The loners of the animal kingdom, coyotes, are important symbols in this movie. Both director Dan Gilroy and Jake Gyllenhaal felt Lou’s character should be modeled after a coyote, as they are both “nocturnal predator[s] who come out of the hills at night to feed”.
Gyllenhaal, a Los Angeles native, also stated in an interview with Indiewire (16:18) that coyotes are omnipresent in Los Angeles and give off a sense of “strange danger” he tried to capture when playing Lou.
In fact, Gilroy debated naming the film Coyote before he settled on Nightcrawler!
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“Cheerleader” was a 2012 reggae fusion song by Reggae/Soul artist OMI. It was popular in OMI’s native Jamaica and parts of Hawaii, but failed to reach a global audience until German producer Felix Jaehn remixed it in May 2014. The remix charted in Sweden, Germany, and Italy, and took on a new life when it was released in the U.K. in April 2015 and reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100.
OMI spoke to Jimmy Fallon about the background and meaning of the song on his show:
It was about seven years ago; I was in a taxi developing my catalogue at an underground studio and I was heading to that studio. I had the melody in my head early that morning and it was so catchy, you know? I used to love writing from a metaphoric standpoint – that was like my thing – that’s how I came up with the metaphor ‘Cheerleader,’ you know, that support system.
Omi revealed in a Billboard interview that he hasn’t found his cheerleader – the last time he had a serious girlfriend was about 8 years ago.
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Bay includes a lot of “eagle eye” shots in his films, and Eagle Eye is also the name of a film that Spielberg executively produced alongside Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman – all three of whom produced Transformers.
I take my checks to the bank and I sign 'em with my nuts Epic Rap Battles of History (Ft. EpicLLOYD, Nice Peter, Ruggles Outbound & Wax) – Steven Spielberg vs Alfred Hitchcock
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