10 Movie Facts That Are Hard To Believe
12.07.10 # Top Ten # 41 Comments
I’ve been collecting these. Interesting movie facts that are often buried deep in an article, usually in a throwaway line that provides more food for thought than the article itself. Here we go.
– John Carpenter was offered the job of directing ‘Top Gun’. He turned it down.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger has won a Golden Globe for acting.
– How many times has a Canadian been nominated for the Best Actor Oscar in the last 60 years? Once.
– ‘The Shining’ was nominated for two Razzies in 1980. Including worst director.
– Steven Seagal once broke Sean Connery’s wrist.
– After ‘Jaws’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’, Steven Spielberg desperately wanted to direct a James Bond film. He approached the producers. They said no.
– Kiefer Sutherland has a twin sister, who looks just like him but with lipstick on.
– River Pheonix’s real name was River Bottom. Ice-T’s first name is Tracy. John Wayne’s was Marion.
– If you take into account inflation in ticket price, ‘Tootsie’ made more than ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’. ‘Blazing Saddles’ made double the amount of ‘Terminator 2’. And ‘American Graffiti’ made more than ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’.
– NASA keeps ‘So I Married An Axe Murderer’ on the Space Station.
So i married an axe murderer belongs in the library of congress
Gene Hackman was considered the role of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. The late film critic Gene Siskel was the only known film critic to pan Silence of the Lambs, preferring instead Manhunter.
The Giant Sherpa being shot by Indiana Jones was an unscripted idea that was suggested right before the fight was shot. They changed the original ending so that a sick Harrison Ford could go home early.
When did Seagal break Connery’s wrist?
Van Damme was cast to play the predator in “Predator” but changed his mind last minute when he was offered the leading role in “Bloodsport.” The rest is history…
Nobody mentioned the random fact that in Princess Bride, the princess’s dress was NOT supposed to catch fire in the fire swamp, it was an accident that they actually used because the actors did such a great job fudging it over.
Come on…that’s Keifer in drag.
With adjusted dollars, the biggest all time money maker is still “Gone With the Wind”. Considering that when it came out in 1939,you had to “break” a dollar to pay for a ticket. When I first saw it in the 1950’s it cost me a staggering .25 cents. Regular kids’ prices were .11 cents.
The movie District Nine was set in my hometown, “the City of Gold” – Johannesburg South Africa. The ramshackle Alien dwellings and neighbourhood were not specially constructed sets. These were homes simply rented from the “squatter” community which has grown up around every large city in South Africa.
Depressing.
Sean Connery was offered the role of Morphus in the Matrix. and turned it down.
Eddie Murphy, John Belushi, and Chevy Chase were offered roles in Ghostbusters. And it was supposed to be
John as Peter Venkman
Eddie as Winston Zeddmore
Chevy as Egon Spengler
Marlon Wayans was supposed to play Robin in the third Batman film.
Mike Myers was supposed to write and star in the Scooby Doo film.
Kevin Smith was going to write and direct The Green Hornet
And Jack Black was supposed to play Green Lantern.
I hope whoever proposed Jack Black as Green Lantern is now working in a different profession.
Am I the only one who’s picked up on the fact that it’s Harry Potter and the PHILOSOPHER’S stone?
It had different titles depending on which country you’re in.
What movie did Arnold win his Golden Globe award for?
It’s not hard at all to believe that Steven Seagal broke Sean Connery’s wrist…he is a 7th Dan Aikido master.
And it’s called “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. It was changed to Sorcerer’s Stone in the US only because they didn’t think Americans could understand what Philosopher’s Stone meant.
Oscar Nominee Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson Canadian
Breaking wrist? When did that happen?
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