1 | !!!''The Killing'' TV series: |
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3 | * ActorAllusion: |
4 | ** Bullet, a character that interacts with Holder in season 3 looks conspicuously like ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'''s Lizbeth Salander. Joel Kinnaman (Holder) had a silent cameo in that. |
5 | ** Creator/JewelStaite's first line is commenting on Holder's "Film/{{Serenity}}" tattoo. "Sounds like a stripper's name." |
6 | * ChannelHop: From AMC to Netflix. |
7 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JewelStaite, best known for playing sunny, good-hearted Kaylee on ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', plays considerably-less lovable District Attorney. |
8 | * StarMakingRole: For Mirielle Enos, whose best known role at the time was in ''Series/BigLove''. |
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10 | !!! The Film |
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12 | * BreakthroughHit: For Creator/StanleyKubrick. |
13 | * CastTheExpert: Kubrick cast a professional wrestler, Kola Kwariani, as the crook hired to start a fight as a diversion. The fight is very pro wrestling style. |
14 | * DoingItForTheArt: Creator/StanleyKubrick took no fee for directing the film. |
15 | * ExecutiveMeddling: The narration was added at the studio's insistence. Creator/StanleyKubrick hated the idea and thus makes much of the information that the narrator provides false or mistaken. |
16 | * ReferencedBy: "The Killing" is the title of the second chapter of ''VideoGame/ChickenPolice''. |
17 | ** The 1996 collaboration between musicians Music/JohnZorn and Music/EugeneChadbourne, ''In Memory of Nikki Arane'', is a named after a character from ''The Killing'', who is also featured on the cover. |
18 | * ScrewedByTheStudio: The film was effectively dumped by Creator/UnitedArtists, premiering as the second half of a double feature; Richard Fleischer's ''Film/{{Bandido}}'' was the main film. |
19 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
20 | ** Music/FrankSinatra expressed interest in this project, but production rights were granted to Creator/StanleyKubrick first. |
21 | ** Creator/VictorMature and Creator/JackPalance were considered for John Clay. |
22 | * WorkingTitle: ''Clean Break'' and ''Bed of Fear''. |
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