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DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, James Franco were once candidates for the role.
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Jennifer Lawrence was originally an actor who played O, but she gave up the film because she wanted to star in "The Hunger Games".
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Before the novel was published, Oliver Stone started screenwriting work. He was very interested in the story and invested in the film.
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Although this is the sixth time to work with Stone, it is the first timehas been named in the credits.
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Taylor Kitsch received training from a real SEAL team before shooting the film. And in the film, Taylor Kitsch did not use a double actor.
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Stone hired the actor after watching only the footage of "Super Battleship" performed by Taylor Kitsch. The movie had not yet been released when Stone watched the material.
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The film was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 2012. However, the producer has advanced it to the summer vacation.
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Blake Lively had never played a gunfight scene, so Stone asked her to do gun training. As a result, she hit the bullseye with three shots in a row when shooting.
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After Trevor Donovan's original role was deleted, Stone created a new role for the actor that was not in the novel.
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For legal reasons, the marijuana in the film is man-made. In order to ensure the accuracy of the details, the crew specially went to the legal medical marijuana production base to visit and learn.
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This is Oliver Stone's first film made with Panavision anamorphic lenses since Oliver Stone's "Biography of Nixon" in 1995.
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Uma Thurman played O's mother in the film, but in the post-editing, Stone cut all her part.
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Extended Reading
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Elena: [to O about Ben and Chon] There's something wrong with your love story, baby. They may love you, but they will never love you as much as they love each other. Otherwise, they wouldn't share you, would they?
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[first lines]
O: [voice-over] Just because I'm telling you this story doesn't mean I'm alive at the end of it. This could all be pre-recorded and I could be talking to you from the bottom of the ocean. Yeah, it's that kind of a story. Because things just got so out of control.