Some good procrastination

I randomly stumbled on a movie forum where the topic was "BS movie facts." Most were boring, but here's the good ones...


The end credits to "Schindler's List" originally had bloopers from the film.

The horse's head in "The Godfather" was actually a zebra head painted brown.

Despite claims to the contrary, This Is Spinal Tap was based entirely on the career of Liberace.

The real Winston Churchill died when his plane was shot down in 1943, and Leslie Howard was forced to be Churchill for the last 22 years of his life.

MGM is owned by the Mormons, but Paramount is owned by Episcopalians.

Lord of the Rings trilogy was made through an arcane process called reverse-rotoscoping. First, all three movies were drawn completely by hand, then real life actors painstakingly recreated the animated action.

There are only two Baldwin brothers, Alec and Stephen. Daniel and William are alternate characters they created in childhood.

The meowing kitten from the MTM logo was found dead in a hotel room, choked on his own vomit after overdosing on percodans and catnip.

Sir Richard Attenborough originally intended his epic biography "Gandhi" (1982) to have all characters portrayed by the Muppets.

Yoda's furious fight scene at the end of STAR WARS 2: ATTACK OF THE CLONES was filmed by dressing a hyperactive Jack Russell Terrier in a green body stocking, strapping a flashlight to his neck, and taping pork chops to Christopher Lee

The original ending to The Wizard of Oz had Dorothy decide to stay in Oz with her new friends, followed by a shot of a catatonic Dorothy locked up in a Kansas sanitarium. The ending was scrapped for being, in the immortal words of producer Mervyn LeRoy, "the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen."

the lyrics to John Williams's Star Wars theme are as follows:
Quote:
Star Wars,
Na na na
Staaar Wars
Na na na
Staaar Wars
Na na na naaa.


John Stewart and Dave Chappelle were the Wachowski brothers first pick for Neo and Morpheus in the Matrix

Ishtar is in fact, the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time. A slip up by Variety has led to the long standing beleif that it was a flop.

Dude Where's My Car? was originally intended as a remake of On the Waterfront.

In Amadeus they used a rare early recording of a concert whith Mozart conducting his own works

The classic "Seven Samurai" is actually a remake of a little known silent movie called "A Half-Dozen Policemen from Keystone.

There's a reason you've never seen Bea Arthur and Marlon Brando together.

Carrie Fisher reluctantly agreed to filmed in a skimpy slave-girl outfit in Return of the Jedi, reportedly after she lost a bet with George Lucas that she could abstain from cocaine for thirty days.

Marlon Brando refused to use real butter in Last Tango in Paris

The producers of Starship Troopers went over their budget doing numerous takes of the co-ed shower scene

The Little Mermaid was the first Disney film to feature the phrase "damn it!"

The six-fingered man in The Princess Bride, oddly enough, only had 4 toes.

The Tom Hanks - Meg Ryan romantic comedy "You've Got Mail" was originally called "A fatal exception 0E occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) + 00010E36. The current application must be terminated". 

For the 1959 film BEN-HUR, no horses were harmed during the filming of the race, no horses were even used. The race was the most advanced use of stop-motion animation to this day.

All movies set in Korea were filmed in Vietnam, and all movies set in Vietnam were filmed in Korea. Nobody remembers why.

The very first movie theaters worked on a very primitive technology. A sequence of black and white photographs were handed out one by one and then passed on to the next person, then on to the next row and so on.

Contrary to popular belief, hours of careful study reveal that the Matrix trilogy makes perfect sense.

there were sequels to the movie "Highlander", and there is a third "Godfather" movie. …Okay, not BS, but a man can dream, can't he?

Harvey Weinstein is obsessed with producing a remake of the cockroach musical Joe's Apartment, insisting that the original "did not capture the grandeur of the concept".

Peter Jackson's short list for the role of Bilbo is Danny DeVito, Linda Hunt, and Tom Cruise.