29 Movie Facts We Rigged to Explode Underneath the Golf Course We Were Entrusted to Maintain

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29 Movie Facts We Rigged to Explode Underneath the Golf Course We Were Entrusted to Maintain
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If it wants movie facts, it’s gonna get movie facts! Twenty-nine sticks of dynamite worth of them straight to the dome!

The Omen

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2006 THE OMEN A processing lab accident destroyed 13,500 feet of film during post-production, requiring the scene revealing young Damian's 666 birthmark to be reshot. Still, this loses the paranormal edge because it was revealed in 2021 that the fire was caused by religious protesters. CRACKED.COM

Heat

The iconic Robert De Niro shot in Heat was inspired by a 1967 painting. To director Michael Mann, the painting showed somebody who was involved in some life of aggression and action and yet contrast within the mental state because here was a moment of inner loneliness, so he basically made it a shot. CRACKED.COM

The Professional

The Professional could have been much creepier. The gross Lolita angle is mostly subtext, and easily overlooked - but it was intended to be right there in your face. Luc Besson's original screenplay includes a scene where Mathilda seduces Léon, and he is unable to oppose her. Yikes. CRACKED COM

Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka has a sequel partly set in outer space. In Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and Charlie's family ride a magic elevator to space, where they meet aliens-and that's the least bonkers thing that happens. It's an outrage that we never got a movie adaptation. CRACKED.COM

The Titanic

CRACKED.COM The cast and crew of Titanic did PCP by accident. A night of shooting was cut short when dozens of people got extremely high and had to be rushed to the hospital. As it turned out, the clam chowder the crew had for lunch had been spiked with PCP. It was never known who tried to turn the shooting into a wild rave.

American Psycho 2

American Psycho 2 wasn't supposed to be American Psycho 2. When Mila Kunis signed up for a slasher movie, she had no idea it was an American Psycho sequel-because no one did. It wasn't until production kicked off that the producers decided to connect the two films. CRACKED.COM

Peter Pan

CRACKED.COM The creator of Peter Pan wrote Sherlock Holmes fanfic. Think fanfiction is a thing of the internet? People have been writing (and publishing) pastiches and imaginary sequels with their favorite characters since the 1800s. J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, wrote his own Sherlock Holmes adventure in 1893.

Ghostbusters II

CRACKED.COM Max von Sydow had a secret role in Ghostbusters II. Von Sydow voiced Vigo the Carpathian in the 2009 Ghostbusters video game - and fans noticed that he sounded exactly like Vigo in Ghostbusters II. Eventually, producers spilled the truth- they had von Sydow overdub the original actor's voice in the movie, and never told anyone.

Terminator

Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't tough enough for the German dub of Terminator. Schwarzenegger wasn't al- lowed to voice himself be- cause the producers thought that his Austrian accent wasn't tough enough for the Terminator. He's never dubbed himself in all of his movies since. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Rush Hour

Jackie Chan doesn't really like the Rush Hour films he made. Chan said he found the ac- tion to be too American- ized and he did not under- stand the humor. Не re- turned for a sequel after being offered an irresist- ible amount of money. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Thor: Ragnarok

Hela in Thor: Ragnarok is a makeover of a different character. In the comics, Hela was never Thor's sister who escaped imprisonment in another realm - that actually describes Angela. Created by Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane for Spawn, Angela was later bought by Marvel and turned into Odin's first-born daughter. CRACKED.COM

Blade Runner

CRACKED.COM The title of Blade Runner came from an unrelated novel. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was certainly an ungainly title for a movie. After considering Android and Mechanismo, the filmmakers took the title of Alan Е. Nourse's The Bladerunner, a novel about smugglers of surgical equipment (people who run blades).

Scarface

Brian DePalma undid the edits he made on Scarface hoping no one would notice. CRACKED.COM After making edits and ар- pealing to the MPAA for an R rating, director Brian De- Palma felt that the cuts he made were so minor no one would notice if he put them back in, so he did.

Pirates of the Caribbean

In Pirates of the Caribbean, Mackenzie Crook had to wear two contact lenses in the same eye. It's uncomfortable, but not painful, he says. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Robert Rodriguez

A Robert Rodriguez movie won't be released until 2115. The only copy of 100 Years, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring John Malkovich, is currently sitting in a time-locked safe set to open in November 2115. The movie was made as a publicity stunt for an extra-fancy cognac that is aged 100 years. CRACKED.COM

Jodie Foster

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Ghost Dog

Forgotten Indie Movies From the '90s 1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Way before the self-parodying zombie flick The Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch made this philosophical action movie about honor, samurais and hip-hop, starring Forest Whittaker. It's also based on the same French crime thriller that inspired John Woo's The Killer. Yeah, this is major league action. CRACKED.COM

Midnight

Forgotten Rom-Coms Midnight Challenging the Hays Code, this wacky comedy is way too raunchy for the prudish reputation of old-timey Hollywood. A gold-digging American showgirl is left stranded in Paris, and is romantically pursued by a cabbie while a wealthy man pays her to ruin his wife's love affair. It's pure screwball insanity, and the quick-witted script hasn't aged one bit. 1939 CRACKED.COM

Get Out

GET OUT The name Armitage connects the movie to H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, a novella about race mixing. CRACKED.COM

Alien

The Facehugger was originally going to be painted green. When Dan O'Bannon saw the natural-colored tone of the thing on set, he insisted they leave it unpainted. CRACKED.COM

Stunts

Helen Gibson (1891-1977) was ONE BADASS WOMAN. Back when men would dress in drag to perform female stunts, Gibson became the first Hollywood stunt woman. One of her most harrowing stunts involved jumping a motorcycle onto a speeding train. CRACKED.COM

Rogue One

Deleted scenes that weren't going to be in the movie Rogue one The Forest In the announcement for the movie, there's a slow pan across a forest planet that never appears in the film. The planet isn't even mentioned - but we bet it makes you think of Endor. CRACKED.COM

The Last Samurai

29 Movie Facts We Rigged to Explode Underneath the Golf Course We Were Entrusted to Maintain

King Kong

August on prime video August 1 King Kong $1.7 million was spent on a 40-foot tall animatronic ape-which never worked. Also, two giant gorilla hands were made - both of them right hands. CRACKED.COM

Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 hints that Deckard's child was a girl, not a boy like K. In a memory, we see the mop-haired child chased through an orphanage by a group of boys with shaved heads. к visits the place, and only the girls keep their hair, so he couldn't be the grown-up child. CRACKED.COM

Get Out

Get Out's shade of light blue for its opening credits is an homage to The Shining. THE SHINING CRACKED.COM

Aliens

Aliens (1986) Artist and designer Rob Cobb wanted the colony to resemble the scientific bases in Antarctica. Cobb explained that the open and exposed spread of Hadley's Hope didn't really make sense given the weather on the exomoon, but they decided to choose aesthetics over detailed accuracy. CRACKED.COM

Shaft

THE SHAFT TRILOGY TOOK 48 YEARS TO COMPLETE. CRACKED Not remakes, 2019's Shaft was a sequel to 2000's Shaft, which was a sequel to 1971's Shaft. John Shaft Jr. (Jesse T. Usher) is the son of John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson), who is the son of the original John Shaft (Richard Roundtree).

Interactive Movies

JACK RICHARD LESLIE Terrible ideas about the future of movies Interactive choose Your own Adventure Movies Interfilm provided movies in which the audience could pick between different scenes and endings. It didn't take off, as every theater needed to be retrofitted with $70,000 worth of equipment. CRACKED.COM

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