The production of `` The Year of Living Dangerously '' had a cost of $ 6 million .
The climax of Peter Weir 's early career was the international production The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) which united Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver in a story about journalistic loyalty , idealism , love and ambition in Sukarno 's Indonesia of 1965 .
Peter Weir