FILM · 2018 · USA
Rampage
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- #001
When Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) signs "It's me." to calm the gorilla, the gesture he makes is a nod to Dwayne Johnson's nickname "The Rock."
- #002
George was originally planned to be an ordinary gorilla, until the producers and creature designers decided to make him an albino gorilla, since this would make the damage inflicted on him more visible and help him stand out rather than being an ordinary "King Kong rip off."
- #003
The mutated rat seen at the beginning of the film is thought to probably be Larry from the Atari Lynx version of Rampage (1986). The character was a special addition that appeared only in that version of the game.
- #004
Both the gorilla George and Ralph (the wolf) share their names with their counterparts in the video game. The crocodile, called Lizzie in the game series, is never named in the film.
- #005
An original Rampage arcade cabinet can be seen in Claire Wyden's office.
- #006
At one point in the film, you can see George in the background taking a person out of a building and eating them. This was an option used in the video game to gain health for your character.
- #007
In an alternate scene, Alexandra Daddario plays a small female role as a scuba diving partner in a sequence featuring another giant squid-like monster. The entire sequence was cut and never made it into the original theatrical version. The scene was made available in the special features of the blu-ray release.
- #008
Davis Okoye mentions in the film that George is the only albino gorilla in existence. In reality, there was only one known albino gorilla. He was born in Spanish Guinea around 1964 and was brought to the Barcelona Zoo in 1966. The mayor of Barcelona named him "Blancanieves" (Snow White), but a year later, when he appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine, he received his final name, "Snowflake." During his time at the Barcelona zoo, Snowflake fathered twenty-two children, but only six survived to adulthood. None of his offspring were albino. He died at the Barcelona Zoo on 24 November 2003 at the age of 38.
- #009
George is the only animal played by an actor, Jason Liles. Ralph and Lizzie were created entirely with keyframe animation.
- #010
Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character (Agent Harvey Russell) uses the ivory-gripped, nickel-plated M1911A1 Colt carried by his character in the Supernatural television series.
- #011
At the beginning of the film, while Dr. Atkins is collecting samples, he takes only 3 of the boxes, and when the rodent creature chases him, it appears that 5 are left in the cabinet. Later in the film, Claire Wyden states that the 3 boxes he took survived re-entry because they were designed that way. The other 5 remaining boxes could still hit Earth.
- #012
The warplanes sent to attack the monsters in some Rampage games are A-10 Warthogs, which also appear in the film.
- #013
Before this ability is fully revealed, we see Ralph flying while Burke is searching for him. At first glance, Ralph may appear to be striking an odd pose as he leaps.
- #014
The monsters in the 'Rampage' video game series on which this film is generally based were mutated humans (who had turned into giant animals); here they are mutated animals. Genetic engineering causes their size to grow, their aggression to increase, and them to adopt some genetic traits from other species (such as certain regenerative abilities).
- #015
George is bipedal in the games but walks on his knuckles like a normal gorilla. Ralph is a giant werewolf in the games, so he naturally stomps around on his hind legs like a human. Because he is a mutated wolf in this film, he stands on all fours. Lizzie is quadrupedal like a normal crocodile, whereas in the games she walked on her hind legs. This change may have been made to keep Lizzie from parodying Godzilla as much as she did in the games.
- #016
Ralph is a wolf with bat ears, porcupine quills and flying squirrel membranes, while Lizzie is a crocodile with wild boar tusks, fish gills and lizard toes, as well as pangolin-like armor and a spiked tail club. George is the odd one out, since he is basically just an albino King Kong. Technically speaking, however, this trope applies to all three because of genetic editing, as they are also filled with the indeterminate growth of the great white shark, the growth rate of the blue whale, the strength of the rhinoceros beetle, the speed of the cheetah, and the tissue regeneration of the African spiny mouse.
