists to perform in a scene depicting a futuristic yoga class.
(at about 1 hr 27 mins) When John abducts Agatha, Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell) asks, "How much time do we have?" (he's asking how long it will be before John commits the murder). A PreCrime officer replies, "51 minutes 30 seconds." That is precisely the amount of time remaining until the end of the film as well (until the credits begin to roll).
Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski used a bleach bypass treatment on the film stock, essentially skipping the bleaching stage of the silver halide crystals in the stock to produce desaturated, silver-tinted colours.
(at about the 22-minute mark) In the police station the officers discuss the metaphysical evidence for precognition. Chief Anderton (Tom Cruise) rolls a red ball across a table to illustrate the principle of cause and effect to Detective Witwer (Colin Farrell). The scene alludes to the well-known claim by philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) that, by observing billiard balls, one can argue that cause and effect are not real but merely a habitually formed fiction of the mind.
Cameron Crowe: (at about the 47-minute mark) the director who worked with Tom Cruise on Jerry Maguire (1996) and Vanilla Sky (2001) turns up as a commuter on the train, glancing over his newspaper at Anderton and recognising him. In the same shot, the blonde woman seated behind him is Cameron Diaz.
(at around 1 hour and 6 minutes) When Dr Solomon Eddie (Peter Stormare) phones his assistant, he utters the following line in Swedish: "Greta, get the hell out of there, wipe your ass, hurry up!"
The film was nearly filmed several years earlier, before Steven Spielberg opted to make A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) instead and have the "Minority Report" screenplay reworked. According to reports, in that version Tom Cruise would have been joined by Cate Blanchett as Agatha, Matt Damon as Witwer, Ian McKellen as Burgess and Jenna Elfman as Lara Anderton. After the project was postponed, Javier Bardem said in interviews that he had been offered the role of Witwer but turned it down because he "didn't want to just run around chasing Tom Cruise." That ultimately resulted in the casting of Colin Farrell.
The spyders were envisaged as what a grenade would have looked like had it been designed by Porsche.
Nokia is reported to have paid $2 million to ensure as many of its handsets as possible featured in the film 'Minority Report' (2002).
(at around 22 minutes) It appears that Colin Farrell struggled considerably to deliver the line 'I'm sure you all understand the legalistic drawback to PreCrime methodology'.
Right from the outset, Steven Spielberg had wanted Greta (Dr Eddie's assistant) to sing a tune by ABBA, but Peter Stormare suggested she sing something different to heighten the absurdity of the scene. Stormare picked the Swedish children's song "Små grodorna" ("The Small Frogs"). The song is traditionally sung at Midsummer's Eve celebrations in Sweden.
Lexus is said to have paid $5 million to have a futuristic version of one of its models featured in the film. As part of the arrangement, Steven Spielberg took delivery of a $62,000 Lexus SC 430 convertible.
In the original short story by Philip K. Dick, John Anderton is overweight and balding — quite unlike Tom Cruise.
(at roughly 52 minutes) The car factory sequence draws on an idea by Alfred Hitchcock for a sequence he never filmed in North by Northwest (1959), which François Truffaut also referred to in an interview.
(at approximately 1 hr 2 mins) The moment when Lois Smith (Dr Iris Hineman) kisses Tom Cruise was not scripted. Tom's reaction is one of genuine surprise.
Steven Spielberg commissioned the visual-effects company Imaginary Forces to craft the film's prevision sequences after admiring the title sequence they produced for Se7en (1995).
(at around 2h 10 mins) At the climax, Anderton tells Burgess he faces two paths: to refrain from committing the murder and thus discredit PreCrime; or to carry out the killing, serve a prison sentence, but ultimately vindicate the system he created. This mirrors the choice Anderton makes in the original short story. At first Anderton realises the Precogs' prediction was incorrect and could opt not to commit the murder. Yet when his would-be victim announces an intention to publicise this to discredit PreCrime, Anderton decides to kill him anyway — thereby apparently proving the Precogs right and preserving the system he believes in.
Janusz Kaminski is Steven Spielberg's regular director of photography. When Spielberg brought him on for this picture, he told him to make "the ugliest, dirtiest film" either of them had ever made.
Tom Cruise started filming just a few days after wrapping up work on Vanilla Sky (2001).
