The Darkest Hour

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1. #001

   The film was shot in 3D rather than being converted to 3D afterward.

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2. #002

   Timur Bekmambetov's involvement as a producer gave the production the opportunity to use Russia for funding instead of the usual locations in the United States. Bekmambetov has a film production company in Moscow called Bazelevs, where most of the film was shot.

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3. #003

   In August 2010, production was suspended for the planned two weeks because of extraordinary air pollution caused by heavy smoke from the forest fires surrounding Moscow. It ultimately resumed three weeks later. Even with this measure, the smoke appeared in many shots and had to be removed digitally in post-production.

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4. #004

   Shooting lasted 58 days, and when it was decided that the film would be shot in 3D, eight or nine more days were added to the production schedule.

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5. #005

   About 30 percent of the crew was American and 70 percent was Russian.

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6. #006

   Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella became very good friends on the set of this film and still are.

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7. #007

   The aliens see only through a kind of electroreception, meaning they generate their own electric fields and can more or less sense the electricity in a living being. This also means they cannot see behind glass, one of the most transparent solids known to humankind, because glass does not conduct electricity.

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8. #008

   It was not screened in advance for North American critics.

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9. #009

   The police cars were outfitted with Militsiya uniforms (the Russian Federation renamed its police force Politsiya in March 2011, the year the film was released).

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10. #010

    All the scenes set in Red Square were shot over five days.

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11. #011

    The interior of the club was a set built on a soundstage.

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12. #012

    The original script had no alien point-of-view shots. Alien point-of-view shots were added during the film's production.

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13. #013

    The script was written two years before this film entered production. Moreover, an earlier draft of the script took place in the United States.

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14. #014

    The opening scene on the plane was shot on a real aircraft suspended in the air during the summer months.

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15. #015

    The boat the refugees use to reach the submarine is named "Orca" (written "orka" in Cyrillic).

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16. #016

    The interior of the submarine was a set built in an old car factory.

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