I Never Knew That...........(Thread)

R2-D2 definitely appeared in the 2009 Star trek film if you look closely.

Tom Selleck was the original choice for Indiana Jones.

Alexi Sayle had a funny cameo in The Last Crusade.

Incrementing each letter of HAL from 2001 gives you IBM.

Jean Claude Van Damme was a background dancer in Breakdance.

The Millenium Falcon was originally modelled after a hamburger with an olive next to it.

Burt ReynolRAB was originally cast as Han Solo, but he dropped out.
 
Although the songs in "Singin' in the Rain" work brilliantly, they weren't written for the film: they were selected from already existing material.
 
In Hammer's Dracula movies, Christopher Lee is never seen entering a room, he's just there as the camera moves to him: he never uses the door.
 
Everyone knows the 3 Men & A Baby ghost thing is fake, it's a cardboard cut-out of Ted Danson that was seen quite prominently earlier in the film. :rolleyes:
 
The head of the hospital in 'One flew over the cuckoos nest' was not an actor.
He was in fact the head of the hospital where it was filmed.

Personally I think he deserved an oscar for the look that he gave when Jack squashed the fly. :)
 
Helen McCrory was replaced by Helana Bonham Carter because she was pregnant and unable to play Belllatrix Lastrange in the harry potter series...Though Bonham Carter was pregnant during the filming of Half Blood Prince.
 
The Big Sleep (1946)
While working on the script, writers William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett couldn't figure out from the novel who murdered a particular character. So they phoned Raymond Chandler, who angrily told them the answer was right there in the book. They shrugged and returned to their work. Chandler soon phoned to say that he looked at the book himself and couldn't figure out who killed the character, so he left it up to them to decide. In the original cut, shown to the armed services, this question is resolved; in the film as released, it isn't.
 
The little boy in Mary Poppins died of hemorrhagic necrotising pancreatitis at the age of 21
The little girl in Mary Poppins was the sister of Frank Spencers wife Betty in Some Mothers Do Ave Em
The blonde girl in Rita Sue and Bob Too grew up to be Yvonne in Goodnight Sweetheart
 
Great thread.

The Great Escape:- David McCallum brought his wife to set one day and introduced her to Charles Bronson. The result was she left McCallum and married Bronson.
 
Elizabeth Shue was in The Karate Kid but not the 2 sequels. And she wasn't in Back to the Future...but she was in the 2 sequels.

Ok, that's lame. Sorry.
 
Vivien Leigh was a rank outsider for the part of Scarlett O'Hara. It almost went to Paulette Goddard who at the time was dating Charlie Chaplin. (I am a big GWTW fan)

Clark Cable had very bad breath. (My grandma told me this, how she knew I really don't know).
 
Nicole Kidman was suppose to be do the role Kate Winslet did for The reader but backed out as she just had her daughter and wanted time to be mum. So Kidman could have potentially lost out of a second oscar

Nicole Kidman concieved her daughter while making Australia.
 
The car Vincent Vega drives in Pulp Fiction belonged to Tarantino and was stolen while they were making the film.

The carpet designs seen in Sid's hallway in Toy Story are the same as the carpet designs seen in The Shining.

Despite the number of books adapted into films, only two Pulitizer Prize winning novels have ever won Best Picture Oscars: Gone with the Wind and All the King's Men.

Probably quite a well-known one, but a young Kevin Bishop (the TV comedian) is Jim in Muppet Treasure Island.
 
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