Paul Thomas Anderson: (about 47 minutes in) appears as a man on the train in Magnolia (1999), the film in which he directed Tom Cruise. It is reported that he is so hard to spot that Anderson himself is not sure where his cameo occurs.
The short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick was originally intended to be adapted as a sequel to Total Recall (1990) by the writers of that film, Ronald Shusett and Gary Goldman (later joined by Robert Goethals). The setting was shifted to Mars, with the Precogs conceived as people altered by the Martian atmosphere, in line with the first picture. The lead was also changed to Douglas Quaid, the character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The project eventually collapsed when Carolco went bankrupt — the indebted studio, in an attempt to save itself financially, chose to produce the pirate adventure and massive box‑office flop Cutthroat Island (1995) instead of this project and Paul Verhoeven's "Crusade", a bloody war adventure and satire of the medieval Catholic Church starring Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston as a warmongering Pope. The writers, who still retained the rights to the original story, rewrote the script to excise the Total Recall elements. That draft was ultimately discarded when writer Jon Cohen was hired in 1997 to start the project afresh. The sole piece of the early script that survived into the finished film was the car‑factory sequence — an idea Steven Spielberg loved. The original writers sued for the right to be credited as co‑writers, but under the writers' guild's very strict rules about the minimum contribution required for a writing credit, the final ruling granted them only executive‑producer credits, not writing credits, which they grudgingly accepted.
The film depicts technologies that were not widely accessible at the time of its release, but by July 2015 had become available to the general public. Gesture-based control, together with eye (including iris) and fingerprint recognition, are among the on-screen technologies shown in the film that are now publicly available.
A "Minority Report" in real life denotes a legislative mechanism whereby a minority within a committee — typically members of the opposition — submit an official alternative to a piece of legislation. Because of standing orders and customary rules of decorum, such minority reports seldom succeed in practice (as depicted in the film).
The tiny in-ear mobile phones used throughout the film (most noticeably by PreCrime director Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow) in the closing scenes) are, in fact, Bang & Olufsen earphones with the connecting cables removed.
In an interview Steven Spielberg acknowledged that jetpacks are unlikely ever to become a reality, yet he incorporated the technology as an homage to the science fiction he grew up on.
The police hovership acquired the nickname 'The Dispenser' owing to its physical resemblance to a PEZ sweets dispenser.
William Mapother: (at roughly the 1 hour 35 minute mark) appears as Tom Cruise's cousin, working as a hotel receptionist. He is probably best recognised for his portrayal of Ethan in the television series Lost (2004).
John Williams, a frequent collaborator of Steven Spielberg, was commissioned to write the score. However, he joined the production belatedly because the schedule for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) overran.
As sound designer Gary Rydstrom has explained, he created the sounds for the Mag-Lev (magnetic levitation) vehicle system from recordings of his own washing machine.
Jan de Bont was listed as a producer because he had originally been due to direct the film. Steven Spielberg later said that De Bont performed no work on the film after Spielberg became involved and publicly questioned whether De Bont merited that credit.
The compact storage media seen throughout the film are transparent plastic variants of Iomega's PocketZip discs.
Steven Spielberg was impressed by Kathryn Morris's performance in Rod Lurie's The Contender (2000), so he offered her a small role in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). However, her scenes were ultimately cut, and Spielberg compensated by giving her the part of Lara.
Similarities to The Fugitive (1993): 1. Like Richard Kimble, John Anderton is framed for a crime he did not commit/has not yet committed. 2. Both Anderton and Kimble are recognised on the underground by another passenger who has seen their picture in the paper. 3. Each turns to a colleague (Kathy Wahlund, Iris Hineman) to piece together a crucial clue. 4. Both are pursued by a law‑enforcement officer (Gerard, Witwer), and at one point must make their way through a crowded public venue (a shopping centre, a St Patrick's Day parade). 5. Kimble dyes his hair and forges an ID to slip back into his workplace for vital information. Anderton has his eyes replaced so he can covertly return to PreCrime. 6. Both discover they were set up by a colleague (Nichols, Burgess) who was covering up his own criminal activity, and each confronts that man at a banquet held in his honour.
Scott Frank: (at about 1 hour 35 minutes) The film's co-writer briefly turns up as a customer in the cyber parlour — he’s the one who accepts an award and is congratulated ("You're the man").
Colin Farrell later went on to appear in Total Recall (2012), a remake of the film to which this was intended to serve as a sequel.
