35 Facts About Sci-Fi Movies to Hold You Over Until We Colonize Mars

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35 Facts About Sci-Fi Movies to Hold You Over Until We Colonize Mars

Sci-fi gadgets and extraterrestrial landscapes may be in your future, but the guy whos closest to making it happen is busy ruining Twitter. In the meantime, we have tons of tantalizing sci-fi movie facts!

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Planet of the Apes

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PLANET OF THE APES THE HUMOR WASN'T IN ROD SERLING'S SCRIPT. The goofy, dated humor was added in rewrites, by a writer whose name associate producer Mort Abrahams doesn't even remember. CRACKED.COM

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Planet of the Apes

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PLANET OF THE APES THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS NOT A MODEL. Lady Liberty in the iconic ending is a matte painting, added to the Malibu cliffs (reachable only by helicopter) where the scene was shot. Matte painting was truly CGI before CGI. CRACKED.COM

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Peggy Sue Got Married

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED THE CREW WORKED 20 HOURS A DAY, SIX DAYS A WEEK. Francis Ford Coppola stood to lose final cut privileges if he didn't didn't finish the movie on a very tight deadline. It's amazing that they still managed to pull technically intricate scenes under such conditions. CRACKED.COM

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

TIME TRAVEL MOVIES 482 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST WE WERE GOING TO SEE MAGNETO KILLING JFK. When Matthew Vaugh was supposed to direct the movie, an early idea was to open with Magneto controlling the magic bullet that killed the president. In the end, it was all reduced to a remark by Beast. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM THE MASK The movie: The mask turns Stanley Ipkiss into a living Looney Tune. The comic: The mask turns Stanley Ipkiss into a sadistic murderer.

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