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Trivia: Despite the production troubles on this film, series star Wesley Snipes has long lobbied to get a fourth film made to redeem the series after this third film was met with a generally lukewarm reception from fans. Though he tried for a number of years, the rights to the character eventually reverted back to Marvel, whom have hinted at a potential reboot as opposed to a fourth film.

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Trivia: On the DVD/Blu-Ray, there's an alternate ending featuring a werewolf. In the scene, director David S. Goyer appears in a cameo as the casino-goer that Hannibal King punches and throws onto a table.

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Trivia: "Blade II" is the only film Guillermo del Toro has directed where he was not a credited writer. (Though he did do some uncredited touch-up work, mainly on the dialogue).

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Trivia: The film came about in-part due to the fact Wesley Snipes wanted to star in a Marvel superhero movie, but his dream project - "Black Panther" - got stuck in development Hell. Eventually, Snipes became intrigued by the Blade character, and helped get the film made. A "Black Panther" film was eventually made (without Snipes), and released exactly twenty years after "Blade" hit screens.

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Trivia: The visual effects in the subway scene were cutting edge at the time, and the visual effects artist working on the sequence had to match the digitally-created trains to the film frame-by-frame due to the camera movement and jitter. You can briefly see people inside of the trains as they pass by, which were just still images of people standing, since they went by so quick you could barely see them. One final amusing note about the scene: In the making of, the digital effects artist mentions that one day, he hoped the software would exist so that motion and camera movement could be digitally tracked so digital elements wouldn't need to be matched in frame-by-frame. This idea (motion tracking) is now - 20 years later - such a common effect technique that it's available in most animation software (including many free and/or cheap programs) as a very basic feature.

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Trivia: In the original comics, Blade was far less stoic and far more talkitive and colorful. This film's popularity ended up influencing future comic appearances of the character, and to this day, most "Blade" comics still strongly resemble the film, at least in terms of aesthetics and tone.

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The Carnivorous Carnival: Part One - S2-E9

Trivia: At one point, Esme asks Olaf why Madame Lulu is working at a carnival, and suggests she could "have a TV show in the city" if she were a real fortune teller. Olaf then casually mentions that he tried that for "nine years," but it didn't work out for him. This is a very subtle nod to the series "How I Met Your Mother," which was set in New York City and ran for nine seasons. Neil Patrick Harris, whom plays Olaf, was one of the co-stars of "HIMYM" from 2005-2014.

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Trivia: A prior film adaptation of the book series was released in 2004. A sequel was in development for quite some time, and at one point, it was going to be a stop-motion animated follow-up to combat the fact the child actors grew up and looked physically older. It was eventually decided that rather than doing a sequel to the first film, the franchise would be rebooted into a Netflix series, so that each book could get a proper full adaptation over several episodes; as opposed to the film, which combined multiple books into a single narrative.

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Trivia: Not only is the number "13" (a number associated with bad luck) quite important to the series, but it also keeps popping up in the overall franchise seemingly by coincidence. Ex. There were 13 books in the novel series, this television adaptation was released on Friday the 13th, January 2017, and it was released 13 years after the prior film adaptation.

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Trivia: Major spoilers for both the books and series. The true meaning of the acronym "V.F.D." is actually openly stated by narrator Lemony Snicket early in season one, during a brief cutaway which he states that neither the regular fire department nor the volunteer fire department could figure out the source of the Baudelaire fire. Late in the books, it is revealed that "V.F.D." officially stands for "volunteer fire department."

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The Hostile Hospital: Part Two - S2-E8

Trivia: Right before Klaus is to perform surgery on Violet, a diagram is pulled down showing an anatomical view of a head, including the brain. If you look closely at the portions of the face that are visible, the head is actually Barry Sonnenfeld - whom produced and co-directed this series, in addition to co-producing the prior 2004 film adaptation.

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Trivia: Not a mistake, but a rather interesting coincidence: The series main composer is James Newton Howard, whom was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for his musical work in the film "The Village." Somewhat coincidentally, another nominee that year was Thomas Newman. And the film Newman was nominated for? The prior 2004 film adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

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Trivia: Most of the episodes are written by franchise creator Daniel Handler, whom wrote all 13 of the original novels under the pen-name "Lemony Snicket." Handler also appears in a cameo in Season One as a fish-merchant, who quotes the song novelty comedy song "Fish Heads." ("Fish heads! Fish heads! Rolly-polly fish heads!").

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Trivia: The series stars Neil Patrick Harris, with Cobie Smulders appearing in a recurring guest-role. The two had previously co-starred together in the long-running sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." In addition, Smulders and Will Arnet play a couple in this series, and coincidentally respectively voiced DC superheros Wonder Woman and Batman in the "Lego Movie" film series. Additionally, Nathan Fillion has a guest-spot in several season two episodes. Fillion co-starred with Harris in the web-series "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog."

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Trivia: The "teeth pulling" trap is based on a trap from an early draft of "Saw IV." The lead character in the early draft (Detective Mathews from "Saw II", later replaced by Officer Rigg in the final draft) was forced to pull out all four wisdom teeth to find the code for a doorway. (As opposed to the two teeth Bobby must extract in this film.).

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Trivia: Spoilers. At one point, the two pig masks that assist Gordon were supposed to be Brad and Ryan from the opening public trap. This was related to the original ending, in which it is revealed that a number of the survivor's group members have been assisting John and Gordon with their work, behind the back of Hoffman. However, with this idea having been dropped, the identity of the two pig masks has now been left up to the imagination of the viewer. After the release of Jigsaw in 2017, it is revealed that John has another apprentice, Logan. Logan is of similar build to one of the pigmen and is quite possibly one of them.

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Trivia: The filmmakers had several times in the past tried to convince Cary Elwes to reprise his role as Dr. Gordon from the original film for previous entries. Elwes was finally persuaded when he realized this would be the final film, and that his character's return would be important to the story in the end.

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Trivia: The scene involving the upturned lawnmowers is loosely based on a trap from an early draft of "Saw IV", in which a character is ground up by a giant lawnmower-like device described as a "human-blender."

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Trivia: The "Horsepower Trap" (the car trap involving Even and his friends) was an idea that writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have tried to get into several "Saw" films before, only to be told by the producers that it was too gruesome and cruel. Knowing this was the intended final film, the producers finally allowed them to include the scene.

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Trivia: The man who Chev rubs against, when hearing that friction can briefly recharge his heart, is the lead singer for the band Linkin Park, who also had a cameo in the first film.

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