Rewatchables Reference

• The Bogota assassinations – she's dressed as a dominatrix, he's at a poker game, she jumps off the hotel roof.
• The dinner scene where they both know – 'I added peas,' the wine bottle drop, the poison.
• Marriage counseling scenes – 'How often do you have sex?' 'I don't understand the question'.

• The paparazzi/tabloid era and Us Weekly culture.
• Angelina Jolie's physicality – bouncing on a chair, calling him a 'pussy'.
• Vince Vaughn's mid-2000s renaissance; Kerry Washington and Angelina in the same movie.

• Angelina descending from the Bogota hotel with the purse.
• Angelina sliding across the foyer with a gun during the house fight.

• A cover version of 'Lay Lady Lay' (Bob Dylan).
• 'Baby Baby' by Amy Grant playing while they spy on the neighbors.

The third act – once both know the other is a spy and they team up, the tension disappears and it becomes a generic action movie for 35 minutes.

• Doug Liman's various quotes about the on-set romance and Angelina's behavior.
• Brad and Angelina's actual relationship ending in bitter divorce.
• Cutting the steamy sex scene for PG-13 rating.

• The Brad/Angelina/Aniston love triangle was the greatest thing that ever happened to Jennifer Aniston's career.
• Are these people so hot it's not even relatable/erotic?

• Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman were originally cast; Kidman had to leave.
• Johnny Depp and Cate Blanchett, Will Smith and Catherine Zeta-Jones were considered.
• Liman wanted Gwyneth Paltrow because she and Pitt were real exes.

Vince Vaughn – 'They knew and they let it happen' monologue; basically doing Will Ferrell from 'Wedding Crashers'.

• Chris Weitz – the neighbor with the red oak floors.
• Stephanie March, Jennifer Morrison, Perry Reeves – the I-Team non-Kerry Washington division.

• Both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – though Pitt has an argument for 'Moneyball' too.
• 21st century celebrity culture – yes.
• Adam Brody – season one of The O.C. plus this movie, peak Adam Brody.

• Vince Vaughn's role: Owen Wilson or 2005-era Bradley Cooper.
• Modern Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Tom Holland and Zendaya, or Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

• Budget $110 million, made $487 million worldwide.
• 50 drafts of the script; writers included Terrence Winter, Carrie Fisher, Akiva Goldsman.
• People of Colombia were not happy about the film's depiction; the president was upset.

• Bogota hotel lobby depicted as sweltering, but real Bogota is 9,000 feet above sea level.
• 70 assassins, zero bullet hits in the final shootout.
• The $400K price on their heads seems absurdly low given their lifestyle.

• Amazon tried with Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge; COVID and creative differences derailed it.
• Maya Erskine took the role opposite Glover.

Catherine Hahn on the I-Team.

Jolie – she's better than Pitt in the movie.

• How do you install a weapons stove? How many people in the world would know how to do it?
• Why does Angelina's team have a skyscraper HQ while Brad works in a shitty garage with Vince Vaughn?

• Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, Clive Owen & Julia Roberts).
• Grosse Pointe Blank.

• The matching track suits.
• The secret knife shelf inside the oven.

Don't let your husband make a movie with Angelina Jolie in the mid-2000s.

Chris: Brangelina (the concept); Amanda: Brad Pitt – emerged unscathed and it kickstarted an amazing career run.

Craig Horlbeck.