18 Now-You-Know Movie Facts (Because Mom Told Us To Write Them)
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Look, we all know the score. We didnāt want to write yet another list of movie facts, but here we are. Doing it again. Another week of writing an intro and creating more entries into an ever growing list of random factoids about film. Why do we do it? Because Mom said so.
What can we say? We love our mom. And Mom wants us to write about movie facts. Not only write about movie facts, but make shareable images about them so she can send them to her friends. Theyāre more digestible that way, too. Itās how Mom likes them.
We canāt tell her āno.ā We mean, sheās not going to be around forever. Plus, she helped pay our student loans for the last decade. That plus general āraised you from a babyā stuff means that we owe her big time. So here are some movie facts to make her proud.
V for Vendetta
![CRACKED.COM V for Vendetta The movie was almost made in the '90s. Hilary Henkin, writer of movies like Road House and Wag the Dog, wrote a script in the early '90s which the Los Angeles Times called Les MisƩrables meets A Clockwork Orange. It was never produced, though.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/861510.jpg)
Sources: Los Angeles Times, IMDb
Black Panther
![CRACKED.COM Black Panther Wesley Snipes tried to get a Black Panther movie made in 1992. During the height of his popularity, Snipes helped write a script for a movie featuring him as the superhero, but couldn't get any studio's attention.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/861509.jpg)
Source: Variety
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
![My Big Fat Greek Wedding Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are the movie's godparents. Wilson loved Nia Vardalos' one-woman show, and through her, her husband Tom Hanks produced Vardalos' script into a movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/861511.jpg)
Source: ABC News
Save the Last Dance
![Save the Last Dance Julia Stiles did most of the dancing herself. Stiles trained and did all of the hip-hop dances, along with most of the ballet. She did have a double do the en pointe ballet dancing, though. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/861507.jpg)
Source: BuzzFeed
The Conversation
![Here's a Coke The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola wanted to do the movie before The Godfather. Coppola's company American Zoetrope was on financial thin ice, so he did The Godfather for the paycheck. It paid off and due to The Godfather's success, Paramount bankrolled of The Conversation. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/861508.jpg)
Source: Mental Floss
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Bubba Ho-Tep
![CRACKED.COM Bubba ŠŠ¾-Š¢ŠµŃ The film was shot in 30 days. In order to stay within the thin budget, filming the movie was economical and swift. It took around a full month to complete the Elvis vs. Mummy story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/5/861505.jpg)
Source: Halloween Year-Round
Legally Blonde
![Legally Blonde Elle was named after the fashion magazine. Author Amanda Brown would spend her time reading Elle while in law school. When she came up with the story, her main character's name was obvious. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/4/861504.jpg)
Source: SFGATE
Zoolander
![Zoolander Mugatu was named after a Star Trek monster. Will Ferrell's fashion villain got his name from the mugato, a white-haired creature from an episode of the original series. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/3/861503.jpg)
Source: Ben Stiller/Twitter, Memory Alpha
Unbreakable
![CRACKED.COM Unbreakable The movie had a bigger budget than the sequels. Usually sequels have larger budgets than the originals, but while Unbreakable had a $75 million budget, the budget for Split was $9 million, and $20 million for Glass. a COALITION EVIL!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/9/861499.jpg)
Source: WhatCulture
Training Day
![KE . POL ICE CE Training Day Enimem was approached for a lead role. The rapper turned down the part that eventually went to Ethan Hawke. ŠŠµ ended up starring in 8 Mile the following year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/1/861501.jpg)
Source: ABC News
Taken
![Taken Liam Neeson took the role for a vacation. Neeson didn't expect the movie to blow up in popularity like it did, but liked the idea of getting to hang out in Paris while learning martial arts. It paid off more than he expected. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/0/861500.jpg)
Source: Uproxx
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
![Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The movie was shot with old-school lenses. In order to give the movie a similar vibe to the original films from the 1970s and 1980s, director Gareth Edwards and cinematographer Greig Fraser used the lenses from the time for the movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/2/861502.jpg)
Source: Metro
The Prestige
![CRACKED.COM The Prestige The screenplay took five years to write. Due to Insomnia (the movie, not the affliction), director/writer Christopher Nolan couldn't commit to writing The Prestige, so he shared writing duties with his brother Jonathan. The two would trade drafts back and forth between projects until it was finished.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/8/861498.jpg)
Source: CBR
Masters of the Universe
![CRACKED.COM Masters of the Universe Dolph Lundgren hates his performance. Lundgren was fresh from his breakout role as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, so many were skeptical that he could carry a feature as a lead. In hindsight, Lundgren agrees, frequently stating in interviews that his accent and inexperience hurt the film.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/7/861497.jpg)
Source: CBR
Idiocracy
![CRACKED.COM MANNA USIN RED CHE WT Idiocracy The movie was inspired by a trip to Disneyland. Inspiration was sparked when Mike Judge witnessed an obscenity-ridden argument between two parents waiting in line for the Alice in Wonderland ride.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/6/861496.jpg)
Source: NPR
Howard the Duck
![Howard the Duck Velendern George Lucas wanted the movie to be animated. Lucas saw the benefits of making it a cartoon, but Universal wanted the movie to be released in the summer of 1986 and animation would have taken too long. In hindsight, this was a quacked up move. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/5/861495.jpg)
Source: Decider
The Babadook
![The Babadook The movie terrified the director of The Exorcist. William Friedkin championed the Australian film, tweeting, It will scare the hell out of you as it did me. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/4/861494.jpg)
Source: William Friedkin/YouTube