Elements from the original short story that inspired the screenplay included further details about the PreCrime unit. The military double-checked the information to ensure that PreCrime officers could not be bribed by any future murderer to hide evidence. The Precogs worked on different temporal levels, which accounted for minor inconsistencies in their premonitions. They murmured, and their incoherent utterances were transcribed from audio recordings. Their data could be fabricated, and in the story that is exactly what happens: the first vision turns out to be fake. The screenplay, however, leaves out all these specifics in favour of a visual presentation of the precognitions.
It opened on the same weekend as Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002), which actually sold more tickets. However, because the bulk of those admissions were children's tickets sold at half price, the film Minority Report (2002) still managed to secure the number-one spot at the box office.
By 2017 the exact logistics of the predictive technology depicted in Minority Report had not yet materialised, but the earliest signs of predictive systems being used by law enforcement began to emerge. In a handful of locations across the US, police departments are working with software that, based on past activity, forecasts which parts of the department's city will experience criminal activity on a day-to-day basis. Each day officers are supplied with reports detailing the neighbourhoods the programme has predicted will see crimes that day, and they patrol those areas rather than the areas they might otherwise have covered.
According to the film's screenwriter, Scott Frank, the film was originally conceived as a gritty, hard-R thriller in the mould of Get Carter (1971), but set in the future like RoboCop (1987). When the studio decided against an R rating, the script had to be altered: beyond toning down the severity of the protagonist's drug addiction and his disturbingly obsessive pursuit of his missing son, the rather cynical ending was also changed. In the original R-rated ending, the Precogs are sent to desolate, barren islands where nothing grows — the only places in the world remote enough from human civilisation that they no longer experience visions of crime and murder. Consequently, the price of their freedom is a life in miserable conditions. That ending also included an epilogue informing viewers that in the year after the film's events, with no Precogs to prevent them, the city recorded over 130 murders.
In the scenes depicting Anderton analysing the Precogs' visions of forthcoming crimes, the music heard in the background is Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, more commonly referred to as the "Unfinished" Symphony.
Wristwatches featured in the film: Tom Cruise wears two different watches. At the public pool in Baltimore, while timing his underwater endurance, he sports a digital Omega Speedmaster X33 (the X33 was later taken out of production after disappointing sales). A digital Bvlgari with an LCD display had not yet been invented.
The film's events are set in April 2054.
Steven Spielberg sought inspiration from Lexus when conceiving a car of the future, but most of the design work was carried out by Harald Belker, who also designed vehicles featured in Armageddon (1998) and xXx (2002).
Meryl Streep was originally slated to play Iris Hineman, but had to withdraw. She was subsequently replaced by Lois Smith.
The opening scissors killing alludes to Dead Again (1991), while the sequence in which a man discovers his wife is having an affair with another man and conceals himself so they do not see him alludes to Malice (1993). Both films were written by Scott Frank.
(at around 2h 10 mins) In the climactic sequence, Tom Cruise faces Max von Sydow in a secluded spot, donning a dark hood whilst posing a metaphysical dilemma to him. This echoes the opening of the film The Seventh Seal (1957), in which Bengt Ekerot, portraying a dark, hooded personification of Death, confronts von Sydow's character.
(at about 1h 35 mins) When Anderton and Agatha are in the shopping centre, just after a little girl asks her mum for a balloon, the police are searching for them and nearly miss them. In the background of that scene a hoarding reads "See what others don't," an ability Agatha possesses that the police lack.
An offer to portray Agatha was extended to Cate Blanchett.
(around the 12-minute mark) In the opening scene, as the team attempt to locate Howard before he murders his wife and her lover, Evanna announces there are only 30 seconds left. That is precisely the amount of time remaining until John intervenes to stop Howard.
(at roughly 31 minutes) When Gideon remarks that the prisoners held in containment are 'busy, busy, busy', this could be an allusion to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s novel "Cat's Cradle": '"Busy, busy, busy," is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think about how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.'
Jessica Capshaw, who portrays Evanna, one of the officers in the PreCrime unit, is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg. Her mother, Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw, appeared alongside Max von Sydow in the film 'Dreamscape'.
