28 Satisfying Bits of Movie Trivia to Satiate the Cinephilic Soul

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28 Satisfying Bits of Movie Trivia to Satiate the Cinephilic Soul
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Like a warm bowl of soup on a cold winter’s eve, your movie-loving brain will be able to feel these highly interesting movie facts cascade down its esophagus and hug its tummy from the inside. 

Weird analogy? Probably. We just wanted to capture that incredibly satisfying feeling we movie lovers got while learning these lesser-known movie tidbits. They hit our spots, and we just know that they’ll hit yours too.

Rocky

Sylvester Stallone was not the actor that the producers wanted to star in 'Rocky'. CRACKED.COM With just $106 in his bank account, Stallone turned down a $300,000 offer - the equivalent of $1 million today-for the rights to 'Rocky' so that he could star in the film himself.

The Princess Bride

Christopher Guest used a real sword. THE PRINCESS BRIDE CRACKED.COM They didn't have a prop sword handy, so Cary Elwes told Guest to give him a tap with a real sword... then he woke up in a hospital, getting stitches.

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TIME LOOP MOVIES SOURCE CODE PRODUCERS COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HELL THE MOVIE WAS ABOUT. Being an established screenwriter, Ben Ripley thought he could sell the idea without a script. Не was wrong. just looked at me like | was nuts, he said. Ultimately, I had to put it on the page to make my case. CRACKED.COM

James Franco

James Franco sprinted face-first into a dark forest. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS CRACKED.COM In the process, he gashed open his head and required several stitches. Instead of halting production for weeks so he could heal, they decided that his character just wears a headband now.

Harry Potter

CRACKED.COM For 2007's Harry Potter OF THE PHOENIX I1 took ONE glass blower 24 MONT HS to create all of the orbs for the Hall Of prophecy.

Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting inspired Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. MARVEL STUDIOS Shang-Chi is a lot like Will Hunting - they both have a big secret, and there's a lot of baggage they need to take care of to fully realize their potential. CRACKED.COM

Superman

MATT BOMER SUPERMAN CRACKED.COM Bomer revealed on a podcast that he was set to play the Man of Steel for JJ Abrams back in 2002. His Lois Lane would have been Amy Adams, a role she landed 10 years later.

Kenny Baker

You probably know Kenny Baker played R2-D2. But did you know he also played an Ewok? In fact, he was the original choice to play Wicket, Leia's young Ewok friend, but he got sick. The role of Wicket went to Warwick Davis, and Baker wound up playing the Ewok who hijacks a speeder bike. CRACKED.COM http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kenny_Baker

Abre Los Ojos

VIRTUAL REALITY MOVIES ABRE LOS OJOS 1997 THE CLUB SCENE HAS A MUSICAL EASTER EGG. The song that plays is Massive Attack's Risingson, which features the repeated lyrics dream on, echoing the movie's theme of fantasy blurring with reality. CRACKED.COM

Predator

Arnie's cigar wasn't really lit at the start of Predator. Somehow, they couldn't get it to light up, so they gave up and added the glow as a visual effect. CRACKED.COM

RoboCop

Iconic by random chance RoboCop Paul Verhoeven wasn't a fan of the script when he first read it, and tossed it away after a few pages. His wife Martine stepped in and convinced him to give it a chance. CRACKED

Grinch

They asked Benedict Cumberbatch to use an English accent in 2018's Grinch. But he pushed back, because the Grinch was already so different from the other characters, and Cumberbatch didn't think he should be English as well, but I thought just not thematically a bad guy. CRACKED.COM

Batwoman Returns

Sean Young got sued by James Woods for stalking. Which included her leaving a decapitated doll at his doorstep and mailing him gory images. Later, when she was passed up for the role of Catwoman in Batman Returns, she showed up unannounced at the studio lot in a makeshift Catwoman outfit. Tim Burton CRACKED.COM hid from her in the bathroom.

Day of the Dead

You've probably sat in some gross food at some point. But for hours at a time? And on purpose? Actors playing corpses in Day Of The Dead would be attached to bodies stuffed with entrails from a local meat plant, shooting for hours with their noses just inches away. Over the course of shooting, those piles went from disgusting to literally rancid. The true horror of the movie was the smell. CRACKED.COM

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Toshiro Mifune could have been Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Seven Samurai star turned down the offer because he thought it would cheapen the image of samurai, his daughter says. CRACKED.COM

Lili Taylor

Scream Queens Lili Taylor is a scream queen and a feminist icon. Her horror cred includes The Haunting, Leatherface, The Conjuring, and Eli. She has also serious indie cred, playing Valerie Solanas in I Shot Andy Warhol, and was nominated for an Emmy for appearing on The X-Files. CRACKED.COM

Jurassic Park

The mosquito in Jurassic Park actually doesn't suck blood. That species, Toxorhynchites rutilus, is the only species that doesn't. CRACKED.COM

Caddyshack

MICHAEL O'KEEFE LIED ABOUT BEING A GOOD GOLFER. ABSWOOD CADDYSHACK O'Keefe says the filmmakers wanted at least one person from the cast to have some golfing experience, so he told them he knew how to golf. In reality, he hadn't touched a golf club since he was 12. CRACKED.COM

George Lucas

Good sports about parodies George Lucas was totally cool with Spaceballs- but he made a deal with Mel Brooks that stopped any Spaceballs toys, like action figures, from being sold. Basically, You can make fun of me, but not make serious money off of it. CRACKED

Transformers 2

Robert Pattinson pretended to be American for his Transformers 2 audition. As in, he literally tried to sell the filmmakers on him being American, even though they already knew he was English. I always kept thinking that if you say you're English then they judge your American accent....So they were listening to my backstory about being from Denver, and they're like, 'What is this guy on?' CRACKED.COM

Tom Hardy

Tom Hardy likes to think he played Christopher Nolan in Inception. CRACKED.COM Не tried to imitate the director's mannerisms for his character Eames.

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy mixed hobbits, dwarves, and humans. With forced perspective. Making normal-sized actors look vastly different in size wasn't just a matter of swapping out children for the long shots. Filmmakers built special rigs that separated the actors so that small characters would look tiny compared to human-sized ones. CRACKED.COM

Saving Private Ryan

Back when Vin Diesel was still a struggling actor, he made a short film about a (surprise) struggling actor, called Multi-Facial. Steven Spielberg saw it, and cast him in Saving Private Ryan. GRACKED.COM

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