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The Long Good Friday (1980)

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• Bob Hoskins voice was dubbed over by a Wolverhampton actor, for fear Americans wouldn't understand his London accent. After Hoskins threatened to sue Jack Gill and Lion Gate (the original producers before HandMade bought the rights) the dubbing was removed.
  
  
• Handmade Films bought the film rights from Black Lion for £850,000.
  
  
• Pierce Brosnan's part was supposed to be completely silent but he improvised one line of dialog.
  
  

• Anthony Franciosa was originally cast as the Mafia boss Charlie but left after three days filming, claiming to be annoyed with the script alterations.
  
  
• The film was produced by George Harrison's Handmade Films Ltd. After he saw the finished product, he said that he'd never have approved such a violent film.
  
  

• SPOILER: The original title was "The Paddy Factor" but this was changed after fears that it would give away too much of the film's plot. After suggesting "Harold's Kingdom", "Havoc" and "Citadel Of Blood" the title "The Long Good Friday" was chosen, due to its similarities to Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye" and the Easter setting.
  
  
• SPOILER: Even though it appears that Pierce Brosnan and Bob Hoskins share a car near the end of the movie, neither actor was present when the other was captured in close-up, so Brosnan and Hoskins never did get to actually work with one another throughout the shoot.
  
  
• SPOILER: In the car at the film's finale, Bob Hoskins was told that the camera would be on him for five minutes non-stop.
  
  

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