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BloodRayne
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- #001
According to screenwriter Guinevere Turner, while she was writing the first draft of the script she received an angry phone call from director Uwe Boll, who swore at her and demanded that she hand in the draft. About a week later, after she sent in the rough first draft, she was shocked to learn that production would begin immediately with that draft. (Although traditionally a first draft is always a "rough" draft that is developed in later drafts.) She was later told by Boll that the actors and actresses rewrote most of her script during shooting and that the finished film bore little resemblance to her screenplay.
- #002
The topless prostitutes in the scene with Leonid are real Romanian prostitutes. At the Stockholm International Film Festival, director Uwe Boll said that hiring prostitutes was cheaper than hiring actresses.
- #003
In a 2007 interview with Time Magazine, when asked why an actor of his caliber and fame accepted a role in this film, Sir Ben Kingsley replied: "To be honest, I've always wanted to play a vampire with fangs and a long black cape. Let's just say my motivation for doing it was a little immature."
- #004
Despite extremely poor box office returns in the United States, the film opened in the top 10 in several foreign cinemas, including Russia (number three) and the United Arab Emirates (number one).
- #005
Casting Meat Loaf as Leonid was Kristanna Loken's idea.
- #006
Laura Bailey, the voice actress for BloodRayne in the video games, hated this film.
- #007
At around the 4th minute, a member of the audience is wearing a modern wristwatch.
- #008
Kristanna Loken did not return for the sequels and was replaced by Natassia Malthe.
- #009
The film was initially planned to open in 2,500 theaters. That number dropped to 1,600 and fell even further after prints were sent to theaters that did not have a license for the film.
- #010
This is Michelle Rodriguez's second appearance in a film adapted from a video game. The first was Resident Evil (2002).
- #011
Matthew Davis would go on to play the monster hunter in The Vampire Diaries (2009), The Originals (2013) and Legacies (2018).
- #012
This was Ingrid Bisu's debut.
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