Line #22 Trivia/LittleNicky


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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