28 Movies That Were Inspired By Unexpected Things

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Have you ever wondered how come we’ve never really seen Tom Cruise and Christian Bale work together? Might have something to do with Bale admitting he partly based Patrick Bateman from American Psycho on Cruise. More on that and 27 other bizarre inspirations behind famous movies and TV shows below… 

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