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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) More at IMDbPro »

• Guy Pearce was originally offered the lead role of Edmond Dantes.
  
  
• The white polka dot dress with ornate floral pattern on the bodice that Dagmara Dominczyk (Mercedès Iguanada) wears at the office of Monsieur Villefort is the same costume Julia Sawalha (Lydia Bennet) wears while observing Wickham horse riding in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995), and Ruby Bentall (Mary Bennet) wears to the Meryton Assembly Ball in "Lost in Austen" (2008).
  
  
• The beige dress with paisley bodice worn by an extra on the Marseilles wharf early in the film is the same costume Sabina Franklyn (Jane Bennet) wears at Longbourn in "Pride and Prejudice" (1980), Rachel Fielding (Mrs. Benson) wears in Princess Caraboo (1994), Julie Cox (Annabella Milbanke) wears to read Byron's poetry book in Byron (2003) (TV), and Freema Agyeman (Tattycoram) wears on the Marseilles wharf in "Little Dorrit" (2008). The same costume is also worn by a guest at Fanny's wedding in Miss Austen Regrets (2008) (TV).
  
  
• The red paisley waistcoat Luis Guzmán (Jacopo) wears in the final scene is the same costume Chris Gorell Barnes wears in "The Regency House Party" (2004), Dan Stevens (Edward Ferrars) wears for Edward's arrival at Norland in "Sense & Sensibility" (2008), and JJ Feild (Fred Garland) wears in The Shadow in the North (2007) (TV).
  
  
• The green and brown silk gown Helen McCrory (Valentina Villefort) wears to Albert's party is the same gown Natasha Little (Augusta Leigh) wears when Byron escorts her to the ball in Byron (2003) (TV), and Victoria Hopkins wears on the lawn with Lisa Braund in "The Regency House Party" (2004).
  
  

• SPOILER: The scene involving Villefort trying to kill himself and Monte Cristo asking him: "Did you think I'd make it that easy for you?" was shot in two versions. Director Kevin Reynolds thought the other version, where the gun was actually loaded, worked better and put it into the original cut. However, some test audiences, without the knowledge of the existing footage, indicated it would be better if the gun was not loaded, so the scene in the final cut was inserted.
  
  
• SPOILER: During one of the fencing scenes between James Caviezel and Guy Pearce, a move was performed incorrectly and Pearce was actually stabbed through the skin on his side. They took him to a hospital, and after he was patched up, he was bragging about the wound proudly, while Caviezel apologized profusely the whole time.
  
  

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