31 Juvenile Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Can’t Wait to Be King

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31 Juvenile Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Can’t Wait to Be King
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Okay, so these movie facts aren’t King yet, but Prince facts are pretty cool too, right? Not facts about Prince the musical artist — there are some in a ton of great music lists on the site though — but we just mean movie facts that will be King one day.

So you better bow to them now. They’ll remember your loyalty when they’re on the throne.

The Karate Kid

Plot Holes CRACKED The karate Kid Daniel manages to beat his rival Johnny Lawrence with a kick to the head, even though they had agreed at the beginning of the fight that no head shots were allowed.

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption inspired a dance program at a Filipino jail. - CPS CPO PORC In the movie, Andy Dufresne plays an aria to inmates over the loudspeaker - which gave Byron F. Garcia, security advisor at a prison in Cebu, the Philippines, the idea to play Queen's Another One Bites the Dust for inmates. They danced, and a dance program soon became a regular part of prison life there. Inmates even performed for the public. CRACKED.COM

The Suicide Squad

THE SUICIDE SQUAD There's a small TV in the prison scene that's screening The Toxic Avenger in the background. CRACKED.COM

Aliens

Aliens (1986) James Cameron and his then-wife and collaborator Gale Anne Hurd fought to have Sigourney Weaver star in the sequel. Fox studio was reluctant to insist on Weaver returning for the sequel because it could've caused her agent to inflate the asking price. Cameron and Hurd quit, and only came on board again after Fox agreed to cast Weaver. CRACKED.COM

Primer

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PRIMER THE MOVIE COST 7,000 TO MAKE. Only five people worked on the film, with Shane Carruth acting as director, writer, producer, editor, designer, composer, and protagonist. To call Primer an indie film is truly an understatement. CRACKED.COM

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

AT THE END OF THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2, KATNISS AND PEETA ENJOY THEIR LIFE TOGETHER WITH THEIR TWO KIDS. Living up to the cool aunt stereotype, Jennifer Lawrence gave the roles to her two nephews, Bear and Theodore. CRACKED.COM

The Aviator

CRACKED LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Aviator The Aviator is a biographical film about Howard Hughes, an eccentric billionaire with OCD symptoms. The movie follows his life as he deals with classic contamination-related fears and compulsions while also exhibiting traits not typically associated with the disorder such as risk taking and promiscuity.

Star Wars

An unaltered 35mm print of Star Wars resides in the Library of Congress. GRACKED.COM The Library of Congress in the US has the unadulterated 35mm print of Star Wars submitted to them in 1977 for copyright, and anyone can watch the 4K restoration by prior appointment. This is the closest you can get to reliving the experience of seeing the film in theaters for the first time.

Alien: Covenant

Originally, David was supposed to do a Hitler-style kick while walking through the ship at the end of Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott axed the idea, thinking it'd look ridiculous. CRACKED.COM

Olivia Munn and Ken Jeong

Olivia Munn and Ken Jeong CRACKED.COM While promoting 2016's Ride Along 2, some jokester asked them whether, if a mass shooting erupted in a night club, they were morally clear to ditch the bill on their bottle service. Both were unamused. The same reporter asked Jeong to take a look at her tonsils.

Black Swan

CRACKED.COM To prepare for her role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman practiced for at least five hours a day. She sometimes started at 5 a.m. because she had other movies to film as well. She practiced so hard for the role that she ended up with a dislocated rib.

Wonder Woman

One early scene in Wonder Woman required months of preparation. It's the one where the Amazons fight German soldiers - it also took two weeks to shoot. CRACKED.COM

Scarface

Classic Hollywood Movies Original VS. Remake 1932 Scarface Howard Hawks' original was already a respected classic. Then Brian De Palma's reimagining with Al Pacino came out, which is also a masterpiece. The brand is so strong, studios are just bound to ruin it with a Machine Gun Kelly version or something. 1980 CRACKED.COM

Tokyo Drift

Vin Diesel cameo'd in Tokyo Drift just to get the rights to Riddick back. Universal didn't want to make more Riddick movies after Chronicles of Riddick because they weren't profitable enough, but they didn't just want to hand over the rights either. So, when they needed a cameo from Diesel, he asked for the rights instead of money, and got them. CRACKED.COM

Mars Attacks!

