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* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: In the early days of the popular Internet. Suffice to say the proliferation of powerful computers, Internet capabilities and personal smartphones tied to social media would make a very different event.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Producer [[Steven Spielberg]] expressed interest in directing early on. [[Word of God]] in the DVD features is that he wanted to adapt the 1930's novel ''[[When Worlds Collide (novel)|When Worlds Collide]]'', but [[Science Marches On]] had marched too far.
** The shooting script was 188 pages, and in filmmaking, the rule is that each page represents one minute of screen time. The finished film is two hours. Yes, a ''full third of the film'' ended up on the cutting room floor, mostly character scenes such as Leo visiting the White House and the ''Messiah'' crew drinking vodka once they accept their fates. Quite a few scenes are evidenced in the trailers.
** The script also called for appearances from real-world personalities such as [[Bill Maher]] and [[David Letterman]], showing more of how the world would react to an impending comet impact.
* Filming the highway scene was a rather brilliantly handled puzzle. Each truck you see in the scene actually held bathrooms or a food stand. A radio transmitter was brought in and all the cars were told to tune into a specific station for direction - that's how everyone was coordinated.
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