Line #7 Trivia/TheManFromUncle2015


1	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $75 million. Box office, $45,312,930 (domestic), $100,412,930 (worldwide).
2	* ChannelHop: The original series was produced by [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM Television]]; the movie is from Creator/WarnerBros, who inherited the rights via the Time Warner-Turner merger of 1996 (Turner having acquired MGM's library in 1986).
3	* DuelingWorks: Had the bad luck of coming out the same year as ''three'' other big budget SpyFiction films: ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' and ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.
4	* FakeNationality: TheMovie! Pretty much all of the major characters are pretending - Englishmen Creator/HenryCavill and Creator/JaredHarris as the Americans Napoleon Solo and his handler Saunders, American Creator/ArmieHammer as Russian Illya Kuryakin, Swedish Creator/AliciaVikander as the German Gabi Teller and Australian Creator/ElizabethDebicki as the English Victoria Vinciguerra. Only four principal characters - Waverley, Oleg, Uncle Rudi and Alexander Vinciguerra - are represented by actors from their 'proper' nations.
5	* IronyAsSheIsCast: British Creator/HenryCavill plays a FakeAmerican as Solo, while Creator/ArmieHammer, a real American, plays Russian Kuryakin.
6	* NoStuntDouble: Creator/HenryCavill and Creator/ArmieHammer often did their own stunts in the film. Hammer was more enthusiastic about his stunts; his stunt double joked that he "hardly has a chance to do anything because he's out there doing it all by himself."
7	* ProductionPosse:
8	** Just as Creator/MarkStrong followed up appearing in ''Film/{{Rocknrolla}}'' with the villain role in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Jared Harris returns for his second Guy Ritchie film in a row.
9	** The projectionist during Kuryakin's debriefing of Solo is Guy Ritchie's buddie and international soccer superstar UsefulNotes/DavidBeckham in heavy disguise.
10	* PromotedFanboy:
11	** Creator/HughGrant was a fan of the series.
12	--->I had a ''Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' model car. I believe you pressed the top off and it shot guns out of the sides. I might still have it.
13	** Special Effects creator Robert Short, one of the film's compositing artists, is likewise a fan of the series. Helping to find and restore the original U.N.C.L.E Car in the 1980s; and the same year as the film co-created "The Golden Anniversary Affair", a fan event[=/=]reunion celebrating the original series' 50th anniversary. This was also not his only time working with the franchise, as he contributed props and the title sequence for the ReunionShow ''The Return of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair''.
14	* ReleaseDateChange: The film was originally set for a January 16, 2015 release, but on August 12, 2014, Creator/WarnerBros moved the film's release date from January 16, 2015 to August 14, 2015.
15	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell:
16	** Producer John Davis optioned the film rights to the series in 1993, setting up a development deal for an adaptation with Creator/WarnerBros and series producer Norman Felton. Davis has estimated that he commissioned twelve or fourteen different scripts over the course of twenty years, with writers Jim and John Thomas, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, and Scott Z. Burns. Creator/QuentinTarantino was briefly attached following the success of ''Film/PulpFiction'', but opted to make ''Film/JackieBrown'' instead.
17	** After Creator/MatthewVaughn and David Dobkin expressed interest, Creator/StevenSoderbergh was attached to direct Scott Z. Burns' screenplay, with Creator/GeorgeClooney playing Napoleon Solo and Creator/EmilyBlunt playing the female lead and production slated to begin in March 2012. The studio wanted the budget to stay below $60 million, but Soderbergh felt that amount would not be adequate to fund the 1960s-era sets, props, and international settings required for the film. Clooney dropped out due a back injury. At one point, Creator/JohnnyDepp expressed an interest when production on ''Film/TheLoneRanger2013'' was suspended. Soderbergh departed the film in 2011.
18	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
19	** Creator/TomCruise and Creator/GeorgeClooney were originally cast as Napoleon Solo before Creator/HenryCavill was cast. However, Cruise dropped out of the project due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'', while Clooney departed due to a back injury.
20	*** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt, Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard, Creator/EwanMcGregor, Creator/RobertPattinson, Creator/MichaelFassbender, Creator/ChristianBale, Creator/BradleyCooper, Creator/JoelKinnaman, Creator/RussellCrowe, Creator/RyanGosling, Creator/MattDamon, Creator/ChrisPine, Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/JonHamm were also considered for the role of Napoleon Solo before the casting of Cavill.
21	** Creator/AliceEve, Creator/EmiliaClarke, Creator/FelicityJones, Creator/TeresaPalmer, Creator/GemmaArterton, Creator/MiaWasikowska and Creator/SarahGadon read for Gaby Teller before the casting of Creator/AliciaVikander.
22	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Creator/GuyRitchie finalized the script throughout production: "He's quite intuitive and tends to constantly rewrite stuff, which he does even when they're shooting. He'll rewrite things in the morning if they're shooting that day, working with the actors if something doesn't feel right." says long term collaborator David Allcock.

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