Trivia / Colombiana

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $40 million. Box office, $36,665,854 (domestic), $60,965,854 (worldwide).
• California Doubling: The scene in which the cop car gets crashed into was filmed in Metairie, LA, a suburb of New Orleans. This occurs seconds after the message flashes on the screen, "Los Angeles, present day."
• Completely Different Title: A funny story regarding the Taiwanese title. The literal meaning of the original title is "Black Orchid Beauty", but if you read it out loud in Mandarin, it sounds very similar to "Black Dick". It was eventually changed into something along the line of "Black Orchid Spirit".
• Dawson Casting: Zoe Saldaña was 32 years old at the time she played 24 year old Cataleya.
• Divorced Installment: Luc Besson originally wrote this as a sequel to The Professional, following an Older and Wiser Mathilda Lando getting revenge on those that had wronged her. Because Gaumont held the intellectual rights to the movie and Besson departed from the company after the failure of 1998's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, it was retooled into a standalone movie.
• Fake American:
  • Brit Lennie James plays an American FBI agent. His American accent is flawless but at one point, while searching cars, he refers to the trunk as a 'boot'.
  • A minor example, with Graham McTavish playing US Marshal Warren.
• Fake Nationality: Puerto-Rican/Dominican Zoe Saldaña, African-American/Danish Amandla Stenberg, and Maori Cliff Curtis play Colombians.
• Star-Derailing Role: While her career isn't entirely derailed thanks to her roles as Uhura in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise and Gamora in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this big flop in 2011 killed any chance of convincing Hollywood to let Zoe Saldaña lead a major motion picture. The projects she's done since were either independent films or supporting roles in major pictures, mostly in the franchises mentioned above, as well as Avatar, all of which has enabled her to be in the top three highest grossing films of all time.

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