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** Creator/TimotheeChalamet auditioned for a role.
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** At one stage, Creator/AntoineFuqua was attached to direct.
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* AllStarCast: Creator/HughJackman, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MariaBello, Terrence Howard, Creator/MelissaLeo and Creator/PaulDano.

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* AllStarCast: Creator/HughJackman, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MariaBello, Terrence Howard, Creator/TerrenceHoward, Creator/MelissaLeo and Creator/PaulDano.
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* ThrowItIn: Creator/MelissaLeo improvised the moment where [[spoiler: Holly orders Keller at gunpoint to drink a little more from the drugged beverage]], since she thought Creator/HughJackman didn't make the situation believable enough [[spoiler: from the amount he drank at first]].

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* ThrowItIn: Creator/MelissaLeo improvised the The moment where [[spoiler: Holly orders Keller Keller, at gunpoint gunpoint, to drink a little more from of the drugged beverage]], since she beverage]] was improvised by Creator/MelissaLeo, who thought Creator/HughJackman didn't make the situation believable enough [[spoiler: from the amount he drank at first]].
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* ThrowItIn: Creator/MelissaLeo improvised the moment where [[spoiler: she orders Keller at gunpoint to drink a second time from the drugged beverage]], since she thought Creator/HughJackman didn't do it enough to make the situation believable.

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* ThrowItIn: Creator/MelissaLeo improvised the moment where [[spoiler: she Holly orders Keller at gunpoint to drink a second time little more from the drugged beverage]], since she thought Creator/HughJackman didn't do it enough to make the situation believable.believable enough [[spoiler: from the amount he drank at first]].
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* ThrowItIn: Creator/MelissaLeo improvised the moment where [[spoiler: she orders Keller at gunpoint to drink a second time from the drugged beverage]], since she thought Creator/HughJackman didn't do it enough to make the situation believable.

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* ActorAllusion:
** When detective Loki (Creator/JakeGyllenhaal) is looking through the notebook he finds at Bob Taylor's, the last page you see has a character drawn on it that looks a lot like [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank]].
** Loki has zodiacal sign symbols tattooed on his right hand fingers (Leo, Scorpio, Aries, Virgo). Jake Gyllenhaal starred in ''Film/{{Zodiac}}''.
* AllStarCast: Creator/HughJackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano.

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* ActorAllusion:
** When detective Loki (Creator/JakeGyllenhaal) is looking through the notebook he finds at Bob Taylor's, the last page you see has a character drawn on it that looks a lot like [[Film/DonnieDarko Frank]].
** Loki has zodiacal sign symbols tattooed on his right hand fingers (Leo, Scorpio, Aries, Virgo). Jake Gyllenhaal starred in ''Film/{{Zodiac}}''.
ActorInspiredElement: Detective Loki's tattoos, Freemason ring and facial tics were all Creator/JakeGyllenhaal's ideas.
* AllStarCast: Creator/HughJackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MariaBello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo Creator/MelissaLeo and Paul Dano.Creator/PaulDano.



* FakeAmerican: Australian Hugh Jackman plays a Pennsylvanian.
* WhatMightHaveBeen: When Lee Daniels was interested in directing, he wanted Creator/OprahWinfrey to play Holly Jones.

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* FakeAmerican: Australian Hugh Jackman Creator/HughJackman plays a Pennsylvanian.
* WhatMightHaveBeen: WhatMightHaveBeen:
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When Lee Daniels was interested in directing, he wanted Creator/OprahWinfrey to play Holly Jones.Jones.
** Creator/MarkWahlberg and Creator/ChristianBale were set to star, with Creator/BryanSinger directing, but the two actors opted to make ''Film/TheFighter'' instead.
** Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio was attached to the project for a long time, but he dropped out.
** Creator/RyanGosling auditioned for Detective Loki.
** Creator/JessicaChastain was rumored for a role.
* WordOfGod: According to screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski, Detective Loki grew up in a boys home and didn't really have a family. He's a prisoner of his own past with his own demons.
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** When detective Loki is looking through the notebook he finds at Bob Taylor's, the last page you see has a character drawn on it that looks a lot like the rabbit from Creator/JakeGyllenhaal's movie ''Film/DonnieDarko''.

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** When detective Loki (Creator/JakeGyllenhaal) is looking through the notebook he finds at Bob Taylor's, the last page you see has a character drawn on it that looks a lot like the rabbit from Creator/JakeGyllenhaal's movie ''Film/DonnieDarko''.[[Film/DonnieDarko Frank]].
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* ActorAllusion:
** When detective Loki is looking through the notebook he finds at Bob Taylor's, the last page you see has a character drawn on it that looks a lot like the rabbit from Creator/JakeGyllenhaal's movie ''Film/DonnieDarko''.
** Loki has zodiacal sign symbols tattooed on his right hand fingers (Leo, Scorpio, Aries, Virgo). Jake Gyllenhaal starred in ''Film/{{Zodiac}}''.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Although set in Pennsylvania, the movie was filmed entirely in the state of Georgia.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bob Taylor is played by David Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the paranoid schizophrenic 'hired' by the Joker to assist in the chaos at the commissioner's funeral. (He's the guy Dent nearly shoots in the alley.) If you recognized him and thought "there's our bad guy," [[spoiler:you were right... well, almost.]]
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* AllStarCast: Creator/HughJackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bob Taylor is played by David Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff in ''TheDarkKnight'', the paranoid schizophrenic 'hired' by the Joker to assist in the chaos at the commissioner's funeral. (He's the guy Dent nearly shoots in the alley.) If you recognized him and thought "there's our bad guy," [[spoiler:you were right... well, almost.]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bob Taylor is played by David Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff in ''TheDarkKnight'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the paranoid schizophrenic 'hired' by the Joker to assist in the chaos at the commissioner's funeral. (He's the guy Dent nearly shoots in the alley.) If you recognized him and thought "there's our bad guy," [[spoiler:you were right... well, almost.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bob Taylor is played by David Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff in ''TheDarkKnight'', the paranoid schizophrenic 'hired' by the Joker to assist in the chaos at the commissioner's funeral. (He's the guy Dent nearly shoots in the alley.) If you recognized him and thought "there's our bad guy," [[spoiler:you were right... well, almost.]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bob Taylor is played by David Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff in ''TheDarkKnight'', the paranoid schizophrenic 'hired' by the Joker to assist in the chaos at the commissioner's funeral. (He's the guy Dent nearly shoots in the alley.) If you recognized him and thought "there's our bad guy," [[spoiler:you were right... well, almost.]]]]
* WhatMightHaveBeen: When Lee Daniels was interested in directing, he wanted Creator/OprahWinfrey to play Holly Jones.
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* FakeAmerican: Australian Hugh Jackman plays a Pennsylvanian.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bob Taylor is played by David Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff in ''TheDarkKnight'', the paranoid schizophrenic 'hired' by the Joker to assist in the chaos at the commissioner's funeral. (He's the guy Dent nearly shoots in the alley.) If you recognized him and thought "there's our bad guy," [[spoiler:you were right... well, almost.]]

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