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Filming location; Cartier ring; custom video game; cancelled sequel; straight-to-video sequel
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- Filming used 20 Exchange Place, a former Wall Street bank turned cigar bar, for exteriors, with the interior built as a set.
- The Cartier diamond ring was real, borrowed for three days and valued at $1.5 million.
- Bothered by Grand Theft Auto, Spike had graphic artists spend 10 days building the in-film game from mockups of an ATM robbery and a drive-by, and predicted someone would make a real game from it.
- In 2011 plans for Inside Man 2 were cancelled because Lee could not secure funding; he called Inside Man his most successful film.
- The cancellation is baffling for a near-$200 million hit; star availability may be the issue, but a sequel would surely make $100 million and has name recognition.
- A straight-to-video sequel, Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019), exists with none of the original characters and Ray Seahorn from Better Call Saul.
- Such bootleg sequels are compared to a Mean Girls 2 that fooled a daughter.