History Trivia / EventHorizon

** In the original concept of the film, Weir had a smaller role: Miller fought the burning man of his visions instead of him, and Starck didn't hallucinate with Weir upon being rescued (in another version, she would have hallucinated with screams of the dead crew instead).

* ActorInspiredElement: It was at Creator/SamNeill's suggestion that the Australian flag patch on Weir's uniform be changed from showing a Union Jack to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag Australian Aboriginal Flag]], figuring that social attitudes toward the flag would have changed by 2047.

** In Portugal, it's known as ''The Enigma of the Horizon''.

** In Russia, it's known as ''Across the Horizon''.

* CreatorKiller: The film decimated the writing career of Philip Eisner right out of the gates. His next, and ''final'', cinematic writing credit didn't come for 11 years.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Paramount pressed director Paul W. S. Anderson to complete the editing much faster than usual, as they wanted the film to be released before ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''. The resultant film was rushedly done and originally ran for about 130 minutes, and Paramount forced Anderson to cut around 30 minutes of it (reportedly, mostly gore) after negative reactions at test screenings. (Unfortunately, most of the deleted footage was lost or destroyed after post-production. Even although it was found in 2012, its bad quality means it will never be shown.) Anderson still believes they made him cut too much; which even the then head of Paramount eventually agreed with.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: No,not [[FanFic/EventHorizonStormOfMagic that one massive-multiplayer crossover fanfic involving a megacorp discovering an artificial solar system composed entirely of famous fantasy settings.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/SamNeill usually plays more heroic, anti-heroic, or at least moral characters, [[spoiler:so it can come as a shock that he ends up becoming the villain.]]

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: No, not [[FanFic/EventHorizonStormOfMagic that]] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover between ''Series/GameOfThrones, Literature/TheLordOfTheRings, TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy,'' and [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender both]] ''Film/{{Avatar}}s.''

* ExecutiveMeddling: Paramount pressed director Paul W. S. Anderson to complete the editing much faster than usual, as they wanted the film to be released before ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''. The resultant film was rushedly done and originally ran for about 130 minutes, and Paramount forced Anderson to cut around 30 minutes of it (reportedly, mostly gore) after negative reactions at test screenings. (Unfortunately, most of the deleted footage was lost or destroyed after post-production. Even although it was found in 2012, its bad quality means it will never be shown.) Anderson still believes they made him cut too much.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Made only $47 million back of its $60 million budget at the box office making it this. However, there is a possibility that the movie might have eventually made its money back due its popularity on home video, to the point where Paramount even contacted Paul W.S. Anderson about making a director's cut, which they were unable to do due to the missing footage being lost or degraded.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Made only $47 million back of its $60 million budget at the box office.

* ThrowItIn: Sam Neil made the suggestion that, instead of the real Australian flag, his character's uniform should sport a version of the flag with the Union Jack (Britain's flag) in the corner replaced with the indiginous Australian First Nation's Aboriginal flag instead, in order to suggest the futuristic setting. His idea was enthusiastically adopted.

* It was at Creator/SamNeill's suggestion that the Australian flag patch on Weir's uniform be changed from showing a Union Jack to an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag Australian Aboriginal Flag]], figuring that social attitudes toward the flag would have changed by 2047.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Paramount pressed director Paul W. S. Anderson to complete the editing much faster than usual, as they wanted the film to be released before ''Film/{{Titanic}}''. The resultant film was rushedly done and originally ran for about 130 minutes, and Paramount forced Anderson to cut around 30 minutes of it (reportedly, mostly gore) after negative reactions at test screenings. (Unfortunately, most of the deleted footage was lost or destroyed after post-production. Even although it was found in 2012, its bad quality means it will never be shown.) Anderson still believes they made him cut too much.