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Sunday 30 September 2018

FILM 1838: END OF DAYS



FILM 1838: END OF DAYS

TRIVIA: Arnold Schwarzenegger's first film since Batman & Robin (1997). The reason for the gap was because of his heart surgery after playing Mr Freeze; the studios were anxious about whether or not they could insure him, and despite attempts to convince them he was in perfect health, he couldn't get any work until End of Days (1999). Even then, he was amazed when insurance people and executives from Universal came to the set just to watch him, to see if he was still up to the action scenes. They asked Schwarzenegger if he enjoyed this kind of punishment, but he said he was used to it. After the first week of shooting, the insurance guys backed off and not long after, the film offers started rolling in again.

Was the last movie to be pressed in the laserdisc format in the United States.

Father Kovak says to Jericho Cane that "Satan's greatest trick was convincing man he didn't exist". This quote from the French poet Charles Baudelaire also appears in The Usual Suspects (1995), also featuring Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Pollak.

The role of Jericho Cane was originally written for Tom Cruise, but he instead chose to work on Magnolia (1999).

Arnold Schwarzenegger's youngest daughter visited the set the day Arnold was tied to a cross and lifted over the alley. A photo of the visit exists in Schwarzenegger's biography "Total Recall" .


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