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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesJust two weeks in North Carolina
Shooting began on April 16, 1996. Only two weeks were spent in North Carolina, in Durham and near Chapel Hill. The rest was shot around Los Angeles.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe lair was built on a soundstage
Casanova's tunnels and underground cells were never real. Production designer Nelson Coates built them on the Paramount lot.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA more violent ending
Ashley Judd has said that Sherry Lansing, who ran Paramount at the time, pushed for a more violent ending.
source ↗ - SetupRemember Agent Craig
Jay O. Sanders plays Kyle Craig, the FBI agent working with Cross. Both the actor and the character come back later.
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- ReferenceSoneji wants his own Lindbergh case
Cross works out that Soneji is copying the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping. He wants the kind of infamy Bruno Richard Hauptmann got for that crime.
source ↗ - CameoA young Anton Yelchin
Dimitri, the Russian president's son Soneji is after, is Anton Yelchin, years before he became Chekov in Star Trek.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFreeman produced it too
Morgan Freeman is one of the producers, through his company Revelations Entertainment. Jerry Goldsmith's score won a BMI award.
source ↗ - ReferenceKyle Craig returns
Jay O. Sanders is back as Kyle Craig, the FBI agent from Kiss the Girls. He is the link between the two Freeman films.
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- Behind the scenesIdris Elba nearly played Cross
In August 2010, back when David Twohy was set to direct, Idris Elba was cast as Cross. By January 2011, Tyler Perry had the role and Rob Cohen was directing.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCleveland plays Detroit
The film is set in Detroit but was shot mostly in Cleveland, Ohio, in August and September 2011. Detroit itself got just two weeks of filming.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe sequel that never came
A Double Cross adaptation with Perry returning was in the works. The film's critical and box office flop killed it.
source ↗ - ReferenceA reboot built from several books
The starting point is the 2006 novel Cross, but the script mixes and reshuffles pieces of other books. Patterson himself said the film should be seen as a reboot.
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- Behind the scenesOntario stands in for D.C.
The show is set in Washington, D.C., but shoots in Ontario, Canada, mostly in Hamilton and Toronto.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesRenewed before it aired
Amazon picked up a second season on April 30, 2024, more than six months before the first one dropped on November 14.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAlmost four years in the making
The project was announced in January 2020 and only got a series order in October 2022. Ben Watkins created and runs the show, and Aldis Hodge is also an executive producer.
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- Behind the scenesThree at once, then weekly
Season 1 dropped all at once. Season 2 went another way: three episodes on February 11, 2026, then one a week until the March 18 finale.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesRenewed on finale day
Season 3 was confirmed on March 18, 2026, the same day the Season 2 finale came out.
source ↗ - CameoScream's Stu among the billionaires
Matthew Lillard, Stu from the original Scream, joins the season as Lance Durand, CEO of Crestbrook Industries.
source ↗ - ReferenceTitles from the farm
The episodes are named after farm work, like Harrow, Gather and Winnow. The finale, Quemar, is Spanish for "to burn."
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