Trivia / Virus

• Blooper:
  • Foster says her first name is Kelly in the movie, but she's credited as 'Kit Foster'. This name is never said anywhere else in the movie.
  • Foster is also just wearing her sweater and jeans when they go outside. In the next scene directly after, she's suddenly wearing her raincoat.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $75 million. Box Office: $30 million.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Richie tells Foster he doesn't like her being aboard the ship. They also have a discussion about Hiko's tattoos and his ancestry.
  • A longer version of when Foster and Baker flee using the rocket motors.
• Fake Russian: Joanna Pacuła (Nadia) is Polish, Keith Flippin (Rostov) is American.
• Old Shame:
  • Jamie Lee Curtis has described the film as "an awful piece of shit", and has joked that if another celebrity ever held a party where you bring the worst movie you were ever in, she would pick this one.
  • In an interview for Cinefantastique the team behind the Goliath prop, All Effects, specifically its founder Eric Allard, revealed they weren't exactly big fans of either the film or their work on it.
    “I can’t blame anybody but myself for accepting the project, but I just can’t help but feel that had we had more time, we could’ve enjoyed a better result. It’s been my experience that whenever you have a proper amount of time to plan something, you just get a better result than when you don't.”
• Recursive Adaptation: The comic was based on a movie script that was written earlier in the 90s. As the special effects wouldn't have been possible at the time, it was made into a comic instead. When technology caught up, the script was revised into a film.
• Self-Adaptation: The comic's author Chuck Pfarrer is one of the writers - though as the above entry shows, things are complicated.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The ship used as a prop for filming was mothballed and had rusted. They painted one side of it, so only one side is ever shown on camera.
• Throw It In!: Richie's line that the antenna is "fucked up" is an ad lib from his actor at the state of the ship used for filming.
• Uncredited Role: The voice of the virus itself for its few lines is unlisted from the credits.
• Wag the Director: Donald Sutherland insisted on all his scenes requiring SFX make-up to be done in one day so he wouldn't have to go through the make-up process more than once. It took six hours for all the make-up to be applied.
• What Could Have Been: Everton's original entrance into the control room would have required CGI legs, which the studio ordered changed out of fear of the costs. Test audiences also disliked the line "it's me, Bob."

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