Trivia / Little Nicky

• All-Star Cast: Includes Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Tiny Lister, Rodney Dangerfield, Harvey Keitel and Reese Witherspoon.
  • Also counts for the cameos which include Dana Carvey, John Witherspoon, Jon Lovitz, Rob Schneider and most importantly, Quentin Tarantino.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $85 million. Box office, $58 million.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: The video game has Adam Sandler reprise his role. Allen Covert also reprised his role.
• Christmas Rushed: As with most licensed games, the Gameboy Color game was rushed to November 2000.
• Completely Different Title: Many international releases changed the title to the Son of the Devil or A Different Devil, though Hungary simply went with Satan.
• Creator Killer: Writer and director Steven Brill did not write another screenplay until 2014.
• Creator's Favorite: Gary the Monster is seen as a favorite for the writers.
• The Danza: Both of Nicky's metalhead friends — Jonathan Loughran as John and Peter Dante as Peter.
• Dawson Casting: A bizarre inversion, as Reese Witherspoon 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.
• Deleted Scene:
  • One of the deleted scenes explained that Adrian and Cassius' mothers are hookers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An alternate ending has the blind deacon reacting in fear upon seeing Nicky and Valerie's son.
• DVD Commentary:
  • The filmmakers commentary has Sandler, Brill and Tim Herilhy.
  • The cast commentary has Jon Lovitz, Peter Dante, Blake Clark, Kevin Nealon and Ozzy Osbourne.
• Early Draft Tie-In: The game has a mini-game where you go fishing with the peeper as bait.
• Inspiration for the Work: Sandler says he got the inspiration for the movie when he and his friends went to see Angel Heart. Afterwards they joked about the idea of Satan in that movie having a loser son that he has to drag around.
• Newbie Boom: People born after 2005 were introduced to Rodney Dangerfield thanks to the film.
• Playing Against Type: Patricia Arquette as a nerdy student.
• Promoted Fanboy: Adam Sandler lobbied to have Rodney Dangerfield play Lucifer because he was a huge fan.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Satan was originally going to be played by Angus Young, but he had to cancel before shooting.
  • Dustin Hoffman was the first choice for Satan but turned it down.
  • The original script showed that Todd wanted to kill his grandmother, but was changed in the final film to Kevin Spacey.
• Write What You Know: 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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