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Trivia: Making a film based on P.T. Barnum had been a passion project for star Hugh Jackman for some years before it was finally made. Reportedly, what kept the film from being made sooner was the fact that most major studios were apprehensive about producing an original musical not based on a pre-existing film or stageplay.

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Trivia: Spoilers. Originally, the character Pantucci was indeed meant to die in the film. However, test audiences liked the character so much and were so disappointed when he was killed off, that his death scene was dropped and the ending was slightly re-shot to show him surviving in the final theatrical cut of the film.

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Trivia: The original script was titled "Tentacle." It was written in the mid-90's by Stephen Sommers, with some uncredited re-writes by "Karate Kid" writer Robert Mark Kamen. The ambiguous ending was meant to serve as a lead-in to a sequel, with rumors that it would have been either a loose adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" or a "King Kong" remake, given the Island resembles "Skull Island."

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Trivia: Howard Atherton, the director of photography, had a lot of issues working on the film. When director Stephen Sommers asked him why he was having trouble, Atherton explained that he usually worked with directors who he didn't get along with, and their mutual animosity made him try extra hard to compensate. Atherton actually really, really liked working with the friendly, easy-going Sommers, which was a pleasant change of pace for him - but he also felt like he wasn't being challenged as he usually was.

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Trivia: Footage of the party scene from the ship has since been re-used as stock footage in a number of low-budget films. Director Stephen Sommers has stated that he's not sure exactly how that works legally, but that he suspects the footage was licensed out by the studio in order to help recoup the budget, as "Deep Rising" didn't do well on initial release.

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Trivia: The game opens with Chloe sneaking into a club to see a fictional band called "Firewalk." The band's name is a reference to the "Twin Peaks" spin-off film "Firewalk with Me." "Twin Peaks" was one of the main inspirations for the original "Life is Strange."

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Trivia: The film was conceived with Macaulay Culkin in mind to reprise his role as Kevin. Culkin refused, however, thinking that a third adventure with the character would be too unbelievable, and also feeling a bit burnt out with the role. Thus, the film was rewritten to focus on a new lead.

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Trivia: At one point in time, the movie was going to be made for television and serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential "Home Alone" TV series. But this idea was dropped for a traditional theatrical film. The following movie, "Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House," was written to be a stand-alone movie but was retooled to serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential TV series. (Which of course never happened).

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Trivia: One of the many early concepts for the film after Macaulay Culkin dropped out was to have Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern returning as the "Wet Bandits," who would torment Kevin's young cousin Fuller, but this was dropped as none of the actors wanted to return for a third film.

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Trivia: At one point early in production, the film was going to be slightly retooled in order to make it the third entry in the "Cloverfield" franchise, following "Cloverfield" and "10 Cloverfield Lane." Eventually, this idea was dropped, and the movie was left as a stand-alone film.

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Trivia: Major spoilers: After the end credits, Michael can briefly be heard breathing, teasing that he might not be dead.

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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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