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Trivia: During filming, Sarah Michelle Gellar became very close with Michael Gershman, the lead cinematographer of the first five seasons, who became a father figure to her (she was estranged from her real father). They became so close that when Gellar got married in 2002, she asked Gershman to dance with her during the father-daughter dance. When Gershman passed away in 2018, Gellar posted a heartfelt tribute to him on her social media.

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Trivia: A sequel went into production after this film came out, with stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega returning, and Christopher Landon as director. However, in late 2023, all three left the project. Barrera was fired for pro-Palestine social media posts, which the studio claimed were antisemitic despite her stating they were not intended to be. Ortega then left over a pay dispute. Finally, Landon dropped out, calling the situation a "nightmare." (Presumably due to how actresses were treated.)

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Trivia: Zack Snyder originally intended for the movie to be an R-rated spin-off "Star Wars", but Lucasfilm wasn't interested in his ideas. It was eventually retooled into a stand-alone work.

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Trivia: Director Mark Steven Johnson admitted in a 2023 interview celebrating the film's 20th anniversary that his one big regret was not telling a smaller story. In retrospect, he feels that putting a Daredevil origin story, an Elektra story, court/law-themed story (in the Director's Cut) and a Kingpin story was a little too much for one movie, and some of the material should have been saved for a potential sequel. But as a Daredevil fan, he wanted to put in everything he loved about the comic.

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Trivia: While the logo was introduced a year prior in 2002's "Spider-Man", this is the first film in which the Marvel "flipping pages" logo actually had the flipping pages sound effect added. To this day, 20 years later, that logo and sound effect are still sometimes used in non-MCU Marvel films.

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Trivia: Despite already being very tall at 6'5", Michael Clarke Duncan was often standing on boxes or wearing lift shoes in many of his scenes to add several more inches and make him look almost inhumanly massive. Specific camera angles were also used to make him look larger.

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Trivia: Michael Clarke Duncan was so well-liked in the role of Kingpin that he was asked to reprise the role (in voice-over form) in the 2003 "Spider-Man" animated series on MTV.

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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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