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Chill Factor movie storyline. A scientist develops a biological lethal weapon and accidentally kills eighteen soldiers in an island during the tests. Colonel Andrew Brynner is the commander and becomes the scapegoat of the incident. He is sentenced to go to the prison for ten years. Along this period, he becomes unbalanced and decides to get the bomb to sell to terrorists. He commands a group of mercenaries to steal the bomb from the base where Dr. Richard Long is researching.
He shots the scientist but he flees with the weapon to the convenience store where the clerk Tim Mason and an ice-cream trucker driver Arlo are negotiating ice-creams. Mason receive this weapon from the injured Dr. Richard Long, with an advice to keep it below 50 F. they try to reach a military fort and try to escape from the colonel’s team that is hunting them down.
Chill Factor is a 1999 American action thriller directed by Hugh Johnson in his feature film directorial debut, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich. The film centers on two unwitting civilians who are forced to protect a deadly chemical weapon from the hands of terrorists.
Principal photography began on October 5, 1998. Although the film is set in Montana, most of the film was shot in Liberty, South Carolina for the diner sequences. and parts of Northeastern Utah, in particular the Flaming Gorge Dam.[2] Production was completed on December 22, 1998.
Chill Factor was released on September 1, 1999 in 2,558 theatres, and it made $5,810,531 in its opening weekend. The film was a critical and commercial failure at the box office, grossing a total of $11,788,676, well below its $70 million budget.
Chill Factor (1999)
Directed by: Hugh Johnson
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer, Hudson Leick, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jim Grimshaw, Tommy Smeltzer
Screenplay by: Drew Gitlin, Mike Cheda
Production Design by: Jeremy Conway
Cinematography by: David Gribble
Film Editing by: Pamela Power
Costume Design by: Deborah Everton
Set Decoration by: Claudette Didul
Art Direction by: Fredda Slavin
Music by: John Powell, Hans Zimmer
MPAA Rating: R for violence and language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: September 1, 1999
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