Where to watch The Devil's Advocate (1997)
The Devil's Advocate is available to stream in AU on Netflix. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
A gifted Florida defense lawyer accepts a prestigious position at a New York firm, bringing wealth, status, and increasingly demanding cases. As his career flourishes, his marriage suffers and unsettling signs suggest that his powerful new employer’s ambitions may be far darker than they appear.
Cast: Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Connie Nielsen, Craig T. Nelson, Tamara Tunie, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Debra Monk, Vyto Ruginis, Laura Harrington
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Trivia & production notes
- Andrew Neiderman sold the film rights to Warner Bros. by pitching it as a story about a New York law firm that exclusively represents guilty clients and never loses a case.
- Joel Schumacher originally planned to direct the film with Brad Pitt as the lead and envisioned a subway sequence modeled after the circles of hell from Dante's Divine Comedy, but the project collapsed without an actor cast as Satan.
- The O.J. Simpson murder trial's controversial outcome provided renewed momentum to revive the film project with a $60 million budget.
- Keanu Reeves turned down $11 million to star in Speed 2 in order to appear in The Devil's Advocate, then took a significant pay cut so the producers could meet Al Pacino's salary demands.
- Al Pacino initially rejected the Satan role three times due to finding the character clichéd, and even suggested Robert Redford and Sean Connery for the part before eventually accepting it.
- To prepare for the Devil role, Pacino studied the 1941 film The Devil and Daniel Webster, read Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno, and observed Walter Huston's performance as Mr. Scratch.
- The filmmakers cleared New York's 57th Street of all people and vehicles at 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday to film a scene of Keanu Reeves walking through the normally crowded location.
- Donald Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower was lent to the production for use as a character's residence.
- The climactic morphing effect of John Milton transforming into Lucifer combined life masks of Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino in 1997, and Pacino as he appeared in The Godfather, using a life mask that makeup artist Dick Smith had created in the 1970s.
- Creating the animated sculpture effect of ballerinas moving in water took three months and cost $2 million, representing 40 percent of the entire special effects budget.
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