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Trivia: Backstage at the charity fundraiser, a poster can be seen featuring Crusher Hogan. Crusher Hogan was the wrestler faced by a masked Peter Parker faced in Spider-Man's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15.

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Trivia: The number on Scott Lang's storage unit is 616. This is the same number used to refer to Earth Prime (the primary Earth 'continuity') in Marvel comics.

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Trivia: The show is based on a comic books series written by Gerard Way, who was the lead singer for the band My Chemical Romance.

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Trivia: During the Steve Rogers support group scene, the bald man with glasses and goatee is none other than Jim Starlin, the comics writer and artist who created Thanos.

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Trivia: Cambridge refused to allow filming rights on campus because they feared depictions of anti-Semitism. All of the Cambridge scenes were actually filmed at Hugh Hudson's alma mater Eton College.

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Trivia: During the opening sequence, as the camera moves through the corridors of the Nostromo, a Krups coffee grinder can be seen mounted to one of the walls. It happens to be the same model as the "Mr. Fusion" in Back to the Future.

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Trivia: Michelle Rodriguez has a cameo as Gelda, who is fighting along with Alita in her flashbacks, and Edward Norton has a cameo as Nova, Alita's main enemy on Zalem.

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Trivia: Singer Chris Isaak has a small cameo as the S.W.A.T. team commander.

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Trivia: Roger Corman has a cameo as FBI Director Hayden Burke, and his portrait can be seen in one of the shots of Clarice and Ardelia.

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Trivia: Herman Wouk, the author of the source novel, has a cameo as the Archbishop of Siena.

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Trivia: The script for the entire series tops out at 962 pages, and contains 1785 scenes and 285 speaking parts. The total production involved more than 4,000 camera setups, and more than a million feet of exposed film were shot. The complete series was shot at over 404 different locations in Europe, California and Washington State over a 14 month shooting schedule.

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Trivia: When the Japanese businessmen are running from the T-Rex, not only is the visual joke funny, as a nod to Godzilla, but one of them is shouting, "We left Tokyo to get away from this!" in Japanese.

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Trivia: The psychiatrist who treats Nell Crain (Victoria Pedretti) is played by Russ Tamblyn, who starred in "The Haunting", the original 1963 film adaptation of "The Haunting of Hill House"

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Trivia: The lines said by Allyson's teacher are spoken by none other than P.J. Soles, who played Lynda in the original "Halloween."

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Trivia: The name of the demon, "Valak" is visible on the registration plate of the truck in the village just before Sister Irene, Father Burke and Frenchie leave for the abbey.

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Trivia: The name of the demon, "Valak" can be seen on the playground equipment where we first see sister Irene.

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Trivia: William Friedkin's first choice for the role of Chris MacNeil was Audrey Hepburn, but she would only take the role if filming would take place in Rome. Anne Bancroft was another considered actress, but once it was known that she was pregnant, she was dropped.

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Trivia: William O'Malley, who plays Father Dyer, is an actual Jesuit priest who taught at Fordham Prep, a Jesuit high school.

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Trivia: In the Director's Cut, after the demon moves into Father Karras' body, for a few frames, you can see the flicker of an image of his mother's face in the window. This is probably what prompts him to leap out the window to save Regan.

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Trivia: The voice heard during the initial mission briefing is that of director Christopher McQuarrie.

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