- Click here for a Fabulous Picture Show interview with Joseph Fiennes and director Rupert Wyatt at a special screening of The Escapist on April 19th. The Escapist footage runs for the first 8 minutes of the program which ends with the scene between Brian Cox and Damian Lewis that is featured in the trailer. The clip includes several intriguing and exciting scenes from the movie and during the interview Rupert Wyatt reveals that 300 ex-convicts were hired as extras for the the big fight scene!
- The British Board of Film Classification has given The Escapist a rating of “15â€. As a frame of reference for American viewers, Keane was rated at 15 in the UK and given an “R†rating in the US.