Bad Company 2002

Bad Company is a 2002 action-comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins. The film tells the story of a street-wise hustler whose twin brother, a Harvard-educated CIA agent, is killed during an operation. The agency recruits him to finish the mission his brother was working on and sends in an experienced agent to train him. The film became somewhat famous for its connections to the September 11th attacks; among other things, it was the last major production to film inside the original World Trade Center. The film plot, written years before the attacks, involved a variety of Serbo-Balkan extremists (including a man from Afghanistan) planning a huge attack in New York City. The film's release date was moved out of its late 2001 spot and into a summer 2002 release, similar to several other films with terrorism or violent crime-related stories, including Collateral Damage. It was released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution on June 7, 2002, in the United States to negative reviews from critics. The film was a box office bomb as it grossed $66 million against a $70 million budget.