Trivia for manhunt

Rockstar Games said that the reason why he adaptated the original novel is because he just loved it so much. He read the entire novel six times and was still blown away by it.

Rockstar Games originally thought about sending his screenplay to New Line Cinema in order to try out a new production-company as he always went to WarnerBros. NLC however was offended by the dark and grisly tone of the film and had no interest fearing that they would not survive the controversy. Rockstar Games decided to still go to WarnerBros after that who had interest into producing the film.

Famke Jansen, who is currently known as a famous Dutch actor who makes Hollywood films, was 10 years old that the time and also loved the book. She sended an audition-video to WarnerBros in order to show her acting abilities. Two days later, she was phone called by WB who said that they wanted to her portray Diana in the film. This marks her succes in Hollywood.

Famke Jansen's parents were present while she was filming her scenes. When they were watching the result of the 'execution scene' they started crying not only because of the disturbingness of the scene, but also because of how realistic their daughter portrayed it.

Rockstar Games used a handheld camera sometimes during the close-up scenes to add realism.

This film marked the opening of a new genre called 'mind-spinnig genre'.

Rockstar Games took out the whole entire cast, including the 10-year-old Famke Jansen, to a fancy diner restaurant at night just before the red carpet premiere began in order to celebrate the release of the film.

Manhunt received a sequel in 1984 called The Key Explanation, which was the sequel to the original novel ''Asnou Momentum. ''That film, however, was very poor received and unsuccesful.

Rockstar Games called the 'video execution scene' an indictment against Talibanish terrorism videos.