(at around 14 mins) Both Wes Craven and Carl Ellsworth filmed cameos as airline passengers in the airport terminal. Wes Craven couldn't keep a straight face with his script supervisor Sheila Waldron, so their cameo wound up on the cutting room floor. Ellsworth's cameo remains in the final cut: three women are sleeping on the terminal seats and they all have their heads resting on the next ones shoulders, until the last one is sleeping on a man's shoulder; this is Carl Ellsworth wearing a green sweatshirt promoting the band Outkast.
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Many of the action sequences were shot with a 20mm Panavision anamorphic lens, of which there were only two in existence.
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When Xander is climbing the rocks and infiltrating the castle, he is wearing a special jacket. It's actually a textile motorcycle jacket, produced by Joe Rocket, and its called the "Phoenix" series. It uses padding and ballistic nylon weaving to reduce the impact and abrasion damage caused in a motorcycle crash.
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When the smoking sniper pins down the officers, the rocket launcher Xander uses is actually a modified video camera painted green.
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The shirt that Kolya is wearing in the metal club in the beginning is a t-shirt of the very band playing on stage, Rammstein.
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The DJs in the futuristic night club are the members of British trance group Orbital. They also composed the song playing in the background: "Technologicque Park".
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Eric Bana was the first choice to play Xander Cage, but turned it down to do The Nugget (2002).
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