The movie was released the same year that its source novel was published.
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In the scene where Wesley's first being shown the bending bullet move Sloan asks him to shoot around a pig carcass, to which he asks "You want me to shoot Wilbur?" This is a reference to the pig Wilbur from Charlotte's Web.
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Morgan Freeman's second comic book film. He previously starred as Lucius Fox in Batman Begins (2005), This movie, Wanted (June 2008), He then appears in The Dark Knight (July 2008), Dark Knight Rises (2012), and RED (2010).
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For the Russian dubbing, many Russian film stars from Night Watch (2004), Day Watch (2006) and The Irony of Fate 2 (2007) took part: Sergey Bezrukov for James McAvoy, Galina Tyunina for Angelina Jolie, Yuriy Kutsenko, Valeriy Zolotukhin and others. The Russian dubbing script was written by Sergey Lukyanenko.
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Wesley takes out a target in a limo. The target is listening to Andrea Bocelli. As the target sees Wesley overtake him for the kill, the lyrics for the title of the track "Time to Say Goodbye" play. To which Wesley replies with a sardonic "I'm sorry."
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On Dec 16, 2014, the amalgam british band McBusted made a video for their song Get Over It, with the intro of the video influenced by the movie's first act with Tom Fletcher hitting his boss' face with a keyboard as Wesley.
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Angelina Jolie had previously starred as an assassin in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
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Branko Tomovic auditioned for the part of The Repairman.
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In the final library scene, Fox decides to follow the code, and the bullet she shoots has the word 'Goodbye' engraved on it. You can see the word clearly just prior to it entering the first assassin's head.
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When Wesley smashes his keyboard into his best friend's head as he leaves the office, the letters that come flying off the keyboard towards the screen spell "fuck you".
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Danny Elfman was invited to do the score, and accepted because he was a fan of Timur Bekmambetov's previous films, Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006).
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Originally a comic book by Top Cow Productions, written by Mark Millar.
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This films was based on a graphic novel with costumed heroes and villains. James McAvoy (Professor Xavier) and Chris Pratt (Peter Quill / Star Lord) have both appeared as costumed heroes in Marvel films.
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Angelina Jolie says she based her role on Clint Eastwood.
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The second film in which James McAvoy stars as a man out to avenge his father. The other film was Strings (2004).
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The graphic novel features superhero costumes worn by many characters, but the film eliminates them, except the leather attire worn by Wesley and The Fox.
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Escape (The Pina Colada Song) plays at the end of the first major action sequence just after Wesley meets Fox. The same song plays in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) when Starlord escapes the prison. Chris Pratt (Starlord) also plays Wesley's "best bud" Barry.
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The train is a Czech Railways 680 class "Pendolino", made by the French company Alstom.
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