FILM 2341: SAW II (2005)

TRIVIA: Five alternate endings were shot.

It took four days for four people to replace all of the syringe tips with fiber tips for the "Needle Pit" scene.

The whole film was shot in one building.

This film originally came from a script by the director Darren Lynn Bousman which was called "The Desperate". After trying for years to get it made but being told repeatedly that it was too violent, a company finally wanted to do it because they suspected Saw (2004) (which was becoming a hit at Sundance) might be a huge success, and they wanted to capitalize on that success. Some producers even described Bousman's script as "too Saw-ish". Just before he was about to close a deal to make the film, Saw (2004) opened huge at the box office and the next day he received a call, and the producers asked if he could change it around to "Saw II". Leigh Whannell (who wrote the first "Saw" film) was then brought on to help Bousman with creating his original idea into a proper sequel to Saw (2004).

Henry Rollins was originally cast to play the role of Xavier. Due to scheduling conflicts he was replaced with Franky G.

In the first week of its DVD release, this sold over 3,000,000 units, making it Lionsgate's fastest-selling DVD.

The doctors on Hi Everybody! A Bad Medicine Podcast (2019) called Saw II (2005) "500% medically accurate." This means the film was five times more accurate than The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009), which was marketed as "100% medically accurate" and is used as the baseline for comparison.