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Favorite Actor Action | 2000 | Mel
Best ActionAdventureThriller Film | 2000
Budget 90,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 161,626,121 USD
For release in Australia, the U.S. tagline "Get ready to root for the bad guy" was changed to "Get ready to cheer for the bad guy" because, as Mel Gibson himself pointed out, in Australia "to root" is slang for "to have sexual intercourse".
According to the director commentary, James Coburn found the prop cigars his character was supposed to use unfit for smoking. So, he went into Mel Gibson's trailer (Gibson wasn't there, as he wasn't scheduled for shooting at that moment) and helped himself to a few of Gibson's cigars.
Director Brian Helgeland was fired from the film two days after he'd won his Academy Award for L.A. Confidential (1997).
Brian Helgeland was working on the script for this film, in friend and mentor Richard Donner's office, on the Warner Brothers lot during post-production on their previous collaboration, Conspiracy Theory (1997). One day, Helgeland had gathered his script pages, and was on his way home, when Donner asked if he could go to the ADR stage, where he was scheduled to have a session with Mel Gibson, and inform him that he would be late. When Helgeland arrived at the stage, Gibson inquired about the script pages under his arm. After reading the first act, Gibson expressed interest in the project, but Helgeland informed him that he really wanted to direct it. Gibson offered that if he liked the finished script, he would give him a shot. Upon completion, Helgeland sent Gibson the script, expecting him to pass. After a couple of weeks, Gibson called and asked, "Can you be ready to shoot in twelve weeks?"
The scene where Porter pickpockets the guy's wallet required an open casting call to find someone who looked reasonably enough like Gibson. The guy who got the gig wasn't an actor but had been told throughout his life that he bore a resemblance to Gibson.
"Pearl: [seductively] I've got a few minutes. Porter: So go boil an egg."
"Porter: [voiceover] Crooked cops. Do they come in any other way? If I'd been just a little dumber, I could have joined the force myself."
