1 | * AllStarCast: Includes Creator/AdamSandler, Creator/PatriciaArquette, Creator/RhysIfans, Creator/TinyLister, Creator/RodneyDangerfield, Creator/HarveyKeitel and Creator/ReeseWitherspoon. |
2 | ** Also counts for the cameos which include Creator/DanaCarvey, John Witherspoon, Creator/JonLovitz, Creator/RobSchneider and most importantly, Creator/QuentinTarantino. |
3 | * BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $85 million. Box office, $58 million. |
4 | * CelebrityVoiceActor: The video game has Adam Sandler reprise his role. Allen Covert also reprised his role. |
5 | * ChristmasRushed: As with most licensed games, the Gameboy Color game was rushed to November 2000. |
6 | * CompletelyDifferentTitle: Many international releases changed the title to the ''Son of the Devil'' or ''A Different Devil'', though Hungary simply went with ''Satan''. |
7 | * CreatorKiller: Writer and director Steven Brill did not write another screenplay until 2014. |
8 | * CreatorsFavorite: Gary the Monster is seen as a favorite for the writers. |
9 | * TheDanza: Both of Nicky's metalhead friends -- Jonathan Loughran as John and Peter Dante as Peter. |
10 | * DawsonCasting: A bizarre inversion, as Creator/ReeseWitherspoon plays Adam Sandler's mother, despite being about a decade ''younger'' than he. Of course, both of their characters are nonhumans, so our aging standards don't apply. |
11 | * DeletedScene: |
12 | ** One of the deleted scenes explained that Adrian and Cassius' mothers are hookers. |
13 | ** Another deleted scene shows the name of the gatekeeper: Stanley as well as the Peeper being bait. Lucifer explains that Hell's original name was Boogerland. |
14 | ** Another deleted scene shows after the Peeper fell off the tree, the mom and her son drop a TV on his head, which is what killed him. |
15 | ** An alternate ending has the blind deacon reacting in fear upon seeing Nicky and Valerie's son. |
16 | * DVDCommentary: |
17 | ** The filmmakers commentary has Sandler, Brill and Tim Herilhy. |
18 | ** The cast commentary has Creator/JonLovitz, Peter Dante, Blake Clark, Kevin Nealon and Music/OzzyOsbourne. |
19 | * EarlyDraftTieIn: The game has a mini-game where you go fishing with the peeper as bait. |
20 | * InspirationForTheWork: Sandler says he got the inspiration for the movie when he and his friends went to see ''Film/AngelHeart''. Afterwards they joked about the idea of Satan in that movie having a loser son that he has to drag around. |
21 | * NewbieBoom: People born after 2005 were introduced to Creator/RodneyDangerfield thanks to the film. |
22 | * PlayingAgainstType: Creator/PatriciaArquette as a nerdy student. |
23 | * PromotedFanboy: Creator/AdamSandler lobbied to have Creator/RodneyDangerfield play Lucifer because he was a huge fan. |
24 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
25 | ** Satan was originally going to be played by Music/AngusYoung, but he had to cancel before shooting. |
26 | ** Creator/DustinHoffman was the first choice for Satan but turned it down. |
27 | ** The original script showed that Todd wanted to kill his grandmother, but was changed in the final film to Creator/KevinSpacey. |
28 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: Sandler based the mannerisms of Nicky off a kid he knew in high school, who he said talked out of the side of his mouth and had an encyclopedic knowledge of various hard rock groups. |
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