30 Bits of Movie Trivia We’re Selling Off to Our Neighbors So We Can Follow Our Hearts to a Little Place Called Aspen

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The NeverEnding Story

The Neverending Story Michael The Ende Deverending Story Foundation CALE CRACKED.COM Fantasy author Michael Ende hated the rewrites on his original script so much that he tried to buy back the rights, and eventualy just had his name removed from the credits.

Rain Man

The cool thing about Rain Man is that he's a savant. That's actually insanely unlikely. In the Dustin Hoffman / Tom Cruise film, Raymond is clearly mentally disabled. Yet he's also a savant. Even if the character was meant to be autistic, the likelihood of him having savant abilities would be a scant 10 percent. The prevalence of savantism in the non-autistic population, including those with intellectual disabilities, is less than 1 percent. GRACKED COM https://www. autism .com/understanding savants

Alien

Dutch customs officials gave H.R. Giger grief because they thought his artwork for Alien was actual photographs. Where on Earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In hell, perhaps? CRACKED.COM

Scream

Meta Movies Scream Ghostface is not based on Edvard Munch's The Scream. The mask was widely sold long before Wes Craven's movie, and the designer has said it was spooky figures from 1930s Max Fleischer cartoons. CRACKED.COM

Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory CHARLiE ANDTHE CHOCOL TE FACTORY BY Roald Dahl Remand by Joseph Companing - four - and Che - with the TO The and to plan CRACKED COM Roald Dahl wrote the original script, but was so miffed about the rewrites that he wrote in his will that the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, couldn't be adapted for film.

American Pie

CRACKED.COM Eugene Levy's 15 year old son Dan had a hard time in high school when American Pie came out. AMERICAN PIE Eugene plays the dad of a teenager who is on a mission to lose his virginity. Dan's schoolmates thought that the movie was about him and would regularly joke 'Ooh. Is that a story about your life?'

Mississippi Burning

In Mississippi Burning, the FBI sends two agents to investigate the killings of three civil rights workers. THE REALITY The FBI actually sent more than 150 agents to investigate the murders. In the film, there are just two agents. And it took the real-life investigators 44 days to break the veil of silence and locate the bodies. CRACKED.COM

Sigourney Weaver

Sigorney Weaver came up with the idea to sing You Are My Lucky Star. Ridley Scott said it was a nightmare getting the rights to use the song in the movie. CRACKED.COM

The Fifth Amendment

YOU CAN'T BULLY PEOPLE INTO CONFESSING CRIMES IN A COURTROOM. The Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination exists to protect people against this kind of aggressive coercion. Try to lead someone down this path, and you' I'll get a huge objection. CRACKED.COM

Halo

Guillermo del Toro Не was set to produce a Halo film by Neill Blomkamp. Despite Blomkamp literally losing part of an ear to make a short Halo film, the production company hated him so much that, after the third production company wanted to give everyone pay cuts, it was game over for this Halo adaptation. CRACKED.COM

On-Set Feuds

Director John Frankenheimer hated working with Val Kilmer on a movie. The movie was The Island of Dr. Moreau, and he said There are two things I will never ever do in my whole life. The first is that I will never climb Mt. Everest. The second is that I will never work with Val Kilmer ever again. CRACKED.COM

Casino Royale

Daniel Craig just happened to hit a sandbank on the beach in Casino Royale. In the script, Bond would float off - Craig tried to do that, but hit a sandbank, so he got up and walked out of the water. Which gave us his iconic shot in blue shorts. CRACKED.COM

The Mask

In the comic book version of The Mask, Stanley Ipkiss is a sadistic murderer. CAN NOW. YOU JWMY, SPELL DEADMEATU2 Ahn, SHUT UP,YOU'LL THE WORRY KiD. For example, he visits an elementary school teacher who embarrassed him as a kid and stomps her face in, in front of her students. CRACKED.COM

Homeward Bound

CRACKED COM Disney's 1993 pet adventure was the feel-good film of the year, but wasn't an original. HOMEWARD BOUND THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY It was based on a Disney movie The Incredible from 1963 just called fourney The Incredible Journey, which in turn was based on a 1961 British children's book. in SAURA BURNFORD

Stunt Doubles

CHRIS HEMSWORTH'S THOR STUNT DOUBLE... BOBBY HOLLAND HANTON. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Skyfall. BADASS STUNTS: My first-ever stunt on a film set was for Quantum of Solace, during a night shoot at 2 a.m. in Colón, Panama. I was jumping from one balcony to another with no safety cables, three stories up...For Game of Thrones, we were filming in Seville and I was torched with a real flamethrower, aka Khaleesi's dragons. It was pretty full-on. CRACKED.COM

Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can FRANK ABAGNALE CRACKED.COM At first, Abagnale liked the rewrites of his life: the movie, falsely, had him actually maintaining a relationship with his father, and being on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Later in life, though, he grew to detest being saddled with a life story he wrote at 28: When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life, but when I was 28, I was egotistical and self-centered.

