History Trivia / Piranha3D

* {{Corpsing}}: When [[spoiler: Derrick's]] half-eaten body is brought onto the boat, Laura's actress can be seen grinning instead of looking horrified.

* BillingDisplacement: Richard Dreyfuss is billed '''first''' and received a DeathByCameo, although it did [[PlotTriggeringDeath kick off the plot]].

* BillingDisplacement: Richard Dreyfuss is billed ''first'' and received a DeathByCameo, although it did [[PlotTriggeringDeath kick off the plot]].

* NotScreenedForCritics: But it got a 74% Fresh rating on RT despite this.

* BillingDisplacement: Richard Dreyfuss is billed ''first'' and received a DeathByCameo.

* TroubledProduction: In 2018, Alexandre Aja [[https://moviecrypt.libsyn.com/ep-288-alexandre-aja revealed]] in the podcast ''The Movie Crypt'' that post-production on the film was a nightmare. In short, Dimension Films attempted to [[CuttingCorners cut corners]] on the CGI by hiring the cheapest VFX artists they could find, including complete newbies to the industry who'd never worked on a movie before. It showed; by June 2010, just two months before the film was supposed to be released, not a single CGI piranha was finished. Aja threatening to pull an AlanSmithee finally convinced Bob Weinstein to hire every VFX artist Dimension could get their hands on to finish the film. Harvey Weinstein also hated the film, expecting a more serious horror film like ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' and instead getting a HorrorComedy that he called ''Jaws Gone Wild''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The Blu-Ray of ''Piranha 3D'' reveals two abandoned sequences storyboarded that are even more over the top than some of the Piranha attack sequences in the movie. One of the sequences was filmed for the sequel.
** A deleted scene reveals Cameraman Andrews was originally going to be killed on-screen by the piranhas. Since this scene was deleted, his character appears to vanish without a trace. Paul Scheer reprises his role in the sequel, but it's unknown if his scene was cut for this reason or another.

* TroubledProduction: In 2018, Alexandre Aja [[https://moviecrypt.libsyn.com/ep-288-alexandre-aja revealed]] in the podcast ''The Movie Crypt'' that post-production on the film was a nightmare. In short, Dimension Films attempted to [[CuttingCorners cut corners]] on the CGI by hiring the cheapest VFX artists they could find, including complete newbies to the industry who'd never worked on a movie before. It showed; by June 2020, just two months before the film was supposed to be released, not a single CGI piranha was finished. Aja threatening to pull an AlanSmithee finally convinced Bob Weinstein to hire every VFX artist Dimension could get their hands on to finish the film. Harvey Weinstein also hated the film, expecting a more serious horror film like ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' and instead getting a HorrorComedy that he called ''Jaws Gone Wild''.

* TroubledProduction: In 2018, Alexandre Aja [[https://moviecrypt.libsyn.com/ep-288-alexandre-aja revealed]] in the podcast ''The Movie Crypt'' that post-production on the film was a nightmare. In short, Dimension Films attempted to [[CuttingCorners cut corners]] on the CGI by hiring the cheapest VFX artists they could find, including complete newbies to the industry who'd never worked on a movie before. It showed; by June 2020, just two months before the film was supposed to be released, not a single CGI piranha was finished. Aja threatening to pull an AlanSmithee finally convinced Bob Weinstein to hire every VFX artist Dimension could get their hands on to finish the film.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Blu-Ray of ''Piranha 3D'' reveals two abandoned sequences storyboarded that are even more over the top than some of the Piranha attack sequences in the movie. One of the sequences was filmed for the sequel.

* ThoseTwoActors: Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/ElisabethShue [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII once]] [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII again]] star alongside each other.