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• This is the second film of Michael Caine's to be remade with Jude Law in the starring role. Previously, Law appeared in Alfie (2004).
  
  
• Michael Caine (Andrew Wyke) played the role of Milo Tindle in the original version: Sleuth (1972).
  
  
• The film was shot entirely in sequence.
  
  
• The original film had an entire cast of two. This remake has one extra character: playwright Harold Pinter, who does a cameo as a man on the television.
  
  
• The remote used by Andrew Wyke is actually an Apple Universal remote used to control their Computers/iPod Docks.
  
  
• The original stage production of "Sleuth" by Anthony Shaffer opened on Broadway on 12 November 1970. It originally starred Anthony Quayle as Andrew and Keith Baxter as Milo, ran for 1222 performances and won the 1971 Tony Award for the Best Play.
  
  
• At one point in the film Milo asks Andrew "What's it all about?" This was the tag line for both versions of the movie ‘Alfie’, each of which starred Michael Caine and Jude Law in the title role.
  
  
• The wire-man sculpture is by Antony Gormley, best known for "Angel of the North," a public sculpture in Gateshead.
  
  
• Both the last filmed screenplay by Harold Pinter and his last film role.
  
  
• In the film, Andrew often mistakes Milo for a hairdresser. In the original Sleuth (1972), Milo was a hairdresser, not an actor.
  
  

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