Trivia for Heavy Rain

The original novel called A Bird In The Heavy Sewer (1964) was so disturbing that during the entire 60s nobody even deared to direct the film, even though the New Hollywood era was happening. End 60s Dario Argento tried to adapt the film into a giallo picture, but he gave up because no one financed his film. He did however pay tribute to it by calling his film The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970). In the 80s several directors such as George A. Romero, Lucio Fulci and Konami attempted to finance with a CinemaCrowd, but not enough money was collected. Soon later, the project was again cancelled. In 2007, Ellen Page was cast to play the main female lead with Adreas QEA directing. He, however, decided to cancel it. Ellen Page was still in talks to play the role and met Quantic Dream, whom Ellen Page had seen Fahrenheit (2008), and he accepted to direct the film.

Quantic Dream, famous for directing his films in the "Style of Subjectivity"-form, was sure that he could not use his famous directing technique for Heavy Rain (2010). He did, however, ask the producers whether that was allowed and the producers said that they wanted to give him as much artistic freedom regarding the project as possible. Not the entire film was shot in the "Style Of Subjectivity"-form, but some sequences were. Some of the unused sequences of these are available on the Deleted Scenes section of the DVD and Blu-Ray.

The film won the Palm d'Or at the 2010th Cannes Film Festival.

Even though the film has been critically acclaimed and considered to be a modern cinematic horror masterpiece with great camera techniques, the film has become extremely controversial due to its disturbing violence, graphic sexuality and nudity, especially the infamous "finger" and "body-marionette" scene have been called extremely controversial. A lot of people also believe that this is the main reason why this film did not receive an Oscar Nomination at the Academy Awards of 2011.

Director Quantic Dream was originally planning to direct Beyond Two Souls (2013) in 2010, but he was so impressed with the screenplay and the concept of Heavy Rain (2010), that he decided to delay and work on this film.

The film won the Palm d'Or at the 2010th Cannes Film Festival and also Quantic Dream won "Best Director" at the Cannes Festival.