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Trivia: Ben Kingsley's Maori facial tattoos took about an hour to apply for the character Mazer Rackham.

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Trivia: Director Vincenzo Natali had wanted to explore themes of family and the powerful potential of genetics on the heels of the success of Cube (1997).

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Trivia: French model Delphine Chanéac, who played the adult form of Dren (the monster), had shaved her head for the role.

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Trivia: The director actually cast as many actual Norwegian actors as he could for authenticity, commenting that he assembled some of the best and most recognizable stars from there.

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Trivia: The showdown with the Dr. Sander Halvorson-thing was done as a disappointing rush job when the ending was hastily replaced - Kate Lloyd was meant to encounter the spaceship's pilots and a whole other confrontation was devised, along with Dr. Halvorson being dead.

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Trivia: Poor Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr.'s practical creature effects were nearly all replaced or so digitally-composited that, in frustration, they started a Kickstarter campaign that led to the film Harbinger Down.

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Trivia: Early script ideas for the plot included having MacReady and Childs rescued but frostbitten and then the horrid truth about one (or both) revealed, or having MacReady's helicopter pilot brother come by the camp and discover the disaster there. Director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. wanted to remind the audience of MacReady with the character of helicopter pilot Sam Carter (played by Joel Edgerton).

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Trivia: The fire effects throughout were done practically instead of digitally via clever in-camera effects and the use of special suits, gels and rigs allowing for precisely-controlled burns and for stuntmen to remain aflame longer.

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Trivia: Much of the ending was reshot, including a scene where the alien pilots within the spaceship were witnessed by Kate Lloyd dangling from some sort of tubes; the body of one was replaced post-production by an odd Tetris-like display.

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Trivia: In both the book and the 1989 film, it is little Gage, and not his sister Ellie, who dies and returns as a murderous undead.

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Trivia: The Missing is among very few mainstream films to feature authentic Apache language spoken.

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Question: Who was the girl said, "Sh-Shark! Shark in the estuary!" in Jaws? Does anyone know the character and/or actress' name?

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Trivia: In the film, the Mayor is acting out of his concern for the town and its people, fearing an economic collapse if summer is ruined for beachgoers. In Peter Benchley's novel, things are a bit more complicated as the Mayor owes and is being manipulated/extorted by the mob due to their grip on Amity in general and money owed for a loan he took out to help save his then-ailing-and unaware-wife.

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Trivia: The name of the main character and the town-Brandon Breyer and Brightburn - BB - play upon a symbol that the character draws and is meant to remind the viewer of such alliterative comic book name conventions as Peter Parker, Clark Kent, and Lois Lane.

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Trivia: If you watch the entire film, at the end you'll see newspaper clippings and a conspiracy theorist mention costumed threats and super-beings-one was already in the film Super and the others are meant to appear in an anticipated sequel.

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Trivia: Doug Jones, who played Abe Sapien in the prior Hellboy films, was offered a chance to do a cameo but was unable to due to scheduling conflicts. A teaser at the end of the film suggests the discovery in a tank of a gill-man, possibly Abe Sapien for a potential sequel.

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Trivia: Not quite clear perhaps to Hellboy fans or even to Arthurian legend scholars who watch this film, but Vivienne Nimue / the Blood Queen (played by Milla Jovovich) is meant to be the Lady of the Lake.

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Trivia: Sabretooth/Victor Creed was originally mean to be part of Logan, and Liev Schreiber had expressed interest in returning the role. X-24's appearance is meant to remind the viewer of how Sabretooth appeared in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

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Trivia: In one scene dangling from the car keys in the ignition is a Jason hockey mask - iconic for another superhuman maniac who's virtually unstoppable.

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Trivia: Commodore Paris may be a reference to Star Trek: Voyager's Helmsman Tom Paris, whose father is then-Admiral.

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