Trivia / Cry_Wolf

• Actor-Inspired Element: Owen wasn't English in the original script, but they let Julian Morris keep his natural accent.
• Actor-Shared Background: Kristy Wu is a big horror fan, like her character Regina.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Jon Bon Jovi worked on the film at a lower rate because he liked the script.
• Dawson Casting: Playing our teenage characters, we have the following:
  • Lindy Booth, Sandra McCoy, and Ethan Cohn were twenty-six.
  • Julian Morris, Jared Padalecki, and Kristy Wu were twenty-two.
• Enforced Method Acting:
  • During the scene of the Lying Game, the cast all had to stay in character. If they broke character at all, they'd be kicked out of the room.
  • The cast bunked together during filming to build up believable chemistry as friends who had been together for years.
• Fake American: Lindy Booth (Canadian) as Dodger.
• No Budget: The film was financed for $1 million, which was won in a contest organised by Chrysler.
• No Stunt Double: Julian Morris had to perform the pool scene without a stunt double, as they only had half a day to shoot it. Director Jeff Wadlow performed it beforehand to prove it was safe.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: During the writing process, the filmmakers realised that all the new technology of the 21st century had proved Trope Breakers for most of the slasher movie tropes. So they went with it and incorporated the devices into the plot.
• Romance on the Set: Jared Padalecki and Sandra McCoy dated for four years and were even engaged for a while.
• Throw It In!: Ethan Cohn's mocking of Owen's accent wasn't in the script, but they kept it. On the DVD commentary, the director points out that Sandra McCoy has a strong background in dance and gymnastics (and she's a former Laker Girl), so they would get her to "move like a man" or herself in different shots.
• Troubled Production: As laid out in this article by Ryan Larson for Bloody-Disgusting.
  • The film started with USC graduates Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman, who were participating in a short film competition sponsored by the automaker Chrysler as part of a Product Placement campaign for their PT Cruiser. When they got to the finals, their original plan was to adapt a stage play, but the playwright pulled the film rights at the last minute, forcing them to hastily come up with an original idea. Wadlow came up with an idea for a horror movie about a "professional liars club", and in two weeks he and Bauman cranked out a script and filmed a five-minute treatment starring Topher Grace and Estella Warren.
  • Production was beset with difficulties owing mostly to there being No Budget. The casting of Jon Bon Jovi in a major role necessitated heightened security on set, storms frequently caused power outages, and at one point they had to set up shop in a Kinko's print shop. The lack of money forced Wadlow to sign numerous additional Product Placement deals (especially AOL and Apple) in order to scrounge up enough cash to finish the movie.
• Typecasting: Lindy Booth has a tendency to play murderers or murder victims. In this film she does both, in a sense.

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