For all the action, mistakes, easter eggs and cameos in blockbuster movies, the drama
and comedy behind the scenes can be just as awesome. We're changing things up, and giving
you another rapid fire dose of movie trivia you never thought to look for. Screen Rant
presents: Know Your Movies: 20 Amazing Movie Secrets That Will Blow Your Mind #2.
The Revenant The director's commitment to realism didn't
just send the cast into the wild, but scenes could only be filmed using natural light,
with the crew waiting until the sun lit the scene perfectly, and having just hours to
shoot each day.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Stormtrooper Finn gets his nickname from
his First Order ID: FN-2187. The FN stands for Footsoldier Number, but the 2187 is a
reference to Leia's Death Star prison cell in the first movie.
Mad Max: Fury Road Fans hoping to see a romance develop between
stars Max Rockatansky and Furiosa left the theatre disappointed. But the doubles for
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron didn't. While they rehearsed the brutal fistfight between
the two characters, they fell in love, eventually marrying once production wrapped.
Avengers: Age of Ultron Scarlett Johansson didn't know she was pregnant
until a day before filming started, so the Ultron effects team was charged with hiding
her growing belly through CG. Aside from stunt doubles, watch out for Black Widow covering
her stomach, or conveniently lying down for entire scenes.
The Martian A lot of the humor in this Mars story comes
from the book it's based on, but the filmmakers had some fun. In one scene, the head of NASA
makes an accurate prediction. It's accurate, because that exact scene played out in the
novel, giving those who read it an even bigger laugh.
Jurassic World Nobody would have ever guessed that Chris
Pratt, the chubby clown from Parks & Rec would wind up battling dinosaurs, right? Wrong.
He made the prediction himself in a behind-the-scenes gag video four years before being cast.
Minions The little yellow mascots of the Despicable
Me series are famous for their voices and gibberish language. But for their standalone
movie, it was only the director Pierre Coffin who supplied the voices. All of them. All
899 of them. Talk about dedication.
Ant-Man Even though Adam McKay was brought in to rewrite
Ant-Man, there weren't many connections to his other hit, Anchorman. But the Pym Technologies
building should look familiar - it's the same Atlanta building used for the Channel 4 headquarters.
Deadpool Almost every superhero movie costume comes
with a muscle suit to give the stars a comic book body. But on Ryan Reynolds, the extra
muscles were overkill, so the finished physique of Deadpool is all natural.
X-Men: Apocalypse The mutant Nightcrawler gets a second appearance
in this prequel/reboot, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee. The actor finally joins the Marvel superteam
after he was originally cast as a young Wolverine, in X-Men: Origins. He probably made the right
call.
Warcraft Even though the Orcs of this video game fantasy
are created entirely in computers, director Duncan Jones still had full-sized models of
their in-game armor constructed to scale, so the actors knew just intimidating their
CG characters really were.
The Jungle Book Most Disney movies tend to give animals human
personalities, but for the CG/live-action Jungle Book, it's the opposite. Footage of
real animals was used as the base, with the famous cast having to copy those movements
as they delivered their lines.
Independence Day: Resurgence Can you believe an Independence Day sequel
was actually planned as soon as the movie hit theatres? The writer wound up returning
his pay for the sequel script, since he didn't think the story was strong enough. Fifteen
years later, inspiration struck, and the story for Resurgence was born - set two decades
after the first film.
The Revenant It wasn't just the cold and snow that star
Leonardo DiCaprio had to deal with, but his vegetarian diet. When a scene called for the
character to eat mouthfuls of bison liver, he realized the fake version wouldn't work,
and chowed down on the real thing - admitting he would never do it again.
Furious 7 Paul Walker's death stunned movie fans, and
forced the makers of the Fast & Furious team to get creative. Body doubles, CG and Walker's
brothers were used to finish his scenes in Furious 7. The most incredible solution? An
airplane scene that required the effects team to copy Walker in, frame by frame, using footage
taken from Fast Five to finish his character's story in the series.
The Hateful Eight Though he denied it at first, Quentin Tarantino
eventually admitted that this western was planned as a sequel to Django Unchained, with
Jamie Foxx's hero one of the snowed-in bounty hunters. Since audiences shouldn't know who's
good or bad, or going to survive, he eventually rewrote the script with Django removed.
Mad Max: Fury Road American movie fans have learned one lesson
over the years: German or Russian accents belong to villains. Wartime grudges are worldwide:
in both the English and German versions of the movie, the evil Buzzards speak Russian.
For the Russian cut, their lines were re-dubbed... Into German.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Director J. J. Abrams found a way to pay homage
to every movie in the original Star Wars trilogy in his sequel, including the iconic environments
from each in Episode 7. The deserts of Tatooine in A New Hope, the frozen snow of Hoth in
Empire, and the forests of Endor's moon in Return of the Jedi.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation J. J. Abrams may only have produced Rogue
Nation, after directing the franchise's third instalment, but his impact is still felt.
When Ethan Hunt tries hacking an underwater terminal, it's labeled with the number 108
- which just happens to be the sum of the famous numbers from Abrams' famous TV series,
LOST: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
Spectre The famous secret society and supervillain
Blofeld finally returned to the modern Bond movies, but were originally planned to appear
in the first Casino Royale reboot, but replaced by "Quantum." When the producer who owned
the rights passed away years later, a settlement was reached, and Quantum was revealed to be
a subsidiary of SPECTRE all along...
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