FILM · 2015 · USA
No Escape
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13 Interesting Facts About No Escape
Interesting Facts (12)
- #001
After the film's trailers were released, public unrest broke out in Cambodia over the use of upside-down Khmer letters on police shields. The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has since banned the film from being shown in Cambodia. Sin Chanchaya, Director of the Film Department, said the decision to ban the film was made based solely on the trailer. Chanchaya said the Ministry had contacted the filmmakers to arrange the film's lettering but that they did not respond by the time the decision was made.
- #002
Although Bangkok's 2014 coup ousted a pro-American figure, according to the government the coup was bloodless and did not lead to any street violence.
- #003
Although the producers had considered setting the film in a fictional country, the flight map showed the Dwyer family flying to southern Vietnam or Cambodia. Since the family flees to Vietnam in the plot, Cambodia is a plausible possibility for the location of the fictional country.
- #004
During the credits, when the actors list their roles, no American actor is named alongside the characters they play in the film.
- #005
The film was shot in Thailand's tourist-friendly northern cities of Chiang Mai and Lampang.
- #006
It is Owen Wilson's first dramatic role since Behind Enemy Lines (2001).
- #007
- #008
A fire that broke out during production damaged the set in Lampang in northern Thailand. After filming an explosion scene in a ruined building, while the crew was packing up and moving items to the lower floor, someone saw the fire on the building's third floor. No one was injured.
- #009
The signs seen in the film were replaced with Cambodia's Khmer script, but the rebels speak Thai.
- #010
When the Dwyers arrive in the foreign country, Hammond approaches them and offers to take them to their hotel. The car that comes to pick them up is a small bus with enough room for the whole family. It is no coincidence that Hammond sat next to them on the plane and is staying at the same hotel. Hammond was most likely hired by the Cardiff company to protect the Dwyer family.
- #011
When Kenny Rogers's taxi pulled up to the airport, the song on the radio was Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town, which is about a disabled veteran of a "crazy Asian war".
- #012
Cardiff, the company Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson) is to work for, is also the company that played a significant role in the first season of the series Halt and Catch Fire (2014).
Behind the Scenes (1)
- #013
The film's credits reveal that the story's copyright was preserved under the original working title "The Coup (2015)". However, shortly after filming took place there in 2013, the Thai army staged a coup in May 2014.
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