Shattered

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1. #001

   Special effects supervisor Roy Arbogast designed a compressed-gas "gun" that delivered 1,400 pounds of thrust to launch a full-size fiberglass replica Mercedes-Benz 560 SL roughly 60 meters out from a Marin County cliff before a fall of more than 150 meters. Six cameras captured the opening crash; many were positioned on the cliff face by rope-secured technicians, several with rock-climbing experience, while an Aerospatiale Lama helicopter with a 2,000-pound lift capacity placed the lower camera crews and their equipment. Arbogast also built a gimbal rig simulating the car's rolling interior for the shots of Dan Merrick and Judith Merrick inside the vehicle.

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2. #002

   Nicole Kidman tested for the role of Dan Merrick's duplicitous wife Judith Merrick before writer-director Wolfgang Petersen cast Greta Scacchi after a personal meeting. The part was one of several Hollywood studio roles the actress accepted, coming between Presumed Innocent and The Player, after American productions had been in decline for years.

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3. #003

   In November 1989, before Tom Berenger was cast as the star of the production, William Hurt was announced to play the lead role of Dan Merrick.

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4. #004

   The production was the first of two collaborations in which composer Alan Silvestri replaced Angelo Badalamenti's original discarded score, a scenario repeated on the 2003 film "Identity."

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5. #005

   The production belongs to an early-1990s cycle of domestic thrillers focused on husband-and-wife characters, alongside Malice (1993), Deceived (1991), Shattered (1991), Mortal Thoughts (1991), Consenting Adults (1992), Unlawful Entry (1992), Presumed Innocent (1990), Guilty as Sin (1993), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) and A Kiss Before Dying (1991). The trend followed the commercial success of Fatal Attraction in 1987, which led the major studios to greenlight similar marriage-thriller films for the next five years.

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6. #006

   The two vehicles plunging over the coastal cliffs form the basis of the narrative, and the production's promotional materials described the opening fall as a 244-meter (800-foot) drop.

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7. #007

   Bruce Willis turned down the lead role of the amnesiac architect Dan Merrick, which writer-director Wolfgang Petersen had pursued with William Hurt before Tom Berenger signed on in November 1989.

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8. #008

   Tom Berenger and Corbin Bernsen first shared top billing as veteran catcher Jake Taylor and third baseman Roger Dorn in David S. Ward's Major League (1989). Two years later the pair appeared in Shattered (1991) as the amnesiac architect Dan Merrick and his business partner Jeb Scott, and three years after that both actors revived their baseball roles in Major League II (1994), again directed by Ward.

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9. #009

   The screenplay sets the Hacienda hotel in Ross, a town in Marin County, California, and establishes it as the place where Judith Merrick and Jack Stanton carry on an extramarital affair.

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10. #010

    The cast includes three actors who have been nominated for Academy Awards: Tom Berenger (Best Supporting Actor for Platoon), Bob Hoskins (Best Actor for Mona Lisa) and Theodore Bikel (Best Supporting Actor for The Defiant Ones).

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11. #011

    Judith Merrick shoots Dan Merrick, stabs Jenny Scott and dies when her car goes over the cliff, bringing the death toll to three.

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12. #012

    The red sports car seen in the film is a 1986 Porsche 911 Carrera Targa 3.2, notable for its removable roof panel and 3.2-liter six-cylinder engine. The white luxury car driven by Greta Scacchi's Judith Merrick is a 1986 Mercedes-Benz 560 SL, the R107 roadster model equipped with a 5.6-liter V8 engine.

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13. #013

    Bob Hoskins played the Rock and Roll Manager, and Joanne Whalley appeared as one of the Groupies in Alan Parker's Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982); both were seen in the "Young Lust" sequence that marked Whalley's film debut.

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14. #014

    Dan Merrick, played by Tom Berenger, and Judith Merrick, played by Greta Scacchi, live at 1134 Lagonda Coast Highway, a cliffside residence overlooking the Pacific Ocean north of San Francisco.

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