Obscure Movie Facts

[CeilingFan]

Elvis Presley and Charles Bronson did a movie together called Kid Galahad (1962)

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

There's quite a few interesting ones from Candyman:

It was shot on location at the Cabrini–Green project, which was infamous for its gang(related activities and violence. Because the place was literally overtaken by gang members, they actually had to negotiate a deal with them in order to ensure they'd be safe during filming. As a result, all gang members seen in the film are real gang members. One gang member still ended up shooting a bullet through a production van but thankfully nobody was hurt.

One scene requires both Candyman and Helen to be covered in bees. Tony Todd actually had several of them placed in his mouth with only a mouth guard as protection. Virginia Madsen had it even worse however as she allergic to bees and even though they had bees specifically bred for the film so they'd be old enough to look like adults but young enough that their sting wouldn't have their full potency, it was still a potential lethal danger to her. So not only did they had an ambulance ready to take to the nearest hospital while shooting this scene in case of an incident, Madsen was reportedly so stressed out that the director had to hypnotize her to shoot the film. Whether or not it worked, the filming went without incident.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

In Forrest Gump, Lt. Dan tells Forrest "The day you become a shrimp boat captain, that's the day I'm an astronaut!"



The following year both Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise starred in Apollo 13.

[Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer]

[Savage Gambino]

Pierce Brosnan was originally meant to be the fourth James Bond, having been approached for the role in 1986, but couldn't take the role due to Remington Steele obligations. Ironically, the person who ended up the fourth Bond, Timothy Dalton, was approached as early as 1971 for the role, and was all signed to take over for the retiring Roger Moore in 1981's For Your Eyes Only, but Sir Roger decided he had a couple more in him.

[Push R Truth]

Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

the first person to play James Bond was Barry Nelson in a 1954 US made for TV movie (the character is American and is called Jimmy Bond).

[Crimson]

Although it wasn't the first movie to have credits after the movie, George Lucas was actually fined by the Director's Guild of America for having them at the end of The Empire Strikes Back because he was not the Director of the film. It was customary to give the Director top billing ahead of every movie, and Lucas was given a free pass for the original Star Wars since he was the director.

Ironically, given the massive success of Empire Strikes Back, and studios regaining their prominence in the 80's ultimately led to Lucas "winning" the argument.

[Cela]

Director of Sister Act 2.

[Crappler El 0 M]

Psycho is the first film to show a toilet being flushed, if not the first to show a toilet.

[Push R Truth]

Remember that sack of worthless crap Porkins from Star Wars?
Remember that sack of worthless crap government guy that ensured us the Ark would be well taken care of in Raiders?
Remember that sack of worthless crap that was Zarkov's piece of shit assistant in Flash Gordon?
Remember that sack of worthless crap dirty cop in the chemical factory in Batman (1989)?




Nothing like being involved in a bunch of epic universes and your main specialty is being a fat bastard that has just a handful of lines tops. Live the dream baby!

[agent817]

Sept 12, 2014 14:13:31 GMT -5 Cela said:

Director of Sister Act 2.

Not to derail the topic but his standout performance was this:

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When Michael Caine first sees Heath Ledger at the Wayne party in THE DARK KNIGHT, he had lines. He completely forgot them just seeing Ledger in the Joker get-up. And they kept it like that in the final cut.

OJ Simpson was an early contender for the role Arnold got in THE TERMINATOR, but he was thought of as too nice of a celebrity to be considered a killer.

The poncho Clint Eastwood wears in The Man With No Name trilogy is not only the same exact poncho, but he never cleaned it between all 3 movies.

MY BLUE HEAVEN and GOODFELLAS are basically 2 very different movies about the same person (Henry Hill), because the screenwriters of both movies were married and working on them at the same time.

When they filmed Alan Rickman's death in DIE HARD, they dropped him a second early so they could get his real reaction.

Joss Whedon was one of a few writers brought in to help spruce up the original TOY STORY script, and he came up with Rex the dinosaur.

The voice of Donald Duck (Clarence Nash) is the voice of the dogs' barks in 101 DALMATIANS.

Ron Jeremy was an extra in GHOSTBUSTERS.

