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Cast:
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Crew:
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Miscellaneous Companies:
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- Call The Cops
- police technical advisors
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
- 3rd Street & Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA [exterior, ’Sloth’ apartment]
- Alexandria Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA [John Doe’s apartment building]
- Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Mojave, California, USA
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Quality Coffee Shop - 1238 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Tech Info:
- Budget:
- $30,000,000 (USA)
- Color Info:
- Color (DeLuxe)
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Super 35
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm - anamorphic
- Film Length:
- 3548 m
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Trivia:
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- The screenplay had references to a partner Mills had when he still lived in the country, named Parsons. Parsons was shot and killed while on a bust with Mills, and consequently Mills is overprotective of Somerset in some scenes. All references to Parsons were deleted before shooting began.
- The name of the city in which the movie takes place is never mentioned.
- An edited-out sequence near the beginning had Somerset looking over the country home he's planning on moving into. He uses his switchblade to cut loose a rose on a fragment of silk wallpaper and carries it with him throughout the movie. The rose falls out of his jacket as he is taking off his gun before eating with the Mills family. (This touch was edited out, too. Both sequences are in the supplementary section of the Criterion laserdisc.) The rose is briefly visible in the opening scene, sitting atop a handkerchief on Somerset's dresser.
- Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso Freeman, played the part of a fingerprint technician.
- The "library" in which Somerset researches the deadly sins is the same building as the "bank" where Jim Carrey works in The Mask.
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Credits Fun:
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- Credits roll down instead of up.
- The opening credits are done over broken, blurred images of John Doe removing the skin from his fingertips and sewing it into his journals.
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