Trivia / Collateral Damage

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $85 million. Gross, $78,382,433.
• California Doubling: Set in Colombia, filmed in Mexico.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Bulgaria: Indirect Sacrifices
  • Croatia: Revenge
  • Czech Republic: Counterstrike
  • Denmark: Cold Revenge
  • Greece: Deadly Pursuit
  • Hungary: In the Name of the Truth
  • Poland: On My Own
  • Russia: Compensation for Damage
  • Turkey: Follow to Death
• Deleted Role: Sofía Vergara as a plane hijacker, as her scenes were too uncomfortable post-9/11.
• Distanced from Current Events: A scene depicting a plane hijacking (by Sofía Vergara!) was cut from the film.
• Fake Nationality:
  • Once again, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an American, though a Germanic background is implied.
  • New Zealander Cliff Curtis (and of Maori extraction to boot) as Colombian terrorist El Lobo.
  • Italian Francesca Neri as Colombian Selena Perrini.
  • Canadian Elias Koteas as American Agent Peter Brandt.
  • American John Turturro as Canadian Sean Armstrong.
• The Foreign Subtitle:
  • Germany: Collateral Damage: Time of Retribution
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lots of stuff was cut due to 9/11.
  • The script had Libya as its setting.

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