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• John Leguizamo ate live maggots on pizza for this film.
  
  
• Clown told Wynn (Martin Sheen) that he expected him to start "the apocalypse, now." Sheen played the lead role in Apocalypse Now (1979).
  
  
• Cameo: [Todd McFarlane] a bum.
  
  
• "Cyan" is the name of creator Todd McFarlane's daughter, while "Wanda" is the name of his wife. "Terry Fitzgerald" is the name of a friend of McFarlane.
  
  
• During the business party, a woman in a green dress is seen, wearing earrings (bearing the Spawn emblem) that are worn by the character Angela in the comic book.
  
  
• "Spaz" (Spawn's dog) is the nickname of visual effects supervisor Steve 'Spaz' Williams.
  
  
• Near the end of the movie, Jason Wynn is being escorted out of Wanda and Terry's house by two detectives. The detectives are Sam Burke and Twitch Williams who appear in the comic book.
  
  
• The intro song played during the opening credits is called "Satan" by Orbital. A remix is featured on the official soundtrack, but it may be hard to distinguish because of a lot of added electric guitars.
  
  
• The heavy metal band Iced Earth, which has made an album based on the comic Spawn, were offered the opportunity to be on the soundtrack. They turned it down, because they thought there was too much techno music on it.
  
  
• "Al Simmons" was the name of a roommate of Todd McFarlane.
  
  
• Cagliostro appears in this movie as Spawn's mentor. In real life, he was an occultist in the 1700s who traveled Europe and Egypt and would eventually found Occult Freemasonry. He was also a noted charlatan who would eventually be imprisoned in the Bastille and banished from France, then tried in Rome for heresy, magic, conjury, and Freemasonry. He died in solitary confinement in the castle of San Leo in 1795.
  
  
• The FN P90 and H&K MP7-PDW submachine guns used by Spawn and other characters in the movie are not genuine P90s or MP7s. Both weapon types in this film were actually heavily modified Ingram MAC-10s dressed up to look like real P90s and MP7s by the film's armorer, Harry Lu.
  
  
• The clown's line, "I love the smell of burning asphalt in the morning!" is a reference to Apocalypse Now (1979)'s "I love the smell of burning napalm in the morning...".
  
  
• Richard Harris was originally going to play Cogliostro but pulled out of the project.
  
  
• Alex Proyas was originally going to direct but pulled out of the project to work on Dark City (1998).
  
  
• In the comic, Cogliostro originally had a beard, but Nicol Williamson refused to grow a beard or wear one.
  
  
• Tim Burton was the original choice to direct.
  
  
• Edward Norton was going to play as Terry Fitzgerald but drop out to work on American History X (1998).
  
  
• Wesley Snipes, Danny Glover and Snoop Dogg was originally considered the role as Al Simmons/Spawn.
  
  

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