Robert Redford was considered as director, but withdrew due to scheduling conflicts. Tom Cruise was considered to play Nash. The Pentagon office scene was filmed in the basement of Keating Hall on Fordham University's Bronx campus (the same room was used in the filming of the Georgetown University language lab scene in The Exorcist (1973)). The Nobel Prize ceremony was filmed in Prudential Hall at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, NJ. The filming for that one sc ...[Read Story ]