1 | * ThrowItIn: Billy Zane came up with the gag of The Collector opening his mouth to reveal a sponge that Roach can use to remove Brayker's blood seal. |
2 | * StarmakingRole: For Creator/JadaPinkett, who next got the romantic lead in ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor1996''. |
3 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film's script has an interesting history before it was made into a finished film: |
4 | ** The original draft for the film was written back in 1987, two years before the show started, and was intended to be Tom Holland's follow up to ''Film/ChildsPlay''. Holland was hoping make the film with [[Film/FrightNight1985 Chris Sarandon]] as The Collector and Creator/TommyLeeJones as Brayker. He ultimately went on to direct the bomb ''Film/FatalBeauty'', but not before he hired an FX team to do preliminary sketches for this version. |
5 | ** Next the script ended up in the hands of Mark Carducci, screenwriter for ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'', who sat on it for years until he gave it to Mary Lambert, the director of the film version of ''Literature/PetSematary''. She planned on directing it after finishing the second ''Pet Sematary'' film, but when that bombed the script was shelved again due to lack of interest from investors. |
6 | *** One of her ideas for the film (among others) was that Brayker [[RaceLift would be portrayed by an African American man]] to create a theme that the oppressed people of Earth were also its saviors. |
7 | ** After that, the script went to Creator/FullMoonFeatures, but budgetary constraints held up the production. |
8 | ** When it finally made it's way to Joel Silver, it was optioned to be the second film in a proposed ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' film trilogy, but Universal Studios thought it should go first because it was "the most Tales-like" feature out of the three. |
9 | ** Two versions of the script were then made in case budgetary issues reared their head. One with demons and one ''without''. |
10 | *** In the non-demon script, the Collector was a demonic Bible salesman (a nod to his original name in the version Holland would have made) who was using a legion of fellow salesman clad in black suits and sunglasses as his minions. A [[SimilarlyNamedWorks Similarly Named Work]] in production around the same time that also had demons that looked like killer yuppies made everyone nervous, so Universal pitched in some additional money for creature effects. |
11 | ** Creator/WillemDafoe was considered for The Collector. If you thought Creator/BillyZane was hammy, just imagine the amount of HamAndCheese Dafoe would have brought to the table. |
12 | ** Creator/ValKilmer was considered to play Brayker. |
13 | ** The studio initially pushed for Creator/CameronDiaz to play Jerryline but was convinced by the director to cast Jada Pinkett Smith instead. |
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