Anaconda is a 1997 monster movie with an All-Star Cast ranging from Owen Wilson to Jon Voight to Jennifer Lopez to Ice Cube on the hunt (in their own various ways) for the eponymous giant snake. He dumps a bucket of monkey blood on them and uses them as bait in an attempt to capture a second, much larger anaconda. Later that night, the anaconda appears and attacks the boat crew. A poacher hides from an unseen creature in his boat. Casting Associate. | Technical Specs, See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro, prosthetic designer: Steve Johnson's XFX Inc, unit production manager (as James R. Dyer), second second assistant director: Los Angeles, construction coordinator (as Michael A. Muscarella), construction coordinator: Brazil (uncredited), dubbing supervisor: international versions, adr supervisor (as Kimberly Harris-Rivolier), animatronic snakes / electrical/hydraulic designer, creature effects prosthetics artist: Edge Innovations, sculptural designer: Steve Johnson's XFX Inc, special effects assistant: animatronic effects, special effects technician: Altered Anatomy EFX (uncredited), still photographer: Sony Imageworks Publicity, transportation captain (as Robert Hunter), production assistant: Brazil (as Helio Bodini), first assistant accountant (as Tiffany Reinhard), production assistant (as Gabrielle Gliniak). They are caught in a net by Serone, but the snake breaks free. I sensed with a deep certainty that before the movie was over, I would see an anaconda regurgitate its prey. While it breaks through the boat and attempts to catch the poacher, he commits suicide by shooting himself to prevent the beast from killing him. 1 images of the Anaconda cast of characters. Jennifer Lopez Ice ... or Ruggerio Deodato in the late 70’s/early 80’s with Tomas Milian as Jon Voight’s character it would ba called Anaconda Holocaust or Anaconda Ferox, feature a Riz Ortolani score, ... 1997 was the year of Jon Voight's Oscar snub, which might be the greatest one in history. Gary Dixon Jonathan Hyde. It was followed by a series of films. Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film. Dr. Steven Cale Owen Wilson. Frank Welker did the titular beast's vocal effects. Voice Cast. Anaconda starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube in lead and directed by Luis Llosa. Company Credits Danny slams a splitting axe into the snake's head, finally killing it. Denise mourns the loss of her boyfriend. A poacher (Danny Trejo) hides from an unknown creature in his boat. The next day, the boat becomes stuck at a waterfall, requiring Terri, Danny, and Westridge to enter the water to winch it loose. The film opened at #1 with $16.6 million in its first weekend and remained at the top spot in its following week. In time the beast uncoils itself, Serone tries again to flee only for Danny to raise his own net over him, giving the anaconda an opportunity to coil itself around Serone before suffocating him to death. Anaconda Actors - Before and After 2018 | Real Name and Age Anaconda 1997 Cast: 1. It won two Stinkers Awards including Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Fake Accent for Jon Voight (who also won the latter award for Most Wanted). A photograph in an old newspaper reveals that Mateo, Serone, and the unnamed poacher were actually working together as a hunting team to catch animals, including snakes. However, Terri and Danny are soon captured when Serone catches up to them. If they were to do this film in today’s market, they probably wouldn’t be able to afford it’s star cast so easily. Director of Photography. The film's cast includes Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Kari Wührer and Danny Trejo. While shooting a documentary about a long-lost Indigenous tribe, the Shirishamas, on the Amazon River, director Terri Flores and members of her crew including cameraman Danny Rich, production manager Denise Kalberg, her boyfriend, sound engineer Gary Dixon, visionary Warren Westridge, anthro… An enraged Serone attacks Terri, only to be stabbed with a tranquilizer dart by Cale, who soon loses consciousness again. It grossed $136.8 million worldwide against a budget of $45 million, and also achieved the status of a cult classic. The site's consensus reads: "Anaconda's pulpy pleasures are constricted by its own absurdity, but creature feature fans may enjoy its brazen silliness". Anaconda (also known as Anacondas) is an American horror film series created by Hans Bauer, Jim Cash, and Jack Epps Jr. Human prey, preferably. Afterwards, Terri and Danny reunite with Cale, who begins to revive on the boat. Bill Butler. Released in 1997, Anaconda is an adventure horror film. The snake soon appears where it begins to coil itself around Terri and Danny and slowly suffocates them. In "Anaconda," that fury is the titular serpent, that