The Manhattan Project - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Manhattan Project or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Manhattan Project

[nora]

Early in the film Paul sees his mom reading a book she describes as "just another novel". Later in the film when the helicopter arrives over the house, the camera shows the book is by Frederick Forsyth, and the title is "The Fourth Protocol", a fiction book that involves a compact nuclear weapon. It was made into a film released in 1987, The Fourth Protocol (1987).

[claude]

Paul's science class nemesis Roland invented the Internet as his science fair project. This movie was made ten years before the Internet reached widespread public notoriety.

[willard]

When this movie was released to the pay TV market it was billed as The Manhattan Project: The Deadly Game.

[richard]

The main theme of the score is, fittingly, based on the Christmas carol "The First Noel".

[elmer]

When Dr. Mathewson has the atomic bomb in his hands, he's walking with it, his thumb is near the keys device, and he says, "I'm gonna blow you all to hell" (paraphrasing), a yellow light comes down between him and Paul. It looks like a laser but isn't. It's only there for a split second then it's gone.

[kylie]

AL Essey designed and constructed the tool box the bomb is carried around in.

[frances]

During the opening credits, a DeLorean automobile can be seen sitting in a driveway while trucks drive by. A DeLorean time machine powered by Plutonium is prominently featured in the Back To The Future franchise.

[francisco]

John Lithgow was also in The Day After (1983), in which he has to deal with the aftermath of a full global nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

[bessie]

During the scene where they are cutting the bomb flashtube wires, the time left on the timer when the wires are cut is 7:16:45, which was the day of the first atomic bomb test.

[janice]

The science projects and kids in the background of the science fair scenes were actual NYC middle school students with real science projects which were submitted to the NYC borough-wide science fair. These scenes were filmed over a three-day period at the Penta Hotel in NYC on 33rd St.

[sandra]

Several technicians are seen wearing shirts reading "Cayuga" on the back. Cayuga Productions was the name of Rod Serling's company that produced The Twilight Zone (1959). Ithaca, NY, is the home of Cornell University. "Cayuga" is the name of the lake on campus.