Cyborg

Year:

1989

Duration:

86 min

Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

5

Director:

Albert Pyun

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1989-04-07

Filming Locations: Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Earnings

Budget: $500,000

Opening Weekend: $3,179,811 (USA) (9 April 1989)

Gross: $10,166,459 (USA)€1,344,698 (Germany)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Cyborg

Deborah Richter

Nady Simmons

Vincent Klyn

Fender Tremolo

Alex Daniels

Marshall Strat

Dayle Haddon

Pearl Prophet

Blaise Loong

Furman Vux

Ralf Moeller

Brick Bardo

Haley Peterson

Haley

Terrie Batson

Mary

Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney

Tytus

Janice Graser

Vorg

Robert Pentz

Base

Sharon K. Tew

Prather

Chuck Allen

Vondo

Stefanos Miltsakakis

Xylo

Kristina Sebastian

Young Haley

Thomas Barley

Willy

Dale Frye

Sather

Jophery C. Brown

Saloon Owner

Jim Creech

Roland Pick

Matt McColm

Pirate / Bandit

Karen Spell

Pirate / Bandit

James Irwin

Pirate / Bandit (as James G. Irwin)

Johnny Grady Jr.

Pirate / Bandit

Michael Halford

Pirate / Bandit (as Michaell Craig Halford)

O.D. Wilson

Pirate / Bandit

Bruce Frye

Pirate / Bandit

Tim Gilbert

Pirate / Bandit

Bill Morrison

Pirate / Bandit

Tommy Evans

Pirate / Bandit

Did you know?

Trivia

Albert Pyun first thought of Chuck Norris the lead, but Cannon suggested him Jean-Claude Van Damme (who had just finished Bloodsport (1988) and was unknown at the time).

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"Cyborg" was originally written as "Masters of the Universe 2: The Cyborg", which was the sequel to the 1987 film "Masters of the Universe", which He-Man returned to Earth, only to discover Earth has been left as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, when it is destroyed by Skeletor. When Cannon films and Mattel canceled production on the film. Albert Pyun, whom was hired to direct, wrote the script from an other project idea of his under the pseudonym of Kitty Chalmers (the name of his cat) and it became the script for "Cyborg".

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A score for the film composed by Anthony Riparetti was rejected in favor of a completely new score by Kevin Bassinson.

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Goofs

At one point in the fight with a group of masked men in an abandoned concrete building near the end of the fight, a blue crash mat is visible behind Nady Simmons

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Obvious dummy being used when Nady punches the pirate several stories down the shaft.

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Although you never see more than two men on deck and four or five below decks on the 40-foot boat, when Gibson catches up in Charleston, Freddy has a lot more men with him. In addition to the cyborg and at least one "pirate" guarding her off-screen, Freddy is joined in one shot by another 13 pirates, and this is after Gibson has already killed five. That's a total of at least 21 on the small boat.

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Quotes

Fender Tremolo: I'll take you to Atlanta, and you'll give *me* the cure. And if you don't, I'll give you the horror show.

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Fender Tremolo: You think I'm going to swim all the way to Atlanta! I hate... the water.

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Fender Tremolo: First there was the collapse of civilization: anarchy, genocide, starvation. Then when it seemed things couldn't get any worse, we got the plague. The Living Death, quickly closing its fist over the entire planet. Then we heard the rumors: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

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Faq

Q

What is the name of the bartender whom Gibson is talking to?

A

Maze.

Q

What is Cyborg about?

A

Gibson Rickenbacker (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a martial arts warrior/mercenary, living in the post apocalyptic United States, comes to the rescue of a woman named Pearl Prophet (Dale Haddon) and discovers she is a cyborg, created by scientists in Atlanta to find information to a plague that has swept across the world and left the world in ruins, as the scientists are working on a cure to the plague and need the information to complete their work. Pearl is kidnapped by Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn), the evil leader of a gang of warriors called "The Pirates" and Fender decides to take Pearl back to Atlanta and wants the cure for himself. Gibson, decides to go after Fender and rescue Pearl. Joined by Nady Simmons (Deborah Richter), a young woman, whose family died from the plague and was hiding, when Fender and the Pirates attacked a settlement and stole a boat. Gibson sets out to confront Fender, whom murdered his family, a young woman named Mary (Terrie Batson) and her younger brother, whom hired Gibson to escort them out of a city to a safe place, after The Pirates killed their father and forced his adoptive daughter Haley (Haley Paterson), to join his gang.

Q

Is this in the same universe as Blade Runner(1982)?

A

no,but fender makes a referance to Blade Runner by saying "we have a skinjob"

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