10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Taken Trilogy

8. The Director Is Named After A Bomb

Taken 2 director Olivier Megaton - a former graffiti artist - actually uses a pseudonym, and was born Olivier Fonfana. He actually takes his action movie friendly name from his birthday: the 6th of August 1965, which was the 20th anniversary of day American forces dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima. Which as inspirations for names go is fairly bloody grim. Incidentally, his nickname is €œThe Rubik€™s Cube€ because he claims to always have one with me since he was twelve, to help him focus.
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