30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia We Know Aren’t Canonically in Love But No One Can Stop Us From Shipping in Our Fan Fiction

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30 Random Bits of Movie Trivia We Know Aren’t Canonically in Love But No One Can Stop Us From Shipping in Our Fan Fiction

Thank you so much for being here right now. You have no idea what this means to us. See, we’ve been told by every movie fact studio in town that no one would want to read our “completely out there” movie facts. 

They might be out for the big blockbuster money-makers, but we’re artists damnit! We make movie facts for audiences with more refined palates like yourselves. 

Ratatouille

We nearly had Ratatouille-branded wine (it was white Burgundy). Disney had had bottles made, but some people complained it might promote underage drinking, so Disney pulled it before it hit the shelves. CRACKED.COM

Cars

Cars' Lightning McQueen is an homage to a Pixar animator who passed away. His name was Glenn McQueen, and he worked at Pixar from 1994 to his death in 2002. Pixar also dedicated its 2003 movie (Finding Nemo) to him. CRACKED.COM

The Frog Prince

To cash in on The Princess and the Frog hype, somebody made a lazy, innuendo-loaded ripoff. The Frog Prince is about a frog dishing out lies to get laid, in a royal court with a helicopter parent king and a whiny young princess. the Frog PRINCE To top it off, nothing ever happens, and the animation is as lifelike as a kindergarten doodle. It's as if the very idea of effort was personally offensive to the animators. CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter

Dolores Umbridge is a sadistic Harry Potter character. She's a parody of a real person. The character is based on a real teacher that J.K. Rowling didn't get along with. She says that the teacher's style reminded her of a three-year-old, and that the dislike was mutual. So she immortalized her as one of the most hated characters in her book series. http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/j-k-rowling-reveals-the-real-life-inspiration- CRACKED.COM behind-professor-dolores-umbridge-in-new-harry-potter-story-halloween

Star Trek Beyond

The character Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond is based on Jennifer Lawrence's character in Winter's Bone. Said writer and actor Simon Pegg: We were trying to create this very independent character. But we didn't have a name for it...so we just called it Jennifer-Lawrence-In- Winter's-Bone. CRACKED.COM

Mantis

The creator of Mantis is pretty unhappy about what the MCU did to the character. That character has nothing to do with Mantis, Steve Englehart said. CRACKED.COM

Hot Fuzz

The 'Hot Fuzz' character Simon Skinner was written for a Timothy Dalton type before he signed on. WORLD CRACKED.COM Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright wrote the character before thinking to ask Dal- ton himself to be in the film. To their surprise, Dal- ton had loved Shaun of the Dead and signed on for the role.

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is famous for his on-set injuries while doing his own stunts. ARMOUR of GOD 2 OPERATION CONDOR One such injury on the set of Armour of God II required him to get brain surgery, and left him with a metal plate inside his head. CRACKED.COM

Halloween

BEFORE НЕ BECAME FREDDY KRUEGER, ROBERT ENGLUND WAS PAID TO THROW LEAVES AROUND ON THE SET of HALLOWEEN. Englund said he was conned by his roommate to work as a temporary set builder on the production of the 1978 film. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man

Tom Holland got pranked by the crew on Spider-Man: Homecoming. They got him a new set chair which was actually a toilet seat. Не posted about it on Instagram, with the caption Loving my new set chair. Thanks guys. Should you really be treating number one like number two. #norespect. CRACKED.COM

Django Unchained

Jamie Foxx kinda trolled Christoph Waltz on the set of Django Unchained. Waltz broke his pelvis by falling off a horse on the set, so Foxx gave him a saddle with a seat belt. CRACKED.COM

The Shallows

Sharks Movies & TV The Shallows Everyone had to ride their bikes to set. Due to various restrictions on the island location, the cast and crew had to ride bicycles to set and be incredibly mindful to not harm any of the wildlife. CRACKED.COM

Robert De Niro

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS Robert De Niro accepted the role as Captain Shakespeare probably because he regretted turning down Captain Barbossa De Niro was the first choice to play a villain in Pirates of the Caribbean, which he assumed would be a commercial flop. Не later accepted the role of the gender-fluid captain, after his mistake.

Ishtar

CRACKED Sun poisoning and a dead cobra on ISHTAR The 1987 movie was shot in the Sahara Desert, where director Elaine May found out she was allergic to the sun. She had to wear bandages completely covering her face. Oh, and a cobra that was supposed to appear in the film died of a heart attack.

