28 More Random Bits of Movie Trivia Not Even Those Two Old Film Nerds Knew

Our movie knowledge is getting two thumbs way up!
28 More Random Bits of Movie Trivia Not Even Those Two Old Film Nerds Knew
Add Cracked to Google

Film critics give a thumbs up or two for movies, but they never once doled those out for movie knowledge. It’s been a real thorn in our side over the years, and we can’t hold it in any longer. Day in and day out, we scour the globe for the best movie tidbits, but do we ever get any recognition? No! 

Now we know how comedies must feel at the Oscars.

Big Trouble in Little China

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

Chevy Chase

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM CHEVY CHASE WAS SUPPOSED TO STAR IN HITTING THE WALL, AN SNL-BASED MOVIE. It would be written by SNL writer Tom Davis, and would be about a former SNL writer having a midlife crisis, all done with SNL-style sketches.

Hot Tub Time Machine

CRACKED.COM THE HOT TUB FROM HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Co-writer Josh Heald was in a producer's office who suggested a remake of Hot Dog ... The Movie. Heald misheard the suggestion as hot tub, which is why John Cusack doesn't travel back in time with the help of a giant weiner.

Source

Coco

Early in Coco, Miguel says he'll play guitar in the plaza if it Не then steals a kills forbidden guitar me. he intends to use at said plaza... ...and ends up in The Land of the Dead. CRACKED.COM

The Magnificent Seven

Classic Hollywood Movies Original vs. Remake 1960 The Magnificent Seven Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, the original is widely considered a classic, even if its own sequels aren't. The remake has an impressive all-star cast, some cool action, and even True Detective's writer, but didn't do anything new with the concept. 2016 CRACKED.COM

Source

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

EASTER EGGS IN '80S MOVIES Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom INDY ESCAPES THE OBI WAN. The club owned by Lao Che was named after the famous Jedi Knight in the Star Wars franchise. بي CILUIIB DIBI WAIN de CRACKED.COM

Source

Schindler’s List

Robin Williams was put on speaker phone to cheer up the cast and crew of Schindler's List. CRACKED.COM Williams would call director Steven Spielberg once a week on schedule and do 15 minutes of stand up on the phone. When Williams got the biggest laugh out of Spielberg, he would hang up without saying goodbye.

King5 

Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan dropped a $500,000 camera into the ocean. IMAX CRACKED.co To get clear footage of a plane crashing for the 2017 movie Dunkirk, Nolan and his team placed an Imax camera into the stunt plane they were sinking. They built a special frame around the camera, so that even when it hit the water, it would stay totally protected. But the plane sank into the water instead of floating, and water broke through the frame and filled the camera. It spent 90 minutes in seawater before divers could bring it back up. Luckily, celluloid (the film used in this

House of Gucci

Deleted Sex Scenes House of Gucci A sex scene between Salma Hayek and Lady Gaga is sitting on the cutting room floor, because the producers are apparently allergic to money. CRACKED.COM

Warm Bodies

WARM BODIES CRACKED.COM Writer/Director Jonathan Levine cast then Analeigh Tipton (now Lio Tipton) as Nora in the 2013 zombie-romance Warm Bodies, even though author Isaac Marion wrote her as half-Ethiopian in the 2010 novel that the film is based on.

Chinatown

On Chinatown, Roman Polanski plucked out a hair from Faye Dunaway once. It was spoiling the shot, apparently, so he just went up and yanked it from her head -presumably, moving it would never have worked. CRACKED.COM

My Beautiful Laundrette

Forgotten Rom-Coms 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette Stephen Frears' best rom-com would be High Fidelity, if it weren't for this capital-C Classic from the UK. A young Pakistani man becomes the manager of a crumbling laundromat and begins an affair with a rebellious street punk who works there, played by Daniel Day-Lewis (which means Day-Lewis has been doing awesome films since forever). CRACKED.COM

Source

Harry Potter

Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort are distant relatives. They both descended from the Peverell bloodline, which is why both of them were entitled to one

Return of the Jedi

In order to avoid orice-gouging, fans, and journalists, Lucasfilm convinced everybody they were shootinga a cRauns horror film called Blue Harvest...

Tags:

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

VIRAL ON CRACKED

A WEEKLY
NEWSLETTER OF
JOKES + TRIVIA

Forgot Password?