The thing about Lock Up, it's a fresh movie turn for Stallone, in between his bigger films. Off the bat, straight away, let's disregard those acting razzie's, unjustly earned. If I ever needed a better line, he'd come up with one. Stallone is a smart guy and a very underrated actor. So we sat around and bullshitted with the prisoners. I had my movie star, all these extras and a great location - and the pages were on their way. There was one day when I was on the third tier of a cell-block in Rahway Penitentiary and I had nothing to shoot. Jeb and Henry were writing the script as we were making the movie. We finally found one in Rahway, New Jersey. Meanwhile, I'm going around scouting prisons. So we all go back to New York City, and move into a hotel where Larry 'tortures' Jeb and Henry Rosenbaum into writing a script in record time.
Now we have a star, a theme, a shooting date, a budget, a studio, but we still have no script. So we hire Jeb Stuart, who was then one of the hottest writers in Hollywood, to rewrite the script and we go off looking for prison locations. All we have is a theme - a guy escaping from prison. So we have a director and a star, but no script. Woods says yeah, he's a good director and you ought to work with him. Stallone calls James Woods and asks if I'm any good as a director. Larry Gordon had a terrible script set in a prison. Stallone had a 'window' which means the guy was available for a certain window of time. Chartrand for Shock Cinema: " Lock Up (1989) is a strange lesson in how Hollywood movies are made.
Director John Flynn has said of this movie, in a 2005 interview with Harvey F.
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