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• Natasha Lyonne and Mena Suvari were considered for the part of Desi.
  
  
• Some post production sound was provided by students at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo. They added their sound to the basketball crowds, party fight scene, and the shooting scene in the girls' dorm.
  
  
• This film was being edited by night while O Brother Where Art Thou was being filmed during the day.
  
  

• The rally cry the basketball team uses during timeouts ("What time is it? Game time!") is the same one used by the Chicago Bulls throughout the 1990s.
  
  
• Both Julia Stiles and 'Keegan, Andrew' appeared in a previous high-school adaptation of a Shakespeare play - 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).
  
  
• Third modern Shakespeare adaptation with Julia Stiles. The others being 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Hamlet (2000).
  
  
• This film finished production in 1999, and its original release date coincided with the Columbine High School shootings. The release was postponed because of the film's themes of violence and murder in a high-school setting.
  
  
• The music at the end of the movie, "Ave Maria", is from the end of Verdi's opera "Otello", which was also based on the Shakespearean play "Othello".
  
  
• Christina Ricci originally had the part of Desi Brable, but had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
  
  
• This was slated to be released in 1998, but was held back three years following the killings at the Columbine high school.
  
  

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