You might have seen the overflowing number of blue Comfort cabs appearing in the trailer of action blockbuster Hitman: Agent 47, but besides these vehicles and the overused (but still beautiful) Marina Bay Sands, here are 7 other fun facts that scream ‘Singapore’ in this Hollywood movie.
1. Special permits were issued for the filming to take place at Robinson Road, where traffic lights had to be specially controlled.
2. The road closure for 2.5 days (Friday night to Monday morning) at Robinson Road was the 1st in Singapore’s history to do that, and resulted in diversion of bus routes for that 3 days.
3. For their shoot in Chinatown, the production crew liaised with the 90 stalls individually, and spent 3 days before the actual filming day to ‘chope’ (reserve) parking lots for their 60 production vehicles.
4. A scene with Hannah Ware and Ciaran Hind on the Skywalk at Gardens By The Bay was specially added because of the attractive place.
(Watch the trailers, here!)
5. A section of Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 was closed just for the filming of the movie where it took about 3 hours to clear the security checks for 520 crew and cast members.
6. More than 150 Singapore credited talents, 17 stuntmen and hundreds of film extras were involved in this movie.
7. An ammo department was specially created to oversee and look after the 139 guns and 2800 blanks that were specially brought in to Singapore. Local auxiliary police were also deployed at all shoots where guns were involved, to oversee the safety of the filming process.
[Synopsis]
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research – and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47’s past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe.
Starring Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, Thomas Kretschnmann and Ciaran Hinds, Hitman: Agent 47 is now showing in theatres!