Armageddon - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[norma]

Liv Tyler was Will Patton's daughter in Inventing the Abbotts (1997), and Bruce Willis' daughter in this movie.

[russell]

Michael Clarke Duncan and Ben Affleck appeared in Daredevil (2003).

[cameron]

With the exceptions of the opening narration and the home movie credits scenes, Billy Bob Thornton appears in the first and last scenes, as well as delivering the fourth and final lines of the film.

[lynn]

This movie features scenes showing the now destroyed World Trade Center towers. The opening medorite shower strikes the towers muliple times leaving gaping holes in them and they don't collapse, but on 9/11 two planes cause them collapse.

[alyssa]

The famous rock in the logo of Touchstone Pictures (one of the production companies) has the same shape as the asteroid that hits the Earth in the first scene, causing global destruction sixty-five million years ago.

[bernice]

In the shot after A.J. (Ben Affleck) jumps the Armadillo over the canyon, and lands safely, you can see grass under the front wheels as Lev (Peter Stormare) walks back to the vehicle.

[kristen]

Michael Bay says on the commentary that this was one of perhaps two or so films a year that shot over a million feet of Kodak film. He says that in these cases, the production company is sent a gift of six bottles of Korbel (Champagne) at around ten dollars per bottle. This may be down to limits on the value of "business gifts" that can be freely given.