Blood Work - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[nina]

When Graciella Rivers (Wanda De Jesus) and Terry McCaleb (Clint Eastwood) are walking and talking on the dock, when she and Raymond (Mason Lucero) come for dinner, the ship behind them is The Queen Mary, a luxury liner.

[marc]

Exists in the same universe as Bosch (2014).

[scarlett]

A behind-the-scenes making-of promotional documentary for this movie was made for television. Titled Making 'Blood Work' (2002), it is available on the DVD. However, the short documentary reveals by use of scene clips the whodunit identity of this movie's serial killer.

[bernice]

Eastwood's first collaboration on a movie with Anjelica Huston as director and co-star. He had portrayed her father John Huston in White Hunter Black Heart (1990).

[lynn]

This movie and source novel's "Blood Work" title is a medical term which, in simple terms, the meaning of which can be defined as being a "blood test".

[bernard]

Clint Eastwood bought the movie rights to Michael Connelly's "Blood Work" novel when it was in book (galley) form.

[clayton]

In the scenes where the L.A.P.D. and Sheriff's office are contesting jurisdiction over a body, there is a police car with the registration plate "999007", a possible reference to the British emergency services phone number (999) and James Bond's designation 007.

[darrell]

The code number used by "The Code Killer" was 903 472 568.

[aaron]

Playing a reporter in this movie is Dina Eastwood, who was Clint Eastwood's wife from 1996-2014, and in real life, has had a career as a journalist, being the former news anchor for KSBW in Salinas, California.

[ken]

First of two movies with a screenplay written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Clint Eastwood. The second was Mystic River (2003).

[jessie]

Jeff Daniels claimed that he first met Clint Eastwood on a golf course around the time Dumb and Dumber (1994) was released, and he was pleasantly surprised when Eastwood told him he enjoyed the movie.

[sylvia]

As the credits begin to roll, the "jazzy" end music starts with the first few notes of the theme from You Only Live Twice (1967), which can be heard mixed in again at intervals throughout the end credits.

[willard]

In the first season of Supergirl (2015), Glenn Morshower (Captain) played General Sam Lane, the no-nonsense father of famous comic book character Lois Lane. He was replaced by Dylan Walsh (Detective John Waller) when the character was carried over to the spin-off Superman and Lois (2020).

[chris]

Portraying the doctor of Terry McCaleb (Clint Eastwood) was Anjelica Huston. Anjelica's father was director John Huston, whom Eastwood once made a movie about John's making of the movie The African Queen (1951). The movie was called White Hunter Black Heart (1990), and Eastwood actually played John Huston. In the documentary Making 'Blood Work' (2002), Anjelica talks of how she bore witness to her father's aneurism operation. She said that the fact that she plays Eastwood's cardiologist in this movie, and that Eastwood had once played her father, was "strangely convergent".

[kenzi]

The project was attractive to Clint Eastwood as it took a new spin on his cop character persona which had been developed in movies since the 1970s. Due to his older mature age, the character has heart problems. This was an acting challenge for Eastwood, as he has said, because it gave more obstacles to what he would do as a screen detective, compared to when he was in his thirties or forties.

[tom]

When McCaleb is checking out the ATM crime scene, a bearded man is behind him who then uses the ATM. McCaleb later realizes that man is the serial killer for whom he's looking. Yet while McCaleb and all of the other law enforcement personnel have demonstrated that they know that ATMs have video cameras, no one thinks to check that ATM's video for the killer's face long before the last two killings, the kidnapping, and the final shoot-out take place.

[ronnie]

One of many collaborations of production designer Henry Bumstead and producer and director Clint Eastwood.

[lonnie]

Michael Connelly's "Blood Work" novel won the Macavity Award and Anthony Award for Best Novel of 1998. The book also won France's Mystery Novel Grand Prix Award.

[ruby]

The nickname of Terrell McCaleb (Clint Eastwood) was "Terry".