Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer produced the 1997 action film The Rock.
Producer-Director John Sturges' 1963 film The Great Escape, featuring Allied prisoners of war attempting to escape a German POW camp during World War II, and featuring future icons of the action genre including Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, is an example of an action film prototype
 The success of Flashdance prompted Simpson and Bruckheimer to launch their own production company, that was affiliated with Paramount Pictures

