FILM · 2013 · USA
Now You See Me
- Directed by
- Louis Leterrier
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Studio
- Summit Entertainment, K/O Paper Products
32 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
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20 Interesting Facts About Now You See Me
- #002
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In interviews, Mark Ruffalo and Dave Franco confirmed that Franco cut Ruffalo's face while throwing cards during the fight scene.
- #003
The card trick in the opening sequence is real, with no editing. It is what is known as a "card force," in which the magician makes an unsuspecting audience member choose a predetermined card. The audience member believes they chose a random card, reinforced by the magician reshuffling the deck several times, but this is merely misdirection.
- #004
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While in his prison cell, Morgan Freeman says, "These bars give a man time to think." In The Shawshank Redemption (1994), he says a similar line: "Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it."
- #005
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When Jack (Dave Franco) and Dylan (Mark Ruffalo) go down into the trash, an apartment mailbox labeled "Shrike" is found on the support box of the Shrike magician. It belongs to apartment 6-A, the apartment of The Four Horsemen that previously belonged to Lionel Shrike (Elias Koteas) and later, more importantly, to his son.
- #006
In interviews, Isla Fisher explained that the character Henley is a "germaphobic," which is why she is seen wearing gloves throughout the film.
- #007
The final scene, as shown in the film, was shot at the Pont des Arts in Paris, France, famous for the estimated one million "love locks" attached to its railings. On June 1, 2015, however, city council workers began removing the padlocks following years of complaints from local residents.
- #011
The carousel shown in Central Park is actually from City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana, while the theater shown in New Orleans, Louisiana, is in Los Angeles, California.
- #012
In the original draft of the screenplay, there were no women among the Four Horsemen.
- #013
The cards used throughout the film are a luxury deck made by Theory11. They are called Monarchs.
- #014
In the film's segment about the Eye of Horus, Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting the "cups and balls" illusion are shown. It is widely believed to be the oldest existing magic trick, and it was in fact practiced in ancient Egypt and can be seen in hieroglyphs.
- #016
When J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg) and the girl enter his apartment after the promotional card trick, a Shrike poster with a dove can be seen on his wall.
- #018
While reading a newspaper in Paris, Alma Dray reads an old article about Lionel Shrike's death in the 1970s. Shrike can be seen in the article's front-page photo. In the news footage, Shrike is played by Elias Koteas.
- #020
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When the Horsemen enter Times Square, eyes flicker on and off across the billboards around them. The last one to appear is the same Eye seen on the assembled tarot cards in the park, lingering long enough to be clearly visible almost at the center of the screen.
- #021
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Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine) meets Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) in New Orleans and, holding a voodoo doll, tells him: "Let me be clear. My bank account is much bigger than yours. My lawyers are much stronger. And they will keep you tied up in so many injunctions that you will stand there hopelessly and watch everything you have wither away before your greedy little eyes." Thaddeus replies, "You shouldn't have. According to superstition, the person who uses the doll to conjure up his own anger will probably bring the same wrath upon himself." At the end of the Four Horsemen's New Orleans show, Tressler suffers the same fate.
- #022
If you watch the holographic broadcast in the apartment carefully, you will see the word Tri-Mark, the company that made this film, appear.
- #024
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The F.B.I. agent who arrests Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and the other three Horsemen at the beginning of the film is reading "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolaño.
- #026
The reporter seen on the television in the bar after the foot chase through the French Quarter is Randi Rousseau, a real news anchor for WDSU, the local NBC affiliate in New Orleans.
- #027
When they first appear at their third venue in 5-Points, Queens, New York, you can clearly see the "4H" tag on the wall beneath The Four Horsemen.
- #028
Olivia Wilde was offered a role.
- #030
Two members of the cast, Jesse Eisenberg and Isla Fisher, appear in a Blue Sky Studios film; Jesse Eisenberg provides the dialogue for Blu in Rio (2011), and Isla Fisher provides the dialogue for Dr. Mary Lou Larue in Horton Hears a Who! (2008).
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