Trivia / The Langoliers

• California Doubling: Averted in the TV movie. LAX and Bangor International appear as themselves.
• Creator Backlash: While refusing to go into specifics, David Morse said in an interview that filming for the miniseries was difficult, and he had a much better time filming "The Green Mile."
• Creator Cameo: Stephen King plays the director of the board meeting Toomey was supposed to attend, in a hallucination toward the end.
  • Director Tom Holland also appears as Harker, Nick Hopewell's handler who drops him off at the airport in the beginning.
• Fake American: In the miniseries, Dinah is portrayed by the English Kate Maberly.
• Playing Against Type: Before this movie, Bronson Pinchot was known for playing quirky comedic characters. Then he played the psychotic Craig Toomey... though in a quirky comedic way.
• Referenced by...
  • Supplice has a minor, recurring enemy resembling the Langoliers.
• Technology Marches On: Laurel Stevenson's reason for booking an expensive flight from Los Angeles to Boston is to meet a guy she's never actually met in person but corresponded with through a personal ad in a magazine. The story was written in 1990, so this was plausible at the time, but Laurel's gullibility aside (which she admits to), the internet and webcams have made this plot thread rather dated.
  • Also, due to the time the film was made, no one has cell phones.
• What Could Have Been: The titular Langoliers were originally going to be portrayed using puppets in the mini-series but for some unknown reason they switched to be rendered in extremely dated CGI.

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