Trivia / Final Destination 2

• Contractual Obligation Project: The writers Eric Bress and J Mackeye Gruber wrote the script for this in order to be allowed to direct The Butterfly Effect.
• Dawson Casting: Mostly avoided since adults dominate the cast, but there is still one example: Clear Rivers. Since the film is set a year after the original, that means Clear, who was previously a high school senior, should be no more than 20 years old here. Her actress, Ali Larter, was 26 at the time of filming. And for the only teen in the cast - James Kirk was only a year older than his character Tim.
• Dyeing for Your Art: A.J. Cook dyed her hair brown for this film, so that the audience would not confuse her with Ali Larter. Ironically, while this made it easy for audiences to distinguish Kimberly and Clear, some of Cook's own fans had difficulty recognizing her as a brunette because they were so used to seeing her as a blonde. What makes this hilarious is that Ali Larter had dyed her natural blonde hair brown for the first film, explaining Clear's sudden hair colour change in this film.
• Fake American: Combined with British Columbia Doubling. While the characters are all Americans, only five are played by actual Americans. The American camp consists of Ali Larter (Clear), Michael Landes (Thomas), T.C. Carson (Eugene), Justina Machado (Isabella), and Tony Todd (Bludworth). Everyone else is Canadian (and one, Andrew Arlie, who played Kimberly's dad, is British).
• Hey, It's That Place!: Clear is in the same asylum as Laurie in Halloween: Resurrection.
• Ripped from the Headlines: The accident at the start was based on a real life 125 car pileup in Georgia the previous year.
• Spared by the Cut:
  • In the original script, Alex is still alive and Clear makes it to the end to act as a door for future survivors. In the final cut, Alex has died during the Time Skip and Clear is the penultimate casualty.
  • Brian, the helpful farmer’s son, dies in the final scene, but an alternate ending omits his death.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Devon Sawa was supposed to return as Alex from the original, but he could not due to scheduling conflicts. His character's fate is instead written to experience Bus Crash sometime between this film and the original.
  • Tim was written to be a little boy, but executives were uncomfortable with a child getting killed off. As a result, Tim was aged up to fifteen.
  • The fire that kills Eugene and later Clear was originally going to be started by a birthday cake's candles.
  • Jonathan Cherry (Rory) auditioned to play Evan first.
  • Earlier drafts of the script had Kimberly and Officer Burke as outright love interests, but they were worried that being too creepy. So their relationship is left ambiguously platonic.
• You Look Familiar: James Kirk (Tim) had been an extra on the first film.

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