Spy Game - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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

[beth]

Charlotte Rampling (Anne Cathcart) & Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Gladys Jennip) also worked together on eight episodes of Broadchurch (2013) as Jocelyn Knight & Sharon Bishop respectively.

[sara]

The building identified as the US Embassy in Hong Kong is actually the headquarters of HSBC - the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

[kenzi]

Tony Scott said that Charlotte Rampling was his "childhood fantasy."

[kenzi]

Tony Scott was worried that viewers would lose sight of Bishop's plight if they didn't see him. So he used the same torture footage three times to keep Brad Pitt's face in the movie.

[kyle]

Tony Scott inserted the flask sequence to give the audience an emotional reminder of Bishop.

[francisco]

The scene where Robert Redford's character asks Brad Pitt's character if he knew anybody in 'this apartment house' and tells him to be up on one of the balconies in five minutes is from a book by former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky who describes this test as part of the training of a Mossad agent.

[alyssa]

Tony Scott wanted to add more of a love story between Bishop (Brad Pitt) and Elizabeth (Catherine McCormack), but he lost to the producers, who wanted the relationship to develop more off-screen.

[oscar]

Amidou, the actor who plays the doctor, is Moroccan and had to learn his lines phonetically.

[richard]

Both Omid Djalili and David Hemmings had performed in Gladiator (2000) one year before this movie, which was directed by Ridley Scott, who is the brother of Spy Game-director Tony Scott.

[melinda]

On being introduced to Robert Redford, Omid Djalili joked "Mr. Redford, delighted to meet you - I loved you when you starred in Hawaii Five-O (1968). Without missing a beat Redford fired back "Well thanks, and I loved you in Doctor Zhivago (1965), although you have let yourself go since then."

[violet]

The filmmakers re-created Vietnam in the one lush area they could find in the Moroccan mountains.

[kenneth]

Tony Scott had trouble getting permission to use a building for an explosion. But at the last minute, he was able to pull some strings with Moroccan royalty and buy the building.

[kenneth]

Part of the film was originally set to have been filmed in Israel, but due to the sudden escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (in September-October 2000), and following the requirements of the actors' insurance companies, the filming took place in Morocco instead.

[ella]

A producer told Tony Scott to make the CIA guys look like they're from "a car convention in Texas." Scott says he was happy because "that's how it looks in the CIA."

[kristen]

Dutch Oscar-winning director Mike van Diem was once attached to the project.

[veronica]

The filmmakers call this a companion piece to Robert Redford's Three Days of the Condor (1975).

[steve]

Tony Scott said that the scenes in the conference room were like a "poker game." "Every time we came back, we saw a different hand being played."

[liam]

Robert Redford was drawn to the film because, "It's a thinking man's action film. That was the basic draw to the project."

[kim]

The 1983 Beirut Marine and French Barracks bombings, (which killed 307 people, 241 of which were US servicemen) , both US Embassy bombings in 83' and 84' (the first of which killed 8 CIA officers including Middle East Chief Richard Ames and Chief of Station Kenneth Haas), the abduction/torture/interrogation/murder of another CIA Station Chief William Buckley, numerous kidnappings of western journalists and aid workers, the assassination of American University Chancellor Malcolm Kerr (father of NBA player and coach Steve Kerr), the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 including the torture and murder of US Navy Diver Robert Stethem, the bombing of the Isreali Embassy in Argentina in 1992, and numerous other lesser known acts have all been attributed to the infamous Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mugniyeh, who was responsible for killing more Americans than other other foreign nationals prior to 9/11. Mugniyeh personally tortured and murdered US Navy Diver Robert Stethem during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. At 45 yrs old, he was killed by car bomb in Damascus, Syria in 2008.