The Adjustment Bureau [2011] (1 disc)

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• Both Anthony Mackie and John Slattery, who star in this film, play parts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Anthony Mackie plays Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and John Slattery plays Howard Stark in Iron Man 2.
• Abbie Cornish auditioned for a role.
• One of the production companies for this film is Electric Shepherd Productions, so named for the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (source of Blade Runner) by Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the short story, The Adjustment Team on which this film is based.
• According to Emily Blunt, filming at the Statue of Liberty was frequently interrupted by onlookers yelling out "Matt Damon!" in imitation of the puppet from Team America: World Police.
• The visual effect on Top of the Rock, where they run up the stairs to the observation platform, turn around and go down the stairs, and find themselves still on the observation platform, was nicknamed the "M.C. Escher stairs" shot.
• Shohreh Aghdashloo and Daniel Dae Kim had original scenes in the movie, but those scenes ended up being cut from the final version of the film. Shohreh played God in the original cut of the film. According to Shohreh Aghdashloo herself in a Los Angeles Times interview, she was replaced by the studio because she was born a Muslim and the studio wasn't ready for Muslim to portray God in a movie. Her exact quote: "Oh, my God, I loved that role. As actors, we all know we're at the mercy of the editing table, but not to this extent, never had I experienced it. The director, George Nolfi, decided I should play God. Everything went great until I got a call from the director who was asking to have lunch with me. He was on the verge of crying. He said, the distribution company believes that you cannot play this role....That's right, although if I'm asked what religion I am, I say I was born a Muslim. I don't introduce myself as a Muslim woman, but I guess the distribution company put the dots together and felt it's too early for this."
• Some of Emily Blunt's dancing scenes were completed using a body double, dancer ^[?] Acacia Schachte of the Cedar Lake Company, with the actress' face being digitally placed on the dancer's body.
• The original ending involved David and Elise meeting a female "Chairman" was scrapped and the finale re-shot months after the film had wrapped.
• The names of the three main members of the Adjustment Bureau are Thompson, Richardson, and Harry: a play on the term Tom, Dick, and Harry, which is slang for any anonymous persons. Philip K. Dick is also the writer of the short story the movie is based on.
• The phone number given to Matt Damon by Emily Blunt in the movie ((212) 664-7665) is owned by Universal Studios and has appeared in other films distributed by the company (Definitely, Maybe, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) in an effort to avoid the much overused "555" prefix. If called, it will ring indefinitely.