Useless Movie Trivia For
Paycheck
Memorable Movie Quotes
Rachel Porter: Some of the best things in life are total mistakes.
Michael Jennings: If you only look where you can't go, you might just miss the riches below.
Trivia
Ben Affleck's character was supposed to be a New York Mets fan (or Yankees - sources differ), but Affleck, a Boston Red Sox fan, persuaded director John Woo to change the team to the Red Sox.
Matt Damon was originally considered for the part of Michael Jennings, but turned it down because it was too similar to The Bourne Identity.
In the apparently random sequence of numbers and letters shown at the beginning are included cast/credits and all the items from Jennings's envelope.
Jennings received $526,000.19 for developing the holo-monitor.
Just before Michael starts his second project he comments on the Red Sox making the World Series. Although this film was released in 2003 - it is set in 2004 and accurately predicts the Red Sox making the World Series, although it incorrectly predicts that they would lose.
The sender address of the envelope is M. Jennings/Alcom Eng. Dept., Discovery Park, Orondo, WA 98830 - phone 206.555.0101 - and the destination Jane Anderson/Reddy Grant, 401 Burrard St., Seattle, WA 98817 - phone 206.555.0199. The shipping date is 5/20/07.
Michael Jennings monitor project was 19 October 2004 to 22 December 2004 (date of his check). His paycheck project finishes June 2007 (date of his signed paper).
The 20 items that Jennings sent to himself are: sunglasses, pack of cigarettes, bus pass, diamond ring, paperclip, fortune from a cookie, janitor's key, lighter, hairspray, matchbook, Allcom pass, BMW key, looking glass, stamp, ball bearings, allen wrench, half dollar, cross word puzzle, bullet, and a watch.
In the original story ("Paycheck" by Philip K. Dick) Jennings sends to himself very different items and there were only 7 of them. They were: "A code key. A ticket stub. A parcel receipt. A length of fine wire. Half a poker chip, broken across. A green strip of cloth. A bus token."
The motorbike Ben Affleck's character takes from the BMW showroom is a R1150 R Roadster.
The year before, Ben Affleck appeared in The Sum of All Fears, as Jack Ryan, a role previously played by Harrison Ford. This film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, whose work also inspired the film Blade Runner, also starring Ford.
In the DVD special feature about the film's stunts, stunt coordinator Gregg Smrz explains that in a chase-scene crash between a car and a big rig truck, the truck was actually towing the car by use of a cable system that the special effects department fabricated. One of the chains connecting the two vehicles is noticeable during this crash sequence in the film.
Goofs
During the chase scene, Jennings is riding a low-revving 1150cc BMW twin cylinder motorcycle, however the dubbed engine sound is that of a high-revving multi-cylinder bike.
Jimmy's party invitation to Michael includes "P.S. THE RED SOX LOST" - clearly indicating his awareness of Michael's favorite team. Jimmy later directs his decoy Rachel, at times feeding her verbatim lines via hidden transmission, to deceive Michael. Yet when the ruse is almost complete, he lets it fall apart by neglecting to feed his decoy the answer to Michael's question, "What's my favorite baseball team?"
Fairly early in the movie, when Jennings is having lunch with Troy, he dumps out the contents of the manila envelope on the table. When the two notice that they're being watched, Jennings hastily scoops the items back into the envelope; however, we see that he misses the bullet. In the next shot, the bullet is still on the table, albeit partially obscured by a napkin. The two men flee, leaving the bullet on the table, yet somehow Jennings has and uses it later in the movie.
During the motorcycle chase scene, one of the bike's headlights is shot out. In all subsequent shots, it is intact.
During the motorcycle chase scene the tires on the motorcycle change. When they are riding through the streets, the motorcycle has slick tires. When they get to the dockyards/warehouse the tires are off-road (studded)
In the closeup of the bus pass, it is marked for Route 14. Yet when Jennings exits the bus after chasing the ring thief, the banner at the top of the bus is for Route 44.
The key to the BMW is that of a BMW car. It has the standard Trunk/Lock/Unlock buttons on the key. A BMW motorcycle key is quite a bit smaller with only a silver metal case at the top of the key. Further as Jennings runs around the car lot he is pushing the BMW logo in the middle of the key, this is the Lock part of the key which would not reveal the vehicle he was seeking anyway. The action of the lock part of the key on already locked BMW 3 series is to turn the interior light on. Not visible in daylight.
When footage of the nuclear explosion is shown, the mushroom cloud appears, fully formed, immediately following the flash. Mushroom clouds, which are caused by debris being sucked into the powerful vacuum created by the blast, take several seconds to form.
The "checkpoint" from where Michael's memory was supposed to be erased after finishing his first job is shown in a monitor as him walking with the box under his arm. However, he wouldn't have this image in his brain, but instead one from his own point of view.
Seattle has no subway system, yet the movie shows a fight in a subway.
The bullet shown firing when Michael views the future still has the brass casing on it as it leaves the gun.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $60,000,000
Opening Weekend: $13,462,374
Gross: $53,789,313
Filming Locations
Burrard SkyTrain Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(subway scenes)
The Waterfall Building, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
University of British Columbia, Robson Square Campus - 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver Film Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(studio)
Vancouver Technical Secondary School, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada