Steven Seagal agreed to appear in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) if Warner Brothers allowed him to direct this movie.
Producer and director Steven Seagal filmed almost 40 minutes of footage for the environmental message at the end of this movie, and planned to use it all in the final cut. After pressure from Warner Brothers and a disastrous preview screening, where audience members booed, laughed, and made obscene gestures for the entire sequence, Seagal cut the final scene down to about seven minutes.
There were allegations that Sir Michael Caine and producer and director Steven Seagal didn't get along. In Caine's memoir, "The Elephant To Hollywood", he said he liked working with Seagal and the crew, but hated filming in Alaska, even joking that "On Deadly Ground" was an apt title.
The final scene, when Forrest Taft gives the speech about the oil companies and air pollution, was originally eleven minutes long. Audiences complained that it was overlong and preachy. The scene was re-edited before release.
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