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CST3-KBL The Terminator The movie came from James Cameron's nightmare. Cameron was in Rome, Italy doing the final cut of Piranha II, when he was stricken with a 102-degree fever. As he tossed and turned at night, he dreamt of the unstoppable robot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Men in Black Vincent D'Onofrio's performance was helped by basketball gear. To create his human/bug hybrid walk, D'Onofrio put on a pair of braces of the kind basketball players wear, and locked them so he couldn't bend his legs. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Willow It was the largest casting call for little people ever. According to star Warwick Davis, the movie hired between 225 and 240 little person actors. — Source

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Swiss Army Man The movie was pitched as a joke. As Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert were pitching movie ideas, they jokingly tossed in the premise of a man befriending a dead body on a desert island. Then one producer told them to go ahead with it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Seabiscuit Seabiscuit was played by ten horses. The multiplicity of horse actors was to get a good performance for the cameras and not tire a single horse out. Plus, some horses were better behaved than others for quieter, dialogue-heavy scenes. — Source

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Malignant The opening credits spoil the movie. The sequence shows some documents that detail the movie's biggest reveal. No, we won't tell you what that is-go spoil yourself if you want to. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Rocky Sylvester Stallone wrote the first draft in half a week. In the original script, Adrian was Jewish, Mickey was racist, and Rocky ended up throwing the fight so that Adrian could have her own pet store. — Source

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Ratatouille None of the human characters have toes. To save time, the artists and animators at Pixar didn't make any toes for the human characters, which is odd given Pixar's reputation for fine details in their films. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Jack Reacher Dwayne Johnson auditioned for the title role. Johnson lost the role to Tom Cruise despite being physically much closer to the character. Не has revealed that that was one of his biggest disappointments in Hollywood. — Source

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Con Air Nicolas Cage did his own stunts. There were explosions five feet behind me, Cage said, flaming helicopters dropping right behind me, ball-bearing bullets over my head. So there was a level of intensity, fear, you might say. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Elf Ralphie from A Christmas Story has a cameo. Peter Billingsley, who starred in the holiday classic A Christmas Story, is in a quick cameo in this holiday classic as Ming the Elf. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Get Out The movie was inspired by an Eddie Murphy stand-up bit. Jordan Peele loved Murphy's comedy bit about watching Poltergeist, and how a black family would just leave the house at the first sign of ghosts. Не fleshed out the rest of the story from there. — Source

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Big Trouble in Little China John Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan. The director wanted to hire Chan for the role of Wang Chi based on his performance in Police Story, but the producers nixed the idea because he wasn't well known in the United States. Dumb move. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Good Burger There was nearly a ton of rotting meat on set. According to Kenan Thompson, at one point there was 1,750 pounds of meat on set that the poor extras had to pretend to eat, as the burgers got older and older with each take. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Marilyn Burns was tied for 26 hours (and it terrified her). The short scene took nearly 26 hours to shoot. Burns being restricted for that long with men looming all around her made her scared for real. — Source

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Aaron Sorkin wrote the first draft on cocktail napkins. Sorkin was working as a bartender while listening to his sister, a Navy JAG Corps member, discuss a case she was working on. Не wrote a version of that story on some napkins at the bar until he could borrow his roommate's computer. A Few Good Men CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Everything Everywhere All At Once The working title was A Woman Tries To Do Her Taxes. The production shot under this title to prevent folks from spying and leaking details. — Source

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Avengers: Endgame Only Robert Downey Jr. had the full script. In order to prevent leaks, the cast was only given parts of the script relevant to their characters- aside from RDJ, who had been on the Marvel train from the beginning. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Hereditary The cult symbol is everywhere. If you look closely, you will see the symbol of Paimon throughout the movie. For example, Annie weats it on her necklace. And it's also ominously scratched on that post. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael is the only turtle played by just one actor. Josh Pais, the actor in the turtle suit, had the idea of giving Raphael a Brooklyn accent during shooting. Не did such a good job, they gave him the voice role as well. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Selma The movie couldn't use MLK's actual speeches. Director Ava DuVernay had to rewrite Dr. King's speeches, as someone else had the rights. — Source

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Moonlight The three lead actors never met. The three actors who play the protagonist at different stages of his life never met each other in the 25 days of shooting. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Zero Dark Thirty The characters are based on actual people. The names were changed because many of them were still undercover at the time of filming. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Lobster Colin Farrell gained 40 pounds for the role. According to Farrell, he just ate the same things he typically ate, but in bigger portions. It only took him two months to shed the weight off. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Shining Stanley Kubrick never read Stephen King's script. The author wrote a full draft, but the director didn't bother to read it. In fact, Kubrick thought of King's writing overall as weak. Ouch. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Parasite The movie was inspired by Boon Joon-ho's past. The director worked as a math tutor for a wealthy family during college, after the English tutor (his then-girlfriend/now-wife) got him the gig, much like what happens in the film. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Phantom Thread The lead character's name was a joke. Daniel Day-Lewis suggested the name Reynolds Woodcock to director Paul Thomas Anderson as they were joking over text messages. Anderson pretty much went, What the hell, let's do it. — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Irishman Scorsese and Pacino hadn't worked together before. It seems insane and incorrect, but it's true. Martin Scorsese had been wanting to work with Al Pacino ever since they met in 1970 - but they wouldn't for fifty years. — Source

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The Social Network Shia LaBeouf was almost Mark Zuckerberg. LaBeouf turned down the part, thinking it was a fine movie, but not a game-changer. The Social Network was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won three. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Lady Bird The original script was 350 pages long. Director Greta Gerwig's first draft was obscenely long. If shot at that length, the movie would have been over five hours long. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Get Out Chance the Rapper was a huge supporter. Chance bought every ticket on opening day at the Chatham Theater in Chicago, urging his Twitter followers to see the film on his dime. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dunkirk Actual survivors attended the premiere. About 30 survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation saw the film at the London premiere. Several of them thought that Hans Zimmer's score was louder than the actual bombardment. — Source

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Boyhood The movie was paid for in installments. The studio didn't want to give director Richard Linklater all $2.4 million dollars in a lump sum for a movie that would take over a decade to make, so he got $200,000 each year. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dutch CHICAGO The film was called Driving Me Crazy overseas. Apparently, it was thought that people in U.K. and Australia wouldn't understand that a movie called Dutch was unrelated to the Netherlands. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Ferris Bueller's Day Off Love bloomed during the shoot. Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey (Ferris and his sister) got engaged shortly before the film's release. Also, the actors playing Ferris' parents met on set, and eventually got married. — Source

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HOLLYWOO Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Burt Reynolds was going to play George Spahn. Reynolds was originally cast as the rancher, but sadly died before his scenes were shot. Не was replaced with Bruce Dern. CRACKED.COM — Source

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