The Dig/Trivia


 * Actor Allusion: Boston Low: "Have you seen this boy?" Delivered absolutely perfectly by Robert Patrick, who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2.
 * Development Hell: The game that got released was actually the third version of The Dig that LucasArts had worked on. The earlier two iterations of the project never got finished due to assorted difficulties in development. All told, about five years elapsed from the initial game idea pitch by Steven Spielberg to the release of the final Dig. Not unusual for today's market, but a lot at the time.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Low is Robert Patrick, and Dr. Brink is Steve Blum.
 * Recycled Set: Several of the cave locations reuse locations from the caves you wander in the darkness through in Loom down to the last ledge and stalagmite, just with a graphical update and in a different order.
 * What Could Have Been: Spielberg originally imagined the story for live action television, then as a film he would have made with George Lucas, but it would have been far too difficult and expensive to portray the story via live action and CGI so he proposed it as a video game. The idea of making it into a film has never been officially shot down, but it hasn't gone forward at all either.