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1000 Facts about the Greatest Movies Ever vol. 3

ByJames Egan

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OJ Simpson was turned down for the role of The Terminator because the studio thought he couldn’t play a convincing killer. Back to the Future was nearly called Spaceman from Pluto. In the original script of The Truman Show, all the actors are criminals. Bob Hoskins kept hallucinating while making Who Framed Roger Rabbit and couldn’t work again for a year. The line, “Fly, my pretties. Fly!” is never said in The Wizard of Oz. The crewmembers of The Lord of the Rings made so much chainmail for the films, they wore their fingerprints off. The main song for Beauty and the Beast was meant to be a rock-n’-roll song. The most expensive part of Rocky was the make-up. The line “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn,” in Gone with the Wind was nearly, “Frankly my dear, it makes my gorge rise.” Alec Guinness wears a toupee in every Star Wars film that he appears in. Production on The Shawshank Redemption was shut down for days while the studio waited for a maggot to die so they could use it in a scene.

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Publication Date
Dec 23, 2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781326514617
Category
Entertainment
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): James Egan

Specifications

Pages
188
Binding
Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
Pocket Book (4.25 x 6.875 in / 108 x 175 mm)

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