Katharine Hepbern only drank water during filming of THE AFRICAN QUEEN because of director John Huston and co-star Humphrey Bogart's heavy drinking on set. Many others drank water too. Then everyone who did got sick because it was dirty water. The only 2 people on set who didn't get sick? Huston and Bogart.

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Sept 12, 2014 11:09:51 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo

Word, bitch! Phantoms like a motherf***er!

[Sparvid]

Sept 12, 2014 12:10:08 GMT -5 Crimson said:

Although it wasn't the first movie to have credits after the movie, George Lucas was actually fined by the Director's Guild of America for having them at the end of The Empire Strikes Back because he was not the Director of the film. It was customary to give the Director top billing ahead of every movie, and Lucas was given a free pass for the original Star Wars since he was the director.

Ironically, given the massive success of Empire Strikes Back, and studios regaining their prominence in the 80's ultimately led to Lucas "winning" the argument.

Wes Craven ended in some minor trouble with the Guild for New Nightmare, when (because of the screwy "real world"/fiction way the movie works) the front page of the actual script for the movie is shown on screen at the end, so they argued that the writing credit was technically shown before the director credit. Although it probably helped that Craven were both of those.

[Milkman Norm]

Mark Knopfler agreed to write the score for the Princess Bride but only if Rob Reiner included a piece of memorabilia from This Is Spinal Tap on the set. Marty DeBergi's hat is seen hanging in the grandson's room as the story is being read to him.

[Crappler El 0 M]

The producers of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein had planned on casting Ian Keith to play Dracula as they didn't even realize Bela Lugosi was still alive following his struggles with drugs and his fall from fame. This film was the only film to see Lugosi reprise the role of Dracula. This would also be the last mainstream, A-level film that Lugosi would make.

[jagilki]

Sept 12, 2014 19:42:56 GMT -5 Bob Schlapowitz said:

Sept 12, 2014 11:09:51 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms yo

Word, bitch! Phantoms like a motherf***er!

I thought it was like a mall(smurfer).

[Joe Neglia]

-- The original DIE HARD is actually a sequel/reboot, twice over! It's based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe, which was a sequel to his previous novel The Detective. The Detective had been previously filmed under that name starring Frank Sinatra, and the novel version of Nothing Lasts Forever was written specifically as a vehicle for Sinatra to return to the role. When he declined, the script was rewritten to be a sequel to Schwarzeneggar's Commando, and when that fell through, was finally modified into its own film.

-- If the low-budget regional horror film (and future MST3k fodder) SQUIRM had gone with the crew of actors that originally auditioned for the roles, we would have had Martin Sheen as the lead hero Mick, Kim Bassinger as his southern-fried girlfriend Geri and Sylvester Stallone as the creepy Roger.

-- There was a sequel planned for the 1987 live-action MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE film (with someone, I forget who, replacing Dolph as He-Man). In the script, He-Man would have to travel back to earth again in order to stop Skeletor, and would disguise himself by becoming a school football player. The company financing this imploded, and the Eternia sets were then retooled and used in the Jean-Claude Van Damme film Cyborg. For some reason, some TV Guide-type magazines in the 90s would list showings of CYBORG as CYBORG: MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE 2.

-- The Toho film KING KONG VS. GODZILLA actually started as a screenplay by Kong creator Willis O'Brien called KING KONG VS. FRANKENSTEIN. When he couldn't get it made, an unscrupulous partner of his sold the rights of the screenplay to Toho, who replaced Frankenstein with their own monster, and then reused a small portion of the Frankenstein part to build around another monster movie, FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD. Toho planned a whole series of Kong films but ended up only doing one more, KING KONG ESCAPES, which had its plot based on a then-running American cartoon version of Kong. Another planned Toho Kong film was rewritten to replace the ape with Godzilla, and that film became GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER.

-- Speaking of Kong in Japan, there were actually two Kong movies made there long before KKVs.G - In 1933, a short silent film was made, basically a rip-off of the American version, while KING KONG APPEARS IN EDO was released in 1938. Neither film is known to still exist.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

Don Ameche was such a gentleman in real life that he only agreed to do his two swearing scenes in Trading Places (the iconic "f*** him!" and dropping the N-word in the bathroom scene) in one take each. He also apologized to Eddie Murphy and all the African-American crew members for having to say the latter word.

Don Ameche. CLASS ACT.