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1	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $60 million. Box office, $14,276,317 (domestic), $66,976,317 (worldwide).
2	* CaliforniaDoubling: Filming took place in the Czech Republic.
3	* CreatorKiller: Writer Andrew Birkin's career was incinerated with this film's failure.
4	* DawsonCasting: Creator/MillaJovovich was 24 when playing Jeanne. She enters the film supposedly at 17 and dies at age 19.
5	* DuelingWorks: The film came out in 1999, the same year as the Canadian MiniSeries ''Series/JoanOfArc'' starring Creator/LeeleeSobieski as Joan.
6	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/MillaJovovich did indeed cut her hair short for the role and she did her own stunts. Many other actors also adopted period haircuts for the film.
7	* FakeNationality: While there are French actors such as Creator/VincentCassel, some fit this - the Americans Creator/MillaJovovich, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/FayeDunaway and Desmond Harrington, and several Britons such as Timothy West.
8	* FatalMethodActing: A stuntman died in an accident during the first weeks of filming. Creator/LucBesson was said to have become completely uncommunicative after the incident, only appearing on set to shout orders at people.
9	* FollowTheLeader: Previously in the 90's ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' rekindled interest in Middle Ages themed adventure films and even more recently at the time ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' in more graphic full-blown period epics. Both of which this film followed the lead of towards the decade's end.
10	* UnbuiltCastingType: Years before DeadpanSnarker ActionGirl became her type, Milla Jovovich portrays Jeanne this way - but the character is also presented as delusional and unstable.
11	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
12	** Creator/LucBesson was originally hired as executive producer for a film that was to be directed by Creator/KathrynBigelow, who had been developing ideas for a Joan of Arc film for about a decade. Her film was to be entitled ''Company of Angels'', with Jay Cocks hired to write the script. She would have cast Music/SineadOConnor as Joan and Creator/SeanConnery as the Conscience.
13	** Creator/JackNicholson turned down the role of the Conscience.

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