Trivia / Cube

• Awesome, Dear Boy: The effects studio for the film worked on it only to show support for Toronto's film industry, and at no cost.
• Colbert Bump: There was a noticeable increase of searches for the film after Pyrocynical's video on it and its sequel.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Bulgaria: The Cube of Fear
  • Taiwan: Another Dimension Killing
• The Danza: David Hewlett as David Worth. This might be chalked down to coincidence if not for the fact that Hewlett and Natali have been good friends since high school - because of this he probably had some imput in choosing his character's full name.
• Deleted Scenes: Allegedly, Natali had shot a scene showing the outside of the Cube, but he destroyed the footage to leave it more mysterious.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It bombed in North America and only later became a cult hit on video, but in France, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the summer of 1997, earning over $10 million. Its French distributor even flew the cast out to France to do interviews.
• No Budget: The original was produced for only $400K. Only one set was built and all of the CG was done for free in a moment of Awesome, Dear Boy.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The movie came about due to something like this:
  "We only have money for one set, one room."
  "That one room could represent a bunch of rooms that look identical."
  "Well, a bunch of identical rooms would be a maze."
  "So, why does this maze exist? Why are our characters trapped in it?"
  "I think that's the plot."

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