Interceptor Fact Check: How Many Interceptor Bases Does The U.S. Have?
Warning: SPOILERS for Interceptor ahead.
Netflix’s Interceptor explores what would happen if terrorists captured and disabled U.S. interceptor bases to launch a missile attack on the country; here’s how accurate the movie is and how many interceptor bases the U.S. actually has. Interceptor was co-written and directed by action-thriller author Matthew Reilly, and it stars Elsa Pataky as the protagonist and Army captain J. J. Collins and Luke Bracey as terrorist leader Alexander Kessel. As an attack is launched on Alaska’s Fort Greely interceptor base at the beginning of the movie, Pataky’s J. J. soon finds herself being the United States' last line of defense from nuclear ballistic missiles in the seaborne interceptor platform SBX-1.
Unlike Red Notice, whose budget was among Netflix’s biggest, Interceptor’s budget had to be kept under $15 million being Reilly’s directorial debut. Reilly came up with the core idea at the base of Interceptor when it became clear he wouldn't be able to adopt any of his novels as they would have needed blockbuster funding to be properly adapted into movies. Interceptor managed to be action-packed, nevertheless, although it was shot in a limited number of locations – largely one set – and in slightly more than one month. Netflix’s action-adventure film might have left critics and some viewers unamused, judging by the low Rotten Tomatoes scores, but it also soared to Netflix’s Global Top 10 list at number 1 the weekend after its release, being viewed for a total of 35.6 million hours.
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Interceptor’s movie premise revolves around J.J. having to defend SBX-1 because it is the U.S.’s last defense, and if it falls, hostile missiles will
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