Poseidon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[ava]

Wolfgang Petersen's last Hollywood film as a director (as of March 2017).

[richard]

While Peterson was to produce the film only, Steven Spielberg was to direct the film, but he was turned down in order to direct both War of the Worlds (2005) and Munich (2005) instead.

[toni]

The original cut of the film was 123 minutes long, nearly 25 minutes more than the theatrical release. About twenty minutes of the deleted scenes are set before the wave hits the ship. These scenes include Maggie and Connor visiting the bridge, where the Captain and Gloria reveal their affair, a scene where we get more information on the Valentin/Elena situation, and one scene where Valentin watches Gloria practice before her evening performance. Most of Josh Lucas's character's background was removed, just like the conflict that was meant to be taking place between him and Maggie throughout their escape. These drastic changes probably were made after test screenings, but Wolfgang Petersen had final cut at that time. Petersen himself later defended the changes in interviews, because they made the movie faster and the disaster happens earlier. Petersen never expressed any intention of releasing the original cut or creating an Extended Version for Blu-ray, therefore it is reasonable to assume, that this shorter theatrical version, is in fact, his preferred Director's Cut.

[kyle]

Many members of the cast and crew came down with minor infections due to being in dirty water for so many hours a day.

[nora]

Emmy Rossum's shoes stay on during the whole film, including swimming underwater, but she loses them at the end, when she jumps into the sea.

[addison]

Sheila Allen, who is one of the executive producers on this film, was the widow of Irwin Allen, producer and director of The Poseidon Adventure (1972). She also had a bit part in that film.

[linda]

Body Count: 214

[kristina]

One set of similarities between the Poseidon and the original Poseidon Adventure has to do with the number of people trying to reach safety, the number who are killed, and their manner of death. Both movies had ten people trying to reach safety, with six making it. Stewards Acres (Roddy McDowell) in the Poseidon Adventure and Valentine (Freddy Rodriguez) in Poseidon are both killed falling down shafts. Linda Rogo (Stella Stevens) in the Poseidon Adventure and Lucky Larry (Kevin Dillon) in Poseidon are both killed in falls when the ship shifts. Belle Rosen (Shelly Winters) in the Poseidon Adventure and Elena Morales (Mia Maestro) both die after the swim through the passageway, Belle by a heart attack and Elena by drowning caused by a head injury. And finally, both leaders of the groups sacrificed their lives to save the other; Rev. Scott (Gene Hackman) in the Poseidon Adventure by falling to his death after shutting off the steam that was blocking the escape, and Robert Ramsey (Kurt Russell) in Poseidon who drowned after reversing the thrusters.

[liam]

There was only one day of exterior filming done on the entire shoot. It was to get footage of Josh Lucas jogging, that was eventually composited into the opening CG shot of the ship.

[sophie]

The movie is set on New Year's Eve, and singer Fergie is doing a rendition of "Auld Lang Syne". Fergie is a member of the popular group "The Black Eyed Peas". Black-eyed peas are most commonly associated with, and eaten for good luck on, New Year's Eve.

[duane]

Guinness World Records considered the ship in this movie as the most detailed CG-design in their 2010 edition.

[willard]

Initially, very early on in development, Wolfgang Petersen was to produce the film only, but with the success of Troy (2004), he was attached as director.

[jim]

The M.S. Poseidon was originally supposed to have two funnels.

[tom]

The "upside-down" set was built on top of a large water tank in the sound stage so that it can be filled with water and drained in a matter of a few hours.

[victoria]

Only fifteen minutes into the movie, the ship is capsized by a rogue wave.

[ruby]

The R.M.S. Queen Mary 2 was the design inspiration for the Poseidon, this ship's predecessor R.M.S Queen Mary played the part of Poseidon in the original Poseidon Adventure (1972).

[cassandra]

In the scene when Robert (Kurt Russell) rescues Conor James (Jimmy Bennett), he says that he is former firefighter. Kurt portrayed a firefighter in Backdraft (1991).

[maureen]

Richard Dreyfuss has stated in numerous interviews that he did the film only for the money. In 2017, he Tweeted that he used the money to get his son Ben into college.

[victoria]

Paul Gallaco the author of the book "The Poseidon Adventure" on which The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and this film is based got the idea for the story after being hit by a rogue wave whilst he was a passenger on R.M.S Queen Mary in the 1930's. The Poseidon Adventure (1970) used R.M.S Queen Mary for exterior shots and the exterior of Poseidon in this movie used the modern R.M.S Queen Mary II as inspiration.