Freejack - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[ivan]

On VHS copies of this movie, the music video for Scorpions "Hit between the Eyes" is included. The video contains concert footage and scenes from the movie.

[jamie]

As lead singer of the New York Dolls in the 1970s, David Johansen was often seen as a Trash rock version of Mick Jagger.

[carl]

Jerry Hall: Mick Jagger's then-wife plays the television reporter who interviews Alex.

[oscar]

Neither Mick Jagger nor his rock group The Rolling Stones composed a song for this movie's soundtrack.

[michele]

Rene Russo (Julie Redlund) met her husband, co-writer Dan Gilroy, during production. They have been married since 1992.

[bryan]

Poor test screenings and subsequent re-shoots bumped it from its original fall 1991 release date.

[edgar]

According to reports at the time of the production and interviews with some members of cast and crew, the test screening was disastrous. Producer Ronald Shusett was brought in to re-shoot almost half of the movie, and add more character scenes and humor. Emilio Estevez said that director Geoff Murphy let them down by focusing too much on action.

[lena]

Sir Anthony Hopkins and Rene Russo appeared in Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013).

[nina]

In the note on Albert Einstein's picture in the diner is a quote, "Imagination is more Important than Knowledge" attributed to Kia Ora. "Kia ora" is actually a phrase used as an informal greeting in the language of New Zealand's Maori people. Director Geoff Murphy was born in New Zealand and in this particular instance, most Maori people would regard the greeting as very tongue-in-cheek.

[russell]

Curiously, the film's premiere event was held nearly a month after it had already been released in theaters.

[maureen]

The film was loosely based on the 1959 science fiction novel "Immortality, Inc." by Robert Sheckley.

[ethel]

Cinematographer Amir Mokri's first experience shooting a movie with anamorphic lenses. He did not do so again until Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011).

[edgar]

Mick Jagger's first dramatic movie as an actor since the mid-1980s with 'Running out of Luck' and 'Laughter in the Dark'. He was cast in the wake of The Rolling Stones' lucrative 1989-90 Steel Wheels tour, which was accompanied by their album of the same name.

[carl]

Emilio Estevez plays a race car driver. His brother, Charlie Sheen, previously starred in The Wraith (1986), a science fiction movie set against the backdrop of illegal street racing.

[toni]

On an episode of 'How Did This Get Made?', it was revealed that Mick Jagger was offered this movie one week before shooting was scheduled to begin, and he decided to do it on the spot, based on a short description of the plot. He also said that if he had been given a few months to read the script and think about it, he probably would have declined.

[sara]

Linda Fiorentino was originally cast as Julie, but was replaced by Rene Russo after a week of shooting.

[duane]

The hat that Emilio Estevez wears when in disguise was intended to be the same hat used in Young Guns 2 (1990), but the iconic prop had already been claimed by Lou Diamond Phillips on completion of principal photography.

[gerald]

In one scene, Alex (Emilio Estevez) impersonates Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous character The Terminator (1984) by quoting "Fu-ck you, ass-hole!"