Troll Trivia | 22 facts about the Netflix movie

Troll is a 2022 Norwegian monster film directed by Roar Uthaug, which was recently released on Netflix.

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1. Troll is a 2022 Norwegian monster film directed by Roar Uthaug
2. Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Gard B. Eidsvold, Pål Richard Lunderby, and Eric Vorenholt star in the movie.
3. The movie follows a ragtag group of people who must come together to stop an ancient troll that was awakened in a Norwegian mountain and prevent it from wreaking havoc.
4. In August 2020, TheWrap revealed that Uthaug had been planning the film for over 20 years, but it had only recently begun to come to fruition.
5. Concept art of the titular monster attacking Oslo was released in March 2021.
6. Principal photography began in September 2021 and wrapped prior to 20 January 2022.
7. Troll was released by Netflix on 1 December 2022.
8. It received mixed reviews from critics.
9. They praised the movie for the performances, score, cinematography, direction, visual effects, and action sequences but criticism towards its derivative plot.
10. The sound that you hear over Oslo when the troll is near is the sound of flight alert or ‘Flyalarmen’.
11. It is mostly used to make people known about an coming threat, like a terror attack, a gas leak or an earthquake. This sound is tested twice a year. The last time it was played for real was in Oslo in 2011. It’s actually the exact same as the Swedish VMA. (Important message for the public).
12. WILHELM SCREAM: After the artillery attack, when the troll kicks the military vehicle into the trees.
13. Some of the soldier’s screams you hear after Tidemann calls Captain Holm on his mobile are sound effects from Command & Conquer (1995).
14. Billy Campbell, mostly known for playing the title role in The Rocketeer (1991) (whose real screen name is Cliff Secord), is credited in this film as playing a different character also named Secord.
15. In The Rocketeer (2019), Billy Campbell played Cliff Secord. Here, credited as Ollie Campbell, he plays a character called Dr. David Secord.
16. The music in the trailer is Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King.
17. Ine Marie Wilmann (Nora) and Anneke von der Lippe (the Prime Minister) previously worked together on Sonja: The White Swan (2018), playing daughter and mother, respectively.
18. In the film it is stated that the troll is a king trying to return to his castle. Before the mid-credits, and at the end of the ending credits music, a piece of music can be heard: “I Dovregubbens hall” (In the Hall of the Mountain King), pertaining to ‘Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Opus 46’, the orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875.
19. In the beginning of the film one of the paleontologists is shown digging to find dinosaur fossils but what she is digging in is a peat bog. Peat can be several metres thick and is soaked in water, any dig without excavating equipment will immediately fill with water. Fossils, if any, would be in the rock below. Therefore, this is a pointless endeavour, without excavating equipment and cofferdams.
20. The prime minister formally declares a state of emergency in her address to the nation. Norway doesn’t have a law that provides for this, however. There is no state of emergency or martial law in Norwegian law.
21. Norway has used the metric system since 1875 and in the original Norwegian dialogue, Nora Tidemann describes the troll’s height as “forty or fifty metres”. It is only in the English dub that she says it is “over a hundred and fifty feet tall”.
22. In January 2022, David Kosse of Netflix described the film as “a giant four-quadrant event movie that happens to take place in Norway… with a troll.”