The Island, 2005, Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean
The Island is a 2005 science fiction film directed by Michael Bay and starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It is described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films produced in the late 1960s and 1970s such as Fahrenheit 451, THX 1138, Parts: The Clonus Horror, and Logan's Run. The film, which cost $126 million to produce, earned only $36 million at the domestic box office, but went on to gross $127 million overseas, for a $163 million worldwide total.
Scarlett Johansson wanted to go nude during the sex scene between her character and Ewan McGregor's. Director Michael Bay decided against it, thus Scarlett is shown wearing a bra during the scene.
There is a scene where Jordan Two-Delta discovers a large print advertisement and television commercial that features her real-life double, Sarah Jordan. The advertisement shown is an actual ad for "Eternity Moment" that Scarlett Johansson did for Calvin Klein in 2004.
In the film, Suzie (played by Shawnee Smith) is the wife of McCord (played by Steve Buscemi). This is the same woman that "Rockhound", from Armageddon (also Buscemi), was hitting on in a bar. Rockhound was looking at the woman's engagement ring, before announcing it was fake. Both films are directed by Michael Bay.
Tom Lincoln's Cadillac in the film is the real-life Cadillac Cien concept car.
Tom Lincoln's boat named the Renovatio in the film is the real-life 118 WallyPower luxury super-yacht.
The futuristic red Lexus driven by Tom Cruise's character in the 2002 science fiction thriller Minority Report makes an appearance. Several cars from that film are visible in the scenes set in Los Angeles.
The computer used by character "Merrick" at the beginning of the movie, was rumored to be a conceptual Microsoft Surface. The design was actually proposed by a technology adviser at MIT who aimed for producing a believable vision of futuristic technology.
The cubism style painting by Picasso at Merrick's office is the "Femme assise (Jacqueline)" from 1962.
Parts of the movie were filmed in Detroit, Michigan.
The character of Gandu Three-Echo was killed in the movie but can be seen at the end when the clones escaped.
Amtrak Released their new "wave" logo in the movie during the scene where they sit down in the passenger car
In two scenes in the film, the Griffin PowerMate is used as a prop, acting as a control knob in the living quarters of Lincoln Six-Echo and Jordan Two-Delta.Wikipedia
