Bio-Dome/Trivia

"Instead of playing by the rules I agreed to be in a movie called Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore. Some of the people representing me told me to hold off on the picture even though the studio was offering me a ton of money. Instead of listening to them I read the script and nearly wet myself laughing over what I could do with the part. At the time Pauly Shore was hot, he was funny and I thought we world work well together."
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * William Atherton, whom you all know as Walter Peck, as Dr. Noah Faulkner.
 * Kylie Minogue is also one of the scientists.
 * Jack Black and Kyle Gass make their debut as Tenacious D here. Unfortunately, they are quickly passed over, given the movie's inability to know real comedy when it sees it.
 * Rose McGowan has a bit part as a college student.
 * Old Shame: Kylie Minogue claims this is the only thing she's done that her father ridicules her for. Just for some perspective, Minogue was in Street Fighter!
 * Star-Derailing Role: Stephen Baldwin's star was rising after being in The Usual Suspects. Then he did this movie. Also doubles as an Old Shame.

"I can honestly say that part of God's plan for my life was for me to ignore the advice of my managers and make a movie that was universally panned by the critics. Yes, God wanted me to star in a film about two brainless slackers who spend their days watching television, making out with their girlfriends, and drinking large quantities of various substances… The film was brainless and pointless and hilarious and God wanted me to make it. I didn't think like that at the time. Making Bio-Dome played right into my usual, let's have a good time attitude. God had other plans, I just didn't know it at the time."
 * After Baldwin became born again, he decided it was God's will that he do Bio-Dome and destroy his career in order to get him out of his free-wheeling lifestyle.


 * What Could Have Been: This was supposed to be a Bill and Ted movie.