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Kevin Smith, who played Valdemar, died shortly after finishing this film. The film is dedicated to his memory.
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The character played by Emily Lloyd is supposed to be a grown up version of the little girl who inspired the famous story Alice in Wonderland.
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In the early novels, the chief villain was King John I of England. It is not clear why this was changed to the Roman Emperor Nero for the film.
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In the original Riverworld novels, the hero was Sir Richard Burton, the Victorian adventurer. The producers felt that this would be confusing for American audiences (due to name similarity with actor Richard Burton) and that an historical British character wouldn't elicit sufficient audience identification in the United States. Burton was replaced as the hero with an entirely new character, Jeff Hale, an American astronaut.
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