The shoot-out sequence, involving the characters “Scuba” and “Roy,” began filming along the Torrey Pines coastline and concluded on San Diego Bay’s G Street Pier. A trolley car travelling between the city and Tijuana, Mexico, nicknamed the “Tijuana Trolley,” was used in the hostage exchange scene. Other San Diego locations included the Harbor Excursion Line’s Marietta cruise ship, Mission Bay, and Sea World theme park. The four-minute sequence was filmed at the Spreckels Theatre and the San Diego Performing Arts Center. The NYT stated that Benjamin needed footage of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, and approached the American Ballet Theater (ABT), which was, coincidentally, performing the ballet in San Diego at the time of production.
A Var brief announced the recent completion of photography. The HR noted that director Richard Benjamin exceeded the fifty-nine day schedule by two days. According to production notes, Poitier had read more than 200 scripts over a ten-year period, none of which held his interest prior to Little Nikita.Ī HR production chart reported the start of principal photography on in San Diego and Los Angeles, CA. An HR article reported that Poitier ended a nine-year hiatus from feature films by joining the cast. Former Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam was credited with suggesting actor Sidney Poitier as a casting choice. Production notes in AMPAS library files state that producer Harry Gittes spent four years developing the project.
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