Screenwriter "Howard Franklin delivered the script in the winter of 1982", said director Sir Ridley Scott who added, "for various reasons, I was already into my next project, Legend (1985), which took me to England for two years. The film really stayed on the shelf without much movement on it until I finished in England". In the summer of 1986, Scott began casting Chi protegge il testimone (1987). Scott explained: "I go on instinct and frankly, I'd been casting for months, and couldn't quite place the individual to portray the central character of Mike Keegan. I had seen Tom Berenger's work in Il grande freddo (1983) and was very impressed by it. In a funny kind of way, the role he played was a tough one because the character he was portraying was a cliché, an actor playing an actor. However, he completely pulled it off and managed to make the character both sympathetic and vulnerable".

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