Equilibrium (2002)
- The original script for Equilibrium was written over a decade before production finally began in 2002.
- The incredible score for Equilibrium was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- Kurt Wimmer originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
Equilibrium is a 2002 American dystopian science fiction action film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. Christian Bale stars as John Preston, a top-ranking enforcement officer called a Grammaton Cleric in a post-World War III totalitarian city-state called Libria, where all human emotion has been outlawed and citizens are required to take daily injections of a drug called Prozium that suppresses all feeling. When Preston accidentally misses a dose, he begins experiencing emotions for the first time and must choose between his duty to destroy "sense offenders" who feel and his growing realization that emotion is what makes life worth living.
Equilibrium was most celebrated for its invention of "Gun Kata," a fictional martial art combining firearms with close-combat techniques based on statistical analysis of gunfight trajectories โ the result was a stylized, balletic form of gun combat that was genuinely inventive and visually spectacular. Christian Bale's physical commitment to the Gun Kata choreography was impressive. Equilibrium earned only $5 million on a $20 million budget but developed an enormous cult following on home video.
