History Trivia / Splice

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/SarahPolley has implied that this was the movie that made her quit acting in favor of becoming a full-time screenwriter and director. In [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-sarah-polley.html an op-ed]] she wrote for ''The New York Times'' after producer Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator, she describes her attempt to return to acting after having directed some of her own films, only to once more encounter the sexism that left her disillusioned in the first place. The experience she recounts as having been her [[TheLastStraw last straw]] is [[spoiler:a rape scene that she expressed concerns over, only for a producer to [[NotHelpingYourCase respond]] that twelve-year-old Creator/DakotaFanning had filmed a rape scene in ''Film/{{Hounddog}}'' and wasn't affected by it]]. While she never names the film that this scene was from, the dates of the events and the nature of the scene in question imply that it's the scene where [[spoiler:Dren rapes Elsa]].

* CreatorBacklash: Creator/SarahPolley has implied that this was the movie that made her quit acting in favor of becoming a full-time screenwriter and director. In [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-sarah-polley.html an op-ed]] she wrote for ''The New York Times'' after producer Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator, she describes her attempt to return to acting after having directed some of her own films, only to once more encounter the sexism that left her disillusioned in the first place. The experience she recounts as having been her [[TheLastStraw last straw]] is [[spoiler:a rape scene that she expressed concerns over, only for a producer to respond that twelve-year-old Creator/DakotaFanning had filmed a rape scene in ''Film/{{Hounddog}}'' and wasn't affected by it]]. While she never names the film that this scene was from, the dates of the events and the nature of the scene in question imply that it's the scene where [[spoiler:Dren rapes Elsa]].

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film was intended to be released in September 2009 and had its premiere that month at the Toronto Film Festival. However, the film's original distributor went under before its premiere and the original date was canceled while it waited to find a distributor. A few months later, a successful screening at Sundance led to a bidding war with Warner Bros. winning, leading the film to get a June 2010 release.

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The film was intended to be released in September 2009 and had its premiere that month at the Toronto Film Festival. However, the film's original distributor when under before its premiere and the original date was canceled while it waited to find a distributor. A few months later, a successful screening at Sundance led to a bidding war with Warner Bros. winning, leading the film to get a June 2010 release.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Now that he's no longer working with the military, [[Series/StargateAtlantis Rodney McKay]] is allowed to grow a beard.
** Furthermore, [[Film/KingKong2005 Jack Driscoll]] is now a scientist.

** Furthermore, [[Film/KingKong Jack Driscoll]] is now a scientist.