The Fast & Furious Movies

CHINESE AUDIENCES FREAKING LOVE THE FAST & FURIOUS MOVIES. In China, Furious 7 & 8 are the two top-grossing Hollywood movies of all time. 1. Fate of the Furious, $392 million (U.S.) 2. Furious 7, $390 million 3. Avengers: Infinity War, $359 million 4. Transformers: Age of Extinction, $320 million Meanwhile, they don't give a sh!t about Star Wars. The Last Jedi, $42 million CRACKED.COM

The Departed

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS JACK NICHOLSON REQUESTED THE SEX SCENE. THE DEPARTED Nicholson says that he pushed for the film to showcase the evil side of sexuality. These kind of monsters, they don't usually have a sex life onscreen, so I wanted to bring that to the part. CRACKED.COM

Step Brothers

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS PABLO CRUISE PERFORMED AT THE PREMIER. STEP BROTHERS After seeing one of their shirts in the trailer for the film, Pablo Cruise band members offered to perform at the premiere of the movie. CRACKED.COM

Skyfall

The evil Skyfall lair is Gunkanjima in Japan. It used to house some 5,250 miners on just 16 acres. In 1974, the coal there ran out, and new jobs were offered on the mainland on a first-come, first-served basis. The residents fled the island as fast as they could, leaving toys on the floor and cups of coffee on the tables. GRACKED.COM

Hannibal Lecter

HANNIBAL LECTER was inspired by Mexican doctor ALFREDO BALLÍ TREVIÑO. Thomas Harris interviewed Dr. Salazar in the '60s. Details given by Harris match Treviño, who was doing time for murder (not cannibalism, though). CRACKED.COM

Batman v Superman

The costume designer for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice designed the SpaceX space suits. CRACKED.COM Elon Musk commissioned Jose Fernandez, and said he wanted the suits to look badass and heroic. Fer- nandez didn't know what SpaceX was at the time, and thought it was for a film.

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson voiced one of the tennis commentators in The Royal Tenenbaums. The other one is Andrew Wilson. Apparently, some people think Wes Anderson's voice is actually Jason Schwartzman's, even though they don't sound alike. CRACKED.COM

Lady Bird

Lady Bird According to Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird's quirky movements are based on the film's director, Greta Gerwig. GRAGKED.COM

Back to the Future

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES AND MEANINGS BACK A REFERENCE TO THE TO FUTURE A GALE/ZEMECKIS MOVIE HE assier KOWN HOKE ever ELMO - - USED CARS IS TREE - - POLICIA - When Marty rides to school holding onto the back of a Jeep, he skates past a sign that says Used Cars. It's a referènce to the 1980 movie with the same title. CRACKED.COM

The Mummy

THE MUMMY LOOKED LIKE YOUNG APOCALYPSE. The Mummy The reboot was initially supposed to feature a male mummy, however, director Alex Kurtzman decided to go in a completely new direction after seeing the post-credits scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Не says their concept art for the mummy had the exact same design as the young Apocalypse. CRACKED.COM

Star Wars Merch

CRACKED COM STAR WARS In 2016, $262.9 billion worth of Star Wars merchandise was sold. The most popular item is the lightsaber. More than 10 million are sold every year.

Wesley Snipes

Marvel Stars from the Multiverse Marvel never stopped wanting Wesley Snipes. Snipes is Blade. That was the consensus at Marvel for a long-time, trying to bring the original Blade back, before recasting as Mahershala Ali. CRACKED.COM

The Runaways

April on hulu April 1 The Runaways Joan Jett sued Jackie Fox over making a fuss about the film after she refused to be involved, leading to her having almost no role. Lita Ford also didn't have a prominent role, but managed to avoid the drama. CRACKED.COM

USMC Captain Dale Dye

You can thank USMC Capt. Dale Dye for setting the bar for realism in war movies. The Vietnam veteran became a technical advisor mainly to see a war movie done right. ARRIERS, INC. After some setbacks he eventually met Oliver Stone and Platoon was made, which went on to win four Oscars including Best Picture, and Best Director. Dye then became known as CRACKED COM Hollywood's Drill Sergeant.

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