harm is the potential of being eaten, and that disparate group is a team of documentary-making filmmakers and assorted hangers-on. Frank Welker - Anaconda (voice) 2. Danny Rich Jon Voight. [11][12] In total, Anaconda went on to gross $136.8 million worldwide,[13] making it a sizable box office success collecting more than three times its $45 million budget. Anaconda (also known as Anacondas) is an American horror film series created by Hans Bauer, Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr..Produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the series began with Anaconda (1997) directed by Luis Llosa, and was followed by one theatrical stand-alone sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) directed by Dwight H. Little, and three … While it breaks through the boat, the poacher commits suicide by shooting himself. Anaconda is a 1997 American adventure horror film starring Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube as members of a documentary crew who while traveling down the Amazon river find themselves face to face with world's largest Anaconda. Danny punches the drugged Serone, knocking him into the river. Directed by Luis Llosa, it is the first instalment in the Anaconda film series. Anaconda received generally negative reviews upon its release. "This information is included in the opening titles of "Anaconda,'' and as the words rolled across the screen I heard a chuckle in the theater. [5] Anaconda (1997) (part 1 of 5) ... Man, take a gander at that cast! Cast 10. The film received negative reviews but was a box office success. Jean Reno was considered for the part of Paul Serone, until Jon Voight was cast. In January 2020, Sony Pictures announced a reboot is in development and screenwriter Evan Daugherty was hired to write the reboot film.[3]. Filming took place in the mid-spring and summer 1996. Cast Jennifer Lopez Terri Flores Ice Cube Danny Rich Jon Voight Paul Sarone Eric Stoltz Dr. Steven Cale Jonathan Hyde Warren Westridge Owen Wilson Gary Dixon Kari Wuhrer Denise Kalberg Vincent Castellanos Mateo Don LaFontaine Narrator Danny Trejo Poacher Crew Luis Llosa Director Barry Chausid Art Director Beau Marks Co-producer Bill Butler Cinematographer When the anaconda returns, Westridge distracts the snake enough for Terri and Danny to return to the boat while he ascends the waterfall. Financial analysis of Anaconda (1997) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. "Alone among snakes, anacondas are unique. Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film a mixed 2 out of a possible 4 stars, criticizing the film's "hokey" special effects and "expositionless" script but complimented the film's use of Brazilian locale and Voight's campy performance. Terri retreats to a building and finds a nest full of newborn anacondas, but the snake arrives and after it regurgitates Serone's still twitching corpse, which seems to wink at Terri, it chases her up a smoke stack. They realize that Serone was right and resume filming their documentary. Warren Westridge Kari Wuhrer. Danny Trejo - Poacher 3. W. Webster Whinery. Jennifer Lopez. [10] It was also nominated for two Saturn Awards including Best Actress (Jennifer Lopez; who lost to Jodie Foster for Contact) and Best Horror Film (which went to The Devil's Advocate). | Gillian Anderson and Julianna Margulies were the first choices for the role of Terri Flores (whose last name was originally Porter), but the two passed due to scheduling conflicts with their respective series The X-Files and ER, before Jennifer Lopez signed on. B. It was followe… Any intelligent person could deduct that Anaconda happens to feature a rather stellar cast. This is a classic monster snake movie with a cast of recognizable actors, unlike most of the genre, including Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, and Owen Wilson. To read the rest of this article, support the Agony Booth on Patreon. Cast. It’ll be a very long time before we get to see such a big group of high-priced stars lowering themselves to this level again, so cherish it while you can. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anaconda_(film)&oldid=1002215550, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from June 2016, All articles needing additional references, Articles with multiple maintenance issues, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 11:00. Most of the crew are uncomfortable around Serone, and Cale clashes with him several times in regards to Shirishama lore. Meanwhile, while shooting a documentary about a long-lost indigenous tribe known as the Shirishamas on the Amazon River, director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) and members of her crew including cameraman and childhood friend Danny Rich (Ice Cube), production manager Denise Kalberg (Kari