Fast Charlie Trivia | 25 facts about the movie

Fast Charlie is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, based on the 2001 novel Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler.

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1. Fast Charlie is a 2023 American action thriller film.
2. It was directed by Phillip Noyce.
3. It was written by Richard Wenk.
4. The movie was based on the 2001 novel Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler.
5. It stars Pierce Brosnan, James Caan, and Morena Baccarin.
6. It premiered at the 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival on October 7, 2023.
7. The film was released in select theatres and video on demand on December 8, 2023.
8. When Charlie accesses his stash of cash and weapons from the air conditioning vent in his house, he holds one of the pistols and looks upon it fondly before putting it back.
9. It was a Walther PPK – James Bond’s gun of choice. Pierce Brosnan (Charlie) played James Bond from 1995 to 2002.
10. Final film of James Caan.
11. When Charlie is about to kill Benny at the club. There are cabinets with numbers on it. Charlie is in front of No. 7. Pierce Brosnan played James Bond from 1995 to 2002 whose code number is 007.
12. James Caan in his final film performance, was actually in a wheelchair and on oxygen throughout the filming as he was suffering from late-stage COPD and cardiac failure.
13. In the scene where Charlie is going to the bus station, the driving route has many turns but they are still traveling on St Charles Avenue throughout the scene.
14. Former Bond, Brosnan follows Daniel Craig in the Knives Out series in adopting a Southern accent to play an American role.
15. The town in Tuscany during the rolling credits is Pienza, in the province of Siena, although interestingly the shot is mirrored.
16. The movie’s budget was 16 million$.
17. In June 2009, Victor Gischler’s 2001 novel Gun Monkeys was optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script.
18. At first Ryuhei Kitamura was set to direct.
19. In 2018, producer Dan Grodnik discovered the project, acquired the underlying rights and brought in Phillip Noyce to direct (Noyce had directed Blind Fury starring Rutger Hauer for him in 1989).
20. Both Kevin Costner and Bryan Cranston expressed interest in starring but the film didn’t come together until Pierce Brosnan signed on.
21. In March 2022, James Caan and Morena Baccarin joined the cast.
22. Filming began in April 2022 in New Orleans.
23. Fast Charlie was the last film to star Caan, who died on July 6, 2022. In the same month, Brosnan posted photos of Caan on the film’s set.
24. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 28 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10.
25. Its runtimes is 90 minutes.