End of Days - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[tom]

Jericho Cane's handgun is Glock 34 since this movie was filmed in 1998 and released in 1999, the Glock 34 was a brand new handgun at the time and is what is considered a "Hero Gun", a gun released exclusively for a film to advertise it.

[tom]

Rod Steiger (who plays father Kovak) is of Austrian & German descent, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian immigrant to the US. Udo Kier was born in Germany during WW2, and Rod Steiger fought in the south Pacific during that same conflict.

[addison]

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

[toni]

The role of Christine York was initially going to be played by Kate Winslet, but she turned it down.

[jamie]

Sam Raimi was offered the director's chair on this film, but he declined in order to make For Love of the Game (1999).

[ethel]

This is the first non-Terminator film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a character who dies, making this the first human character he plays that ends up dying.

[scarlett]

After Jericho runs out of the church with Christine, the alleyway they enter is the same as that used in the TV series, Angel (1999) which is supposed to take place in the same year, 1999.

[toni]

Gabriel Byrne plays both good and evil in the same year, Satan in this film and a Catholic priest in Stigmata (1999).

[tom]

Sven-Ole Thorsen: Arnold Schwarzenegger's friend and frequent collaborator appears as one of the thugs who breaks into Jericho's apartment.

[tom]

Guillermo del Toro was offered the chance to direct, but turned it down.

[phyllis]

There are three references to Arnold Schwarzenegger in this film: Before Satan possesses the man (Gabriel Byrne), he is shown in the same blurry way as the Predator (1987).After the man (Gabriel Byrne) leaves the restaurant in his newly possessed body he leaves, blows up the restaurant and casually walks out of the flames in the style of the T1000 walking out of flames in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). He does the same thing when he appears in Christine's home.The scenes wherein the man punches through the head priest's (Udo Kier) head (no pun intended) and even more to the point, rips the heart out of the subway conductor's chest are both reminiscent of The Terminator (1984) punching through the punker's chest and tearing out his heart.

[beth]

Jericho's handgun is a Glock 34 9mm and twin Glock 26 9mm's in his sleeves. Later he is using a Glock 17 9mm. Bobby carries a very rare nickel plated HK P7M13 9mm throughout the film. Jericho also uses an HK MP5SD3 9MM submachine gun with a modified M203 Grenade Launcher attached. The weapon and his ammunition is slung over his torso and attached using a Chalker Harness.

[lena]

The picture on the scroll that the cardinal consults in the beginning (the picture of the moon with the white blurred line above it) is titled "Finis Dierum", which is Latin for "End of Days".

[norma]

Udo Kier claimed in an interview that he was considered for the role of Satan in the film but the producers didn't want the hero and villain to both have German/Austrian accents, and he was eventually cast in a secondary role.

[veronica]

An alternate ending was filmed in which Jericho resurrects after impaling himself on the sword of the statue and then leaves the church with Christine. Test audiences preferred the ending where Jericho dies. Even though the "resurrection" ending was never released, it was used in a novelization of the movie.

[bernard]

There is a scene which depicts the dropping of a cigarette into a flammable liquid, which the camera follows as it burns. This scene is similar to a scene in The Usual Suspects (1995), also featuring Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Pollak.

[bernard]

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" .

[carl]

Peter Hyams: [Spota] The name of the bar on the matchbook is Spota's. The name Spota appears as a character name in several other of Hyams' movies. Further, the address is 74 Clinton Street. Bill Clinton was president of the United States Of America (USA) at the time of this film's release. Coincidentally, Clark Kent (who is secretly Superman) also lives on Clinton Street, at #344, in most of his comic book appearances throughout the 1970's. This fact has as much bearing on the understanding of this movie as does the fact that Bill Clinton was in office in 1998.

[jamie]

There are several ads in the background in different scenes that read "NY2K are you ready?". Y2K was shorthand for "Year 2000" and there was a widespread fear that computer operating systems would crash because only the last two digits of the year were used to indicate dates, and it was feared computers would read the "00" as 1900 causing mayhem. There were even email suggestions going around that in the year 1999 people should change the year of their VCR's to 1976 because the days of the week (starting March 1) would be the same for both years. The fear of a Y2K meltdown was exaggerated, as timely programming fixes were able to prevent a major catastrophe.