The Day After Tomorrow - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[alyssa]

Emmy Rossum accepted the role of Laura after Lindsay Lohan had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. This is the first time that Rossum has stepped in for a role originally meant for Lohan. This happened again with Poseidon (2006).

[darrell]

Nine special effects houses worked on this movie for over a year.

[gabriel]

South Park (1997) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone managed to get their hands on a copy of this movie's script during its pre-production. The two planned to secretly shoot the same movie with puppets instead of actors, word for word, and release it on the same day. The duo abandoned these plans after their lawyer convinced them that such a movie would never get released.

[veronica]

While speaking to fans in Denver, Roland Emmerich said he became interested in doing a movie involving weather while shooting The Patriot (2000). He said his whole day revolved around what the weather forecast was in order to shoot the outdoor scenes and that he really just wanted to control the weather himself. "The Coming Global Superstorm", a non-fiction novel by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, was used for reference. Emmerich concedes that while the events portrayed in this movie are indeed possible, the time frame over which they take place was implausibly short, and tailored for sheer entertainment value. In keeping with the movie's ecological theme, Emmerich paid $200,000 from his own pocket to make the production "carbon-neutral", the first of its kind in Hollywood, all carbon dioxide emitted by the production was off-set by the planting of trees, and investments in renewable energy.

[terry]

The archaic English word "overmorrow" means "the day after tomorrow", or the German equivalent "übermorgen". This is a term with which Roland Emmerich might have been familiar. The movie could have been called "Overmorrow" for a shorter title that means the same thing.

[kyle]

Kenneth Welsh played U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Hiroshima (1995).

[charlie]

The Red Cross put up several stands at theaters in the U.S. featuring pamphlets with information on what to do to keep safe during tornados, floods, and blizzards for concerned people who had just viewed the movie.

[ivan]

The highest grossing movie to be made in Canada.

[frances]

While filming the tsunami scene, Jake Gyllenhaal needed to use the restroom very badly, so he went in the water tank.

[ella]

Towards the end of the movie, when the President is giving his "thanking the third-world countries" speech, the channel he is giving the speech on is The Weather Channel.

[francisco]

Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita appeared in Come See the Paradise (1990).

[toni]

Sam attends Woodmont Public School in Arlington, Virginia. The name is real, but the building is empty, used primarily for field space, voting, and community meetings.

[ethel]

In 2008, Yahoo! Movies listed this movie as one of the Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies.

[veronica]

In the tornado sequence, the janitor is listening to a soccer match in his headphones. The match he is listening to is Argentina Vs. Peru and the guy commenting the match is Victor Hugo Morales, a famous Uruguayan commentator of soccer matches.

[miriam]

The Manchester United player who is seen scoring is Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy. It was a friendly game against Boca Juniors of Argentina, which took place on August 10, 2002, and whose final score was Manchester United - 2, Boca Juniors - 0.

[leo]

In the first scene in the movie, a portion of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica breaks off. At the ensuing climate conference, Dr. Hall tells the Vice President of the United States that the last piece of ice-shelf to break off was the "size of Rhode Island". This is based on a factual occurrence between 2002 and 2003, when an area of the Larsen B Ice Shelf approximately the size of Rhode Island progressively collapsed.

[tammy]

The movie had a subplot involving Rick Hoffman that was mostly cut out of the movie, where Hoffman and his two friends were unethical businessmen who were working on an illegal securities trading plan with a Japanese colleague. The Japanese man is still shown being struck and killed by mega-hail falling during the ice storm siege, but footage of him talking to Hoffman's character about how they needed to steal money to avoid going to prison was edited out. This explains why Hoffman and his friends are introduced during the massive wave destruction in New York City and appear to be unlikable characters before they're demolished by the water (and their bus is later crushed by the freighter ship), since they had unused footage establishing them as bad guys.

[frances]

Promoted with Countdown-to-Doomsday style clocks in theaters.

[terry]

The breath appearing out of the actors' and actresses' mouths in the cold scenes was all put in afterwards with CGI. This proved to be a more practical way of doing it, rather than freezing the set.