Movie Trivia

One of the promotion posters for the film shows Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) posed holding a gun, despite the fact that nowhere in the film does she do so.

Olivier Megaton's first feature film in six years. In between this and La sirène rouge (2002), he directed numerous ads, music videos, documentaries and short films, as well as being the second unit director on Hitman (2007/I).

Olivier Megaton views the "Transporter" franchise as being somewhere in between the James Bond and "Die Hard" series, with a slight edge to "Die Hard".

Robert Knepper was inspired by Ernest Hemingway to create his character's look, and even created a whole back-story for himself. Thus he imagined Johnson to have grown up in a typical small American town, to have graduated from a prestigious university such as Yale or Harvard, to be highly cultured and sophisticated and to truly believe that he was doing the right thing for his country and the world. In addition Olivier Megaton asked Knepper to draw inspiration from Kiefer Sutherland's performance in Phone Booth (2002).

The fight between Frank Martin and Johnson was shot in two days and Robert Knepper only had a stunt double for one particular action.

Natalya Rudakova, who was a hairdresser with no acting experience prior to this film, was discovered by producer Luc Besson as he was walking down the street in New York. Besson caught up to her and asked her to take some acting lessons and then come in for an audition.

All the car stunts were performed in real time, without models and little to no CGI, which naturally provided its daily dose of challenges to Michel Julienne's stunt team.

The song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" which is featured during the bicycle chase was featured in another Jason Statham movie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).