(at around the 18-minute mark) On the animated cereal box — designed and animated by Kurtz and Friends Animation — from which John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is eating while watching holographic recordings of his son Sean at home (the fictional cereal Pine & Oats included in each box), each package contains one of the 70 collectable magnets from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Shown "in actual size" are circular magnets depicting the iconic image of Elliott riding his bike against the moon, as well as a portrait of E.T. himself. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was a box-office success for Steven Spielberg.
The eponymous Minority Report ultimately proves to be a diversion.
Steven Spielberg used the town of Gloucester in Virginia as a filming location for part of the film. Although the crew spent just over a month shooting there, those scenes appear on screen for only about a minute. The town received no acknowledgement in the film's credits.
It was the last film of George D. Wallace before he died on 22 July 2005, aged 88.
The schedule overrun on Tom Cruise's commitments for Mission: Impossible II (2000) enabled Steven Spielberg to bring in Scott Frank to revise Jon Cohen's screenplay. John August also delivered an uncredited draft. Frank Darabont was asked to produce one as well, but was occupied finishing The Majestic (2001).
Although Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg had met while making Risky Business (1983), this was the first occasion the pair actually collaborated. (Spielberg had originally been slated to direct Rain Man (1988) but pulled out to make Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) instead.)
Although Amblin Entertainment took part in producing the film, its logo is shown only on film posters and cinema trailers worldwide, and does not appear within the film itself.
(at around 2h 15 mins) The shot of the camera pulling back from the Precogs Agatha, Dashiell and Arthur and their house at the start of the closing credits was influenced by the closing credits of Blade Runner (1982). Philip K. Dick wrote both novels on which the two films are based.
Steven Spielberg: [music] Original score composed by John Williams.
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) supplied in excess of 250 visual-effects shots for the 2002 film Minority Report.
(at around 1 hr 9 mins) When Anderton has his eyes surgically replaced, the operation bears a strong resemblance to the Ludovico Technique in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). In addition, Steven Spielberg was not only an admirer but also a close friend of Kubrick, and Tom Cruise co-starred in Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
Jan de Bont had been slated to direct the picture, but personal tensions with Steven Spielberg on his previous film, The Haunting (1999), caused a significant rift—de Bont felt Spielberg had spoiled his film with excessive special effects and a focus on the house rather than the film's psychological elements. Spielberg then assumed control of the project and secured de Bont's agreement to have no involvement. De Bont was still given a producer credit and was paid despite not contributing.
John Anderton's sidearm is a Beretta 9000 chambered in 9 mm.
The shot of Agatha slumped over John Anderston's shoulder was devised by Steven Spielberg on Samantha Morton's first day on set. He wanted to see her and Tom Cruise posed together in an embrace for a screen test, and he liked the composition so much that he devised a moment to work it into a scene.
(at approximately the 53-minute mark) The car-production-line sequence bears a remarkable similarity to the assembly-line scene in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). John Williams composed the music for both films.
Matt Damon and Dutch actor Yorick van Wageningen were both in contention for the part of Danny Witwer. Van Wageningen had to pull out after he was unable to obtain a work permit by the time filming commenced.
Steven Spielberg had originally intended only to produce the film and had lined up Jan de Bont to direct. De Bont was later sacked following the box-office and critical flop of The Haunting (1999), and because Spielberg wished to collaborate with Tom Cruise.
This was the first film that Steven Spielberg directed for 20th Century Fox. The studio, which managed the theatrical distribution rights in North America, co-financed the picture with DreamWorks Pictures, which handled theatrical distribution in all territories outside North America. DreamWorks released the film on DVD and VHS in North America, whereas Fox managed the DVD and VHS rights worldwide.
The file that lists Anderton as the intended killer is labelled 1109.
While filming, Tom Cruise began a highly publicised relationship with Penélope Cruz. At roughly the same time, he filed for divorce from Nicole Kidman.
The project was put on hold when Steven Spielberg assumed control of A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) following the death of the late Stanley Kubrick. Prior to that, Cate Blanchett had been lined up to play Agatha. Tom Cruise had appeared in Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Blanchett supplied the voice used in that film's notorious orgy sequence — a part that Cruise and Nicole Kidman offered her after Kubrick had already passed away.
(at approximately 1 hour 12 minutes) While John is recuperating from an eye operation, the film playing in the background is The Mark of Zorro (1940), which stars Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone.
Throughout her career, Samantha Morton has frequently changed her appearance for most of her roles. Here she appears with a partly shaven head as one of the pre-cogs, Agatha. 17 years later she went the whole hog with the shaved-head look when she took on the role of the arch-villain Alpha in The Walking Dead (2010).
