28 Movies That Were Inspired By Unexpected Things

28 Movies That Were Inspired By Unexpected Things

Have you ever wondered how come we've never really seen Tom Cruise and Christian Bale work together? Might have something to do with Bale admitting he partly based Patrick Bateman from American Psycho on Cruise. More on that and 27 other bizarre inspirations behind famous movies and shows: 

Springfield THE SIMPSONS SPRINGFIELD CRACKED COM Matt Groening confirmed it's supposed to be set in Springfield, Oregon and liked how the name was so common.

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