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Plot summary
Richard, Lucy's boyfriend in Taipei, asks her to deliver a briefcase to a drug lord, Mr. Jang, and when she refuses he handcuffs it to her wrist. Upstairs, she finds four bags of blue crystals in the case, and Jang's men force her to work for them. A bag of the synthetic drug CPH4 is sewn into her abdomen. A British man called The Limey explains that she and three other men will carry it across the world.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lucy (2014)
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- Angelina Jolie is widely reported to have originally been cast as Lucy and to have dropped out before filming, and she had been in serious talks with Besson since 2011 about starring in his next film, but Besson said she was not his first choice for the role.
- Director Besson was so enraged by the media attention around the Taipei shoot that he told reporters paparazzi intrusions meant "shooting at night time was a nightmare", and he singled out two unnamed agencies from Hong Kong as especially disruptive.
- Among the material Industrial Light & Magic studied as reference for the film's effects were chemical reactions, the laser lighting displays seen at raves, and the work of the artist Perry Hall.
