Where to watch Johnny English (2003)

Trivia & production notes

• Rowan Atkinson signed on to play a James Bond spoof in March 2000, before his film Maybe Baby was even released.
• The Johnny English character originated from a British Barclaycard advertising campaign where Atkinson played a similar spy named Richard Latham.
• Principal photography for Johnny English took fourteen weeks and was completed in September 2002, with the final scenes shot over two days in Monte Carlo.
• Natalie Imbruglia was announced to star alongside Atkinson in July 2002, just before filming wrapped.
• At Canary Wharf, filmmakers digitally duplicated a single real tower into two identical ones to represent the fictional London Hospital and Sauvage's headquarters.
• The Westminster Abbey scenes were actually filmed at St. Albans Abbey, with the connection only implied through dialogue rather than intercut with real abbey exterior shots.
• Freemasons' Hall in London served as MI7 headquarters in Johnny English and was later used as MI5 headquarters in the television series Spooks.
• The exterior of Sauvage's French château was actually St Michael's Mount castle in Cornwall.
• Edward Shearmur composed the instrumental score, with the London Metropolitan Orchestra providing the orchestration.
• The film's opening theme was composed by Howard Goodall and later recorded as a salsa version for the soundtrack.

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