Movies/Tv - Facts and Trivia

The Dark Knight (2008)
For the first four days of production, Christopher Nolan put cast and crew under a movie boot camp comprising eight films whose tone he wanted to emulate. In chronological order, these were: King Kong, Citizen Kane, Cat People, Stalag 17, Black Sunday, A Clockwork Orange, Heat, and Batman Begins.

Jaws (1975)
During a set visit, George Lucas decided it'd be an absolute hoot to stick his head inside the mouth of Bruce The Shark - the animatronic great white. Steven Spielberg got in on the fun and closed the jaws. The prank backfired when the prop malfunctioned and Lucas got stuck.

The Godfather (1972)
Although popular myth has long-since implied that Marlon Brando padded his cheeks with cotton wool to nail the unforgettable speech pattern of Vito Corleone, he did so only for the audition. Before the actual filming began, he had a mouthpiece specially created by a dentist to give him the same effect.

Actress Gates McFadden best known for playing Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek The Next Generation is not only a Actress but a choreographer but was the director of choreography and puppet movement on the movie Labyrinth and The Muppets Take Manhattan which she briefly appeared in the latter and went by her real name Cheryl McFadden (Cheryl Gates McFadden).

The Song Blue Skies that features in the Star Trek Picard Finale first appeared in Star Trek Nemesis when Data sings the song at Riker and Troi’s wedding. In the Star Trek Picard finale when Data puts on the Blue Skies record time listen to its sung by Actress Isa Briones who plays Data’s daughter Soji.

^^^Bing Crosby sung a version of that song too and is the Grand Father of Actress Denise Crosby who played Security Chief Tasha Yar and Yar’s daughter the half Romulan Commander Sela in Star Trek The Next Generation.

Most people know the TV HBO series Westworld is based on the 1973 movie but there actually was a series called Beyond Westworld which came out in 1980 and only lasted 5 Eps (2 were unaired). There was a sequel to the 1973 movie called Futureworld came out in 1976.

In Knight Rider K.A.R.R would make two appearances once in Season 1 and again in season 3. In season 1 he was voiced by Peter Cullen voice of Optimus Prime in the animated series and the live action movies. In season 3 it was a different actor Peter Frees then voiced K.A.R.R.

The black jeep that Marty McFly ends up with in the end Back To The Future isn’t the same one that was used in the two follow up sequels. After filming wrapped up on the first movie the Jeep was given away in a competition but it ended up getting crushed. a few years later when Back To The Future Part II and III (the sequels were filmed back to black) started filming they needed the jeep back with the original one being crushed they managed to find a owner with a Identical model jeep so crew borrowed it and dressed it up to look like the original jeep.