The Missing (I) (2003)
Trivia
Jump to:
Spoilers (1)
Val Kilmer, who lives on a nearby New Mexico ranch, agreed to a cameo in this film, secondary to his work with New Mexico's Film Investment Program.
Tommy Lee Jones and Eric Schweig learned some Chiricahua Apache for this film. Their instructors were two of the last three remaining fluent speakers.
Tommy Lee Jones also portrayed a tracker in The Hunted, which came out the same year, and which also featured Jenna Boyd, who plays his granddaughter in The Missing.
Tommy Lee Jones (Samuel Jones) and Sergio Calderon (Emiliano) both worked together in Men in Black (1997).
Tommy Lee Jones, Eric Schweig, David Midthunder, and Val Kilmer have all appeared in the Lonesome Dove films. Jones appeared in Lonesome Dove (1989), Schweig appeared in Dead Man's Walk (1996), and Midthunder and Kilmer appeared in Comanche Moon (2008).
Evan Rachel Wood (Lilly Gilkeson), David Midthunder (Apache Scout), and Rod Rondeaux (The One Who Laughs) all play roles on HBO show Westworld.
Four of the actors in this movie appeared in Into the West (2005), a television miniseries. They were Eric Schweig, who played "Sitting Bull"; Steve Reevis, who played "Older Loved By The Buffalo"; Jay Tavare, who played "Chief Prairie Fire"; and Simon Baker, who played "Young Loved By The Buffalo".
This movie features two "Two-Face"s (Tommy Lee Jones and Aaron Eckhart) and a "Batman" (Val Kilmer).
Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett have both appeared in films about Howard Hughes. Jones played Hughes in The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977), and Blanchett played Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004).
Evan Rachel Wood played opposite two academy award winning actresses in 2003. Evan Rachel Wood played the daughter of actress Holly Hunter in Thirteen, and the daughter of Cate Blanchett in The Missing. Holly Hunter won her academy for Best Actress in The Piano (1994) and Cate Blanchett won an academy for Best Supporting Actress in Thee Aviator (2005) and for Best Actress in Blue Jasmin (2014).
Eric Schweig (Chidin), Jay Tavare (Kayitah), and David Midthunder (Apache Scout) have all played characters on the show Longmire.
This is the last Ron Howard film to be composed by James Horner. Their first collaboration was Cocoon (1985).
Ray McKinnon (Russell J. Wittick) and Juddson Keith Linn (Chauliln - Evening Time) were both in Deadwood.
The cabin used in the film can be seen in the Valles Caldera west of Los Alamos. None of the outbuildings seen in the movie are near it.
Walt Longmire's cabin is also in the caldera about a mile and a half away.
Walt Longmire's cabin is also in the caldera about a mile and a half away.
