FYI:
Brendan's
fingernails are neon green in the scene where he interrogates Andrew
Kasdan. I don't know why.
Many people thought
that the scene with Clay Potts' death (the Vertebrate) was filmed with a
blue screen. It was much simpler than that.
The original title
was going to be Stars Wars, obviously a rip from star wars.
The original script
called for a female news reporter, who was not the murderer and ended up
falling in love with Brendan. the only killer would be the psycho
actor Kai played by Adam. Also, many of the leads the detectives
followed would have been given to them by a homeless kid who hung out in
the neighborhood and who eventually gets adopted by Jarred. The
original ending was going to be Jarred and his new song, and Brendan and
his new wife all attending "The Hollywood Knife" the film that
was being made in the movie.
Another idea for
this movie started with Brendan showing up at the murderer's house and
getting shot in the back, but before he died, would have his life (and
primarily this case) flash before his eyes.
An idea for Adam'
character was that he was actually a ninja with a shoe fetish, which
ultimately lead to his demise. Adam's hair also inspired a story
where he was actually a werewolf.
Rob Heer was
originally going to play the news reporter, but dropped out of the
group. Jim was then hired and Rob wanted back in, We
couldn't give him a big part, but in the movie, Rob's house is where
Brendan lives.
The continuity
(making sure people wore the same clothes for the same days in the
story) was extremely difficult since we had to film out of order because
everyone's schedule's were so different and no one could ever film many
scenes the same time as other people. For instance in the station
house before Jarred goes to the park and dies he talks to Ryan.
The shot of Jarred and the shot of Ryan were filmed two weeks apart.
There was going to
be a scene where Jim goes to the police station to rat Brendan out and
Jarred recalls a bunch of events very similarly to the scene in Mission
Impossible where Ethan Hunt sees his team members get killed by
Phelps. We ran out of time though, filming the last scene two days
before it was due.
Yes, I know that
the teaser sucks in comparison to the trailer. That is the whole
point of the teaser, to suck, to make the expectations really low.
They were just shown in the wrong order.