13 Movie Facts You Probably Never Knew

Movies are more interesting than you think.

By Infantgenius

Published 10 years ago

Movies are more interesting than you think.

1
Jurassic Park is 127 minutes long but only contains 15 minutes of dinosaur footage.

2
While in the Pacific Northwest filming the Endor scenes for Star Wars, Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) had to be accompanied by crew members so he wouldn't be shot by people looking for Bigfoot.

3
Warner Brothers hated the name "Beetlejuice," and when Tim Burton joked about naming the movie, "Scared Sheetless," they thought he was serious, and they loved it.
4
Sylvester Stallone once told Dolph Lungren, "Punch me as hard as you can in the chest," and then Stallone had to be hospitalized for four days.

5
Liam Neeson turned down the role of James Bond.
6
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, E.T., Bladerunner, Tron, The Thing, and Poltergeist were all in theaters at the same time.
7
Bill Murray improvised all of his lines for Caddyshack, and he was only on set for 6 days.

8
Richard Branson has a cameo in Casino Royale.
9
Charlie Chaplin thought talking movies would last for 3 years--tops.
10
Bruce Willis was the 7th choice to play the role of John McClane in Die Hard. Choices above him were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Richard Gere, Harrison Ford, and Mel Gibson.

11
M Night Shyamalan has made a profit from every movie he's made since the Sixth Sense (even though his last 4 movies have a *combined* score of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes)
12
The creators of Dumb & Dumber originally had Gary Oldman and Nicholas Cage in mind to play the parts of Lloyd and Harry.
13
Before it was released, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was nicknamed "Disney's Folly" because nobody had ever released a feature-length animated film, and critics thought it would flop.