The Transporter (2002) and Collateral (2004) share the same universe. This was confirmed by Transporter director Louis Leterrier and Collateral screenwriter Stuart Beattie, as Statham’s makes an uncredited cameo in Collateral as an “Airport Man” delivering a briefcase to Tom Cruise at LAX.
by lelouch444
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Holy shit, Collateral is one of my fav Cruise movies because of the ~~gun play~~ gun-fu, and I didn’t even realize that was Statham at the time. Good find!
Here’s the scene without the music:
https://youtu.be/u0Nxy74qiYE
ok now that’s cool
Yea this was a nice touch to open the movie. Imagine Michael Mann directing a Transporter movie tho, that might be something.
That’s not the transporter, his shirt is still on
Man, it would have been a great little Easter egg if Statham had actually been credited in the movie as playing the character from the transporter series.
What makes this the most interesting is that it would show the transporter isn’t always a good guy like he’s portrayed in his own movies.
He will do the job he’s hired to do good or not. He might not even know whats in that case, but for this job, he helped a man murder innocent people.
Frank Martin is still a bad guy sometimes. Wish the movies had shown that a couple times.
Cruise is such a good bad guy, sadly he didn’t like it.
This comes up every so often.
And I respond with, “So what?”
I mean, unless they’re gonna expand upon this same-universe thing somehow, why is it interesting?
And they can’t really expand upon it, because >!Tom Cruise dies!< at the end of Collateral. Unless they expanded by using Jamie Foxx maybe?
My favorite movie!!! Such a classic. Tom cruise having to train with special forces for three weeks or months was very cool to hear about. I think they went through something like 79 taxis to do the taxi scenes?
I dont know why but I find this extremely exciting.