| Joon-ho Bong, director of The Host, created the monster for his film and nicknamed it Steve Buscemi based on Buscemi's on screen persona in the film Fargo. |
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| John McTiernan was originally going to make Commando 2, but Arnold Schwarzenegger turned the role offer down. Commando 2 was transformed into Die Hard (1988) and Schwarzenegger was the first actor offered the title role, but he again declined. Eventually Bruce Willis would get the part after Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, and Richard Gere were all offered the role. |
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| Tony Sirirco would not agree to sign on to play the character Paulie Walnuts in the Sopranos unless he was guaranteed that his character would not be a rat. |
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| Robert Redford turned down the lead role in The Graduate because he did not feel he could project the right amount of naivite before accepting his break out film role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at age 32. |
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| Jack Black's mother and father are both rocket scientists. |
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The film Bottle Rocket, starring Luke and Owen Wilson, scored the worst test screening points in the history of Columbia Pictures at the time.
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In the film District B13 there weren't any special effects (wirework, computer graphics...) used in 90% of the parkour (a style of jumping and climbing) scenes.
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| Comedian 'David Chappelle' turned down the role of Bubba, in the film Forrest Gump, thinking the movie would bomb and has since admitted to deeply regretting it. |
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Football star Steve Young was originally supposed to play the part of Mary's secret love in There's Something About Mary. However, as a practicing Mormon, he declined, due to the nature of the movie.
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| In Out of Sight, the mug shot of George Clooney's character Jack Foley (of which Karen says "He doesn't even look like that") is the mug shot of Clooney's character Seth Gecko from From Dusk Til Dawn(1996). |
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| In Donnie Darko, the skeleton costume that Donnie wears at the party at the film's end is the same worn by Johnny and his gang during the costume party in The Karate Kid (1984). |
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Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep wanted to make a movie together and Thelma & Louise was one of the scripts they considered. Ultimately, they decided to star in Death Becomes Her (1992) instead.
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The original hawk used to play Mordecai in The Royal Tenenbaums was captured during shooting and held for ransom - production could not wait for him to be returned which is the reason that the bird that appears later in the movie has "more white feathers" - it's a different bird.
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Twenteith Century Fox declined to make the film Something's Gotta Give citing that the leads were too old.
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In Raging Bull, Robert De Niro gained a record 60 pounds to play the older La Motta, and Pesci lost weight for the same scene (De Niro's movie weight-gain record was subsequently broken by 'Vincent D'Onofrio' who gained 70 pounds for his role as Pvt. Lawrence in Full Metal Jacket.
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Brad Pitt, who was a big fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), approached director Guy Ritchie and asked to for a role in Snatch. When Ritchie found Pitt couldn't master a London accent, he gave him the role of Mickey the Gypsy.
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