31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Are All Scouting Locations in Your Brain

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31 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Are All Scouting Locations in Your Brain

A little insider info: Your brain has everything that these facts are looking for, but they’re trying to play it cool since they don’t want to pay an arm and a leg to use it for their movie. 

Movie facts obviously know a thing or two about filming locations, and we do feel bad for spilling their beans, but we know they have some budget to throw around. It’d be nice to see a brain like yours get these movie facts and some of that sweet, sweet movie studio coinage.

Moonlight

Moonlight The three lead actors never met. The three actors who play the protagonist at different stages of his life never met each other in the 25 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM

Selma

CRACKED.COM Selma The movie couldn't use MLK's actual speeches. Director Ava DuVernay had to rewrite Dr. King's speeches, as someone else had the rights.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CRACKED.COM Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael is the only turtle played by just one actor. Josh Pais, the actor in the turtle suit, had the idea of giving Raphael a Brooklyn accent during shooting. Не did such a good job, they gave him the voice role as well.

Hereditary

Hereditary The cult symbol is everywhere. If you look closely, you will see the symbol of Paimon throughout the movie. For example, Annie weats it on her necklace. And it's also ominously scratched on that post. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame Only Robert Downey Jr. had the full script. In order to prevent leaks, the cast was only given parts of the script relevant to their characters- aside from RDJ, who had been on the Marvel train from the beginning. CRACKED.COM

Everything Everywhere All at Once

CRACKED.COM Everything Everywhere All At Once The working title was A Woman Tries To Do Her Taxes. The production shot under this title to prevent folks from spying and leaking details.

A Few Good Men

Aaron Sorkin wrote the first draft on cocktail napkins. Sorkin was working as a bartender while listening to his sister, a Navy JAG Corps member, discuss a case she was working on. Не wrote a version of that story on some napkins at the bar until he could borrow his roommate's computer. A Few Good Men CRACKED.COM

Marilyn Burns

CRACKED.COM The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Marilyn Burns was tied for 26 hours (and it terrified her). The short scene took nearly 26 hours to shoot. Burns being restricted for that long with men looming all around her made her scared for real.

Good Burger

CRACKED.COM Good Burger There was nearly a ton of rotting meat on set. According to Kenan Thompson, at one point there was 1,750 pounds of meat on set that the poor extras had to pretend to eat, as the burgers got older and older with each take.

Big Trouble in Little China

Big Trouble in Little China John Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan. The director wanted to hire Chan for the role of Wang Chi based on his performance in Police Story, but the producers nixed the idea because he wasn't well known in the United States. Dumb move. CRACKED.COM

Get Out

CRACKED.COM Get Out The movie was inspired by an Eddie Murphy stand-up bit. Jordan Peele loved Murphy's comedy bit about watching Poltergeist, and how a black family would just leave the house at the first sign of ghosts. Не fleshed out the rest of the story from there.

Elf

CRACKED.COM Elf Ralphie from A Christmas Story has a cameo. Peter Billingsley, who starred in the holiday classic A Christmas Story, is in a quick cameo in this holiday classic as Ming the Elf.

Con Air

Con Air Nicolas Cage did his own stunts. There were explosions five feet behind me, Cage said, flaming helicopters dropping right behind me, ball-bearing bullets over my head. So there was a level of intensity, fear, you might say. CRACKED.COM

Jack Reacher

CRACKED.COM Jack Reacher Dwayne Johnson auditioned for the title role. Johnson lost the role to Tom Cruise despite being physically much closer to the character. Не has revealed that that was one of his biggest disappointments in Hollywood.

Ratatouille

Ratatouille None of the human characters have toes. To save time, the artists and animators at Pixar didn't make any toes for the human characters, which is odd given Pixar's reputation for fine details in their films. CRACKED.COM

Rocky

CRACKED.COM Rocky Sylvester Stallone wrote the first draft in half a week. In the original script, Adrian was Jewish, Mickey was racist, and Rocky ended up throwing the fight so that Adrian could have her own pet store.

Malignant

Malignant The opening credits spoil the movie. The sequence shows some documents that detail the movie's biggest reveal. No, we won't tell you what that is-go spoil yourself if you want to. CRACKED.COM

Seabiscuit

CRACKED.COM Seabiscuit Seabiscuit was played by ten horses. The multiplicity of horse actors was to get a good performance for the cameras and not tire a single horse out. Plus, some horses were better behaved than others for quieter, dialogue-heavy scenes.

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man The movie was pitched as a joke. As Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert were pitching movie ideas, they jokingly tossed in the premise of a man befriending a dead body on a desert island. Then one producer told them to go ahead with it. CRACKED.COM

Willow

CRACKED.COM Willow It was the largest casting call for little people ever. According to star Warwick Davis, the movie hired between 225 and 240 little person actors.

Men in Black

CRACKED.COM Men in Black Vincent D'Onofrio's performance was helped by basketball gear. To create his human/bug hybrid walk, D'Onofrio put on a pair of braces of the kind basketball players wear, and locked them so he couldn't bend his legs.

The Terminator

CST3-188 The Terminator The movie came from James Cameron's nightmare. Cameron was in Rome, Italy doing the final cut of Piranha II, when he was stricken with a 102-degree fever. As he tossed and turned at night, he dreamt of the unstoppable robot. CRACKED.COM

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Horror movies on streaming Tucker & Dale prime video vs. Evil The DVD release included a special feature cut of the film from the college kids' POV, seeing Tucker and Dale as evil murderers. CRACKED.COM

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Horror movies on streaming A Nightmare HBO on Elm Street max Freddy wears a red and green sweater because Wes Craven read on Scientific American that the human eye doesn't like seeing those colors together. CRACKED.COM

Dune

DUNE Hans Zimmer turned down Tenet for this. Zimmer is a long-time collaborator of Christopher Nolan, but he is also a huge Dune fan. So he chose to work on Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel rather than Nolan's movie. CRACKED.COM

Oscars

Of the 84 Oscar Best Picture winners from 1929 to 2013, just nine were set in Asia. 9 Four were set in Africa, and none in Australia or South America.

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