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34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Learned All of Their Lines But Didn’t See the Email About the Rewrites

April 21, 2025

It’s fine! Everything’s fine! These facts aren’t going to freak out on the poor PA whose job it was to pass them these last-minute rewrites. They’re professional and can roll with the punches.

Speaking of punches, they’ll be discreetly throwing a few at the wall in their dressing room, so that no one knows what volatile little divas they can be. Tell the director that they’ll have their random movie facts memorized in about half an hour.

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Lady Bird

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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Riz Ahmed

RIZ AHMED was the first Muslim actor to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. The 2021 nomination was for his lead role in the movie Sound of Metal. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Nightmare on Elm Street

A producer insisted on the cheesy ending of Nightmare on Elm Street. SO THE DIRECTOR PUT HIM IN FULL BONDAGE GEAR. Writer/director Wes Craven had planned a solid ending for Nightmare, until producer Bob Shaye insisted on the open-ended rubber-mannequin ending it wound up with. In the next film, Shaye demanded a role onscreen. So the director made him the bartender in a leather bar. GRACKED.COM http://www. dailymotion .om/video/x4sy4i2_nightmare-ending-2_fun — Source

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The Terminator

$1 CRACKED.COM James Cameron sold the script for The Terminator for $1, under the condition that he could be the director. — Source

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The Shining

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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Jurassic Park

Turns out, Jurassic Park was never supposed to have any CGI dinosaurs. They were going to be stop-motion - but two CGI artists made a CG model of a T-Rex and then put it on a video screen when producer Kathleen Kennedy showed up, and the rest is history. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Million Dollar Mystery

Hollywood tragedies that brought change RIZONA ZZARD U.S.ARMY Million Dollar Mystery A failed motorbike stunt After stuntman Dar Robinson died while filming Million Dollar Mystery in 1987, it became a requirement for ambulances to be on movie sets to make sure everyone was safe. CRACKED — De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
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La La Land

Notes From Execs LA LA LAND Director Damien Chazelle was criticized by a script reader, who asked, Does it have to be about jazz? CRACKED — Lions Gate
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Parasite

CRACKED.COM PARASITE IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE A STAGE PLAY. Bong Joon-ho was encouraged by a theater actor friend to write a play as his film Snowpiercer was wrapping up. After playing with the script, he ultimately wrote it as a film. — The Hollywood Reporter

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Selma

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: iHeart

24

They Live

THEY LIVE John Carpenter used a pseudonym. Carpenter grew sick of seeing his name listed all over the movie as the director, writer, producer, etc. To break it up, he wrote the screenplay under the name Frank Armitage (a name he got from the H. P. Lovecraft story The Dunwich Horror.) CRACKED.COM — Source: Mental Floss

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Pulp Fiction

CRACKED.COM ICE - Pulp Fiction The dance scene came from a Jean-Luc Godard film. Critics likened the scene to one in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, but Quentin Tarantino stated that the scene resembles the dancing in Goddard's Bande à part. — Source: Far Out Magazine

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The First CGI

The first CGI. 1973 CRACKED.COM We get to see through the eyes of an evil robot in a scene in Westworld, and it's... boring. The motif was inspired by the first images of the surface of Mars. — Source: 16 Game-Changing Movie Firsts

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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp Johnny Depp talked to Tim Burton about playing Batman in Batman Begins, saying Burton (the producer) was trying to get him a shot at the role, but the director and movie heads turned it down. CRACKED.COM — Source: Comic Book Movie

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Blackface

CRACKED.COM Blackface is still a thing in the movie stunt industry. It would be unthinkable today for a male actor to put on a wig to portray a woman, or for a white person to play a black person in blackface - but it happens among stunt performers. Both wigging and painting down have been fought for decades, but are still common. — Source: 15 Random Facts To Win At Trivia Night

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Wolf of Wall Street

The distortion in Wolf of Wall Street's quaaludes scene was done in-camera. Director of photography Rodrigo Prieto says that to capture his experience, for several moments, we used the Alexa shooting 12 frames per second and using the shutter at 360 degrees. CRACKED COM — Source

18

Halloween

Halloween director David Gordon Green really likes The Night of the Hunter. That's a Robert Mitchum movie from 1955, and Green says it's the film from my youth that really opened the door. CRACKED.COM — Source

17

Death Wish 3

Marina Sirtis CAKA Troi on Star Trek) was once tortured on a movie set. PARKING-CUSTOMERS ONLY COLATOR It was a sexual assault scene in Death Wish 3, and when she told her brother what happened, he threatened he'd kill director Michael Winner. CRACKED.COM — Source

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It’s Pat

In the mid-90s, Quentin Tarantino rewrote what turned out to be one of SNL's worst movies. Hers His It's Pat was a comedy based on an SNL sketch about a character whose gender was uncertain - and they got Tarantino, of all people, to rewrite the script. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Deep Impact

Deep Impact's scene of the water flooding NYC was a huge challenge to film. It was super early days for water CGI so, even though it's just one shot, it was a really hard (director Mimi Leder says it was hardest ever VFX shot). CRACKED.COM — Source: Vulture

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The Secret of Nimh

The film THE was SECRET NIMH rejected by Disney. The movie was first pitched to a Disney producer who said they already had a mouse, and had just done the mouse movie The Rescuers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dunkirk

They filmed the sinking of a partial full-scale warship replica for one scene in Dunkirk. The ship was mounted on a hydraulic gimbal to simulate what would be happening in combat, and they added crowds and the rest of the ship with CGI. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

12

The Departed

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS BRAD PITT ALMOST STARRED IN THE FILM. DEPARTED THE Pitt served as a producer on the film and helped develop it. He initially planned on starring in the film as well, however, once Scorsese came on board, Pitt decided the role should go to a younger actor. — Interview Magazine

11

Fate of the Furious

The Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray put in an homage to his first film, Friday. It's when Tej says Hey Miss Parker, and it's kind of his substitute for a director cameo (which he doesn't like to do, because he's a terrible actor, he says) - in Friday,

10

The Force Awakens

The instant bread scene in The Force Awakens didn't use CGI. Getting the bread to look and act just right took three months, and it apparently tasted absolutely awful. CRACKED.COM — Source: MTV

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Watchmen

Doctor Manhattan's body model died trying to outrun a train. Greg Plitt was an actor, fitness model, and all-around badass. Dr. Manhattan's CGI body f — More: 6 Catastrophic Punishments The Universe Unleashed On Arrogant People

8

Se7en

Unpredictably Weird Decisions That Gave Us Major Movie Moments - Se7en has the head in a box scene because David Fincher got the wrong script. — Source: 6 Terrible Decisions That Gave Us Great Movie Moments

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Let the Right One In

34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Learned All of Their Lines But Didn’t See the Email About the Rewrites — Source: Mental Floss

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Top Gun

34 Random Bits of Movie Trivia That Learned All of Their Lines But Didn’t See the Email About the Rewrites — Source: Looper

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Chinatown

CHINATOWN Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown Roman Polanski wanted a grittier rewrite of the script, and berated the screenwriter until he rage-quit. P

4

Cabin in the Woods

Cabin In The Woods featured some truly frightening monsters. And they weren't CGI. Joss Whedon and director Drew Goddard decided they wanted a sequenc

3

Casper

casper was the first ever CGI lead character in a feature film. F lt beat Toy Story by six months.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

CRACKED COM In the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the bridge explosion scene was very difficult to shoot. Powerful explosives were set. Hundreds

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Lord of War

The director of Lord of War, Andrew Niccol, borrowed 50 real tanks from a real arms dealer to use during the arms bazaar scene: Prior to filming, Nicc

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