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''Nemesis'' is an American 1992 science fiction film directed by Albert Pyun and starring Olivier Gruner and Tim Thomerson. It is the first installment in the ''Nemesis'' film series. ==Development history== ''Nemesis'' was first conceived as Albert Pyun's last film under a three-picture contract with Cannon drawn up in 1987. Following the highly stylized high school thriller ''Dangerously Close'' and the offbeat adventure film ''Down Twisted'', Cannon wanted Pyun to make a more mainstream action movie. Pyun began development on two projects: a remake of Nicolas Ray's ''Johnny Guitar'' with John Travolta and a police/serial killer procedural thriller, then entitled ''Alex Rain'' after the main character. When Cannon decided Travolta's commercial viability was too weak, they essentially killed the ''Johnny Guitar'' remake. Pyun shifted to ''Alex Rain'' and began developing the movie around actress Kelly Lynch as a deeply troubled FBI agent hunting a serial killer amongst the Neo-Nazi community. Pyun incorporated futuristic touches and set the film 25 years in the future; at one point he even considered setting it on Mars 400 years into the future. Thus began Pyun's interest in a cyberpunk setting. When Cannon ran into financial trouble in October 1986, Pyun was asked to shelve ''Alex Rain'' temporarily and to focus instead on helping Cannon salvage its over-budget and incomplete adventure film ''Journey to the Center of the Earth''. After this he focused on other projects, most notably the 1989 film ''Cyborg''. Pyun returned to ''Alex Rain'' in 1991, after making the virtual reality film ''Arcade'' for Full Moon Entertainment. Pyun's research on that film gave him a number of ideas he wanted to incorporate into ''Alex Rain'', including lowering the age of the protagonist to 13 and making Alex a tough, violent street urchin working undercover for a futuristic L.A.P.D. Having just worked with Megan Ward on ''Arcade'', Pyun met with Ward and her agents to outline the film and discuss casting her as the lead. Ward and her agents responded favorably, despite reservations about the high level of violence and a scene which called for her character to be completely nude. Pyun shot a few test scenes with Ward and then began looking for a studio partner. Pyun read an interview with Imperial Entertainment's production executive, Ash Shah, and realized he and Shah shared similar views about where low-budget action movies could go. Pyun met with the three Shah brothers and pitched them his ideas for the film and its possibilities. He left the screenplay with the Shah's and they called the next day to say they wanted to make the film. However, there was one condition: they wanted the lead changed from a 13-year-old girl to a 30-year-old male, so as to utilize their recent discovery, French kickboxer Olivier Gruner. At a long meeting at Imperial, both sides went back and forth until Imperial agreed that, other than the sex change, they would let Pyun make the movie he wanted to make no matter how unorthodox his methods. Pyun agreed to cast Gruner and pre-production began within days. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nemesis (1992 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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