It was the first picture directed by Steven Spielberg to be filmed in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio since Hook (1991), and it marked his first time working with the Super 35 format.
In the first few months after the film's home-video release, four million DVDs were sold.
Similarities to Blade Runner (1982). 1) Both central characters (Anderton and Deckard) are law-enforcement officers who struggle with substance misuse (neuronin and alcohol). 2) They both inhabit crowded, rain-soaked cities. 3) Each is provoked or manipulated by fellow officers (Witwer and Gaff). 4) The eyes play a significant role in both narratives. 5) At each film's climax, Anderton and Deckard confront their adversaries (Burgess and Batty), and in both instances those antagonists die on their own terms.
This was the second of four film scores that Oscar-winning composer John Williams produced in 2002. The others were Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — which, owing to scheduling conflicts, had to be adapted and orchestrated by William Ross — and Catch Me If You Can (2002), which was also directed by Steven Spielberg.
(at around 43 minutes) The reason John Anderton tracks down and kills Leo Crow is presented as being based solely on a single prevision. In terms of time-travel mechanics this is known as a predestination paradox, or a causal loop, where an event effectively brings about itself: John claims he had never heard of Crow, was not actively searching for him and had received no leads before seeing the prevision — for example, no photograph of Leo Crow outlining his role in the disappearance of John’s son. In short: unlike the other people detained by PreCrime, John has no motive to single out his victim apart from the prevision, which makes the incident appear to come out of nowhere. There are, however, ways to resolve this logical puzzle: 1) the person framing John DID in fact send him a note containing clues to the location of the fake Crow; had time run its normal course, John would have pursued those clues, found the evidence that Crow abducted his son and killed him in cold blood. That produces an alternate timeline: the PreCogs see John commit the murder several days earlier, even BEFORE he receives the note, removing the need for the framer to send it at all, and events proceed as shown in the film; 2) in the original sequence the framer simply places the fake Crow in the hotel and hires someone to kill him; the PreCogs witness this several days in advance, creating an alternate timeline in which John arrives to prevent the killing but, upon discovering Crow was his son’s killer, ends up killing Crow himself. The PreCogs then see this murder too, leading to a second alternate timeline in which John sees himself killing Crow in the prevision, and the plot unfolds as depicted in the film.
Matt Damon was initially cast to play Danny Witwer but had to withdraw because of re-shoots on The Bourne Identity (2002), where the ending and several other scenes were reworked, and due to Ocean's Eleven (2001), which had only just begun filming in early 2001.
(at around the 47-minute mark) Although she appeared in a small uncredited role in this film, Cameron Diaz went on to co-star with Tom Cruise in two further films, Vanilla Sky (2001) and Knight and Day (2010).
A 'redball' is also a term in aircraft maintenance used to notify maintenance personnel that a system malfunction has been detected which must be rectified promptly to save the sortie. These are typically discovered under an hour before take-off during pilots' system checks. They are often dealt with by rapidly reviewing all available evidence and acting swiftly, even though the action taken may ultimately be unsuccessful.
This was the second film directed by Steven Spielberg released in 2002. The other was Catch Me If You Can (2002), which starred Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.
A trailer for the film aired in New Zealand in 2002 during TV3's screening of Tom Cruise's earlier picture Mission: Impossible (1996). The film bore similarities to Minority Report (2002): in Mission: Impossible government agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) becomes a fugitive after a mission is sabotaged, is framed as a mole and sets out to expose the real traitor to clear his name. In Minority Report, PreCrime bureau chief John Anderton (Cruise) is forced to go on the run when he is framed for a murder predicted by PreCrime; he then seeks to prevent the crime and vindicate himself.
Anderton is seen behind the wheel of a Lexus 2054 EV, an electric car.
John Williams's score draws heavily on the work of Bernard Herrmann.
Colin Farrell was brought into the film when Matt Damon had to withdraw reluctantly due to scheduling clashes, and partly because of his role in Joel Schumacher's acclaimed film Tigerland (2000), which was likewise produced by Fox.
Daniel London (Wally the Caretaker) is the sole performer to return to the same role in the television adaptation Minority Report (2015). By contrast, William Mapother (Hotel Clerk) portrayed Charlie Peele in the episodes Hawk-Eye (2015) and Fredi (2015).
