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Trivia: Originally, this movie was going to be filmed back-to-back with a sequel, and the two films would be released a year apart. This idea was eventually eschewed during pre-production.

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Trivia: Nick Castle, who portrayed Michael in the original film, plays him in several sequences throughout this movie. Castle shares the role with stuntman James Jude Courtney, who also portrays Michael throughout the film.

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Trivia: Spoilers. Several moments in the climax directly mirror events from the original film, though with reversed roles. For example, in the original Michael falls off a balcony and then disappears when Loomis goes to check. In this film, it is Laurie Strode who falls off a balcony and then disappears. Another example being that in the original, Michael appears from the shadows behind Laurie in a doorway, whereas again in this film, Laurie appears behind Michael from the shadows in the same manner.

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Trivia: Spoilers: The film's original ending was quite different. Originally, rather than Michael being burned in the basement, he would instead get into a knife-fight with Laurie outside of the house. After a brief tussle with Laurie, he would then be shot through the chest with a crossbow-like weapon by Karen. The film would end with Michael sitting down, bleeding profusely from his wounds and breathing in slow, heavy manner (implying he's dying) while Laurie, her daughter and her grandaughter drive away into the night. This ending was disliked by test-audiences, and thus the film's theatrical ending was shot to give it a more action-packed finale.

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Trivia: Despite the film being a disappointment at the box office, director Luc Besson has remained optimistic that a sequel could be made. He has stated that his plans for a second film would be a smaller story in terms of scope, and thus the film would cost considerably less than the original.

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Trivia: "Until Dawn" originally began development as a "Playstation Move" title for the Playstation 3. The original version of the game was going to be told from a first-person perspective and be focused more on puzzle solving than exploration. Eventually, development was moved to the Playstation 4, and the gameplay was altered drastically to drop the first-person aesthetic.

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Trivia: The game only has an auto-save feature during checkpoints. The developers chose auto-saving over save points in order to force players to play out the game start-to-finish to see how the story plays out, as there are a multitude of possible endings based on player choices.

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Trivia: Chloe wears a necklace that's made of three bullets throughout the game. This is commonly viewed as either representing the three people who "abandoned" her and thus hurt her (her father, Max and Rachel Amber), or representing three times Chloe is murdered during the game - When she is shot by Nathan at the start, when she is shot by Jefferson in chapter four, and when Max can chose to sacrifice her to save the town in Chapter Five.

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Trivia: Spoilers: Originally, the "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" ending was meant to be longer and more involved, and feature several other scenes and moments to wrap up the story. Due to time and budgetary constraints, the developers were forced to remove many of the elements of the ending in order to get both endings done on time for release. The game's artistic director stated that the ending is meant to imply that it's a "new beginning" for Chloe and Max (implying Chloe has escaped her seemingly predestined early death), and that the ending is also meant to solidify that the two friends still love each other, and from now on will be together forever.

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Trivia: The film was originally meant to have a large viral marketing push and a potential theatrical release. However, due to negative feedbacks in test-screenings, the film was quickly finished and released direct-to-video and the planned viral marketing campaign was dropped.

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Trivia: Series star Warwick Davis reportedly turned down the opportunity to star in the film. He stated that as he now has children, he wanted to focus on non-horror projects for the time being. Though he also hinted that he would like to return to the genre once his kids get older.

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Trivia: Originally, Jonathan was going to own a casino, which he purchased with his share of the treasure from the first film. The battle in which Evelyn is kidnapped was going to take place there. However, for budgetary reasons, this idea was dropped early on, since it would have been a massive cost to build a casino set for only one or two short scenes. The battle was then relocated to Rick and Evelyn's house.

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Trivia: The only entry in the Mummy series to not have an opening title card. The first film, third film and all of the Scorpion King spin-offs have opening title cards, while this film only displays the title during the end credits.

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Trivia: One of the film's most common criticisms is that the CGI for the Scorpion King is notably of a lower quality than all of the other effects. There's actually a reason for this. The character was an early attempt at attempting to make a photorealistic humanoid, and thus the effect took much more work to complete. Additionally, the effect was made before a technique called "subsurface scattering" became prevalent, thus causing the plastic-like sheen on the skin. (Subsurface scattering is a technique that simulates how light penetrates and/or reflects off multi-layered surfaces like skin, thus allowing more realistic lighting and a less plasticy look.) It was so complicated trying to get the character to look "right," that they simply ran out of time and had to use what they had done, even though it wasn't quite complete.

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Trivia: At Izzy's home, there's a man in a bathtub reading a newspaper that's focused on in one shot. You can faintly hear him humming a few notes. The humming was actually done by director Stephen Sommers in an audible cameo, and it was looped over the scene. (Though contrary to popular belief, the man in the tub was just an extra - not director Sommers).

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Trivia: As of 2020, "The Mummy Returns" is still the highest grossing Universal "Mummy" movie both domestically and worldwide. It was the highest grossing of the Stephen Sommers series, and also grossed more than the 2017 reboot in unadjusted dollars. (And if you adjust for inflation, it actually grossed nearly twice what the 2017 film did).

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Trivia: In order to maintain his perfect sculpted, hairless look, the titular mummy actor Arnold Vosloo had to shave his body head-to-toe twice a day during filming.

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Trivia: Ashly Burch, who portrayed Chloe in the original "Life is Strange," was unable to reprise her role in the three main chapters of this spin-off "Before the Storm" due to an actor's strike. However, the strike ended before the completion of the bonus forth chapter, "Farewell," and Burch was finally able to voice the character once again in this chapter. (Chloe is played Rhianna DeVries in the other three chapters). Despite not being in them, Burch also served as a writing consultant for the three main chapters, as Chloe is one of her most personal roles and she wanted to make sure the game was true to the character.

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Trivia: Spoilers. The producers have admitted that they would have deleted the final scene of chapter three (which implies Rachel's death in the dark room, as referenced in the original game) in retrospect. They felt the scene went too far, and was too traumatic.

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Trivia: Writer/Director JT Petty got the approval to make this follow-up after a simple pitch. He went into a meeting and told the produces that he wanted to "make Hitchcock's 'Rear Window, ' except with giant cockroaches." Not only was it a novel approach to a sequel that allowed the studio to take the series in a new direction, but it also helped the production save money, since most of the film would be set in and around a single location (in this case an apartment complex.) He was given the greenlight almost immediately after.

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