The Fan - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[edgar]

Former San Francisco Giant Mike Sadek served as a body double for Robert De Niro in scenes where he was throwing a baseball.

[jesse]

When this movie was reviewed in Radio Times, as part of This Week's Top 10 Satellite Films Reviews By Adrian Turner, he wrote, "Director Tony Scott's film explores themes of baseball and stalking, but has little to say about either."

[caroline]

2016 Bollywood movie "Fan" starring Shah Rukh Khan is loosely based on this movie.

[steve]

Major League baseball player Mike Piazza was turned down for a role in this movie.

[kenzi]

The remote Beach House (supposedly) owned by Bobby (Snipes) is not in the Bay Area, but is in a remote & private cove in Malibu. The Owners did not want to be "put out" for the duration of shooting all the scenes there, so Production put them up in the Beverly Hills Hotel... AND aside from paying very hefty temporary rental fee (License Agreement), the production hired Licensed Contractors to completely remodel the house inside & out, rather than bring in temporary "Set Pieces" that would be removed after filming wrapped... basically a multi-hundred thousand dollar make-over (will all stringent City of Malibu Building Permits & Coastal Commision Approval).

[liam]

Jack Nicholson turned down the role of Gil Renard.

[dustin]

Benicio Del Toro and Ellen Barkin appeared in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

[norma]

Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin starred in This Boy's Life (1993), which also featured Leonardo DiCaprio. John Leguizamo also appeared with DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet (1996).

[steve]

Brad Pitt turned down the role of Bobby Rayburn, wishing rather to play the role of Gil Renard.

[tammy]

Al Pacino was considered for the role of Gil Renard.

[cameron]

When Tony Scott came aboard this film, he was already signed on to direct Enemy of the State (1998), so he decided to use it as a guinea pig to experiment with the new visual styles and ideas that he wanted to bring to his future film.

[ivan]

Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin played husband and wife in the move Hand Of Stone, a movie about Roberto Duran

[harry]

Frank Darabont contributed an uncredited draft of the script.

[cameron]

In the novel, there's a scene where Bobby Rayburn is shooting a television commercial for Motrin. After delivering his line, the Director says, "De Niro couldn't have done it any better."

[edgar]

Cal Ripken, Jr. was Wesley Snipes personal batting instructor during filming.

[richard]

This was Wesley Snipes' second role as a baseball player. He also played Willie Mays Hayes in Major League (1989).

[caroline]

The knife that Gil gives to Bobby Rayburn's son to pose with is a Gerber EZ-Out.

[riley]

In the novel, on which the movie was based, Bobby Rayburn played for the Red Sox, and the story was set primarily in and around Boston.

[bernard]

The San Francisco Giants' number 11 is retired (Carl Hubbell). But, recently Omar Visquel of the Chicago White Sox was given a retired number of (ironically) 11, which was worn by shortstop Luis Aparicio.