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18 Movies With Eyebrow-Arching Origin Stories

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18 Movies With Eyebrow-Arching Origin Stories

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The creative process is mysterious and amazing, and that goes double for the creative nut-jobs in Hollywood. Brace yourself for some amazing facts about the source material behind well-known movies. It's not just the goings-on behind-the-scenes that are bonkers. The cavalcade of crazy starts much, much earlier, with the books, shows, stories, and myths that the scripts are based on.

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OIUNU SYHO The movie Psycho is based on a book of the same name, written by Robert Bloch. Alfred Hitchcock not only acquired the film rights to the no

17 Entry by Kevin King

In the novel Call Me by Your Name, Oliver watches Elio poop. The movie adaptation scrapped a key moment in which the two lovers bond over each other's

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CRACKEDCON Saw II from was adapted a completely different movie's screenplay that had been widely rejected. SAL With no time to write a screenplay, th

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COYOTE UGLY $5 10 MATA 1306 ENALT CO BOUTS BOOZL Coyote Ugly was based on a 1997 GQ article titled ELIZABETH GILBERT The Muse of the Coyote OVER 10 M

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George Miller took inspiration for MAD MAX from his time working as a resident in an Australian ER. He described the road accident victims as 'the raw

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Dumbo was based on a story in a Roll-A-Book, a short-lived novelty. This was a box with images you could scroll through. Disney stumbled on one of the

12 Entry by Andrea Meno

The Harry Potter world has wizards who are against wearing pants. They're called Fresh Air Refreshes Totally CFA.R.T.) and, to them, pants blOCK mag

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Pitch Perfect (2012) is actually an adaptation of a non-fiction book which discusses a cappella subculture in colleges. 'Pitch Perfect The Quest for C

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NIGHTMARE a on ELM STREET WAS INSPIRED BY AN ARTICLE ABOUT A CAMBODIAN BOY WHO WOULD STAY AWAKE FOR DAYS AT A TIME, BECAUSE HIS TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES

9 Entry by Timon DJ Spajic

GRAc The Fast and the Furious was based off of a magazine article. In 1998, VIBE published an article called Racer X, which profiled Rafael Estevez,

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The screenplay for American Beauty is loosely based on the Amy Fisherl Joey Buttafuoco story. Alan Ball got the idea for the movie after he saw a comi

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The Jeff Goldblum movie Earth Girls Are Easy was based on a novelty song. GIRLS ARTH EASY ARE An'out-of-this-world, down-to-earth romantic comedy.. It

6 Entry by Timon DJ Spajic

Mean Girls was based on a teen self-help book. GRAU LINDSAYLOHAN INEY IAN ONNOHOS ANA EVSAD AVIPHIR AATE HONCKOL INIAROS HE Tiny Fey based ANGIRIS the

5 Entry by Moses Armstrong

CRACKED.OOIN Several exchanges in the novel THE ROAD are taken directly from conversations Cormac McCarthy had with his son.

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COOL HAND LUKE was partially based on legends of a real prisoner on a Florida chain gang. While author Donn Pearce never met him, the real Luke was so

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Mars Attacks! was based on a trading card series. 19 BURNING FLEST Mars Attacks trading cards came out all the way back in 1962; however they didn't l

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Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds is based on a short story originally published in a women's interest magazine. GOOD Daphne HOUSTKFEPING du Maurier's Best

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Ransom Riggs was going to use his collection of creepy old photos to make a picture book. His publisher said he'd be better off using it as the basis

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