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* [[Throw It In]]: Brad Pitt broke his arm filming the scene he chases John Doe. Although [[Irony|the script required a (probably minor) injury]], the cast and such were written into the film.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the screenplay with William Hurt as Somerset in mind. [[Denzel Washington]], [[Kevin Costner]], [[Sylvester Stallone]] and [[Nicolas Cage]] were all considered to play David Mills (Washington refused the role, finding the content of the screenplay too disturbing, and specifically expressed regret at not accepting the role after attending a screening). [[R. Lee Ermey]] originally auditioned for the part of John Doe and R.E.M.'s frontman Michael Stipe was also considered for the role.
** An alternate ending revealed that {{spoiler|John Doe did not murder Mills' wife, only substituting a lookalike. Mills then has no justification for killing an unarmed man, and will spend the rest of his life in jail. Somerset decides not to retire, and instead gives his country house to Mills' wife and her unborn baby}}. Another alternate ending features [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows|a dramatic shootout in a burning, dilapidated church]] {{spoiler|in which Mills dies}}, and yet ''another'' had {{spoiler|''Somerset'' killing John Doe in order to save Mills from becoming "Wrath." In the finished film, the foreshadowing that Somerset will have to actually shoot his gun (or use his knife) is kept, but nothing comes out of it with the ending changed.}}
** When the movie was first pitched to execs, they had the screenwriter revise the film so it would be more marketable (happier ending, not as bleak etc.). But when they sent the script to David Fincher, they accidentally sent him the original script instead of the revised one. Before they could correct their mistake, David Fincher refused to make this film if the revised script was used.
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