The film outgrossed Scooby-Doo (2002) at the box office over its opening weekend.
Jenna Elfman was under consideration for the role that was ultimately portrayed by Kathryn Morris.
Lamar Burgess murders Danny Witwer while wearing the same tan overcoat he had been wearing when he turned up at the scene to murder Anne Lively (later removing it so he matched the hired killer's black clothing).
The robotic welding torches were built in LaSalle, Ontario, and were trialled by Marcel Chayer.
(at around 2h 5 mins) A richly embellished Smith & Wesson Model 1 1/2 revolver, fitted with ivory grips and a gold frame, is handed to Lamar Burgess. He remarks that it was presented to generals at the end of the American Civil War.
Among all of the Tom Cruise titles in Paramount's library, this is the sole one in which Paramount had no initial involvement and the only one it does not fully own. The studio did not obtain a stake until it bought the previous US rights-holder, DreamWorks, in 2006. Internationally, the film is owned by 20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of Disney — although at the time of the film's original release 20th Century Studios was known as 20th Century Fox and was a separate entity from Disney.
Kathryn Morris has a supporting role in this film, in which the characters investigate murders before they occur. A year later she went on to star in the series Cold Case, portraying an investigator who looks into murders that had never been solved.
This was the second co-production between 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Pictures in 2002. The other, Road to Perdition (2002), starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, was likewise released in the summer, only weeks apart.
John Anderton is believed to have been born around 2014.
Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton reunited on screen in 2016 for the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016).
Although the story is set in Washington, D.C., only a small portion of the film was actually shot there. One opening scene featuring a merry‑go‑round was filmed in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood, even though in the film it is meant to represent Barnaby Woods in the far north‑west corner of the city. The production located a row of almost identical houses facing a park on the 1700 block of C Street SE. The houses were designed by George T. Santmyer — not Dwight Kingsley as credited in the film — and were built by T. A. Jameson in 1928. After protracted negotiations to obtain permission to use the properties, and a further six weeks of preparation, the terrace of houses was readied for filming. Once filming wrapped, Spielberg had new playground equipment installed and held a party for the residents; the park is now informally known as Spielberg Park.
This was Steven Spielberg's first film to direct for Twentieth Century-Fox, and he did not helm another picture for the studio until 2012's Lincoln (2012), a co-production between DreamWorks — whose releases at the time were distributed in North America by Disney's Touchstone Pictures — and Fox. Bridge of Spies (2015) was co-produced by DreamWorks and the now-defunct Fox 2000. In both instances, owing to Disney holding the rights to the DreamWorks films it distributed in North America and to Disney's subsequent purchase of Fox's film assets in 2019, Disney now owns the worldwide rights to both films. The Post (2017) was produced jointly by Fox and DreamWorks, the former releasing the film in North America while the latter arranged various distribution partners for its international release; meanwhile, West Side Story (2021) was made by the then-renamed 20th Century Studios — effectively the same studio as before but without the 'Fox' name.
Even though the film was set in the future at the time of its release, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report largely anticipated the breakneck pace of contemporary life in its opening sequence (a sequence that unfolds so swiftly viewers scarcely have time to absorb both the pursuit of Howard Marks and an explanation of the PreCrime system).
Both Steve Harris and Jessica Capshaw portrayed lovers and defence attorneys on The Practice (1997), which is quite a different world from PreCrime.
The cast includes two Academy Award winners (Jim Rash and Cameron Crowe) and six Academy Award nominees (Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Scott Frank and Paul Thomas Anderson).
The underground sequence was filmed in Los Angeles, employing trains from the LA Metro fleet.
The 1955 film House of Bamboo is projected onto the wall of an eye clinic room, and in that House of Bamboo scene we see Robert Ryan kill Cameron Mitchell for something he did not do — betraying his associates. This short sequence highlights that Tom Cruise's character is likewise expected to kill a man suspected of having abducted Cruise's son.
Distribution of "Minority Report" across all media was split between 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Pictures. Fox handled the film's global theatrical releases and the international home-video distribution rights, while DreamWorks was responsible for the worldwide television rights and the domestic home-video distribution rights.
Was named Film of the Year at the Hollywood '02 Film Festival.
Novelist Jon Cohen was commissioned to pen a new draft of the script once Jan de Bont came on board as director.
