Easyjet Airlines did not pay a penny towards the production costs despite featuring prominently in one song and dance scene. They did however loan the production team one of their Airbus aircraft (that was in the hangar having an overhaul) free of charge for 48 hours for filming on condition that the livery was kept intact and not covered up or changed.
The band name 'Take That' and the names of the band members are never mentioned throughout the film due to legal reasons, but they are normally referred to as "the boys".
Despite their massive worldwide popularity in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, Take That never really took off in the US. When the producers of this film pitched the idea to the Hollywood majors in the hope of being financed and possibly getting Paul Feig to direct, none of the studios showed any interest. Without a major backer or distributor, the producers eventually managed to raise a budget (albeit less than half of what they had originally envisaged, from a Swiss film financier, brought British director Coky Giedroyc aboard and Canadian company Bron Media had agreed to help sell the film to the smaller distributors on a national level for theatrical release.
The production had originally hoped to attract a major Hollywood name (with Rebel Wilson their first choice) when the project was looking for finance from the Hollywood studios. When no major studio was willing to invest in the film the producers had to significantly revise the budget down to get the film made and the idea was dropped.
Cameo: Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald appear as buskers on the train in Athens, performing an acoustic version of 'Shine'.
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