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Domino Harvey is the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey and once worked as a Ford model. After she is kicked out of college, an advertisement for a seminar on bounty hunting leads her into the trade, which she learns alongside Ed Moseby, Choco and the driver Alf. The three work for bail bondsman Claremont Williams III, who also runs an armored car business. His mistress Lateesha Rodriguez holds a job at the Department of Motor Vehicles, where she runs a counterfeit license racket, and her granddaughter Mica needs an operation for a blood disease. A masked gang then takes $10 million from an armored truck, and the FBI, the mob and a television producer are drawn into the case.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Domino (2005)
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- Tony Scott came to the story in 1994 when his business manager Neville Shulman sent him a Mail on Sunday article by Sacha Gervasi about Domino Harvey, an Englishwoman chasing bail jumpers for the Celes King Bail Bond agency in South Central Los Angeles. What hooked them was that she was actor Laurence Harvey's daughter.
- Two screenplays were thrown out first: Steve Barancik's 1997 draft and a second by Roger Avary, both of which Scott dismissed as conventional biopics. He hired Richard Kelly after reading his Southland Tales script, and Kelly never read the rejected versions.
- Scott thought of Keira Knightley for the lead after seeing her in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Mickey Rourke turned the film down at first, calling bounty hunter Ed Moseby one-dimensional, and signed only once Scott had the part rewritten.
- The Stratosphere in Las Vegas was not in the original script. Executive producer Barry Waldman talked the casino's owners round in the summer of 2004 and they agreed after small script changes; Scott called an eight-minute BMW commercial he had shot there a testing ground for the film.
