Producer Thom Mount (who is part owner of the real Durham Bulls) hired Pete Bock, a former semi-pro baseball player, as a consultant on the film. Bock recruited more than a dozen minor-league players, ran a tryout camp to recruit an additional 40 to 50 players from lesser ranks, hired several minor-league umpires and conducted two-a-day workouts and practice games with Tim Robbins pitching and Kevin Costner catching. Bock made sure the actors looked and acted like ballplayers and that the real players acted convincingly in front of the cameras. He said, "the director would say, 'This is the shot we want. What we need is the left fielder throwing a one-hopper to the plate. Then we need a good collision at the plate.' I would select the players I know could do the job, and then we would go out and get it done".
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Screenwriter Joss Whedon maintains that this movie should be considered stand-alone, and that any of the events, characters, or character traits in this movie should not be referred to as canon for the television series of the same name.
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The original script by Joss Whedon was heavily re-written to make this movie "lighter". In the original script, Buffy burns down the school gym in which the dance is being held, in an effort to destroy the vampires. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), this fact is referred to several times, as the series is seen as a spin-off of the original, unproduced screenplay, rather than this movie.
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Screenwriter Joss Whedon was so frustrated by how much of his vision was being mishandled, and how much of it was being re-written, that he eventually left the set during production and never came back.
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On March 4, 2019, the day that Luke Perry died, Joss Whedon tweeted, "The first time I met Luke Perry we talked about what kind of movie we wanted 'Buffy' to be. I asked if he'd ever seen 'Near Dark' and he gave me a look of HOW DARE YOU SIR and I knew we'd get along. Funny, committed, and always gracious. He shouldn't be gone."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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