Fictional Presidents PRESIDENT Mars Attacks! James Dale Warren Beatty was considered for the role before Jack Nicholson got into the picture. CRACKED.COM

Ghostbusters

CRACKED.COM STAY Being 112.5 feet tall and 37.5 feet wide, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters contains roughly 925,000 GALLONS of marshmallow. The goo from its explosion could be used to make HERSHEY 186 million s'mores.

Finding Dory

PIXAR MOVIES FINDING DORY RECYCLED THE ORIGINAL FILM'S FLASHBACKS. Marlin's tragic story was at first going to be sprinkled in as flashbacks, but it was made into a prologue to make him more sympathetic. The idea was perfect for Dory's journey, though. CRACKED.COM

The Last Crusade

The Berlin airport in The Last Crusade was actually a radioactive San Francisco island. BERLIN FLUGHAFEN The man-made Treasure Island was where the U.S. Navy established its Nuclear War Academy - which conducted exercises such as spraying a ship with radioactive material, then cleaning it. CRACKED.COM

Scream

CRACKED TUKFZA SCREAM INCLUDED A SOLID NOD TO THE EXORCIST. Director Wes Craven brought in The Exorcist star Linda Blair for a cameo as a reporter. It's a clear tribute to one of the best horror films of all time.

Forrest Gump

One of Kurt Russell's most successful movies was one nobody knows he was in. R.J. MacReady was in Forrest Gump? Yup! Even though you didn't see him, you definitely heard him. When things didn't work out with the original Elvis impersonator, Russell was brought in to do the voice of The King as a favor to director Robert Zemeckis. Which surely was the less questionable solution than if they had brought in Nicolas Cage. CRACKED.COM

Star Trek Into Darkness

SIMON PEGG TRICKED HIS CO-STARS INTO USING A MADE-UP CREAM. EGG CHRIS PIN While shooting Star Trek Into Darkness, Pegg convinced Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, and Benedict Cumberbatch that they had to put Neutron Cream on their faces in order to protect themselves from dangerous lasers that were present on the set. CRACKED.COM

Black Panther

Black Panther's London sequence is full of blue (for a reason). The image is tinted blue, and nearly everyone is wearing it - because, according to the filmmakers, it represents colonization. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Baby Groot

When Baby Groot throws up in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, that's James Gunn's nod to his roots. It's his way of acknowledging that he started out in B-movies and isn't afraid to resort to the lowest common denominator which is a baby tree vomiting. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

The Theory of Everything

Some Swiss doctor really did suggest they should just let Stephen Hawking die. In The Theory of Everything, his wife insists Stephen must live rather than be taken off the ventilator-that's how it actually happened. CRACKED.COM

Midnight Express

Midnight Express The story of courage Ecoutent happen TAES dd ASPORTOF Midnight Express - CRACKED.COM Author Billy Hayes says the film completely changed the ending to his real-life story about spending years in a Turkish prison. It probably didn't help that Oliver Stone was reportedly high on coke, weed, and booze while Hayes was recounting his daring escape.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family CHRISTOPHER LLOYD WAS A HUGE UNCLE FESTER FAN WHEN НЕ WAS A KID. I grew up on Charles Addams' cartoons, particularly The Addams Family, and Uncle Fester was always one of my favorites. Every time the magazine came in with Charles Addams' cartoons, I'd open it up, hoping there'd be one with Uncle Fester. Не just always appealed to me, his whole persona. So, I was astonished when, literally decades later, I get a call to play the part. CRACKED.COM

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31 Juvenile Bits of Movie Trivia That Just Can’t Wait to Be King

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ben Stein's economics lecture in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was an ad-lib. licy n D Director John Hughes said Would you ad-lib a scene just as if you were teaching economics, and we'll see how it goes. Don't write anything down, just something that's really interesting to you. CRACKED.COM

The Last Jedi

RIAN JOHNSON'S HAND IS IN THE TRC ! LAST JEDI. CRACKED.COM The gloved hand grabbing Han Solo's dice at the end of the movie doesn't actually belong to Mark Hamill-it's the hand of the director, Rian Johnson.

Godzilla

EARLY GIGS OF STAR TREK ACTORS GEORGE TAKEI GODZILLA Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go go Godzilla! Before his Star Trek fame, George Takei was in a bunch of Godzilla movies, including Rodan, Gigantis and Godzilla Raids Again. CRACKED.COM

Along Came Polly

Ben Stiller got attacked by a ferret while filming Along Came Polly. Stiller was holding the ferret for a scene, and, in his words, he did this crazy turn-around thing. Не literally attached himself to my chin and he didn't let go. CRACKED.COM

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