Trivia for
16 Blocks (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Bruce Willis originally wanted Ludacris to play the role of Eddie.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: Immediately following the bus tire being shot out a Wilhelm Scream can be heard.
  
  
• The gun used by all the cops was the Glock 17 which is chambered in 9 mm.
  
  
• Several of the phones used by characters in the movie were the Nextel Motorola i670.
  
  
• Mos Def's character has the name "Edward Bunker". Edward Bunker is a real life criminal turned actor (thus proving that people can change, in line with the theme of the movie), who appeared in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992).
  
  
• In order to make Det. Jack Mosley's limp look realistic on screen, Bruce Willis put a pebble in his shoe and kept it there throughout the length of the shoot.
  
  
• The empty bottle Jack pulls from his desk drawer near the beginning is a bottle of Gosling's Black Seal Rum, from Bermuda.
  
  

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