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• Stunt player Harry O'Connor was killed when he hit a pillar of the Palacky Bridge in Prague, para-sailing during one of the actions scenes. The accident occured while filming the second take of the stunt; O'Connor's first attempt was completed without incident and can be seen in the completed film.
  
  
• The rock band at the beginning of the movie is the German group Rammstein.
  
  
• Many of the action sequences were shot with a 20mm Panavision anamorphic lens, of which there were only two in existence.
  
  
• When the smoking sniper pins down the officers, the rocket launcher Xander uses is actually a modified video camera painted green.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Rob Cohen] as the horse-riding Colombian and later as the voice of the telephone caller who informs Yorgi that XXX is a spy.
  
  
• When Xander is climbing the rocks and infiltrating the castle, he is wearing a special jacket. It's actually a textile motorcycle jacket, produced by Joe Rocket, and its called the "Phoenix" series. It uses padding and ballistic nylon weaving to reduce the impact and abrasion damage caused in a motorcycle crash.
  
  
• Vin Diesel performed many of his own stunts. However, according to the DVD commentary, Vin was sick for the Corvette base jump, and pro Tim Rigby performed the stunt wearing a Vin mask.
  
  
• 'Eric Bana' was the first choice to play Xander Cage but turned it down to do The Nugget (2002).
  
  
• In one scene, two cops who are heard speaking in Czech are saying, quite clearly, something along the lines of "How's it going?" - "Oh, it's cold as s**t." - "Yeah, f**king weather." The dialogue is not subtitled.
  
  
• According to director Rob Cohen, there are over 20,000 individual sound effects in the avalanche sequence.
  
  
• The shirt that Kolya is wearing the the metal club in the beginning is a t-shirt of the very band playing on stage, Rammstein.
  
  
• The fighters are Sukhoi Su-22, "Fitter".
  
  
• The DJs in the futuristic night club are the members of British trance group 'Orbital'. They also composed the song playing in the background: "Technologicque Park".
  
  
• The NSA set was built in Prague. It contains 120 monitors.
  
  
• XXX's car is a 1967 Pontiac GTO. The original color was faded green.
  
  
• The corvette jump was filmed simultaneously with 18 cameras.
  
  
• The Corvette jump was filmed at the Foresthill Bridge in Auburn, CA. At 730 feet it is the tallest bridge in California and the third tallest in the United States.
  
  
• Yorgi club's was actually an abandoned church outside of Prague.
  
  
• When Xander enters Yorgi's club, the musician outside is playing the theme to The Third Man (1949) on the zither.
  
  
• In the action scene on the drug farm, Vin Diesel and/or his stunt driver were wearing bulky helmets, which were replaced with a CG version of Diesel's head created by the people at Digital Domain, who also repainted parts of the clothing which were obscured by the helmet(s).
  
  
• The motorcycle that Xander is riding after the Corvette base jump is a 1999 MV Agusta Serie ORO (Gold Series). It's one of only 300 produced worldwide. Its a 750cc, in-line 4-cylinder engine which produces 125 hp and a top speed +175 mph.
  
  
• In the DVD extras, Vin Diesel comments that before his 3-month preparation for Triple-X, he'd never ridden a motocross bike; he was trained by the world's top motocross bikers.
  
  
• All of the tattoos worn by Vin Diesel in this movie are fake.
  
  
• In Columbia, Xander (Vin Diesel) jumps a motocross bike over the barn where he'd been tied up. The building explodes with careful pyrotechnics, and Xander makes it safely to the other side. This stunt had never been done before for any film.
  
  
• Shot in 82 days.
  
  
• The punk song Yorgi quotes when he talks to Xander about freedom is 'Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government)' by The Vandals.
  
  

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