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Babylon A.D.

Year:
Duration:
USA:90 min | UK:86 min | 101 min (unrated version)
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rate:
5.6
Awards:
1 nomination
Details
Country: France
Release Date: 2008-08-29
Filming Locations: Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic
Earnings
Budget: $70,000,000
Opening Weekend: $11,541,571 (USA) (31 August 2008)
Gross: $22,531,698 (USA) (16 November 2008)
Cast
Actor
Character
Mélanie Thierry
Mélanie Thierry
Babylon A.D.
Vin Diesel
Toorop
Michelle Yeoh
Sister Rebeka
Lambert Wilson
Darquandier
Mark Strong
Finn
Jérôme Le Banner
Killa
Charlotte Rampling
The High Priestess
Gérard Depardieu
Gorsky
Joel Kirby
Dr. Newton
Souleymane Dicko
Jamal
David Belle
Kid with Tattoos
Radek Bruna
Karl
Jan Unger
Fight Promoter
Abraham Belaga
Assistant to High Priestess
Gary Cowan
Neolite Executive
David Gasman
Neolite Researcher
Lemmy Constantine
Neolite Marketing Executive
Peter Thias
Neolite MIB (as Pete Thias)
Curtis Matthew
Submarine Captain
Magda Vavrusova
Woman in Toorop's Corridor
Filip Matejka
Young boy on Toorop's Stairs
Alex Vladimír Pieter
S.W.A.T. Soldier (uncredited)
Robert Polo
Border Guard (uncredited)
Jeff Smith
Border Guard (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Mathieu Kassovitz developed the film adaptation for five years.
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The film is based on the novel "Babylon Babies" by Maurice G. Dantec.
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Vin Diesel dropped out of the lead role of Hitman (2007) to star in this movie.
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Goofs
In the scene where the main characters are walking on the ice and snow of the Bering Strait to meet a submarine, the actors' breath is not visible when they talk and exhale.
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Immediately after Toorop fires his gun into the air in the crowd of vehicle traffic when he, Sister Rebeka and Aurora are leaning against the car the phone earpiece is in Toorop's right ear. In the next shot where Toorpo looks to the subway the phone earpiece is gone.
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When we are first introduced to Auroa, you can see she has her tongue pierced with a gold barbell in a couple of close-ups when she is talking. Her character would obviously not have had her tongue pierced for many reasons, not the least being she has never ventured out into the world. In later shots, the piercing is no longer there.
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Quotes
Aurora: [Looking at a Big Brother style TV in their room] Can we turn if off?
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Sister Rebeka: Aurora could speak when she was two years old.
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Toorop: [voice-over] Save the planet. Whenever I've read that bumper sticker I've had to laugh. Save the planet. What for? And for what, ourselves? What about God, can He help us? I don't think so. God gave us what we have to see how we use it. Shit, rats in a cage would have done it better. Life's a bitch and then you die - bumper sticker philosophy. Yeah, right. Sometimes, you get a second chance.
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Faq
Q
Is it true that Babylon A.D.'s own director is on record saying the movie is stupid?
A
WorstPreviews.com has posted an article in which they provide quotes supposedly made by director Mathieu Kassovitz in an interview with AMCTV in which Kassovitz admits anger with the final results of this film, particularly the fact that it got edited down to 93 minutes in order to get a PG-13 rating.
Q
Does "Babylon A.D." have anything to do with "Babylon 5"?
A
No. As noted above, Babylon A.D. is based on the novel Babylon Babies. Other than the word "Babylon" and the fact that both stories are futuristic, there is no connection.
Q
What does the "A.D." stand for in the title?
A
Anno Domini, which is Latin for 'year of our lord', referring to the years since Jesus Christ was traditionally born. As a frame of reference, the year 2014 can be written as A.D. 2014. Anno Domini corresponds to Common Era (C.E.), a term that does not use the religious reference explicit in "Anno Domini."
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Photos from cast
Mélanie Thierry
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