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Darkman (1990) More at IMDbPro »

• Director Sam Raimi wanted Bruce Campbell to play the lead role, but the producers were uncertain that Campbell could handle the part.
  
  
• Director's Trademark: Bruce Campbell cameo
  
  
• Cameo: [Ivan Raimi] alongside John Landis as a doctor in the burn ward.
  
  
• Cameo: [Jenny Agutter]
  
  
• In the final scene, after Darkman puts on the mask and walks away, he is played by Sam Raimi's friend Bruce Campbell (of Evil Dead fame).
  
  
• The beige 70's-vintage Oldsmobile seen in so many of Sam Raimi's films appears when Darkman is flying over the bridge dodging oncoming traffic. During a close-up shot of the oncoming Olds, you can see Sam Raimi's friends (and fellow filmmakers) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen driving the car.
  
  
• Director Sam Raimi originally wanted to base this movie on "The Shadow" and had to create the character of "Darkman" when he couldn't obtain the rights.
  
  
• During the helicopter chase, Durant says "No more Mr. Nice Guy". This is a reference to Wes Craven's Shocker (1989)
  
  
• In Durant's cabin, the laughing deer's head from Evil Dead II (1987) can be seen on the wall behind him.
  
  
• Bill Paxton was almost cast as Peyton Westlake.
  
  
• Julia Roberts was almost cast as Julie Hastings before she got the role in Pretty Woman (1990) and had to be replaced.
  
  
• After the film's release, there was talk of doing a Darkman TV series, but it never came into fruition.
  
  
• In addition to playing Darkman in his final transformation at the end, Bruce Campbell also voiced some of the screams of characters who fall to their deaths.
  
  
• Gary Oldman was considered to play Peyton/Darkman.
  
  
• Demi Moore was considered for the role of Julie. Bridget Fonda tested for the role.
  
  
• Around the time of the film's release, Universal Studios donated $5,000 to Strack Middle School in Klein, Texas, as part of their unique promotional strategy (the school shares the name with Darkman's main villain).
  
  
• Richard Dreyfuss and James Caan both turned down the role of Louis Strack Jr.
  
  
• Peyton does not use the correct type of microscope to look at the piece of nose skin. To see the cell as he did, a slide of the skin would have had to be prepared and viewed under a transmission electron microscope, and he appears to use a compound light microscope.
  
  

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