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Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Scarlett Johansson (Lucy) and Pilou Asbæk (Richard) appear together again in Ghost in the Shell (2017), as Major and Batou respectively.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
According to Lucy's passport, her full name is Lucy Miller and she was born on March 10, 1988 (Scarlett Johansson is 3 years and 3 months older).
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Matrix (1999), Crank (2006) and Total Recall (2012) are considered influences behind the movie.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
According to the physicians on Hi Everybody! A Bad Medicine Podcast (2019), this film is "10% medically accurate." This means it is ten times less accurate than The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009), which billed itself as "100% medically accurate" and is used as a baseline.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
A young tattoo artist is seen sporting a Mexican Lady of Guadalupe/Holy Death tattoo on her back. This mystery girl is also seen being tattooed in the movie 3 Days to Kill (2014). Both films were written by Luc Besson. The tattooed model is not credited in any of the films.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
When Lucy is in Times Square, over her right shoulder is a billboard for The Family (2013), the prior Luc Besson film.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The USB Lucy gives to Professor Norman at the end, isn't just black but also contains visible stars.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Milla Jovovich was rumored to play Lucy, but declined due to pregnancy.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
During the car chase to the outdoor market, an old man reads a newspaper with an ad for Pacific Rim (2013) on the top of the front page.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
In the trailer, a close up of Lucy's eye briefly shows a reptilian eye.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman have both appeared in comic book films. Johansson has played Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in Iron Man 2 (2010), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Black Widow (2021). Freeman played Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012).
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The first scene where Scarlett Johansson appears is the Regent Taipei Hotel.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The fourth known science fiction subject involving time traveling back to the birth of the universe. The others are Altered States (1980), Justice League Unlimited: The Once and Future Thing, Part Two: Time, Warped (2005) and Star Trek: Voyager: Death Wish (1996). In "Altered States", William Hurt's character has an experience very similar to Lucy's.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
At the beginning of the movie, when Lucy is being approached by the South Korean thugs, the scene changes several times to footage of a cheetah chasing down and catching a gazelle. Lucy is wearing a cheetah-print jacket at the time.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Although the scenes in Asia take place in Taiwan, Mr. Jang and his henchmen speak Korean.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
This is the first R-rated film to be partially shot with IMAX cameras.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
In 2014, Lucy was the most successful French movie outside of France for the past twenty years, when UniFrance started creating statistics about French movies. With $463 million, 52.1 million admissions outside of France, and 5.2 million admissions in France, Lucy was more successful than Taken 2 (2012), The Fifth Element (1997), and The Intouchables (2011).
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Despite widely published reports that Angelina Jolie was originally cast as the lead, but dropped out, Luc Besson has since denied them and admitted that he only met with a couple of actresses to discuss playing the lead role. He says when he saw how strongly Scarlett Johansson reacted to the story, she immediately landed the part.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Luc Besson once called this film as "one part Léon: The Professional (1994), one part Inception (2010) and one part 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)". Many shots in the film were mirrored after these three films.
Lucy - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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