Appearance
Universal Soldier
Directed by Roland Emmerich, Universal Soldier (1992) is a science fiction action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Private Luc Deveraux and Dolph Lundgren as the psychotic Sergeant Andrew Scott — two soldiers who killed each other in Vietnam in 1969 and have been secretly reanimated decades later as genetically enhanced super-soldiers in a top-secret military programme. When Deveraux's suppressed memories begin to return, he goes on the run with TV journalist Veronica Roberts (Ally Walker), pursued by the increasingly unhinged Scott.
The film was confirmed as filmed on location in Ashfork, Cottonwood, and Prescott, Arizona; the Grand Canyon area near Kingman, Arizona; and the Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada. The traffic jam caused at Hoover Dam by the production became part of local legend.
Location(s)
Universal Soldier was filmed across Arizona and Nevada, with the Hoover Dam providing the film's most spectacular and recognisable real-world location.
Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada
The opening action set piece — in which the newly activated UniSols are deployed to resolve a hostage crisis — was filmed at the real Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border, approximately 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The dam's 726-foot face and massive towers provided a genuinely formidable backdrop for the action. The production caused a real traffic jam on the bridge during filming. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Van Damme on set at the dam during production. Map Location
Grand Canyon West, Kingman, Arizona
The Vietnam War prologue — the film's fictional 1969 Southeast Asian jungle setting — was recreated on a golf course in Kingman, Arizona, near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, with artificial jungle foliage added to suggest the Vietnamese landscape. Map Location
Ashfork, Cottonwood and Prescott, Arizona
Additional location work was carried out across several Arizona communities — Ashfork, Cottonwood, and Prescott — with their desert roads and small-town landscapes used for the cross-country chase sequences. Map Location
Director
Roland Emmerich
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Dolph Lundgren
Ally Walker
Ed O'Ross
Jerry Orbach
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