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30 Days of Night (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Filming took 70 days, as scheduled.
  
  
• According to David Slade, veteran director Sam Raimi was slated to direct the film when the script was in its earliest stages; then Raimi opted to produce instead.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: Heard after man is thrown off metal roof by vampire during the initial attacks on Barrow.
  
  
• Prints were shipped to some theaters under the fake title "Red Impression".
  
  
• A picture of Steve Niles, who wrote the original comic book, hangs in the attic hideout.
  
  
• Writer Steve Niles originally conceived and pitched the story as a film for some years, but it was turned down by studios and thus reworked as a comic book. Eventually one of the producers who had rejected the original pitch worked on the movie adaptation.
  
  
• According to the DVD commentary, Josh Hartnett was sick with mono for two weeks of film. During that two week period, he had to fly to Venice, London, New York and Los Angeles for the premiers of The Black Dahlia (2006).
  
  
• Josh Hartnett did his own stunts, and Melissa George did most of Stella's driving.
  
  
• The scenes where characters are driving on the road out of town at night were actually shot during the day.
  
  
• Most of the night shots were actually shot during the day, using the day-for-night process.
  
  
• Nearly half of the cast is Kiwi or Australian, partially because the film was shot in New Zealand.
  
  
• Though they're never mentioned in the film until the credits, all of the vampires have names.
  
  

• SPOILER: In the original script, the Stranger was killed off along with the grandmother. The scenes where Eben and Stella find him in the station, and then when Marlow comes back to him, were written during production and squeezed in the shooting schedule with the understanding that they would most likely go unused.
  
  

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