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Credited cast: | |||
Michael Paré | ... | Steve Nichols | |
Roy Scheider | ... | Hassan | |
Oleg Taktarov | ... | Sergei | |
Irina Apeksimova | ... | Sasha | |
John Mastando | ... | Dylan Navarre | |
Alexander Nevsky | ... | Peter aka Terminator | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Ignat Akrachkov | ... | Agney | |
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Anna Artsibashewa | ... | Kate Nichols |
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Alia Avdeyeva | ... | Club dancer #1 |
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Olga Dubarova | ... | Club dancer #3 |
Yuriy Dumchev | ... | Shifty | |
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Ekaterina Goltyapina | ... | Maria Popova |
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Georgiana Grasu | ... | Los Angeles Pool Girl |
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Nicolas Grasu | ... | Hawaiian dude |
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Yuriy Grinin | ... | Shifty gang |
An American businessman is coming to Moscow to conclude a contract. Little he knows that this will be just a cover for a drug-trafficking operation, where the drug supplier - "Red Serpent" doesn't take no for an answer. It seems that the situation is hopeless, however, the Red Serpent has an enemy in Sergey Popov, a former FSB agent with a vendetta of his own.
I did get paid to script-doctor "Red Serpent." It "starred" Roy Scheider (before he died; although that could've been optional I think). They flew him into Moscow for two days and had him read lines off a cue card into a cell phone in front of the Kremlin.
Then I got a call to script-doctor the project. My assignment: "We don't want this to be too 'Russian.'" Notice I'm not in the credits. As a Script Doctor, that's not how it works usually. It's a day-job with no credits or residuals. (Damn! If I got residuals I could probably SuperSize at McDonald's some day!) But it was worse -- 2 hours worse -- before I got it.
Half of it had been shot (all of the Scheider scenes and most of the action stuff). I contributed to pasting the existing stuff into something vaguely coherent. I was not entirely successful in that enterprise.
Plot holes! I scoff at plot holes! They gave me plot canyons! 'Cause y'know, an hour of Roy Scheider talking into a cell phone with the Kremlin looming in the background and everyone else in the cast (except for Michael Pare) reading their lines phonetically with heavy Russian accents... it's one of my prouder moments and actually paid the rent for most of a year.
And you shoulda seen some of the pages that didn't make the final cut! I tell ya, it had a chance to be really really.... not awful.
Not really.