26 Bits of Movie Trivia That Waddled Out of a Cornfield After We Built a Baseball Diamond

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26 Bits of Movie Trivia That Waddled Out of a Cornfield After We Built a Baseball Diamond

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Jaws

Jaws' most famous line is an in-joke from the movie set. The boat towing the crew's barge (with equipment for filming at sea) was ridiculously small, so whenever anything went wrong, people started saying You're gonna need a bigger boat. Roy Scheider started ad-libbing the line in some of his takes, and one of them was for the scene where his character sees the shark for the first time. The rest is cinema history. CRACKED.COM

Gone Girl

If Tyler Perry had known Gone Girl was based on a book, with fans who wanted it adapted their way, he'd have turned it down. His agent, who knew about this, didn't tell him the movie was based on a book until after he took the role. CRACKED.COM

Back to the Future 2

Back To The Future 2 used a mold of Crispin Glover's face and clips from the original to make it seem as though he appeared in the sequel. Glover sued them and ensured that studios could own characters, but not actors' likeness. CRACKED COM

Dirty Harry

ACTION MOVIES DRIVE GUN SALES. Dirty Harry made the price of the Smith & Wesson 29 triple overnight. After Die Hard 2, Glock saw an instant increase in sales. Even the box office bomb Quigley Down Under drove a spike in Shiloh Sharps rifle sales. CRACKED.COM

Woman in the Moon

NASA USES THE T-MINUS COUNTDOWN BECAUSE OF WOMAN IN THE MOON. Fritz Lang's 1929 science fiction movie was the first space-themed movie to use a countdown instead of a count-up. NASA's T-minus 10, 9, 8... style countdown is derived from it. CRACKED.COM

Skyfall

SKYFALL CAUSED A SURGE IN RAZOR SALES. The sexy scene in the James Bond film caused a 735% percent spike in Google searches for straight razors. One razor company experienced a 405% up-tick in sales for the outdated razor. CRACKED.COM

The Day After Tomorrow

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW INCREASED AWARENESS OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS. WHERE WILL YOU BE? Even though the 2004 sci-fi movie showed a rather absurd depiction of catastrophic climatic effects, viewers were 11% more likely to care about climate change than non-viewers. CRACKED.COM

Chernobyl

CRACKED.COM Chernobyl is connected to Scary Movie. Craig Mazin, author of Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, and Superhero Movie, created Chernobyl. RESIDENT SALVA MEN ARE START FROM MARS ALIENS ARE LIVIN' FROM URANUS DOWN ENEMA HERE

Red Dawn

The enemy in the Red Dawn remake kept changing. The villain went from China to North Korea during production the film. CRACKED.COM

Paddington

The Ukrainian president was Paddington. In Ukraine, the CGI-animated bear is played by President Volodymyr Zelensky. CRACKED.COM

Rambo

Rambo was going to die. First Blood suddenly becomes a much worse title. CRACKED.COM

Terminator 2

Kyle Reese was going to be the T-1000. The original idea for Terminator 2 was to redo the first film's Kyle Reese vs. the T-800, but Skynet had sent back a T-1000 that looked like Kyle Reese. The executives thought it was too confusing, so they changed it to another skinny dude. CRACKED.COM

Apocalypse Now

CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne lied about his age to secure his casting in this epic film. Не said he was 16 to get the part of a 17 year old. Now Не was only 14 years old.

This Is the End

Sony really didn't like the idea of actors playing themselves in THIS IS THE END. So Seth Rogen lied and assured Sony they would shoot the movie in a way that would make it easy to cut around it, if they didn't like it. Which of course wasn't the case, as almost every scene in the movie makes it pretty clear they're playing themselves. CRACKED.COM

Speed 2: Cruise Control

Troubleshooter, the first script for Die Hard 3, involved terrorists on a Caribbean cruise ship. Bruce Willis didn't want to do something similar to Steven Segal's Under Siege, SO Troubleshooter became Speed 2: Cruise Control. CRACKED.COM

Men in Black

CRACKED.COM Barry Sonnenfeld misled Chris O'Donnell to get Will Smith cast in Men in Black. The producers wanted O'Donnell to play AgentJ, and asked Sonnenfeld to convince him to take the role. Instead, Sonnenfeld told O'Donnell he was an awful director and the script was bad. By the following day O'Donnell had passed on the project.

Wild Wild West

CRACKED.COM Producer Jon Peters' rejected idea for a giant spider in a Superman movie was later used in Wild Wild West. Peters originally made Kevin Smith include a huge spider for Superman to fight in his script for Superman lives. The script and the movie were later scrapped, but Peters' creature, that he called a Thanagarian Snare Beast, was used in the Will Smith comedy Wild Wild West, years later.

The Hangover

FROM THE DIRECTOR_GF OLS SCHOOLS SUKE GAS US CAN HANDIE VEGAS HANGOVER ED HELMS - - - CAFE DOB are - BRE - - 12 MHLAN THE - LTE - CAST - ASSK - FEEL IT JUNE 5 - - removed his real dental implant FOR THE HANGOVER. CRACKED.COM

Apocalypse Now

CRACKED.COM Apocalypse In Now an early scene, actor Martin Sheen is alone in a hotel room. Sheen, an alcoholic, had been drinking heavily that day prior to filming. Director Francis Ford Coppola goaded the intoxicated Sheen about vanity. Sheen punched his own reflection in a mirror, cutting his hand. Coppola told the crew to keep filming as Sheen stumbled about and sank to the floor. Sheen did not realize how badly he was injured and Coppola had him finish the scene before seeking aid.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs was going to use his collection of creepy old photos to make a picture book. His publisher said he'd be better off using it as the basis for a novel. So Riggs wrote Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. CRACKED.COM

Wolf of Wall Street

Wolf of Wall Street, Dumb and Dumber То, and Daddy's Home are products of a huge Malaysian money laundering scheme. 11 10 They were financed by the money siphoned from the Malaysian government into Red Granite Pictures, the production company that made the films. GRACKED.COM

Saw II

GRAGKED.COM Saw II was adapted from a completely different movie's screenplay that had been widely rejected. S With no time to write a screenplay, the studio used another called The Desperate. It had been rejected by other studios for being too closely related to, well, Saw.

American Beauty

The screenplay for American Beauty is loosely based on the Amy Fisher/ Joey Buttafuoco story. Alan Ball got the idea for the movie after he saw a comic book about their story that featured two different sides of the same coin, which got him thinking about the truth in the middle. CRACKED COM

Scream

The Scream mask was a random find in an old lady's house. The Scream designers' initial ideas for the killer's mask looked like something that belonged on an edgy '90s T-shirt. At the same time, the producers were scouting houses to shoot in, and they found a weird ghost mask in one of them (apparently, the owner's deceased husband collected masks). So they went ahead and used that one, as-is. CRACKED.COM

Lawrence of Arabia

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif were drunk during a big action scene in Lawrence of Arabia. The two actors were nervous about filming the Battle of Aqaba, where they charge at full speed alongside hundreds of men riding camels and horses. A bottle of Brandy and two bottles of milk is what it took to make O'Toole feel supremely confident. CRACKED.COM

The Last Jedi

Snoke's look from The Last Jedi was based on Hugh Hefner. The decision to dress a space dictator as a playboy came from Andy Serkis and Rian Johnson, who after contemplating other dictators to base his look on, eventually settled on Hefner. CRACKED.COM

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