Bad Company (2002 film)

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 Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the agency recruits his twin brother, a street-wise hustler, to finish the project and sends in an experienced agent to train the twin.

The film became somewhat famous for its connections to the September 11th attacks; amongst 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.