Trivia / Brotherhood of the Wolf

• Completely Different Title: Brotherhood of the Wolf, which is also a bit more spoilery than the original French title, Le Pacte des Loups (Pact of the Wolves).
• Deleted Scene:
  • The opening fight between Mani and the disguised soldiers originally had an extended piece with Fronsac joining the fight, instead of just threatening a soldier as in the final cut.
  • Another deleted scene had Mani finding the corpse of the shepherdhess with the help of a raven.
  • Another has Sardis warning Fronsac to stop wooing Marianne.
  • There was also a scene where Sylvia reveals to Fronsac that the mirrors in the brothel are two-way, first hinting her spywork activities, and demonstrates it by showing one of the noblemen doing BDSM.
  • An entire subplot was excised. It started with a creepy POV scene where Jean-François steals Fronsac's drawings of Sylvia and laughs because it's just what he needs to drive Marianne away from him. Fronsac then arrives to the Morangias castle only for Marianne to throw the drawings at him while rebuking him for visiting whores, causing Fronsac to storm out and knock Jean-François to the floor pretending to be an accident (which causes an Orphaned Reference at the end of the film, when Jean-François taunts Fronsac by telling him not to contain himself against him again). However, Sylvia meets with Marianne in the church and confides to her that Fronsac only loves the latter. It concludes with a scene in the docks, where Fronsac and Mani are loading supplies for the trip to Africa before Thomas D'Apacher turns up to tell them to return with a love letter by Marianne (which, again, is the cause of their secret meeting at her nanny's house in the final cut). The subplot was restored in the DVD editions, although some of them cut the subplot with Lord de Beauterne and the fake beast in exchange.
  • In another deleted scene, Fronsac drowns his sorrows after creating the fake beast and tells Sylvia the truth. Again, this scene is restored in some the DVD editions that don't cut the Beauterne subplot.
• Fake Nationality:
  • The Mohawk Iroquois Mani is played by Mark Dacascos, who is an American of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Irish ancestry. It's almost amusing that someone of so many different bloods doesn't have that particular one.
  • The Belgian Émilie Dequenne as the French Marianne de Morangias.
• Follow the Leader: The fighting scenes of the film were clearly inspired by The Matrix. At the same time, the film itself revived the trend for adventure historical films with a good staging of battles.
• Production Posse: Christophe Gans previously directed Mark Dacascos in the film adaptation of Crying Freeman.
• Real-Life Relative: Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci were husband and wife at the time the film was made.
• What Could Have Been: The character of Jean-François was not originally intended to be an incestuous madman, and Vincent Cassel was in fact not interested on the role. Only after being rewritten as his final version Cassel accepted.
• Word of God: Gans confirmed the popular theory that the Beast is a lion.

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