Joel Schumacher and David Kajganich had a falling out over all the changes Schumacher wanted in the script (not unlike what happened between Schumacher and Andrew Kevin Walker on 8MM (1999)). The director won and re-wrote parts of the script himself.
The check in the beginning from the "Deutsche Bundesbank":
The Reich had not a Bundesbank (= federal bank) which is part of the Federal Republic founded in 1949, but of course the Reichsbank.
Victor Marshall: You want out of this, you tell me now before it's too late. You do this with me, nothing will ever be the same. You'll never be the same. You ought to know that. It wouldn't be right if I didn't tell you that. It's your call.
Was the poor pig being slaughtered, and all the other disgusting animal abuse in this movie for real?
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I don't think that ANY "abuse" of animals is real, this is just a movie. There are groups that watch for these kinds of things in movies, and really harming animals is illegal.Also, yes, the pig was being slaughtered. But how else do you get pork?