31 Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Underwent an Incredible Glow-Up Montage

These glammed-out facts are more than ready for their third acts!
31 Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Underwent an Incredible Glow-Up Montage
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We hope that this transformation from info-nugget to highly interesting movie tidbit doesn’t go these facts’ heads. We do, though, hope it goes to your heads! See what we did there? 

Anywho, as we’ve seen in countless movies, a little glow up can cause a character to lose themselves before ultimately getting brought back down to Earth. We trust that our little movie fact pals stay grounded, but if not, we’re good enough pals to help them see that their physical makeover shouldn’t also be a personality makeover. They’re great just the way they are. You’ll see.

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

Ghostbusters

We could have had a Ghostbusters movie set in Hell. In a script Dan Aykroyd prepared for a Ghostbusters sequel, the ghost-hunting quartet is transported to a Hell version of Manhattan (called Manhellton), run by a Trump-like demon. Aykroyd said the idea was solid, but it'd need a couple movies' worth of build-up. PEIGE CRACKED.COM

Mamma Mia!

GRACKED COM Jukebox Musicals Mamma Mia! Pierce Brosnan didn't know what the movie was even about when he signed up for Mamma Mia! All he knew was that Meryl Streep was in it.

The Little Mermaid

The Tiananmen Square protests could have delayed The Little Mermaid. # The studio that drew the bubbles in the movie was based a few blocks away from the Square, and their work was trapped there until the protests were over. CRACKED.COM

No Way Home

Spider-Man Movie Villains Spider-Man: No Way Home That clip of Sandman is reused footage from Spider-Man 3. The character is entirely CGI until the very end of the film, when the real Thomas Hayden Church makes a brief appearance in a piece of footage from Spider- Man 3. With non actual performance from Church, the character may as well be called sans-man. 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).

Cyborg

The main characters in the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme flick Cyborg are all named after music instrument companies. There's Van Damme's character, Gibson Rickenbacker (Gibson is a guitar company, and Rickenbacker makes string instruments); Nady Simmons (Nady is an audio product manufacturer, and Simmons is a now-dead electronic drum company); and Fender Tremolo (Fender makes stringed instruments and amplifiers, and a tremolo arm is a electric guitar part); etc. CRACKED.COM

United Passions

TIM ROTH is sorry for his flattering portrayal of FIFA boss Sepp Blatter. GERATO DANS TM DEPARDIEU NEILL ROTH UNITED PASSIONS THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD CUP Roth admits he only agreed to star in United Passions, a controversial propaganda film for the corrupt FIFA organization, to get out of a financial hole. This is a role that will have my father turning in his grave, Roth said while apologizing for the film. CRACKED.COM

Meet the Parents

CRACKED.COM Baffling things done by the CIA Messing with Meet the Parents Originally, Ben Stiller was supposed to find out Robert De Niro's character was CIA after finding torture manuals, but the agency demanded he find photos of De Niro with famous people instead. Planning coups for corporate overlords is one thing, but messing with mediocre comedies? Too far, CIA.

Blade Runner

Blade Runner blew its budget on details you never see. Conceptual artist Syd Mead was hired for a few days, at $1,500 a day - but he ended up staying for weeks, filling the sets with stuff you never really notice (like fastidiously detailed, futuristic parking meters). That was one of the reasons for the movie's budget issues. CRACKED.COM

Zootopia

CRACKED.COM Zootopia's popsicle fraud happened for real. An ice cream company in Istanbul, Turkey ran a promotion where you could get a free popsicle by turning in a popsicle stick with the word FREE printed on it. Then a couple of crooks started counterfeiting their own winning sticks, and trading them for popsicles (which they then sold).

Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld has apologized for Bee Movie. According to Seinfeld, a bee having the hots for a human was not an intentional thing, and he has apologized for the uncomfortable subtle sexual aspect. Не has said, after it came out, I realized, 'This is really not appropriate for children. D'ya think, Jerry? CRACKED.COM

Us

Us came from a persistent fear that Jordan Peele had been having. He'd imagine seeing his own doppelganger on the subway, across the platform, and he would smile at Peele. That was the seed for the movie. CRACKED.COM

Almost Famous

Cameron Crowe's Oscar-winning movie, Almost Famous, is heavily based on his escapades as a GRAGKED.COM teenage rock journalist in the '70s. Just like the film's William Miller, Crowe was hired by Rolling Stone to travel with bands like Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. And, uh, he really did lose his virginity to a bunch of groupies.

Se7en

Mills' arm cast in SE7EN wasn't in the script - Brad Pitt got seriously injured for real while shooting a chase scene. Rather than shutting down production, Pitt's broken arm was written into the movie (and simply hidden for scenes happening before the accident). CRACKED.COM

Arrival

CRACKED.COM p6) 19 your paspose Fress, M TOKORU In ARRIVAL Dr. Banks explains to Col. Weber all ARMY the nuances of language that make communicating with the aliens a slow, painstaking process. The scene is based on a similar explanation screenwriter Eric Heisser gave to the movie's producers, who just went, all that needs to be in the script.

Rocky

CRACKED.COM The skating date in ROCKY was supposed to take place in a crowded ice rink. But the production ran out of money, and couldn't afford all the extras. So the scene was shot in an empty rink, leading to one of the franchise's most memorable moments.

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

A Christmas Movie

It took Bob Clark 12 years to get the movie made. A period movie about a kid wanting a BB gun for Christmas? Hard pass, studios kept saying. MGM reluctantly agreed to pony up the money if Clark signed up to direct another movie for them. 8 CRACKED.COM

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

MARILYN MONROE COULD HAVE STARRED IN CRACKED.COM BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. Truman Capote's novel had a more tragic tone than the Paramount production, and the author always pictured the character of Holly as a blonde. However, producers chose to put a more positive, innocent spin on the role, and chose Audrey Hepburn. And just like that, the world missed out on a breathy, sultry rendition of Moon River.

The Matrix

SANDRA BULLOCK TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF NEO. CRACKED.COM DE I I RHOM BEY MBY The producers of The Matrix approached a number of actors in their long search to find Neo. One of them was Bullock, and they were willing to change Neo into a woman if she accepted. Bullock wasn't interested, deciding that starring in Forces of Nature, a now-forgotten romcom, was a better career choice.

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

Ghostbusters 2

Ghostbusters 2's fur coat gag was recycled. They were going to use the gag with the dead skins coming back to life in the first movie, but they just didn't get around to filming it. So they put it in the sequel. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter

Tom Felton's grandpa is in the first Harry Potter movie. He's an extra in several different scenes -- when all the students enter the great hall for the first time, when Quirrell runs into the great hall to warn everyone, and and in the crowd at the Quidditch match. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Return of Jafar

THE RETURN OF JAFAR Genie CRACKED.COM ROBIN WILLIAMS DAN CASTELLANETA Williams refused to reprise the role, after Disney broke the conditions of a very generous contract negotiation. So we got the voice of Homer Simpson instead.

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