Wuhrer), Denise's boyfriend and sound engineer Gary Dixon (Owen Wilson), narrator Warren Westridge (Jonathan Hyde), anthropologist Professor Steven Cale (Eric Stoltz), and boat skipper Mateo (Vincent Castellanos) come across stranded Paraguayan snake hunter Paul Serone (Jon Voight) and help him, believing he knows how to find the tribe they are searching for. Anaconda Cast and Crew - Check out Hollywood Movie Anaconda cast and crew details, star cast information. As Terri and Danny recuperate on a nearby dock, the anaconda appears one final time. When Serone attempts to capture the snake alive, it coils around Gary and begins to crush him. It was released on April 11, 1997. The film received negative reviews but was a box office success. [8], Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[9]. Anaconda (1997) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. They are then forced to help him achieve his true goal: hunting down and capturing a giant record-breaking green anaconda he had been tracking. Cast & Crew. Largely notable for Jon Voight as Paul Sarone, chewing up scenery with a far greater appetite than any serpent could muster. The others try to find him while Gary works alongside Serone, who promises if they help him find the anaconda, he will help them get out alive. "Anaconda" boasts a comfortably standard set-up. It grossed $136.8 million worldwide against a budget of $45 million, and also achieved the status of a cult classic. As the three remaining survivors float downriver, they suddenly locate the natives for whom they were previously searching. Official Sites Even though no characters from the first film appear in the sequels, the events of the first film are referenced by the character Cole Burris in the second film, when he says he knows a man (Warren Westridge) and another man (Danny Rich) that took a crew down to the Amazon, where they were attacked by snakes; in Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, character Will "Tully" Tull speaks to Reba about the same incident of the snakes in the Amazon, but no explicit mention of the characters. It was produced by Columbia Pictures and released theatrically in the United States on April 11th, 1997. | Terri Flores Ice Cube. Anaconda is a 1997 American adventure horror film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Anaconda (1997) - Luis Llosa on AllMovie - A group of filmmakers looking for a lost native… Anaconda is an American feature film blending elements of jungle adventure with predatory horror. Some critics did praise the film's effects, scenery, and tongue-in-cheek humor, but many criticized the acting, "forgettable" or "cardboard" characters, inaccuracies, and "boring" start. [4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 37 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Later, while trying to free the boat's propeller from a rope, Cale is stung in the throat by a wasp inside his scuba regulator, which swells up his throat and leaves him unconscious. A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake. Anaconda is a 1997 American adventure horror film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde and Owen Wilson. It was directed by Luis Llosa with a script written by Hans Bauer, Jack Epps, Jr. and Jim Cash. Anaconda (1997) Spoiler Alert ! Later, Mateo gets lost and is the first victim to be killed by the anaconda, which coils around him before it snaps his neck near the boat where the poacher had been killed. It focuses on a documentary film crew in the Amazon rainforest that is captured by a snake hunter who is hunting down a giant, legendary green anaconda. The survivors overcome Serone and tie him up for punishment. A group of disparate individuals finds themselves in harm's way when they cross paths with natures fury. Serone himself tries to flee up a ladder, but the anaconda slinks up after him and brings it down. Anaconda (Llosa, 1997) Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (Little, 2004) Anaconda 3: Offspring (FauntLeRoy, 2008) Anacondas: Trail of Blood (FauntLeRoy, 2009) Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (Stone, 2015) Terri attempts to save Gary by shooting the anaconda, but Serone knocks the gun out of her hands, allowing the snake to kill and devour Gary. Complete credited cast: Jennifer Lopez ... Terri Flores: Ice Cube ... Danny Rich: Jon Voight ... Paul Serone: Eric Stoltz ... Dr. Steven Cale: Jonathan Hyde ... Warren Westridge: Owen Wilson ... Gary Dixon: Kari Wuhrer ... Denise Kalberg: Vincent Castellanos ... Mateo: Danny Trejo ... Poacher: Frank Welker ... Anaconda (voice) The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made. To return to the boat as the three remaining survivors float downriver, they regurgitate in order to eat.... 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