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• The script was re-written at least 30 times until one was deemed "acceptable" by the producers and director.
  
  
• A total of 18 different writers worked on this film.
  
  
• An argument between Bill Murray and Lucy Liu shut down filming for a day.
  
  
• The role of Alex was originally offered to Angelina Jolie who turned it down after admitting she was not a fan of the original series. It was then offered to Jada Pinkett Smith who declined it to film Bamboozled (2000) instead. Thandie Newton was finally cast but had to leave owing to freak weather which caused the Mission: Impossible II (2000) schedule to overrun. The role was eventually taken by Lucy Liu.
  
  
• When Natalie is in the Red Star mainframe, she lifts up a computer board where she installs the antenna. The computer board is the motherboard of an Apple PowerMac G3. You can see the FireWire and USB ports and the wave-design back panel.
  
  
• The device that the Angels attach to the system in Red Star is a modified Griffin Technologies iMate, an ADB-USB adapter used to connect old Apple Desktop Bus peripherals to newer USB Macs.
  
  
• The mobile phones the angels use are Nokia 8260.
  
  
• When shown as an in-flight movie airlines remove the opening scene of the angels retrieving a bomb from a 747, opening the emergency door, and parachuting out.
  
  
• Milla Jovovich, Alyssa Milano and Julia Roberts were among the many actresses who were forerunners for the parts of Natalie, Dylan and Alex.
  
  
• Jordan Ladd was asked to audition for the part of an angel but declined.
  
  
• The Thin Man, played by Crispin Glover, originally had a speaking role, but Glover didn't like the lines, so he asked for them to be removed. The director and producer agreed to make it a non-speaking role to give the character a more mysterious feel.
  
  
• The original cast of "Charlie's Angels" (1976) - Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - were invited to make cameo appearances, but declined. Reportedly, Fawcett said she'd only do it if she were allowed to be the voice of Charlie, and Jackson insisted on playing the villainous role that eventually went to Kelly Lynch. Ultimately, John Forsythe and Smith did appear in the sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)). Smith's role was uncredited, however.
  
  
• The girls trained with their martial arts master for three months, eight hours a day.
  
  
• Jenny McCarthy auditioned for the role of Natalie.
  
  
• In the German dubbed version, the Angels' "secret language" lines are changed from Finnish to Japanese.
  
  
• Frank Coraci was once attached to direct.
  
  
• The white convertible in the movie is a 1969 Camaro RS/SS Indy 500 Pace Car one of only 3,675 made.
  
  
• The hillside house is modeled after a real California architectural landmark, the Chemosphere House created by architect John Lautner. The entire house was created on a soundstage and was actually much larger and rounder than the original.
  
  
• Cameo: [Cheung-Yan Yuen] The film's martial arts choreographer and trainer appears as a fellow passenger on the plane in first class at the start of the film. He can be seen speaking in Cantonese to two pretty women, teaching them to say "thank you".
  
  
• The song played during the party where Natalie meets Pete for the first time is "Twiggy Twiggy" sung by Japanese group Pizzicato Five.
  
  
• The speaker sitting on Bosley's desk, through which the Angels hear Charlie's assignments, is almost the same as the one used in the TV series ("Charlie's Angels" (1976)). The speaker in the original series had a small "Bell" in the lower corner, the movie version did not.
  
  
• The secret language the Angels use is Finnish, though very poorly pronounced. They said in Finnish: Alex: "Onko sinun ja Knoxin välillä menossa jotain?" Dylan: "Ei tietenkään." Natalie: "On vain niin, että suhteet asiakkaiden kanssa ovat tosi huonoja ideoita." Dylan: "Olen samaa mieltä." Translated roughly in English: Alex: "Is there something going on between you and Knox?" Dylan: "Of course not." Natalie: "It's just that relationships with customers are very bad ideas." Dylan: "I agree." Drew Barrymore's pronunciation was the best.
  
  
• Drew Barrymore bought the screen rights to "Charlie's Angels" (1976) prior to the movie being filmed - a decision that earned her an estimated $40 million for the first film and a possible $80 million for the second.
  
  
• Drew Barrymore was a huge "Harry Potter" fan, even going so far as to read bits of the books to the cast and crew during production. At the beginning of the film, during the clips of previous jobs, she can be seen wearing a Harry Potter disguise, complete with robes, black hair and round black glasses.
  
  
• Although the "bad guys" use guns in the film, the Angels do not. Drew Barrymore, who was also one of the producers, insisted that the Angels be able to do all their fighting without firearms.
  
  
• An in-joke in the opening scene has a character react to the in flight film "T.J. Hooker - The Movie" with "Oh no, not another movie based on an old TV show!". On July 6, 2009 it was announced that a movie based on the 80s series T.J. Hooker: The Movie (2011) was in development.
  
  

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