The Peacemaker - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Peacemaker or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Peacemaker

[edgar]

While George Clooney and Nicole Kidman never got romantically involved, they did go out dancing at 2 a.m.

[carla]

The first film released by Dreamworks SKG.

[bessie]

Another movie called The Peacekeeper (1997), with a similar theme, was produced in the same year.

[tamara]

The IFOR troops who search the apartment in Sarajevo are Polish, based on the flags on their uniforms and their rank insignia.

[ray]

The "John F. Kennedy Airport" scenes were filmed at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in midtown Manhattan.

[gerald]

The password that Devoe and Dr Kelly get out of the trucking agent Schuhmacher is "Hasselhoff". David Hasselhoff's singing career had enjoyed surprisingly popular support in Germany and Austria where the scene takes place.

[michele]

For the final scene at the church, the art director looked for several churches in the New York area. Some accepted but when parishioners learned that the movie had to do with terrorists, they pulled out because they did not want to have that image. The final scene is actually CGI.

[nicholas]

One of the soldiERs at the roadblock also starred in ER (1994), aftER George Clooney left: Goran Visnjic.

[ivan]

A 1960 novel by Curtis Casewit called "The Peacemakers" deals with a scientist who set out to stop a political madman from destroying the world with a secret weapon.

[javier]

A minor character is named Schuhmacher, almost the same name as Joel Schumacher, who directed George Clooney in Batman & Robin (1997) the same year, and had previously directed Nicole Kidman in Batman Forever (1995).

[francisco]

The film has a story very similar to Seven Days to Noon (1950). In fact they have a number of plot points in the finale that are similar: 1. The final scene of disarming the bomb takes place in a church. 2. The person with the bomb carries it in a small bag: a backpack for The Peacemaker, valise for Seven Days to Noon. 3. The person carrying the bomb is shot at the end, before the bomb is defused. 4. A man and a woman are the people who confront the person with the bomb at the end. 5. Of the man and woman in both movies, one is a nuclear bomb expert: in Seven Days to Noon it's the man; in The Peacemaker, it's the woman.

[jessie]

George Clooney was so starstruck by Armin Mueller-Stahl that he kept offering to get him coffee on set.

[javier]

George Clooney learned stunt driving for this movie.

[toni]

The part removed from the bomb is called the "primary". This means that these bombs are thermonuclear bombs. The primary is a small nuclear bomb which is used to start the chain reaction in a much more powerful second bomb.

[tom]

This story was inspired by an article about nuclear-weapons smuggling in the former USSR. It was called "One Point Safe," after the feature that prevents nukes from being set off by accident.

[javier]

When Kodoroff's train meets up with Gavrich's men outside of the train tunnel one of the Bosnians is seen thumbing a string of Misbaha or Tasbih which are Muslim prayer beads.

[steve]

The biplane looks to be either an Antonov An-2 or An-4.

[michele]

Unlike their characters, George Clooney and Nicole Kidman got along very well on and off the set. In fact, Clooney, a notorious prankster, never pulled a prank on Kidman, out of respect. Clooney became such good friends with Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer (on the set of One Fine Day (1996)) that both put up a US$10,000 wager that Clooney, who had vowed to never marry again, would be married with children before turning 40. Clooney won the bet (although he did eventually get married at age 53).

[amber]

When Defoe is leaving with the SpecOps team, Kelly calls him "a talented soldiER with sloppy impulse control." George Clooney was in ER (1994) at the time, whERe anothER doctor called him "a talented doctor with sloppy impulse control."