22 Plot-Driven Bits of Movie Trivia That’ll Have Your Mom Asking, ‘Wait, What’s Going On? I Thought He Was the Good Guy!’

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22 Plot-Driven Bits of Movie Trivia That’ll Have Your Mom Asking, ‘Wait, What’s Going On? I Thought He Was the Good Guy!’

Just because these movie facts are random, doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay attention. If you strap yourselves in and let them take you on this journey, you’ll see that they were all foreshadowing one big payoff!

We’ve said too much. You better hurry before we accidentally ruin the ending!

Elf

Jim Carrey almost played the lead. Carrey was initially attached to star in the movie, but the script took 10 years to finally go into production, and by that time he wasn't interested anymore. CRACKED COM

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The studio wanted eyeballs on Jack. Some people at Disney suggested he should have eyeballs, but Selick and Burton just ignored them. Selick says, We were never going to do that. CRACKED.COM

Her

Her В SAMANTHA A DI VAL s V CO CRACKED.COM Spike Jonze realized in post-production that having Samantha Morton perform her lines completely isolated from Joaquin Phoenix created exactly о chemistry. So he had Scarlett Johansson come in and re-record the lines for four months.

Panic Room

Panic Room MEG ALTMAN CRACKED.COM Nicole Kidman pushed herself to the very limits of her Moulin Rouge injuries, but had to be replaced by Jodie Foster 18 days into production.

Star Trek

The engine room scenes in 2009's Star Trek were shot in a brewery. J.J. Abrams wanted a big, open space that was totally unlike the soundstage sets seen in every Trek before that, so they used the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, California - which has 1.7 million square feet of floor area. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick WHITE was a fan of MEN CAN'T JUMP and hated The WIZARD of Oz CRACKED.COM

Talladega Nights

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS Learning to drive a race car is TERRIFYING في to wonder TALLADEGA NIGHTS CRACKED.COM THE BALLAD OF BICKY BOBBY After a single scary lap at racing speeds, Ferrell and McKay were ready to call it a day. Reilly insisted they keep going: Guys, we can't be wusses here. We can't make a NASCAR movie and not actually experience being in a race car.

Office Space

David Herman got fired from MADtv to appear in the movie. CRACKED.COM Не wasn't technically allowed to take the role while he was still a cast member, but he felt it was the right move for his career. So he loudly yelled all his lines at MADtv table reads until they fired him.

On Golden Pond

HENRY FONDA scored his first Oscar ON GOLDEN POND CRACKED.COM Fonda's kid Jane purchased the play On Golden Pond specifically to work out some real-life father/daughter issues. Onscreen wife Katherine Hepburn gave Spencer Tracy's lucky hat to Fonda, who wore it for the film.

Furious 7

PAUL WALKER was partly digital in his final film FURIOUS 7 CRACKED.COM It took state-of-the-art 2013 CGI (and Walker's brothers as stand-ins) to complete Walker's final performance. Amazingly, missing dialogue was pieced together from the actor's previously recorded lines.

The Big Lebowski

The French part of Beyoncé's song Partition is from The Big Lebowski It's almost a direct sample from the French dub of the movie. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman was accepted into an acting program at Oxford and could only afford to go because of a private benefactor That benefactor turned out to be Denzel Washington. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Shrek

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah became big because of Shrek. The song went mostly underappreciated for years, even as other artists kept covering it, until a version of it was used in a movie about an ogre, a princess, and a donkey. Then it started popping up everywhere. CRACKED.COM

Ray Liotta

The producer didn't want Ray Liotta. GoodFellas Behind the Scenes Scorsese was dead set on Liotta, but producer Irwin Winkler kept pushing him towards hiring someone with more star power. Liotta was able to pitch himself to Winkler during a chance meeting in a restaurant, winning him over. CRACKED.COM

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