Virtuosity - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[melinda]

In this movie, Denzel Washington's character is charged with hunting down Russell Crowell character. In American Gangster (2008), Crowe is charged with hunting down Washington.

[eli]

The 'Star Trek' episode shown briefly is Star Trek: The Original Series: The Enemy Within (1966), an episode about Captain Kirk being split into good and evil sides by the transporter.

[violet]

The first murders committed by SID 6.7, where insults against the victims - calling them "pigs" - are smeared on the walls, are a reference to the infamous killing of Sharon Tate and her friends, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steve Parent, by members of the Charles Manson Family.

[kristina]

The film takes place in 1999.

[kristina]

Wiliam Forsthye played a similar role in The Rock (1996) which the film is about a convict whom is released from prison to go on a mission.

[lena]

Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe would later go on to star in American Gangster (2007) together.

[lonnie]

Denzel Washington took a role in the film because his son asked him to do so.

[kim]

Action editor Billy Weber was brought in by Paramount to deliver a new cut of the film, after the initial cut was rejected. For his efforts, he is thanked in the film's closing credits.

[willard]

Amongst the names of serial killers shown in Sid 6.7's personality profile are David Koresh, Thomas McIlvane, Frederick Cowan, William Bonin, Harvey Glatman, Peter Kuten, William Bryan Cruse, Charles Whitmore, Aileen Carol Wournos, Peter Sutcliffe, Kenneth McDuff, Jesse James, Dr. Glennon Engleman, Harvey Carignan, Dr. Geza de Kaplany, Norman Selby, Juan Peron, Winnie Ruth Judd, Matthew Grimes, Augosto Pinoche, Carl Panzram, Abu Nidal, Ted Bundy, Wesley Allan Dodd, Roger Dale Stafford, Elizabeth Borden, Mark Essex, Billy the Kid, Lynette Fromme, Larry Eyler, Clem Henderson, David Hendricks, Coral Eugene Watts, William McDonald, Richard Trenton Chase, Sirhan Sirhan, Josef Mengele, Ed Kemper, Edward Leonski, John Collins, Julian Knight, John Haigh, Carlton Gary, Vaughn Greenwood, Nicolae Ceausescu, Randy Kraft, Miguel Rivera, Dean Allen Corli, William Suff, Werner Boost, Thierry Paulin, Richard Trenton Chase, David Burke, Donald Harvey, Vernon Butts, Bruno Hauptman, Ralph Jerome Selz, John Duffy, Carl Weiss, Gerald Eugene Stano, Benito Mussolini, Paul Calden, Richard Farley, Ian Brady, Joseph Harris, Hiro Hito, Lynwood C. Drake, Saddam Hussein, Gilles De Rais, Herman Mudgett, Donald Nielson, Robert R. Diaz, and Joe Ball.

[morris]

According to Kelly Lynch, she and Denzel Washington were supposed to kiss. However, Washington had the scene dropped because he felt an interracial love scene would hurt the film's box-office chances.

[cameron]

When SID 6.7 pulls up to Madison's house to kidnap her daughter, the song on the van's radio is "The Photograph Kills" by 'Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts', Russell Crowe's band back home in Australia.

[wallace]

Paramount Pictures considered casting Arnold Schwarzenegger as Parker Barnes, but his hefty price tag quickly put him out of contention.

[jim]

When SID 6.7 is first formed, he cuts off his own finger and licks the wound, exclaiming: "Mmmm. A Good Year!" Russell Crowe, who plays SID 6.7, later appeared in A Good Year (2006).

[maureen]

The music video of "The Photograph Kills" by Russell Crowe & 30 Odd Foot of Grunts was filmed on the set of the film between scenes, which Russell Crowe appears in the music video in costume and in character as Sid 6.7 and the music videos features inserts from the film itself. The song is featured in the scene which Sid 6.5 arrives at Madison's house to kidnap Karin.

[lena]

Kaley Cuoco's film debut.

[kenneth]

Michael Douglas was originally cast as Parker Barnes.