The Brink of War

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1. #001

   Much of the film was shot at Höfði House in Reykjavik, Iceland, the actual site of the Reykjavik Summit, where then-United States President Ronald Reagan and then-General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev met in October 1986.

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2. #002

   The film's original title was "Reykjavik," because it depicts the Reykjavik Summit, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 11 and 12, 1986.

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3. #003

   Jeff Daniels had previously played a U.S. president in The Crossing (2000), in which he portrayed George Washington. In that second film he depicted Washington before he became president, whereas in this film he plays a sitting president.

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   Writer and director Michael Russell Gunn spent years working on and researching this film. Before his death in 2021, he interviewed former United States Secretary of State George Shultz at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Gunn also obtained and examined newly declassified transcripts from the Reykjavik Summit.

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5. #005

   This film marks the third time Jared Harris has played a native Russian and the second time he has portrayed a real-life historical Soviet figure. He had previously played chemist and investigation committee chairman Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019). Harris also played a Russian immigrant in the film Happiness (1998), but his character in that film was fictional.

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6. #006

   This is Michael Russell Gunn's feature directorial debut.

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7. #007

   Although she is best known by her married name, Nancy Reagan and the actress who plays her in this film, Hope Davis, share the same surname: Davis.

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8. #008

   Jeff Daniels and J. K. Simmons were both born in 1955 (Simmons is only six weeks older than Daniels), and both are natives of Michigan. Daniels was born and raised in Chelsea, Michigan, while Simmons grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The two municipalities are more than 65 miles apart.

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9. #009

   Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz is played by J. K. Simmons in this film. Simmons died on February 6, 2021, Ronald Reagan's 110th birthday.

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10. #010

    Branka Katic plays the Russian-born Raisa Gorbacheva in this film. In reality, Katic is a native of Serbia. Although Serbia was not part of the Soviet Union, it was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was also a communist republic. Like the USSR, Yugoslavia saw communism collapse in the early 1990s and broke apart into six republics.

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