<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $15 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $34.6 million (USA) </Td> </Tr> <P> Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker . The script by Chris Gerolmo is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi . The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi . The investigation is met with hostility and backlash by the town's residents, local police, and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). </P> <P> Gerolmo began work on the original script in 1985, after researching the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner . He and producer Frederick Zollo took the script to Orion Pictures, and Parker was subsequently hired by the studio to direct the film . Both the writer and director had disputes over the script, which resulted in Orion allowing Parker to make uncredited rewrites . Principal photography commenced in March 1988 and concluded in May of that year with a budget of $15 million . The film was shot in a number of locations in Mississippi and Alabama . </P>

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