Trivia / The China Syndrome

• The Danza: Jack Lemmon as Jack Godell.
• Executive Meddling: The movie did have a complete original score written for it by Michael Small, but James Bridges kept removing cues and finally decided to drop the entire score. (However, Intrada later released the music.)
• Recycled Set: The control room was filmed at a steam power station in California. It was previously used as the Death Star fire control room in Star Wars A New Hope.
• Streisand Effect: Ticket sales for this movie were driven up by the Three Mile Island incident two weeks after the movie was released, while Columbia Pictures tried to pull the film from some theaters as a result.
• What Could Have Been: Richard Dreyfuss was originally cast as the TV reporter. When he dropped out of the film, the part was rewritten with a feminist slant for Jane Fonda.

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