20 Things You Didn't Know About The Prestige

by Danny Meegan

1. Jude Law Was In The Running To Star

Jude Law Sherlock Holmes
Warner Bros

While it's possible for some movies to go from script to screen within a two-year frame, The Prestige took a lot longer than that to fully come together.

During that five year period when he was writing the script, Nolan also had to think about his actors too, eventually settling on Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman to play the two leads. But those men weren't always locks for their respective roles.

As with any other movie, lots of different actors had their names linked with The Prestige, and one of the most notable of those was none other than Jude Law.

According to Variety, Law was "being whispered as a potential participant" as far back as April 2013, and while no other details were mentioned, you have to imagine that he'd have been in contention for one of the two starring roles.

It's not like he came close to signing on or anything, but it's interesting to imagine how different the finished film would've been if this alternate reality had come to pass.

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Got any other juicy, lesser-known details to share about The Prestige? Let us know in the comments section!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!