Editing Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (section)

=== Development ===
The film was an early credit for [[Matt Reeves]] who wrote the script with a friend of his in college. Reeves later said, "There was a big action spec market, a lot of movies that were selling, and so we wrote this movie with my thought being, ‘And then I will be able to finance my student film and that way I can become a director’."<ref name="matt"/> The script was called ''Dark Territory'' at one stage and ''End of the Line'' at another. When they finished writing it "the spec market crashed and it didn't sell." But the script was optioned by Warner Bros, who decided to turn the film into a sequel to ''Under Siege''.<ref name="matt">{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/matt-reeves-dawn-planet-apes/|website=Empire|title=Director Matt Reeves Spills Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Secrets|date=21 July 2014|access-date=9 March 2018|archive-date=26 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626181720/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/matt-reeves-dawn-planet-apes/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Reeves said the film was originally "meant to be very much like a ''[[Die Hard]]'' movie, which I guess ''Under Siege'' really was too, except the difference was that in the ''Under Siege'' movies that tension is how soon before Seagal will rip out someone's larynx. And what I love about ''Die Hard'' was this idea of the underdog, that here's this guy, especially in that first movie, who's a cop from New York who doesn't even have shoes. And somehow he has got to save this building, save the day. That was what that movie was supposed to be, but it didn't end up being that."<ref name="matt"/>