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• The 6th St Bridge had been closed for filming, and a high speed chase involving a stolen vehicle actually drove through as the cast was rehearsing the scene. At the time, the Learjet was parked on the bridge in such a way that there was just barely enough room for a mid-sized car to fit through, with a few inches of clearance on each side. At first, when the crew was told by Security that a chase was headed their way, they thought it was a joke until they noticed LAPD and News helicopters above them. The crew tried to include the footage they got later from the choppers into the movie, but it didn't work too well.
  
  
• The tune that the team sings at the table in the film's trailer, is the theme from the original TV series.
  
  
• There is a scene in which the team is watching an episode of the TV series, "S.W.A.T." (1975). 'Steve Forrest' , who played Lt. Harrelson is shown.
  
  

• The SWAT Officers who deliver the secure phone at the beginning of the film in the bank robbery scene were actual LAPD SWAT Officers who were on scene as technical advisors for the film, and got to put on their uniforms and do it "for fun".
  
  
• For the limo scene after the team escapes the sewer, the film crew had called various actors, trying to get someone to sit in the limo for a cameo, but they chose to have actors as high school kids when nobody wanted to come on scene in the middle of the night to do a cameo.
  
  
• When a location was being picked for the plane escape, one consideration was closing I405 or a stretch of another highway to land a Learjet on, but that was "out of their reach", so they shut down the 6th St Bridge from 6pm to 5am every night for filming, and used CGI effects for the plane's approach. The scene with the aircraft taking off was actually done, with an aircraft equipped with a V8 engine so they could drive it down the bridge.
  
  
• The actors all received SWAT tactics, weapons and live fire training for the film. Colin Farrell was also given LAPD Driver Training in the Ford Crown Victoria.
  
  
• The bank used at the beginning of the film was an abandoned building scheduled to be torn down, so the film crew was allowed to shoot at it, tear it apart and do whatever they wanted to. They also had to get over 500 signatures from residents and businesses for permission to fly the helicopters at low altitudes during the SWAT team insertion.
  
  
• EASTER EGG: On the DVD go to the second page of the Special Features, select "6th street bridge" press right twice and down twice. This will highlight Samuel L Jacksons's cap. Press Ok or equivalent and you will be taken to the SWAT team and crew playing golf.
  
  
• EASTER EGG: Go to Deleted Scenes from Special Features. When "Hondo reviews files at home" is highlighted, press left twice, and up once. This will highlight Street's shield. You can see the footage from the real high speed chase that happened on the 6th street bridge while filming.
  
  
• Cameo des Regisseurs: [Clark Johnson] Deke's partner, who gets hit with a pan as Deke chases a suspect.
  
  
• Rod Perry ("Deke" in the original series) cameos as "Deke's" father in the movie.
  
  
• The opening sequence at the bank is loosely based on the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout. Several radio calls (e.g. "There's nothing we have that can stop them!") are also taken verbatim from the recording of the 1997 incident.
  
  
• 2GAT123: the license plate 2GAT123 which appears in this film also features in many other Hollywood movies and TV shows including Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Traffic (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Crazy/Beautiful (2001) L.A. Story (1991), Go (1999) and "Two and a Half Men" (2003).
  
  
• Mark Wahlberg was originally approached for the role of Jim Street.
  
  
• As a "wrap gift" to mark the end of filming, Samuel L. Jackson offered the principal cast a signature 9-millimeter pistol with the letters S.W.A.T. inscribed on the handle.
  
  
• Zack Snyder was approached to direct.
  
  
• All of the officer's characters from the TV series returned in the movie except Officer Luca, whose character was replaced by Officer Sanchez (Michelle Rodriguez).
  
  
• This film, The Italian Job (2003) and Hollywood Homicide (2003) were all filming in downtown L.A. at the same time.
  
  
• The Ambassador Hotel, a Hollywood landmark built in the 1920s (and the location of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination), plays itself in the film. Closed in the late-'80s, it has since been only used for location filming and police training. Police have been allowed to train there free of charge. S.W.A.T. is the first movie to use it as a film location that depicts its use for police training. Currently, the building is owned by the LA Unified School District, who has plans to tear it down and build a school.
  
  
• At one point during the early stages of development, Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered for the role Dan "Hondo" Harrelson.
  
  
• Jim Street has a movie poster of Bullitt (1968) in his apartment. It's visible briefly behind him as his girlfriend is moving out. In real life, Steve McQueen is one of Colin Farrell's idols.
  
  
• Paul Walker was set to play Jim Street and had even started training for the part but had to drop out due to filming on 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003).
  
  
• Vin Diesel was offered the role of David 'Deke' Kay, but passed because he was in production with The Chronicles of Riddick (2004).
  
  
• Michael Bay, Tony Scott, John Woo, Antoine Fuqua, Rob Cohen, Joel Schumacher, and Michael Mann were all offered to direct the movie before Clark Johnson. They passed because they were all busy with other projects.
  
  
• Colin Farrell wanted to perform a stunt as his character, in the scene where the S.W.A.T. team rappels down from a helicopter. His request was refused, as a concern for the star's safety. Farrell's stunt double proceeded to break his ankle on the first take of the stunt.
  
  
• Shawn Ryan, creator of the TV show "The Shield" (2002), was the last of several writers on the script, though he is not credited.
  
  
• Alex's uncle's car (which Alex is driving after he has killed his uncle) has the same license plate number (2WAQ233) as Cindy Campbell from Scary Movie 2 (2001).
  
  
• The huge SWAT truck used throughout the movie is a modified fire truck, and was difficult to work with due to numerous breakdowns and malfunctions during production of the film.
  
  
• Gastrolle: [Neal H. Moritz] driver of Suburban who gets taken out by a semi-trailer.
  
  
• The ending scene was filmed at a California State Prison in the desert, and during filming, the prison guards had a situation with the inmates and had to go into lockdown, with half the film crew inside the front gates and half of them outside. Three hours later when the lockdown ended, filming resumed.
  
  
• The actors all received SWAT tactics, weapons and live fire training for the film.
  
  
• The song "Samuel Jackson" by Hot Action Cop - which features during the film and over the closing credits - incorporates a vocal rendition of the original SWAT theme (the same part that is sung by the SWAT team members in the diner).
  
  
• In the scene were using facial recognition to identify Alex. ID photos of the entire crew were used as the high speed shuffling of faces on the monitor. On DVD if you step through that sequence frame by frame you can see almost every member of the Film crew. All Photos in that sequence were taken by Dave Nico, SWAT's Asst Coordinator (his photo does not appear).
  
  

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