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Trivia: SPOILERS: Director Todd Phillips has defended the controversial ending, in which it is revealed that Arthur is not the Joker who would go on to fight Batman when he is stabbed and killed by another inmate, who then carves a smile onto his face. Phillips noted that the two films were called "Joker," and not "THE Joker," and stated that Arthur was the person who inspired the real Joker—presumably the inmate who killed him. However, this explanation was poorly received by fans, who felt duped.

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Trivia: Despite the first film being a billion-dollar hit, within days of opening, "Joker: Folie à Deux" was already considered a bomb. Its domestic total was less than the first film's domestic opening weekend, and by the start of its fourth weekend, it had been removed from roughly 90% of theatres. At just over $200 million, the worldwide gross is only about 1/5 the original's. It is estimated that it will lose the studio $150-200 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time.

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Trivia: There were less than two days left of principal photography when the 2023 actors' strike occurred. It wasn't able to finish until the strike was resolved.

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Trivia: Reportedly, Barbara and Adam from the original were going to have a cameo, but it was cut, as Tim Burton doesn't believe current digital de-aging technology is believable enough.

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Trivia: One of the conditions Tim Burton and Michael Keaton set for directing and appearing in the film is that they would only make it if they could use practical effects in place of CGI as much as possible, just like the original. This is why the film makes heavy use of things like old-school stop-motion animation and animatronics... CGI was only used when necessary.

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Trivia: The music during the final dream sequence is the music from the ending of the original version of "Carrie."

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Trivia: Brad Pitt, who is a producer on the film, was reportedly going to have a cameo in the afterlife waiting room as a character who was shot in the head (possibly implied to be his character Chad from "Burn After Reading"), but it was cut for one reason or another.

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Trivia: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is wearing a hockey mask in the opening scene, which frightens Marion. This is a nod to the character Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" film series. "Halloween: H20" director Steve Miner got his start working on the early "Friday the 13th" movies and even directed the second and third films.

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Trivia: The film was originally written to be a low-budget, direct-to-video feature, with Michael being the only returning character. When Jamie Lee Curtis expressed interest in returning to the "Halloween" franchise in honour of the first film's 20th anniversary, the script was drastically re-written to include her character Laurie Strode, and the movie was upgraded to a theatrical release. It paid off, with "H20" becoming the highest-grossing film in the series to that point (in unadjusted dollars).

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Trivia: The film had several different working titles, including "Halloween: The Revenge of Laurie Strode."

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Trivia: The original story treatment ended in a massive car chase involving a police helicopter, with Michael ultimately being decapitated and chopped up by the helicopter's blades when it crashes; but this was changed entirely to a more traditional, intimate one-on-one battle in rewrites.

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Trivia: Jamie Lee Curtis and director Steve Miner tried to get actor/comedian Mike Myers to cameo in the film as a joke (since his name is the same as the killer), but he politely turned them down.

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Trivia: The two detectives seen at the start of the film originally had much larger roles in the script. (Albeit, one was a female detective in the script.) They would track Michael Myers to California and appeared in several more scenes. However, their subplot was cut during rewrites, since it wasn't strictly necessary.

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Trivia: Dr. Loomis' dialogue during the opening credits was done with a soundalike (famous voice actor Tom Kane), because the studio could not locate any unmixed audio of Loomis from the original film. All of the audio they could find had music and sound effects hard-mixed into it. (Ironically now, a little over twenty years later, isolating mixed dialogue and getting rid of music and sound effects is incredibly easy with cheap software.)

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Trivia: Executive producer and uncredited co-writer Kevin Williamson wrote a scene acknowledging the events of "Halloween" 4-6, where it would be explained that Laurie faked her death in the car accident mentioned in "Halloween 4" to go into hiding and protect her daughter Jamie. She would learn about Jamie's death (seen in "Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers") and be grief-stricken. However, the scene was removed from the script, and the film was retooled to ignore every movie except one and two.

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Trivia: Paula Marshall, who plays Terri, once went to a Bruce Springsteen concert several years after the movie came out and just so happened to end up next to John Cusack. He kept asking her questions because he thought he recognized her before finally exclaiming, "Hellraiser III! You were really good in that!" Marshall was not only very amused that John Cusack had seen "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth," but was also very touched that someone as famous as John Cusack remembered her first major role.

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Trivia: The radio we see Joey find in the dream is actually the exact same radio seen in "Hellbound: Hellraiser II." Not the same make and model... the EXACT same radio. The production designer put an order in for a period-accurate, old-timey radio for the World War I scenes, and through sheer dumb luck, the prop house just so happened to send them the same radio from the previous film.

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Trivia: Clive Barker originally had no involvement with the film. He was brought in during post-production to help fix the film, evidently quipping, "Alright, now let's make it into a 'Hellraiser' film!" after seeing a rough cut.

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Trivia: During the sex scene with JP and Sandy, JP aggressively holding Sandy's breasts wasn't scripted or planned. The actress decided she didn't want to bare her breasts on camera, so she had the actor playing JP hold them whenever she was on camera.

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Trivia: The film was inspired by director/co-writer/star Vera Drew being commissioned to create a fan edit of the 2019 film "Joker." While working on the fan-edit, she began to think about her own life and ended up coming up with the idea of re-contextualizing "Batman" characters in order to tell a semi auto-biographical story about what she refers to as the "Holy Trinity" - gender, comedy, and mommy issues.

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