History Trivia / TheWarriors

* McLeaned: Thomas G. Waites (Fox) was fired eight weeks into principal photography, for being difficult and arguing with Creator/WalterHill, so his character is removed from the movie when a cop throws him into the path of a train during a fight. To this day, Hill has felt bad about the rough times he had with Waites. Waites is not in the final credits because he demanded that his name be removed. However, he did return to reprise the role in the game.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Thomas G. Waites (Fox) proved difficult to work with during film production, to the point that he was fired and his character was brutally killed off halfway through the story. Most notably, he constantly feuded with both Creator/WalterHill and Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Mercy), who was supposed to be his love interest.

* AbilityOverAppearance:
** Creator/WalterHill initially wanted a Puerto Rican actress for the role of Mercy, but Deborah Van Valkenburgh's agent convinced the film's casting directors to see her and she was eventually cast.
** Ajax was originally conceived as a tall, muscular, physically imposing figure. Character actor Irwin Keyes was strongly considered for the role however Hill, deciding Keyes was too old for the role, opted to go with the smaller yet wiry Creator/JamesRemar. Keyes was given a consolation role in the film as Hill cast him as the NYC cop who hits Ajax with his club after Ajax is caught in the park sting operation. So Keyes got to arrest the character he was originally considered to play.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Sol Yurick had worked as a social worker with troubled youth for over a decade when he wrote the novel. The book puts emphasis on how the gang members are mere teenagers who come from broken homes.

* NamesTheSame: The film and book are not to be confused ''Franchise/WarriorCats'', which is occasionally called ''Warriors''.

* TheOtherDarrin: While this is averted for the most part, Luther, Vermin, and Cyrus (except for his iconic speech) were all recast for the video game. Rembrandt's actor had died in 1986 due to complications from AIDS.

* TheOtherDarrin: While this is averted for the most part, Luther, Vermin, and Cyrus (except for his iconic speech) were all recast for the video game. Rembrandt's actor had died in 1985 due to complications from AIDS.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Particularly ironic since - at least according to director Creator/WalterHill - the film was supposed to be set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
** A few accidental blink-and-you-miss-it glimpses of subway station ads for ''Film/{{Grease}}'', ''[[Film/HeavenCanWait1978 Heaven Can Wait]]'', and ''Film/FoulPlay'' give away ''The Warriors'' production being done during summer 1978.
** Luther's use of a pay phone.
** The nearly complete lack of guns in the New York City underworld was anachronistic even for its time and comes across as even more quaint today.
** The rollerskating leader of the Punks is obviously styled on the heightened popularity of rollerskating in the 1970s and into the 1980s.

** Creator/WalterHill realized that the scene where Luther and the Rogues confront the Warriors at Coney Island was missing something, so he asked David Patrick Kelly to come up with something for his character to do. Kelly recalled a crazy man from his youth who would taunt him by shouting, "Come out to play!" so he ad-libbed the lines. He originally requested dead pigeons to hold in his hands, but the production couldn't come up with that, so he substituted clinking the beer bottles in his fingers.

** A spiritual sequel (unrelated to the film) was planned by Rockstar. The game was to be titled ''We Are the Mods'' and was to be set in 1960s England during the mods and rockers brawls.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The Playstation 4 re-release omits “In The City” by The Eagles in favor of a generic instrumental. This is a particularly egregious example since “In the City” was only used to match up to the end of the film’s credits.

* BigNameFan: UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan was a fan of the film, even calling Michael Beck, to tell him he had screened it at Camp David and enjoyed it.

* TheOtherDarrin: While this is averted for the most part, Luther, Vermin, and Cyrus (except for his iconic speech) were all recast for the video game. Rembrandt's actor had died in 1985 due to complications from {{AIDS}}.

* TheOtherDarrin: While this is averted for the most part, Luther, Vermin, and Cyrus (except for his iconic speech) were all recast for the video game. Rembrandt's actor had died in 1985 due to complications from {{AIDs}}.