!!!''The Killing'' TV series:

* ActorAllusion:
** 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.
** Creator/JewelStaite's first line is commenting on Holder's "Film/{{Serenity}}" tattoo. "Sounds like a stripper's name."
* ChannelHop: From AMC to Netflix.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JewelStaite, best known for playing sunny, good-hearted Kaylee on ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', plays considerably-less lovable District Attorney.
* StarMakingRole: For Mirielle Enos, whose best known role at the time was in ''Series/BigLove''.

!!! The Film

* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/StanleyKubrick.
* 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.
* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/StanleyKubrick took no fee for directing the film.
* 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.
* ReferencedBy: "The Killing" is the title of the second chapter of ''VideoGame/ChickenPolice''.
** 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.
* 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.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Music/FrankSinatra expressed interest in this project, but production rights were granted to Creator/StanleyKubrick first.
** Creator/VictorMature and Creator/JackPalance were considered for John Clay.
* WorkingTitle: ''Clean Break'' and ''Bed of Fear''.
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