Random Trivia about the World of Entertainment

Random Trivia about the World of Entertainment

The next time you are spending some time enjoying quizzes with your mates, calling upon the following trivia may well see you emerge the winner!

1. The original script for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by William Goldman read The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy. The names got reversed after Paul Newman agreed to play Butch.
2. Disney refused the option to make the smash-hit Back to the Future. They felt that the mother/son relationship was improper.
3. The idea for The Usual Suspects poster came before the story or script.
4. Taxi Driver was written in just five days. It is rumoured that Paul Schrader, the author, kept a loaded gun near his desk to inspire and motivate him!
5. Like Facebook, Star Wars originally was prefixed by The. As is the case with even titles of the slots NZ has to offer, however, it was decided that the monikers worked better without it.
6. A famous lunch at Pixar in 1994 saw the filmmakers Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and John Lasseter brainstorm all of the ideas that would go on to become A Bug’s LIfe, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo and Wall-E.
7. George Lucas had a dog named Indiana.
8. The super-producer for Paramount, Robert Towne, was unshakeable about wanting Francis Ford Coppola to make The Godfather, even though Coppola wasn’t very interested in the project! The director eventually acquiesced when he got the idea to make the movie about the sinister side of capitalism in America, and not just the antics of mafiosos.
9. The original script for Ghostbusters, written by Dan Aykroyd, was set in the future, one where ghost hunters were as accepted in the mainstream as firemen or paramedics.
10. The Shawshank Redemption was a novella written by Stephen King, and, in it, Red, the character eventually brought to life by Morgan Freeman, was described as a white Irishman. The film saw Freeman/Red sarcastically quip that maybe it was because he was Irish, which was a nod to the change.
11. One of Patrick Bateman’s character in American Psycho neighbours is Tom Cruise, in the novel.
12. It has been reported that Stanley Kubrick made a habit of calling author Stephen King in the early hours of the morning to ask him questions about The Shining. King stated that one of the exchanges saw Kubrick asking the author if he believed in God. When he replied that he did, Kubrick yelled out that he knew it before slamming down the receiver.
13. The creator of the Jason Bourne series, Robert Ludlum, died while the first of the films was in post-production.
14. Francis Ford Coppola took to reading passages from Heart of Darkness to Marlon Brando on the set of the film based on the book, Apocalypse Now, after he found out that the actor had never read it.
15. Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, plays the role of a television reporter in the film version of the story. He was also apparently thrown off the set after he kept arguing with Spielberg about how the film ended.