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Development history; filming locations; CheyTac rifle; sniper authenticity; weight loss
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- The film was in development for 12 years, with seven screenwriters.
- The assassination was filmed at Independence National Historical Park and the finale at Mammoth Lakes, California.
- The main rifle is the CheyTac M200 Intervention, with a laser rangefinder, night vision and ballistics software, called the Ferrari of sniper rifles.
- Online debate questions whether Wahlberg's eye-closing technique is authentic.
- Marine scout sniper Patrick Garrity trained Wahlberg to shoot with both hands and handle adjustments; the sniper work is judged mostly authentic.
- The soup-can shot shows Wahlberg lying frog-legged with his dog, which is funny.
- Precision Remotes, the website Memphis visits, is real.
- Wahlberg lost 20 pounds for a character who drinks Budweiser in the morning.
- The dog was a Bernese Mountain Dog and English Mastiff mix, and a trailer shows an unused remote-detonated jet scene.