Got any Movie & TV Trivia, give us the gen., as a sado I’m always interested in movie and TV bits and bobs, so if you know how many times Steven Spielberg goes to the loo in one day, tell us about it.
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When Leonard Nimoy took the role of Spock in the "Star Trek" tv pilot, the three weeks' work was the longest acting job he'd had in seventeen years. His character, a Vulcan, was originally intended to be a Martian and was included only because producer Gene Roddenberry thought it would "be nice to have an alien on the Enterprise." The network didn't agree, suggesting Spock be axed after the first pilot was screened.
British-born actor Adrian Paul travelled around Europe, working as a model and later as a dancer and choreographer, before moving to Los Angeles to seek out dancing and acting roles. He played Russian ballet dancer Kolya Rostov on "The Colbys" and John Kincaid on "War of the Worlds," before landing the role of immortal Duncan MacLeod on "Highlander: The Series."
In 1963, the "Doctor Who" scripts called for half-a-dozen Daleks, but the TV show's producers could only afford four ... so they pasted photos on two cardboard cutouts to create the illusion of six!
Set in the seventh millennium, A.D., the 1978 series "Battlestar Galactica" starred "Bonanza" veteran Lorne Greene as Commander Adama and Dirk Benedict - later to enjoy TV stardom as "Faceman" on "The
A-Team" - as Lt. Starbuck. Patrick MacNee, star of "The Avengers," voiced The Imperious Leader and other cast members included Jane Seymour, Ray Milland and rocker Rick Springfield.
Seventeen actors shared the role of Number 2 on the seventeen episodes of the cult '60s TV show "The Prisoner" - including Peter "Jason King" Wyngarde and Leo "Rumpole" McKern. The series starred Patrick McGoohan as the captive Number 6 and was filmed on location in North Wales in the Tremadoc Bay village of Portmeirion.
David McCallum's first American TV appearance was on "The Outer Limits" as Gwyllm Griffiths - a man who evolves into a super-intellect of the future - in a 1963 episode called "The Sixth Finger."
The following year, the Scottish-born actor was catapulted to stardom as secret agent Illya Kuryakin on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
Author J.K. Rowling insisted that the principal cast be British and she got her wish, with two exceptions: Richard Harris is Irish, and Zoë Wanamaker, though she has made her name as a 'British' actress, is actually a US citizen. Other non-Brits in the cast include Verne Troyer, born in Michigan, USA, who plays Griphook (the second Goblin in Gringotts' Bank) and Christopher Columbus' daughter, Eleanor, who played Hannah Abott.
The trouble-making poltergeist Peeves (played by Rik Mayall) does not, in the end, appear in the movie.
Although Daniel Radcliffe's voice broke during production, he did speak all the lines in the movie. The scenes were filmed in order and his voice changes slowly throughout the movie. It was wrongly reported by a London tabloid that a young actor who spoke lines for the action figure dubbed his lines in the movie.
The film is known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone everywhere except the USA and so every scene in which the Philosopher's Stone was mentioned was filmed twice, once with the actors saying 'Philosopher's' and once with the actors saying 'Sorcerer's'.
Platform 9 3/4 was filmed at Kings Cross, but on platforms 4 and 5. J.K. Rowling has admitted that she mixed up the layout of London's King's Cross railway station when she assigned the Hogwarts Express to platform 9 3/4, reached by using magic between platforms 9 and 10. She meant the location to be in the Inter-City part of the station, but 9 and 10 are actually among the rather less grand suburban platforms.
During filming, actor Daniel Radcliffe changed the screen on Robbie Coltrane's cellphone to Turkish. Coltrane had to phone hair designer Eithne Fennel's Turkish father in order to find out the Turkish for 'Change Language'.
Three owls play Hedwig – Ook, Gizmo and Sprout.
Carl B Harrison
Willow (1988)
Willow (1988)
- According to the press kits, the two-headed dragon was named ``Siskbert'',
a reference to the movie critics 'Gene Siskel' (qv) and 'Roger Ebert' (qv).
The two-headed monster guarding the castle was rather suspiciously named the Eborsisk, a critical choice.
