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Sphere (1998) More at IMDbPro »

• Many scenes, like Harry and Norman's conversation about making up the ULF report and dealing with Ted, were completely improvised.
  
  
• Joseph Hahn, the DJ in rock band Linkin Park, designed the sea snake.
  
  
• The ending had to be reshot because test audiences could not believe that the characters could survive without spending weeks in decompression.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Barry Levinson] Ralph Tabakin (O.S.S.A. Official) has appeared in every Levinson picture from Diner (1982) to Liberty Heights (1999).
  
  
• "Basura", which is written in one container on the spacecraft, is Spanish for "trash".
  
  
• The jellyfish attack sequence used a combination of puppets, computer-generated images, and footage of real jellyfish filmed at a nearby aquarium. The footage of real jellyfish was played at three to five times its normal speed to make the jellyfish appear more aggressive.
  
  
• Andre Braugher was originally cast as Harry.
  
  
• Barry Levinson toyed with the idea of having Queen Latifah and Huey Lewis record a duet for the end credits.
  
  
• The scene where Harry (Samuel L. Jackson) nearly chokes when he hears he is eating fried squid was not in the original novel, and was most likely added as a reference to the infamous 'chestburst scene' from Alien (1979).
  
  

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