Full Metal Jacket to have his head shaved once a week. At one point during filming, Ermey had a car accident, broke all of his ribs on one side, and was out for four-and-half months. Cowboy's death scene shows a building in the background that resembles the famous alien monolith in Kubrick's "" (1968). Kubrick described the resemblance as an "extraordinary accident". During filming, Hasford contemplated taking legal action over the writing credits. Originally, the filmmakers intended for Hasford to receive an "additional dialogue" credit, but he fought for and eventually received full credit. The writer took two friends and visited the set
The Jacket reviews on release; the film has a 44% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's critical consensus being "The Jacket is a case of creepy style over substance", and a 73% audience approval rating. and a 44% average critic rating on the aggregate reviews site Metacritic. The Jacket The Jacket is a 2005 American psychological thriller/horror film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It is partly based on the Jack London novel of the same name (published in the US as "The Star Rover"). Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay