Line #12 Trivia/Darkman


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2	* ActingForTwo: In addition to playing Darkman in his final transformation at the end, Creator/BruceCampbell also voiced some of the screams of characters who fall to their deaths.
3	* CastTheRunnerUp: As with ''Crimewave'', Creator/SamRaimi wanted Creator/BruceCampbell to play the lead role, but the studio wanted a more well-known star. Campbell settles for some voice-over dubbing and a cameo as Darkman's final disguise.
4	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
5	** Argentina: ''The Faceless Man''
6	** Portugal: ''Faceless Revenge''
7	* DeletedScene: A scene was deleted out of the final cut that involves Strack sitting on his bed in a towel, picking up a box full of gold coins, placing the coins on the bed, taking his towel off, and then jumping on the bed and writhing in ectasy on the coins, naked. As Bruce Campbell said, this scene was intended to show that the character was ''really'' messed up in the head, and meant the audience would no longer trust him. However, when test audiences claimed the scene made them uncomfortable, the studio insisted it be cut, ignoring that was the entire point.
8	* DivorcedInstallment: Creator/SamRaimi intended to make a film of ''Radio/TheShadow'', but created Darkman when he couldn't get the rights. He also wanted to make a Batman movie (possibly a sequel to the [[Film/Batman1989 1989 film]]). But couldn't get rights to it either.
9	* FakeAmerican: The title character is played by Ballymena man Creator/LiamNeeson.
10	* TheForeignSubtitle:
11	** Argentina and Mexico: ''Darkman: The Face of Vengeance''
12	** Brazil: ''Darkman: Faceless Revenge''
13	** Lithuania: ''Darkman: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment A Man of Darkness]]''
14	** Germany: ''Darkman: The Man with the Face Mask''
15	* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/SamRaimi and Creator/FrancesMcDormand clashed because of CreativeDifferences. Raimi said, "Apparently I didn't know Fran as well as I thought I did ... The reason it was difficult was that our conception of the best movie to make differed, arguing in trying to make the best picture possible. We did come across disagreements, but they were very healthy." [=McDormand=], however, looks back fondly on the film, and she and her husband, Joel Coen, are still friends with Raimi.
16	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The abandoned TV Pilot.
17	* OneEpisodeWonder: The abandoned TV pilot is one of the finest and most accurate examples of superheroics on live-action television.
18	* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/ArnoldVosloo for Creator/LiamNeeson in the sequels, and Christopher Bowen in the TV Pilot. This is all somewhat justifiable, because it's Darkman.
19	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/ArnoldVosloo, who usually plays villainous roles, plays the titular AntiHero in the sequels.
20	* ProductionPosse: It's a Sam Raimi movie, so Ted Raimi is in attendance. Bruce Campbell also gets a cameo. On a meta note, Raimi also cast his buddies the Coen Brothers and Joel's wife Frances in the film, though he didn't do this regularly.
21	* SelfAdaptation: Raimi co-wrote and directed this based on a short story that he wrote.
22	* SparedByTheCut: Skip's fate remains unknown, though there is a deleted scene where Darkman kills him with his own prosthetic leg.
23	* TroubledProduction: The production suffered from many behind-the-scenes troubles.
24	** Firstly, the studio waffled several times on whether or not the film would be greenlit.
25	-->'''Raimi:''' Finally, I told them 'Look, I've spent six months of my life on this film, and it's not like I'm trying to make an art picture. If you don't call me by nine tonight, I'm out.' Nine o'clock came and went, I opened a bottle of wine and said 'Okay, at least I'm free of it.' They called about ten, 'Alright, we'll make your movie.' They really make sure they've messed with you.
26	** Once production began, the screenwriting process was gruelling, and there were lengthy post-production battles with the studio. The editing process was extremely difficult, and the editor allegedly had a nervous breakdown, and left the production. The Universal executives were also rather nervous with some of the wild things in the film, and insisted they be taken out. Sam Raimi confessed that studio movie-making, as opposed to independent filmmaking, didn't fulfill him in the same way. Additionally, they were actually unable to get Creator/LiamNeeson to record his line in the final scene, "I'm learning to live with a lot these days," resulting in it being very noticeably dubbed by Creator/BruceCampbell.
27	** After Universal made the decision to "lock" (i.e. finish editing) the film, Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bob Murawski basically broke into the editing booth at the eleventh hour and re-cut the movie under the studio's nose, reinserting nine minutes' worth of material. Sean Daniel, a Universal executive, later acknowledged that this was a "ballsy move" and "an ''Film/OceansEleven'' maneuver."
28	* UncreditedRole: Creator/TheCoenBrothers, close friends of Creator/SamRaimi, did some uncredited doctoring on the finished script.
29	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
30	** Creator/BillPaxton was almost cast as Peyton Westlake. According to Paxton, he told his friend Creator/LiamNeeson about the audition. When Neeson got the role, Paxton was so angry, that he did not speak to Neeson for months. Creator/GaryOldman was also considered.
31	** Creator/JuliaRoberts was almost cast as Julie Hastings before she got the role in ''Film/PrettyWoman'' and had to be replaced. Creator/BridgetFonda was offered the role, but turned it down in favour of ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII''. Creator/KellyLynch and Creator/DemiMoore were also considered.
32	** Creator/RichardDreyfuss and Creator/JamesCaan both turned down the role of Louis Strack Jr.
33	** Creator/KathyBates was originally cast as the burn doctor but backed out before filming.
34	** A TV series was in development for Creator/{{Fox}}, with an unaired 30-minute pilot completed.
35	* WrittenByCastMember: Creator/LiamNeeson and Creator/FrancesMcDormand re-wrote the three love scenes they had together after he becomes Darkman.

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