<P> The second Carolco project in which Stallone was involved was an action disaster thriller Gale Force, described as "Die Hard in a hurricane", which Renny Harlin was going to direct, and in which Stallone would play an ex Navy SEAL who has to fight against a group of modern pirates who attack some coastal town during a large hurricane . The first version of the script for the film was written by David Chappe in 1984, he wrote six more drafts between 1987 and 1989, and after his final draft received some praise and following the bidding war between several studios for it in 1989, Carolco bought his final draft for $500,000, with a promise of an additional $200,000 if the movie gets made . Harlin was paid $3 million for directing the film, but because his contract also gave him full control of the project, he demanded many re-writes of the script to, amongst other things, increase the action sequences and make them bigger . Between 1990 and 1991 while they were working on the project, Carolco spent over $4 million on all the different screenwriters and versions of the script . One of the screenwriters who worked on it was Joe Eszterhas who was paid $500,000 to write his version of the script . However he re-wrote it into an erotic thriller, similar to his previous screenplays, so it was rejected . Because they thought that intended $40 million budget would be too big, and since they couldn't figure out how to make special effects for the film, Carolco cancelled the project two weeks before production was supposed to begin, but Harlin still kept his $3 million, and he and Stallone and everyone else involved in it then moved to Cliffhanger, another Carolco project, which had a budget of $70 million, almost double that of Gale Force . </P> <P> Half of the film's budget was provided by TriStar Pictures in exchange for complete distribution rights in North America, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and France . Other funding was provided by Rizzoli - Corriere della Sera, Le Studio Canal+, and Pioneer Electric Corporation . The financing arrangement was the result of Carolco's serious debt issues, and as a result, the studio would ultimately receive very little of the box office gross . </P> <P> The large majority of the film's scenes were shot in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Dolomites, Italy . For example, the bridge scene was shot on Monte Cristallo in the via ferrata VF Ivano Dibona, which was reconstructed immediately after the movie . The climbing was mostly on the Tofane cliffs, and in some scenes toward the end of the movie the audience clearly sees the three Tofane, the Croda da Lago, the village of Cortina; the location of this is on top of mount Faloria, at the arrival of the funivia Faloria . In other scenes viewers may recognize the sentiero ferrato Astaldi, over the Rifugio Dibona . The small house has been constructed on the sand of the river Boite, in Fiames, close to the heliport . Little filming took place in Durango, Colorado . The credits of the film also thank the Ute Tribe for filming in the Ute Mountain reservation . </P> <P> Cliffhanger is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the costliest aerial stunt ever performed . Stuntman Simon Crane was paid $1 million to perform the aerial transfer scene, where he crossed between two planes at an altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 m). </P>

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