Remember our thread about the Carole Lomard movie from 1946?
None of the posters in it made anything up. All the claims that we made are true.
Ha! Sixth post in, even. Take that, Rabid! 
I like the way you fleshed it out, tho… 
Contrary to popular belief, there actually is a “weightless room” in the Johnson Space Center in Texas. If a filmmaker can prove that his project will show NASA in a positive manner, then they are granted unlimited access to that room.
Thus when Ron Howard filmed “Appollo 13” NASA was overjoyed to have the cast and crew frollicking around in that room til all hours of the night. NASA however insisted on the proviso that no one was to reveal the secret of that room and all press releases stated that the weightless scenes were made by the tedious process of flying a jet in parabolas over the Gulf of Mexico.
For the 1959 film BEN-BUR, director William Wyler was faced with a problem, how to film the climatic chariot race without losing any horses resuling in protests by animal lovers. The solution was kept a closly guarded secret to this day. 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. Clay models of the horses, the chariots, Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd even the people in the stands were constructed. Placed in position a frame of film was shot , then the models were painstakingly moved to create the illusion of movement.
Francis Ford Coppola and Saddam Hussein are the same person.
…But not the last. Oh Lordy, not the last.
It is common knowledge in Hollywood that Rosanna Arquette is a flesh-eating, brain-sucking zombie.
Something’s Gotta Give, starring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, originally contained a scene where Keaton, eager to prove her youthful zest to Nicholson while making love, performed the following rap:
" Eat my pussy,
Baby, don’t stop,
Sop it up like a pig eats slop.
Ahh, I want to come in your mouth…
Now get the fuck out."
But movie execs considered it too subtle for contemporary audiences and excised the scene.
Nanook - **Rosanna Arquette **can have her way with my flesh and my brain anytime she pleases.
Except for Yentl, no movie made in America has the letter Y in it. Any movie with the letter Y that you thought was made in America was really made in Canada.
Sir Sean Connery’s Knighthood was not awarded based on a body of work, but for one movie: Zardoz
Sam Raimi uses the same Buick in every movie. Even in “The Quick and the Dead”. If you watch really carefully, you’ll see it in a stable.
wolf_meister: Shame on you! All you’re doing is replacing one urban myth with another.
Margaret Mitchell actually stole the plot from a Korean story about the Korean War, or the “War of Northern Aggression” as the Koreans call it. It is about the daughter of a South Korean gentleman named Oh Hae Ra, who struggles to try to save the family farm, Tae Ra. The Burning of Atlanta was originally the Fall of Seoul, and references to General Lee were originally referred to ROK General Lee Jung Hun.
To lend realism to the film, the actors in Soylent Green actually ate people.
Bonzo the chimp filed a sexual harrassment charge against Ronald Reagan during the filming of their second film together, but the studio had it hushed up.
And finally, most startling of all… Tom Cruise really isn’t gay.
All movies set in Korea were filmed in Vietnam, and all movies set in Vietnam were filmed in Korea. Nobody remembers why.
Governor Quinn
An exception to the rule about movies set in Vietnam.
The film The Green Berets (1968) starring John Wayne though set in Vietnam was actually filmed in Moscow. This city was actually one of John Wayne’s favorite hangouts and was quite an admirer of its history, people, economic system, political ideology and so forth.
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A little known sequel was planned for The Lion in Winter. It was supposed to be a comedy called The Lion in Summer where Henry II summons his family on a summer vacation trip to Egypt. Hilarity ensues as Richard, Geoffery, and John argue with their parents and each other as they sight-see. Needless to say, it was shelved when it was demanded that Jerry Lewis play Henry II.
Schindler’s List was originally planned as part of an open-ended series of films, wherein the plucky womanizing industrialist travels the world, saving people from gvernment sponsored genocide. Future films included: Schindler’s List II: Rwanda, Schindler in Cambodia, and Oskar Schindler and the Soviet Pogroms of Doom. Unfortunetly, the critical and box office failure of the original meant that the sequels never entered production.
I think I heard that it’s because when movies about Korea were being made, the Korean war was going on, so it was unsafe to film there, so they chose Vietnam. Also, once Vietnam movies were being made, the Vietnam war was going on, so it wasn’t safe to film their, so they picked Korea.
That was Marky Mark’s real member, not a prosthetic, in Boogie Nights. He had the publicity department say that it was a prosthetic because he knew if it came out that it was the real thing, he’d be pigenholed thereafter in softcore or hardcore films.
Woody Allen’s 1979 movie “Manhattan” was filmed primarily in Assboink, Idaho.
The combination to the briefcase in “Pulp Fiction” was originally supposed to be 169, an homage to Red Dwarf. After a threat of legal action by Craig Charles, who had seen an early cut of the movie and felt that it would flop at the box office and that any association with the film would damage his career, it was changed to 666.