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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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