Production Companies Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, DC Comics (Vertigo), Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Donners' Company, Branded Entertainment/Batfilm Productions, Weed Road Pictures, 3 Art Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Pictures
Once designed, the prop master still had to put it all together and end up with a functional firearm. He would eventually make two guns that actually fired, two picture-perfect plastic replicas plus four rubber versions for rehearsals and use by stand-ins. Eight craftsmen took more than seven weeks to produce the two working models. The final result is a gleaming and fearsome weapon made of brass and gold, etched with the Latin phrases “a cruce salus” (“from the cross comes salvation”), “decus it tutamen” (“an adornment and a means of salvation”) and “dei gratia” (“by the grace of God”).
Keanu Reeves was so impressed with the polished piece that he ordered an additional shotgun to be made as a gift for Frances Lawrence upon completion of principal photography.
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