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
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.
