The ’80s Sci-Fi Thriller Classic Disney Is Letting Die

Enemy Mine, along with being a pretty engaging film, had an interesting road to production. The film was actually an international co-production between the United States, United Kingdom and West Germany and saw production shut down just a week into shooting due to creative differences between the original director, Richard Locraine, and producer Stephen Friedman. Wolfgang Petersen would soon take over, reshoot the scenes, and get the film done.However, getting Enemy Mine shot and marketed wasn’t cheap, as the film quickly went over its $17 million budget and ended up costing 20th Century Fox over $40 million. This wouldn’t be too big of a deal if the film ended up being a smash hit, but it was a failure instead and only managed to pull in a measly $12 million at the box office. Interestingly, the film was a pretty big hit in the former Soviet Union, making history as the first Western sci-fi film to be shown in theaters there.