The Last Witch Hunter - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[riley]

Plans to film this movie were announced in 2012 and initially Timur Bekmambetov was to direct this movie based on a script written by Cory Goodman. Bekmambetov was later replaced by Breck Eisner and Goodman's script was re-written by Dante Harper before Melisa Wallack was brought on work on the script.

[gabriel]

Vin Diesel had been a Dungeons and Dragons player for many years (he taught Dame Judi Dench to play on the set of The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)). The main character in this movie was partly based on his old Dungeons and Dragons character (Melkor) who was a Witch Hunter. He used one of the third party Dungeons and Dragons books to create the character class, as he loved being a Ranger type, but also like to use a few spells too.

[veronica]

Initially, Timur Bekmambetov was to direct.

[sylvia]

Filming was initially delayed due to the death of Paul Walker, which delayed shooting for Furious 7 (2015).

[jessie]

Kurt Angle is the third professional wrestler to appear in a movie alongside Vin Diesel. The other two are Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (The Fast and the Furious franchise) and Dave Batista (Riddick (2013) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe).

[javier]

From the cast in this movie, Vin Diesel worked in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sir Michael Caine worked on DC Comics' "The Dark Knight" trilogy and the Marvel movie Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), and Elijah Wood worked on Sin City (2005), which was an adaptation of an independent comic.

[kylie]

The witch's nest, and surrounding forest, was constructed on an indoor rain set, and was actually burned. It was made mainly from actual tree trunks and branches attached to welded steel frames.

[wallace]

Whenever Kaulder breathes on a window to reveal a symbol, that symbol is an Icelandic magical compass to help the bearer find their way through harsh weather without being injured. The name belonging to such magical symbol is Vegvísir, which is icelandic for wayfinder.

[ethel]

The fashion show scene was filmed in the Carnegie Museum on the University of Pittsburgh campus.

[wallace]

As a retirement gift, Caulder gives Dolan 36th a Waterman 402 sterling silver "snail" pattern eye-dropper fountain pen, made circa 1900.

[kim]

Hollywood movie debut of Julie Engelbrecht (The Witch Queen).

[jeffrey]

The last witch hunter drives an Aston Martin Rapide S, a four-door sports car.

[bernard]

In real life, Dolan is the surname of the Archbishop of New York City.

[carl]

The Last Witch Hunter 2 was announced prior to this movie's release, however, after poor box-office performance in the U.S. (the movie did turn a profit in the worldwide market), and disastrous reviews, the sequel is now in doubt.

[chris]

The alert on Chloe's phone says "Miranda's Feed :Gwarlockmaster18 retwitched your twitch: The Witch Hunter is genocidal...an immortal fascist...a scarecrow filled with hen-bane."

[wallace]

Towards the end of the movie, Chloe (Rose Leslie) convinces Kaulder (Vin Diesel) to not destroy the witches heart and to continue living. She justifies her request and then says "besides, you still owe me $50,000". The interchanges is a paraphrase of a conversation between Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in The Fast and The Furious where Dom says to Brian "besides, you still owe me a ten second car"