26Coco
The movie “Coco” was originally about a Mexican-American boy coping with the death of his mother, learning to let her go and move on with his life. As the movie developed, Pixar realized that this is the opposite of what Día de los Muertos is about.
27. Dr. Seuss’ widow disliked “The Cat in the Hat (2003)” so much that she banned Hollywood from making live action movies of Seuss’ characters.
28. Despite playing an anti-Semitic Kazakhstani man, Sasha Baron Cohen is actually speaking Hebrew throughout the entire movie “Borat.”
29. The Motion Picture Academy refused to nominate Tron for a special-effects award because, according to director Steven Lisberger, “The Academy thought we cheated by using computers.”
30. “The Shawshank Redemption” remains one of the most valuable assets in Warner Brothers catalog (which has several multi-billion dollar movie franchises) and actor Bob Gunton who played the warden in the movie still makes six figures a year from it.
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31Interview with a Vampire
After replacing River Phoenix (untimely death) for the role of Daniel Malloy in the movie Interview with a Vampire, Christian Slater donated his entire salary to Phoenix’s favorite charitable organizations.
32. The United States Government was in full support of the movie Independence Day [1996] offering real military uniforms and even jets until the film makers refused to remove Area 51 from the movie. Then the government withdrew all support.
33. Stu, the IT guy from “What We Do in the Shadows”, is in fact an IT guy named Stu in real life. He thought he was on set to help with IT related tasks and had no idea how big his part in the movie was until filming was almost wrapped.
34. Daniel Radcliffe’s parents initially turned him down for the role of Harry Potter in “The Philosopher’s Stone” because the initial plan was to shoot six films in Los Angeles. They accepted the role after filming was moved to the UK and the contract reduced to 2 movies.
35. Disney’s “Enchanted” film was originally written as an R-rated comedy princess movie with borrowed elements from “American Pie” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” that focused heavily on sex and profanity. Disney also hoped to cash in on merchandising with a Giselle doll, which was the studio’s first to be modeled on a real person and not a cartoon, but Disney’s lawyers discovered that they’d have to pay Amy Adams to license her image for the rest of her life, so the doll was dropped from the Disney Princess line and this is why Giselle is rarely seen at Disney’s Parks.