Soul

145 HARD WARE Sale 1 8*NAILS OPEN 25:00 FUCO SALE SOUL There's a shout out to Nine Inch Nails in the store window. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were two of the composers for the movie. CRACKED.COM

Last Night in SoHo

HERE COMES THE BIGGEST LOOK OUT! BOND OF ALL! Quentin Tarantino and Jordan Peele convinced Edgar in IAN SEAN CONNERY FLEMING'S Wright to keep a specific detail HUNDERBALL LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. The marquee with Sean Connery as James Bond in Thunderball was initially changed to The Fantastic Voyage, but for one, the timeline didn't work, and when Tarantino and Peele saw the trailer that still had the Connery poster in it, they told Wright how much they loved it, and he changed it back in the movie. CRACKED.COM

Dune

The Easter egg Jason Momoa snuck into Dune for his son. For his climactic fight in the movie, Momoa included moves from the native Filipino martial art, Kali. Не specifically chose these moves because his kid practices Kali, too, and said it was his way of signalling to his son. CRACKED.COM

Batman

Sean Young broke her arm in pre-production. BATMAN WW.J CRACKED.COM Remember the Vicki Vale horse riding scene in Batman? Yeah, that's because they wrote it out after Young fell off a horse, breaking her arm, and had to be replaced by Kim Basinger.

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS THE PRODUCTION GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET SI The film's production company, Red Granite Pictures, was forced to pay around $60 million to the U.S. government after being sued for using money misappropriated from a Malaysian state fund to finance the film. CRACKED.COM

The Godfather

Government agents mistook James Caan as an aspiring mobster during the production of The Godfather. During production, James Caan used to hang out with Carmine Persico, a.k.a. The Snake, who was a notorious Mafioso and later head of the Co- lombo crime family. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Thor: Ragnarok

Movies That switched Directors Thor: Ragnarok Alan Taylor Taika waititi Taylor departed after his reportedly terrible experience making Thor: The Dark World, and Waititi came aboard to helm the best Thor film (and funniest MCU movie) yet. CRACKED.COM

Fight Club

Fight Club director David Fincher originally wanted Janeane Garofalo to play Marla Singer, but she turned him down because she was uncomfortable with the idea of all this sex Helena Bonham Carter only got the role after Brad Pitt showed Fincher her sex scene from The Wings Of The Dove CRACKED.COM

Burn After Reading

The Coen Brothers and their movies Burn After Reading Except for Tilda Swinton's, every role was written for their perfórmer. Brad Pitt didn't know if he should be flattered or insulted by his part, or how to even play such an idiot. Joel Coen just told him, You'll be fine. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars

CRACKED СЗРО VS. R2D2 Classically trained Anthony Daniels (СЗРО) constantly insulted the talent of former circus performer Kenny Baker (R2D2). Their performances boil down to Daniels proving he's far superior, and Baker proving he's more than a circus act.

Goldfinger

Rich Jerks Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger The actor couldn't speak English. German actor Gert Fröbe was a brilliant performer, but his English wasn't very good. Не was dubbed by fellow actor Michael Collins. CRACKED.COM

Whoopi Goldberg

CRACKED.COM - COMIC CON doology Viola Davis She shares an Oscar record with Whoopi Goldberg. Davis and Goldberg are the only black actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress.

Snow White

The voice actress for Snow White was blacklisted by Walt Disney. Disney wanted to make sure Snow White's voice didn't appear outside of the franchise- so he had 18 year old actress Adriana Caselotti blacklisted from other Hollywood studios. She was also not credited for her work in the film. CRACKED.COM

The Fifth Element

The opera song from 'The Fifth Element' was composed to be impossible to actually sing. CRACKED.COM When opera singer Inva Muls came for the part, she sang 85% of what thought was tech- nically impossible, the rest being assembled in the studio.

Shrek

Stephen Spielberg acquired the 'Shrek' rights in order to make a movie in the early '90s. CRACKED.COM Spielberg acquired the rights in 1991, planning to make it into a 2D animated movie star- ring Dan Akroyd as Shrek and Chris Rock as Donkey.

Frozen

Animation code from Frozen was used to solve a 63 year old, erm, 'cold' case. CRACKED.COM The Dyatlov Pass incident left nine Russian hikers dead in 1959. Engineers recently relied on animation codes in Frozen to prove a long- standing theory that an ava- lanche resulted in the deaths of the nine hikers.

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