Best thriller movie trivia of 2021

Trivia: Cary Joji Fukunaga is the first American to direct an official Bond movie.

Trivia: Nicolas Cage has no speaking lines throughout the entire movie.

Trivia: Jax says that Cole beat Eddy Tobias in a fight. This is a reference to the creators of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon and John Tobias.

Trivia: The three victims of Michael found in the playground are wearing masks that look exactly like the ones from Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

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Trivia: When the gang first get into Vegas (I think before the first one dies), they pass a billboard advertising a magician named Larry Fong. Fong is a longtime collaborator of Zack Snyder, being his cinematographer on BvS, 300 and Watchmen, and is also a licensed magician.

Trivia: There is an extra scene at the end with Shaw and Han.

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Trivia: Kyle Chandler, who plays the role of Mark Russell, also played a role in 2005's King Kong.

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Trivia: "Amaharo", written above the front passenger side tire on the Jeep, means "Peace" in Kirundi. (00:14:49)

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Trivia: Alex Pettyfer's ["Liam"] real-life father, Richard, plays Liam's father "Ron" in the movie.

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Trivia: The driver of the hotel van service taking the guests to their secluded beach is none other than the director M. Night Shyamalan. He has a speaking role in this movie as well.

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Trivia: There is a post credit scene where the Baroness tries to convince Tommy Arishikage to join Cobra now that his grandmother stated he won't be leader of her clan. Tommy told Baroness to call him Storm Shadow since he has now shunned his birth name.

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Trivia: Movie is based on a true story that happened in Malibu and the house used for filming belongs to writer Sherry Klein.

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Trivia: This film serves as a direct sequel to the original, and generally ignores the events of the two prior sequels, except for keeping the name "Daniel Robitaille," which was established in "Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh."

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Trivia: The reflective yellow/gold at the top of New Jersey plates enables police to quickly identify the vehicle as in-state. Yellow/gold is used because NJ's state bird is the American Goldfinch.

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Trivia: The first entry in the series not to be released in theaters. It was originally meant to be a theatrical release but due to complications from the COVID-19 pandemic, studio Blumhouse decided to release it as a Paramount+ original film in October 2021. It was subsequently given a Blu-Ray release one year later in October 2022, exclusively as part of a box set containing all seven films.

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Trivia: Of the desks that could be seen in the college classroom/ lecture hall, 25% were designed for left-handed students. That's about twice as many as could be expected to be needed because roughly 12-13% of people in the U.S. are left-handed. (00:41:44)

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Trivia: Zara had a solo law practice, which is relatively uncommon in that about 75% of U.S. lawyers/attorneys work in law firms. The operating costs of a solo practice can be prohibitive, especially for recent law school graduates/young lawyers.

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Trivia: Ross' log-in on the laptop computer in the San Francisco library included a CAPTCHA (to discern a real person from a robot). The use of ONE word - in this case, "doug" - is called EZ-Gimpy. "CAPTCHA" is an abbreviation for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. (00:02:21)

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Trivia: "Infanticide" refers to a parent deliberately killing a child, either an infant or up to a one-year-old. The lesser-known general term "filicide" refers to a parent (or functional equivalent, such as step-parent) killing a child. Related terms wherein a family member kills another family member include "parricide" (a child killing a parent) and "siblicide" (obviously, killing a brother or sister).

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Trivia: The movie wasn't actually taken in "one shot" (as joked about in the bonus "The Making of a Movie in One Shot"), but the editing is quite seamless and impressive. There is almost non-stop action, and the viewer does get "pulled in" as asserted.

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