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Trivia: Filmmaker and actor Harold Ramis wanted to direct the film as he was a big video game fan and especially a big "Super Mario" fan (even putting a reference to Mario in "Ghostbusters 2"). He took a meeting with the producers but ended up passing on the project, as he had a bad feeling about it.

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Trivia: The doctor on the surgery DVD John finds in the ransacked clinic is actually the film's production designer, Anthony Stabley, in a cameo appearance.

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Trivia: The only film in the "Spider-Man" trilogy to have neither a VHS release nor a fullscreen DVD release. VHS had been quietly discontinued between the release of "Spider-Man 2" and "Spider-Man 3," while widescreen HD-TVs were beginning to become more prevalent and had started their gradual takeover, making the fullscreen format antiquated by the time it came out.

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Trivia: Director Kevin Greutert has stated that the film was made with the intention of it being Tobin Bell's swan-song in the role of Jigsaw, and a proper send-off for the character, though he stressed "never say never" when asked about a sequel or Bell possibly returning in the future.

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Trivia: Director Kevin Greutert is one of the only crew members to be directly involved with all ten movies. He edited "Saw" 1-5 and "Jigsaw," directed "Saw VI," "Saw 3D," and "Saw X," and was an executive producer on "Spiral: From the Book of Saw."

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Trivia: An assistant editor was working on a cut of the "Eye Vacuum" trap one day when the doorbell rang. He was shocked to find police at the door. Turns out, someone in a neighbouring building overheard the edit and misinterpreted the screams in the footage as someone actually being tortured to death, so they called the cops. The officers were very amused when they found out he was just editing a movie. Director Kevin Greutert later joked, "It must have been a pretty realistic performance!"

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Trivia: Final film of actor Glenn Quinn, who passed away the year it debuted.

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Trivia: Director Stephen Sommers has said that part of the reason he wanted to work on this film was because the original 1932 version of the movie was the only classic Universal monster movie to scare him as a child. He thought Dracula was a little too sexy and cool to be totally scary, while Frankenstein was more tragic and sad than frightening... whereas he found the original mummy just plain old creepy.

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Trivia: One of the background extras in the film was unknowingly given the exact same cloak worn by Alec Guinness in the original "Star Wars." It had inadvertently been mixed in with various generic monk robes at a costume company that works on film and television productions, and was later rented out to this film. It was identified a few years later as the "Star Wars" robe and sold in an auction for over $100,000, making "The Mummy" its last confirmed on-screen appearance.

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Trivia: A massive subplot was removed from the film. It was going to be shown throughout the film that a crazy homeless woman was secretly living in the hospital. She'd eerily observe the workers and be a red herring to throw off the audience. SPOILERS. Finally, after she witnesses Gordon kill everyone, she would sneak up and kill him as "revenge." However, her subplot was removed as audiences were confused (thinking she was Mary from the audio tapes) and the director wanted to streamline the plot.

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Trivia: The video-game franchise was so popular, the movie was profitable for production studio Blumhouse before it was even released, with the film recouping its budget thanks to the millions it made from the streaming and theatrical distribution rights being sold. It subsequently broke the record for the biggest Halloween weekend box-office opening with an estimated $78 million, and became the second-highest opening for a video-game movie, behind only "The Super Mario Bros." movie.

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Trivia: The film was repeatedly delayed by series creator Scott Cawthon. He wanted to get just the right script to introduce the franchise to movie-goers while also rewarding fans, and co-wrote multiple different drafts.

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Trivia: Minor Spoilers: There's a mid-credits scene showing the cab-driver being frightened by the Balloon Boy figure appearing in his car. And in the final moments of the credits, the music volume lowers, and we hear a robotic voice spell out the words "Come find me."

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Trivia: The waiter who asks Jane and the others if they'd like to order lunch is played by YouTuber Matthew Patrick, who has a video series called "Game Theory" and has done dozens of videos based around the "Five Nights at Freddy's" video-games. Him saying "That's just a theory!" when someone mentions breakfast being called "the most important meal of the day", is an inside joke. (He ends every "Game Theory" video by saying "That's just a theory... a game theory!").

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Trivia: The filmmakers wanted to honor the fact that the villains are animatronic robots and decided to use practical effects instead of CGI. The Jim Henson Creature Shop actually built fully-functional animatronic puppets for each character, in addition to suits that could be worn by actors for movements that were too complex for the animatronics to do.

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Trivia: Dammers' death was originally far less graphic, with him being shot in the chest and there being little-to-no on-screen blood. However, the MPAA gave the movie an R-rating, shocking director Peter Jackson since he shot it to be PG-13. As an act of defiance, he went back and used CGI to change Dammers' death and make it far more graphic and "R-rated," by having his head explode with a fountain of blood and gore. Dammers' original death was later used in the edited-for-TV version of the film.

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Trivia: Gary Oldman did the movie as a favor to Luc Besson, who helped him raise money for another film he was trying to make. Oldman reportedly wasn't too keen on the film... in fact, he hated it and didn't understand why so many people found it appealing. When asked what he thought about it being a major cult-classic in an interview once, he simply laughed and said, "I know, I know... that's just the wacky world we live in!"

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Trivia: The giant indoors explosion at Fhloston Paradise was actually the largest indoor explosion ever filmed. It was so huge, the fire actually almost burned down the soundstage, and it took nearly a half-hour to get it under control.

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Trivia: Model and actress Maïwenn wasn't originally supposed to play the diva. However, for whatever reason, the original actress cast just... never showed up for filming. Since Maïwenn was married to director Luc Besson at the time and was around set, she was recruited to fill in for the part at the last minute.

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Trivia: The Zorg ZF-1 Pod Weapon would later make a cameo in the DC comics movie "Blue Beetle", as a weapon briefly conjured up by the Blue Beetle suit.

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