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Budget and gross; knife skills; expanded Vaughn role; therapy premise; Bogotá objections; Fight Club shirt; reused helicopter shot; 50 drafts; TV pilot and sequel ideas
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- The stated budget is $110 million, possibly more, against a $487 million gross.
- Jolie reportedly brought knife skills and her own collection to the production.
- Vaughn’s Eddie reportedly expanded from a cameo-sized part.
- Kinberg reportedly developed the premise after friends described marriage therapy as aggressive and mercenary.
- Colombians and their president reportedly objected to the film’s depiction of the country.
- Brody wears a Fight Club T-shirt during the interrogation.
- A helicopter shot over Bogotá was taken from Clear and Present Danger and modified with CGI.
- The script reportedly went through 50 drafts, with writers including Terence Winter, Akiva Goldsman, and Carrie Fisher.
- A 2007 ABC pilot written by Kinberg and directed by Liman starred Jordana Brewster and Martin Henderson; it was pitched as Married with Children with guns and was not picked up.
- Subsequent sequel ideas are described as eventually becoming Keeping Up with the Joneses, with uncertainty about whether Pitt and Jolie would have participated.