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Universal Soldier (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• The last film to be recorded in CDS, an early digital sound format. In the following year of the film's release, sound technicians had developed DTS. This sound format was apparently of higher audio quality than CDS and has been used in most movie theaters ever since.
  
  
• 'Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.' had his eyepiece custom made because the regular eye piece's design was blocking his good eye.
  
  
• The two young couple that Luc reacts to at the Hoover Dam incident are actually the two young couple in the beginning in Vietnam
  
  
• The UniSol's basic sidearm seen in throughout the film is a Magnum Research Inc. .357 Magnum Desert Eagle.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Roland Emmerich] [44] Luc Deveraux's codename in the UNISOL program is GR44.
  
  
• Andrew Davis was attached to direct the picture based on a different screenplay. The budget being too high and creative differences arising, Carolco hired Roland Emmerich, fresh from his low budget feature Moon 44 (1990) and a canceled Sylvester Stallone vehicle "Isobar", to deliver a new screenplay and direct the film.
  
  
• The helicopter shown when the UniSols deploy at the Hoover Dam is a Sikorsky S-58T.
  
  

• SPOILER: In the film's unreleased first cut, the final battle between Luc and Andrew didn't include the scene in the barn, featured the death of Luc's mother, and concluded with the near-murder of Luc by Dr. Gregor, followed by the revelation that he eventually died because of his injuries.
  
  

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