Trivia / Daylight

The Video Game

• Creator's Oddball: Zombie Studios is best known for tactical shooters. Daylight is their first foray into the horror genre, unless you count the dark adventure game Zork Nemesis.

The Film

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $80 million. Box office, $33,023,469 (domestic), $159,212,469 (worldwide).
• Creator Killer: Director Rob Cohen's next two movies were both TV movies, but he would return to cinema in 2000. This movie and Leslie Bohem's next writing job, Dante's Peak, blacked out his writing career until The Alamo (2004) from Touchstone.
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• Old Shame: About the movie, Sylvester Stallone simply said: "The premise was really good but it didn't deliver".
• Playing Against Type: Colin Fox, normally cast as villains or Jerkasses, here plays a kind, selfless old man.
• Real-Life Relative: Sylvester Stallone's son Sage plays Vincent.
• What Could Have Been: Rob Cohen originally wanted Nicolas Cage to play Kit Latura, but Universal execs felt he was more of a "character actor", and Sylvester Stallone was more commercially viable. Harrison Ford was offered the role.

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