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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course arrived from MGM in 2002, built around Steve Irwin's Animal Planet persona and his real-life wife Terri as co-star. It brought the Crocodile Hunter brand to theaters with a fish-out-of-water spy plot, pairing Irwin's wildlife wrangling with a CIA chase narrative. The film served as a big-screen showcase for Irwin's enormous television popularity at the turn of the millennium, cementing him as a crossover figure between documentary television and mainstream cinema before his death in 2006 made this one of his few feature film appearances.
This cell centers on the collision between Irwin's character and Wes Wheeler, the story's CIA operative whose search for a lost tracking device drives the plot into Irwin's territory. A confrontation between these two figures marks a pivotal turning point, where the mismatched worlds of covert operations and outback wildlife work collide directly. For collectors, this pairing captures the essential tension of the film's premise. As a 35mm cell, it preserves a single frame from that reel, a physical artifact from the theatrical print itself.