- #017
At the end of April 2018, Uwe Boll demanded that Warner Bros. change the name of the film about to be released, or he would sue the studio. The director, who had produced and directed an unrelated "Rampage" trilogy starting with Rampage (2009), claimed that the studio would "shrink" his brand and the revenues he could use for future installments of his own "Rampage" series.
- #018
The gorilla George, presented here as an albino, never had white fur in any video game incarnation of the character, instead always being presented with brown fur. Interestingly, the wolf Ralph was given white fur in some video game versions.
- #019
While escaping the military base, Davis Okoye (Dwayne Johnson) refers to the Airmen as Army MPs (Military Police). Since they are in the Air Force, they would correctly be called Security Forces, but given Okoye's Army background this is a logical error.
- #020
When George escapes and passes through the San Diego Wildlife Sanctuary, he encounters many startled visitors in the area. This resembles a real incident that took place on 18 May 2007 at Rotterdam Zoo Blijdorp in the Netherlands. Bokito (born 14 March 1996) is a male western gorilla born in captivity; he escaped from his enclosure, abducted a female visitor and injured her severely, injured several more visitors at the facility's restaurant, and was recaptured with a tranquilizer gun an hour later.
- #021
The film is based on the Rampage video game (published by Bally Midway), in which players take control of giant monsters trying to survive attacks by military forces. The game's heroes and playable characters are George, a giant King Kong-like gorilla transformed by an experimental vitamin; Lizzie, a Godzilla-like dinosaur/lizard transformed by a radioactive lake; and Ralph, a giant werewolf transformed by a food additive.
- #022
Ralph's ability to glide on squirrel-like flaps may be a nod to the games, in which the monsters can glide by flapping their arms.
- #023
The MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast), weighing 9,800 kg (21,600 lbs), is designed to be carried only by the C-130 Hercules and larger aircraft. It cannot be carried by the B-2 Spirit as shown in the film. The MOAB is also known as the Mother of All Bombs.
- #024
Every branch of the US armed forces except the Coast Guard took part in the attacks on the monsters. A pair of Navy F/A-18 fighter jets escorts the Air Force bomber; this is unusual and seems unnecessary on the continental United States, but may have been done to give the Navy some nominal involvement.
- #025
At one point Dr. Caldwell asks Harvey Russel which government agency he works for, and he sarcastically offers "Justice League." Many of the actors have played characters in other films based on various comic book brands. Jeffery Dean Morgan was Thomas Wayne in "Batman Vs. Superman" and The Comedian in "Watchmen," in which Malin Ackerman played Silk Spectre (The Comedian's biological daughter). Joe Manganiello was Deathstroke in "Justice League," and Will Yun Lee was in Marvel's "The Wolverine." In addition, Johnson and Lee were both in "San Andreas."
- #026
Energyne is really nothing other than SCUMM Laboratories, whose leak of strange genetic experiments causes the monsters to become enraged, turns the CEOs into either black holes of evil or idiot man-children, and makes them the target of the monster's wrath.
- #027
This is Dwayne Johnson's second film based on a video game, after Doom (2005).
- #028
This is the second film in which Marley Shelton's character is killed in the opening sequence, the other being Sin City (2005).
- #029
The antidote nicknamed the "chill pill" works on several levels: it treats those affected by the mutagen whose side effect is increased aggression, meaning it is a drug that literally calms them; it is stored in a vat of liquid nitrogen, so it is literally chilled; and, as Claire later discovers, it is administered orally like a real pill.
- #030
It surpassed Mortal Kombat (1995) as the highest-grossing film based on a Midway game.
- #031
The monsters, as in the video games, collectively manage to topple one large skyscraper onto the caravans. Because it is the Energyne building emitting the radio signal that brought them all there, they immediately attack each other once they rise from the rubble.
- #032
Lizzie's live-action film adaptation is not the first crocodile mutant to appear in the Rampage series, since she came before Crock in Rampage: Total Destruction (2006), twelve years before the film's release.
- #033
No credit was given to the video game on which this film is based. The original game's only feature is an arcade cabinet in the background of one scene.
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