Line #3 Trivia/PhoneBooth


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2	* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: This movie took 10 days to film, with two additional days for pickups and establishing shots.
3	* CaliforniaDoubling: Shot on the only street in Los Angeles which could pass for Manhattan. Though the effect is blown in long shots, when you can see the skyscrapers ending after a few blocks. Also, given the address where the phone booth supposedly is, he should be basically across the street from Studio 54.
4	* DeletedRole: Creator/JaredLeto had a cameo an actor in a theater production of "Drockula". He and Stu have a quick scene in an alley. The scene was deleted from the film, but restored when the film was aired on television.
5	* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The film's release was delayed from its original November 15, 2002 release date to April 4, 2003 due to the Washington, D.C. sniper attacks the month prior.
6	* EnforcedMethodActing: None of the extras were given instructions on what was happening, just that they should react accordingly. All of their reactions to shots being fired (and Stu's [[TearJerker confession]]) are genuine.
7	* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Larry Cohen first pitched the concept to Creator/AlfredHitchcock in the 1960s. The finished film wasn't released until 2003.
8	* FakeAmerican: Irish Creator/ColinFarrell, Australian Creator/RadhaMitchell, as well as Canadian Creator/KieferSutherland.
9	* OneTakeWonder: The shooter demands that Stu come clean to his wife about his marital infidelities, resulting in an emotional scene that Creator/ColinFarrell managed to nail on the first take. The entire film itself was shot in just 12 days.
10	* TheOtherMarty: Creator/KieferSutherland's scenes were initially shot with Ron Eldard. Eldard's scenes were replaced after he didn't test well with the audience and studio.
11	* PlayingAgainstType: The film was produced by David Zucker of Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker
12	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: The film's road from inception to release took nearly ''forty years'' (including a two and a half year period between production and release). The story idea had been around for long, that Creator/AlfredHitchcock(!) was initially attached to direct the film in the late 60's. The two and a half year pause between production and release was more bad luck than anything else.
13	* TechnologyMarchesOn: The film was released just as the last phone booths in New York City were beginning to be removed (the final pay phone overall was removed in May 2022). Even five years later, the plot would have been impossible.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** Creator/MichaelBay considered directing. When he met with the writer and producers, the first thing he asked was "How can we get him out of the phone booth?"
16	** Creator/MelGibson was set to star and even gave screenwriter some helpful suggestions that wound up in the film, but he eventually backed out.
17	** At one point, Creator/JimCarrey reportedly showed interest in the lead role.
18	** Creator/WillSmith was attached to star at one point.
19	** Creator/MarkWahlberg turned down the role of Stu in order to star in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''.
20	** [[spoiler: In the original script, there was no pizza man and the cops successfully kill the sniper before he can kill Stu (though we still never learn his name or much else about him).]]

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