{"id":42375,"date":"2026-08-11T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42375"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:13:31","slug":"man-on-fire-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42375","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Man on Fire&#8221; (1987) starring Scott Glenn \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z081126zview_manonfire87.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Man on Fire <\/i>(1987)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Elie Chouraqui<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Elie Chouraqui, Sergio Donati, Fabrice Ziolkowski;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pVvTu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAN ON FIRE<\/a> by A. J. Quinnell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Scott Glenn, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Joe Pesci, Paul Shenar, Jonathan Pryce <\/strong>and <strong>Jade Malle<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>For an ex-CIA agent, the job of bodyguard for a twelve-year old girl should have been a breeze&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christian Creasy is a burned-out ex-C.I.A. agent. Creasy used to be one of the best.\u00a0 That was before the deaths that Creasy has seen (and been a part of) as a soldier and C.I.A. agent finally took their toll.<\/p>\n<p>Creasy reluctantly accepts the job of bodyguard for a wealthy Italian family.\u00a0 His job will be to protect their twelve-year-old Samantha.\u00a0 By the nature of his job Creasy spends a lot of time with Sam.\u00a0 Her parents are often too busy, so Creasy takes their role.\u00a0 \u00a0As time passes, Sam gets Creasy to drop his tough exterior.<\/p>\n<p>Creasy is gravely wounded during Samantha&#8217;s kidnapping.\u00a0 Despite life-threatening injuries, Creasy knows that every passing hour, makes it less likely Samantha will be returned alive.\u00a0 Creasy is determined to get her back alive&#8230; even if it kills him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony Scott was considered to direct, but ultimately Elie Chouraqui was selected.\u00a0 Scott would direct the 2004 (and vastly superior) adaptation.\u00a0 If Scott had made the film in 2007, he hoped to get Marlon Brando or Robert De Niro to star.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Joe Pesci and Jonathan Pryce get very little screen time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Man on Fire<\/em> (1987) clocks in at 92 minutes but seems longer.\u00a0 The supporting cast could have been put to better use.\u00a0 Come to think of it so could the stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em>Man on Fire<\/em> (1987) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z081126zview_manonfire87a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man on Fire (1987) Director: Elie Chouraqui Screenplay: \u00a0Elie Chouraqui, Sergio Donati, Fabrice Ziolkowski;\u00a0based on MAN ON FIRE by A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42391,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42375\/revisions\/42391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}