History Trivia / Poseidon

* StarDerailingRole: The film also helped ruin Creator/JoshLucas' budding leading man career, where that and along with ''Film/{{Stealth}}'' the previous year, pretty much dimmed his hopes at major stardom.
** Sometimes assumed to have done the same for Dreyfuss too, but as the above-linked interview shows he had been planning to semi-retire anyway (and that wasn't permanent, either). Almost every cast member suffered injuries during filming too, with Lucas' thumb almost getting taken off at one point.
* TroubledProduction: Supposedly every day started with Creator/JoshLucas, Creator/KurtRussell and Creator/RichardDreyfuss pow-wowing over what the hell they were going to do that day, because the script sure didn't tell them.

* CreatorKiller: For Creator/WolfgangPetersen. Despite his track record before ''Poseidon'', he wouldn't direct another movie and ended up leaving Hollywood and going back to Germany until his eventual death.

* CreatorKiller: For Creator/WolfgangPetersen. Despite his track record before ''Poseidon'', he wouldn't direct another movie for a ''decade'', and he ended up leaving Hollywood and going back to Germany for his next film.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/KurtRussell tells the kid to jump into a curtain so they can catch him. He tells the mother not to worry that he used to be a fireman. Russell played a fireman in ''Film/{{Backdraft}}'' (1991).
** This isn't the first time Richard Dreyfuss portrayed [[Film/{{Jaws}} a character whose boat capsizes and he is one of the survivors]].

* MoneyDearBoy: Creator/RichardDreyfuss's [[http://www.movieweb.com/news/richard-dreyfuss-answers-an-age-old-question-with-poseidon major reason for doing the film]]:

* StarDerailingRole: The film also helped ruin Josh Lucas's budding leading man career, where that and along with ''Film/{{Stealth}}'' the previous year, pretty much dimmed his hopes at major stardom.

* TroubledProduction: Supposedly every day started with Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, and Richard Dreyfuss pow-wowing over what the hell they were going to do that day, because the script sure didn't tell them.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Who knew that [[Creator/AndreBraugher Captain Holt]] was a different kind of Captain before joining [[Series/BrooklynNineNine the 99th Precinct]]?

** This isn't the first time Richard Dreyus portrayed [[Film/{{Jaws}} a character whose boat capsizes and he is one of the survivors]].

* StarDerailingRole: The film also helped ruined Josh Lucas's budding leading man career, where that and along with ''Film/{{Stealth}}'' the previous year, pretty much dimmed his hopes at major stardom.

* CreatorKiller: For Creator/WolfgangPetersen. Despite his track record before ''Poseidon'', it took him an entire ''decade'' before he would finally release another movie.
* TheDanza: Creator/RichardDreyfuss as Richard Nelson

* Why did they have to go to the bow thrusters? Because modern ship's props are electrically driven - there wasn't any internal 'propeller shaft' to go to. The power is generated by a number of giant diesel engines called "prime movers," similar to how diesel locomotives do it - and one of them actually kills a character falling through the ship's flooring: [[spoiler:Lucky Larry.]]

* CreatorKiller: For Creator/WolfgangPetersen. He didn't direct anything for at least a decade after this despite his track record before it.

* OldShame: Perhaps an ''inversion'', seeing as [[Creator/WolfgangPetersen the director]] hasn't made any films since this one.

* MoneyDearBoy: RichardDreyfuss's [[http://www.movieweb.com/news/richard-dreyfuss-answers-an-age-old-question-with-poseidon major reason for doing the film]]:
--->[T]hey offered like a lot of money and I love money and didn't have a lot and I thought this is a good way of doing this.

** Sometimes assumed to have done the same for Dreyfuss too, but as the above-linked interview shows he had been planning to semi-retire anyway (and that wasn't permanent, either).