The word does not occur in the film but made it into some reviews.
- The character of the evil general Kael is said to have been named after film
critic 'Pauline Kael' (qv).
- Willow utters the same spell as Merlin did in _Excalibur (1981)_ (qv).
Other Willow bits n bobs.........
Chris Evans, an artist at ILM, works on a meticulous matte painting that will become the background for one of the film's sweeping pastoral scenes.
Putting a scene together, Chris Evans begins the process by painting a matte - a traditional process that may be largely replaced by the use of digitally processed computer images.
A model maker, sitting amid a miniature version of a rocky promontory, puts final touches on the entrance to a cave. [Note from Connie: not really. This opening is where the live-action footage will go.
The camera reveals the relative size of a second model of part of the same terrain, made larger than the first to allow for close-ups.
Director Ron Howard, a long way from the lovesick teenager in American Graffiti, goes over the script with the veteran actor Billy Barty on location in England.
The premier of "Willow" Princess Di and Warwick Davis.
hisomuhito
Re: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Sylvester wrote:
The film is known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone everywhere except the USA and so every scene in which the Philosopher's Stone was mentioned was filmed twice, once with the actors saying 'Philosopher's' and once with the actors saying 'Sorcerer's'.
That'll be because the merkin's wouldn't have a clue what a Philosopher was..
Wolf
Beetlejuice
Title role originally written for 'Sammy Davis Jr.
When Barbara and Adam are in their case worker's office, through the blinds you can see Elwood and Jake from The Blues Brothers.
Jonny
A Goofy Movie 1995
At the end,when the car blows up, Goofy is blown out of his shoes and into the roof of the house. But as the movie fades out,he's got his shoes back on. How?
In the waterfall scene, Max is grasping the top of the fishing pole while Goofy is hanging from the cork handle at the other end. The cork sleeve slips off of the handle and Goofy falls. But when we see Max handling the fishing pole to try and catch him, the cork handle is intact.
In the scene at the diner, we see Max's breakfast of bacon and eggs. In the following shot he's in, the bacon disappears, only to reappear in the next shot of him.
nige
I'm sure most star wars fans already know this but for those that don't
Ewan McGregor actually has a family link to the original Star Wars trilogy.
His uncle is non other than the unsung hero of the orignals.. yep that right.. Wedge Antillies aka Denis Lawson
If you watch "The long way round", the series Ewan did where he and his mate went round the world on motor bikes, you see Denise seeing him off at the start.
Carl B Harrison
Props
"Time Tunnel" (1966)
The props used in this show, (such as the computers and guns) also were
used in _"Lost in Space" (1965)
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964)
"Land of the Giants" (1968) , and _"Batman" (1966)
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2001: A Space Odyssey
"Hal" is the name of the famous computer gone wrong. Move each letter in "Hal" up one and you get IBM. This is an extreme coincidence. "Hal" is an acronym for the "heuristic and algorithmic".
The actors Nigel Davenport, Martin Balsam, and Douglas Rain all recorded their voices for the part of HAL. Only Rain made the final cut. Kubrick said Balsam sounded too emotional.
Douglas Rain
At the "Dawn of Man" part at the beggining of the film, it shows a dead zebra. The zebra was actually a dead horse painted with stripes.
scenes were originally going to be narrated.
Several tons of sand was inported, washed, and painted for the use of the surface of the moon.
Stanley Kubrick's daughter played the part of Dr. Floyd's daughter.
The original working title was Journey Beyond the Stars.
oddbodd
Re: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
hisomuhito wrote:
Sylvester wrote:
The film is known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone everywhere except the USA and so every scene in which the Philosopher's Stone was mentioned was filmed twice, once with the actors saying 'Philosopher's' and once with the actors saying 'Sorcerer's'.
That'll be because the merkin's wouldn't have a clue what a Philosopher was..
Exactly. Not the first time that the intellectual decadence of the US has inspired the change of a movie's name. The film The Madness of King George was originally supposed to have been called The Madness of George III, but it was changed in case some US fool thought is was a sequel....
