FILM · 2010
Remember Me
27 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
"Twilight" had not yet been released when casting took place, so the producers had no idea of the attention the film was about to receive when they gave Pattinson the lead role of Tyler. "I didn't know who he was," director Allen Coulter admitted. "That was an advantage because I cast him just because I liked him."
- #002
Besides playing the male lead, Robert Pattinson also served as an executive producer on this film. He admits he came into the producer role toward the end of the production and that he did it to protect the process.
- #003
The screenplay for this film appeared on the 2008 Black List, a list of the year's "most liked" unproduced screenplays.
- #004
Visual foreshadowing: at the start of the film, as young Ally and her mother wait for the train, the Twin Towers can be seen in the New York skyline behind them. Later, when Tyler takes the elevator up to his father's office, the floor number goes above 90, the first hint that he is in the Towers, where the planes will strike the upper floors.
- #005
During breaks while shooting the street scene, Robert Pattinson was injured while fleeing a fanatic fan and the paparazzi; without looking where he was going, he ran into a parked taxi. His injuries were not serious and his life was not in danger, but his bodyguards still came to rescue him.
- #006
While sitting on the porch of his mother's house, Tyler (Robert Pattinson) swears to Ally (Emilie de Ravin) that the cigarette he is smoking is the last of his life. This is likely a harbinger of his untimely death at the end of the film.
- #007
Casting the role of Ally was difficult, and finding Emilie de Ravin took quite a long time. De Ravin's main problem was the height difference between her (5' 2") and Robert Pattinson (6' 1").
- #008
Robert Pattinson revealed that some of his personal life experiences and some of his friends made it into the film; for example, his character Tyler trying to break up a fight in an alley outside a bar. "The whole fight, how it was all set up in the beginning, happened to a friend of mine the day before, without rewriting the script. We were in Alphabet City and this guy jumped out of a car with a little mini baseball bat and hit my friend in the face. It was all one day before and it made it into the film."
- #009
The screenplay was originally titled "Memoirs."
- #010
Meghan Markle has a small role as a bartender in this film, which was produced by her first husband, Trevor Engelson. They divorced in 2013.
- #011
The Hawkins family's original surname was Roth.
- #012
The film is set in 1991 and 2001.
- #013
There is a hidden reference in the film, occurring twice, to Emilie de Ravin's character Claire Littleton from the earlier series "Lost" (2004). In one instance, when Ally is setting a time to meet Tyler for dinner and Tyler tells her they will meet at 8:00, Tyler clarifies it as 8:15; and in one conversation between two police officers, one of them mentioned 8:15. Claire's plane that crashed in "Lost" was Oceanic flight 815.
- #014
At the end of the film, after Ally is shown on the train in the subway, you can see her mother standing in silhouette, just as she was at the start of the film while waiting for the train in the subway.
- #015
The painting Caroline looks at while at the Met at the end of the film is the same as the picture on the inside of the door to Tyler and Aidan's apartment.
- #016
At the end, Diane (Lena Olin) takes Charles Hawkins's (Pierce Brosnan) arm in the cemetery, and Les (Gregory Jbara) is seen stepping back. A few minutes later, Charles is shown touring a museum with Caroline (Ruby Jerins) with a wedding ring on his finger. This could mean they remarried.
- #017
Several American flags are painted on the subway car at the end of the film. After September 11, sales of American flags saw a large increase as feelings of patriotism were reignited by the attacks.
- #018
Fran Kranz auditioned for the role of Aidan.
- #019
Although Remember Me is set in New York, four of its cast members are not actually American. Robert Pattinson is British, Emilie de Ravin is Australian, Lena Olin is Swedish and Pierce Brosnan is Irish.
- #020
A historical speech by George Bush that plays in the background during a scene he shot with Chris Cooper on 9 August 2001 offers a clue about the film's timeline and its ending.
- #021
For unknown reasons, Peyton List named her character "Samantha" in interviews, even though she is credited as "Taunting classmate."
- #022
In both Remember Me and Titanic, two love stories that end in disaster, the Statue of Liberty is shown after or in connection with the event.
- #023
In the mugging scene, the robbers do not only rob Ally's mother. Ally also hands them her bag.
- #024
Both Robert Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan are Tauruses.
- #025
Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper had previously appeared together in the film Married Life (2007).
- #026
Alexandra Chando auditioned for the role of Ally.
- #027
Although Tyler is one year older than Ally, the actor Robert Pattinson is five years younger than Emilie de Ravin.
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