History Trivia / Paycheck

* CreatorKiller: The film killed Creator/JohnWoo's Hollywood career, due to a chilly reception by critics and audiences. Many critics felt the film was little more than a checklist of Woo's stylistic touches that had become tired and forced, and there were whispers that many of Woo's Hollywood films (including this one) had been victims of ExecutiveMeddling, leaving him frustrated with the failure of this film being the last straw. It would be five years before he would direct [[Film/RedCliff again]], and 19 years before he would make his comeback to Hollywood with the upcoming action thriller ''Silent Night''.

* CreatorKiller: The film killed Creator/JohnWoo's Hollywood career, due to a chilly reception by critics and audiences. Many critics felt the film was little more than a checklist of Woo's stylistic touches that had become tired and forced, and there were whispers that many of Woo's Hollywood films (including this one) had been victims of ExecutiveMeddling, leaving him frustrated with the failure of this film being the last straw. It would be 5 years before he would direct [[Film/RedCliff again]], and 19 years before he would make his comeback to Hollywood with the upcoming action thriller ''Silent Night''.

* CreatorKiller: The film killed Creator/JohnWoo's Hollywood career, due to a chilly reception by critics and audiences. Many critics felt the film was little more than a checklist of Woo's stylistic touches that had become tired and forced, and there were whispers that many of Woo's Hollywood films (including this one) had been victims of ExecutiveMeddling, leaving him frustrated with the failure of this film being the last straw. It would be 5 years before he would direct [[Film/RedCliff again]].

* CreatorKiller: Killed Creator/JohnWoo's Hollywood career, due to a chilly reception by critics and audiences. Many critics felt the film was little more than a checklist of Woo's stylistic touches that had become tired and forced, and there were whispers that many of Woo's Hollywood films (including this one) had been victims of ExecutiveMeddling, leaving him frustrated with the failure of this film being the last straw. It would be 5 years before he would direct [[Film/RedCliff again]].

* WagTheDirector: Jennings was supposed to be a New York Mets fan (or Yankees, sources differ), but Creator/BenAffleck, a Boston Red Sox fan, persuaded Creator/JohnWoo to change the team to the Red Sox.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MattDamon was originally considered for the part of Michael Jennings, but turned it down, because it was too similar to ''Film/TheBourneIdentity''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MattDamon was originally considered for the part of Michael Jennings, but turned it down, because it was too similar to

* ActorAllusion: In this movie, Creator/UmaThurman plays a biologist who works in a garden/lab where she can call wind, rain and lightning. In previous films she has played [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Poison Ivy]] and [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen the goddess Aphrodite]].

* MoneyDearBoy: When Creator/ConanOBrien asked Creator/BenAffleck why he did this film, his response was "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the answer lies in the title]]."

* CreatorKiller: Killed Creator/JohnWoo's Hollywood career, due to a chilly reception by critics and audiences. Many critics felt the film was little more than a checklist of Woo's stylistic touches that had become tired and forced, and there were whispers that many of Woo's Hollywood films had been victims of ExecutiveMeddling, leaving him frustrated with the failure of this film being the last straw. It would be 5 years before he would direct [[Film/RedCliff again]].

* ActorAllusion: In this movie, UmaThurman plays a biologist who works in a garden/lab where she can call wind, rain and lightning. In previous films she has played [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Poison Ivy]] and [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen the goddess Aphrodite]].

* CreatorKiller: This was Creator/JohnWoo's last Hollywood film, as it received a chilly reception by critics and audiences. Many critics felt the film was little more than a checklist of Woo's stylistic touches that had become tired and forced, and there were whispers that many of Woo's Hollywood films had been victims of ExecutiveMeddling, leaving him frustrated and prompting his exit. It would be 5 years before he would direct [[Film/RedCliff another film]] in Hong Kong.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Michael C. Hall, at the time a supporting character on ''Series/SixFeetUnder'', several years before becoming one of the biggest leading men on television with ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Michael C. Hall, at the time a supporting character on ''SixFeetUnder'', several years before becoming one of the biggest leading men on television with ''{{Dexter}}''.

* MoneyDearBoy: When ConanOBrien asked Creator/BenAffleck why he did this film, his response was "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the answer lies in the title]]."

* MoneyDearBoy: When ConanOBrien asked BenAffleck why he did this film, his response was "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the answer lies in the title]]."

* MoneyDearBoy: When ConanOBrien asked BenAffleck why he did this film, his response was "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the answer lies in the title."

* MoneyDearBoy: The reason BenAffleck did this film.