Similarity to Dazed and Confused (1993): Both films feature a scene in which four characters marvel over a broken paddle in very similar ways. In Dazed and Confused, Pink points out that Benny's shop class paddle has a hairline fraction from an off screen freshman hazing. In Everybody Wants Some!!, Jake points out the split handle of McReynolds' ping pong paddle after he throws it in a rage.
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The band playing in the club scene are The Subways with their song "Rock and Roll Queen".
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Actor Matt King, who plays Cookie in this film, actually played director Guy Ritchie on Star Stories: The Wife's Life (2006). Ritchie mentions in the director's commentary that he was unaware of this until after production had wrapped.
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Jason Statham turned down a role in the film due to scheduling conflicts with Death Race (2008).
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Christopher Nolan said that it was his performance in this film that convinced him to cast Tom Hardy in Inception (2010) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
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The movie makes recurring use of the Black Strobe song "I'm a Man" in the soundtrack. Black Strobe became famous in the 1990s for their song "Me and Madonna", referring to the famous singer, Guy Ritchie's former wife.
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Uri (Karel Roden)'s painting, an important connection of the parties involved in the plot, is never shown in the movie.
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Toby Kebbell (Johnny Quid) and Jimi Mistry (the Councillor) also worked together on episode 1.3, Black Mirror: The Entire History of You (2011), of Black Mirror (2011) as Liam & Paul respectively.
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According to director Guy Ritchie, this is the first in a trilogy. Before the credits, there is a title card that reads "The Wild Bunch will return in The Real RockNRolla", hinting that this will be the title of the next installment.
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The character Uri (Karel Roden) appears to be inspired by real-life Russian businessman Roman Abramovich. He physically resembles Abramovich and conducts a business meeting at a soccer stadium which echoes Abramovich's status as owner of Chelsea FC.
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On the day of filming the sex scene, Gerard Butler had a nasty throat infection and Thandie Newton refused to kiss him. Guy Ritchie then improvised and revised the scene into the very funny montage.
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After stealing the second money delivery to Uri (Karel Roden) from the Russian heavies and cutting the handcuffs off of one briefcase, the Wild Bunch eventually end up running off on foot in three directions. Both Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy) and Mumbles (Idris Elba) are clearly carrying briefcases with the handcuff chain hanging from the handles, presumably because they cut the chains rather than the handcuffs.
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Mark Strong and Tom Hardy appeared together in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) although they never shared any screen time together.
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The house number where One-Two lives is three four.
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The club scene where "Rock and Roll Queen" plays was actually filmed at The Subways live show in Bournemouth. They had to play the song twice.
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Guy Ritchie: Man on bicycle riding past Roman and Mickey as they approach Johnny's crack house.
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Both Idris Elba & Tom Hardy starred in productions named "The Take": Idris in a 2016 movie, Takers (2010), and Tom in a 2009 mini-series, The Take (2009).
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Both Tom Hardy and Idris Elba have played villains in Star Trek movies and, along with Mark Strong and Gerard Butler, played movie characters based on comic books or graphic novels: Tom Hardy - Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)Idris Elba - Heimdall in the Marvel Cinematic UniverseMark Strong - Sinestro in Green Lantern (2011)Gerard Butler - Leonidas in 300 (2006).
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There are two characters whose names are a reference to characters in other movies. The character Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy) is a possible reference to Jason Statham who played Handsome Rob in The Italian Job (2003), and the character Fred the Head is similar to Doug the Head in Ritchie's previous film Snatch (2000).
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
RockNRolla - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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