Trivia Tuesday

Are you a lover of random and fascinating film-related trivia? So are we!, and Tuesdays are the day for it, so please check out our regular contributions to #TriviaTuesday below, and follow us on Twitter to stay in the loop for much more.

#TriviaTuesday: Julian the hulking assistant in 1971’s #AClockworkOrange was played by former British weightlifter and bodybuilder David Prowse, who would of course later become the original Darth Vader himself . . . or at least the man actually in the suit. pic.twitter.com/MZV5cKdbUA

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) April 9, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Aside from bringing to life a great screen villain, Sir Christopher Lee was an on-set Tolkien expert for the #LordOfTheRings trilogy, having read the books once a year since their publication, and being the only one there who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien. pic.twitter.com/47UVnsdMar

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) April 2, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: The dinosaurs in 1993’s #JurassicPark only get about 15 minutes of screen time in total, talk about bang for your buck! A perfect lesson for today’s filmmakers, from the #StevenSpielberg school of character-led big screen spectacle. pic.twitter.com/8FjKG5V0wG

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) March 26, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: In the 1960s #TheBeatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a psychedelic musical adaptation of the #LordOfTheRings with John as Gollum, Paul as Frodo, George as Gandalf and Ringo as Sam, but the director and Tolkien both declined. pic.twitter.com/CRl4FLJIeo

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) March 19, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Eddie Murphy and Matthew Broderick were the first choices for the hero leads in 1996’s ‘Independence Day’ but turned it down, only to then star together in ‘Tower Heist’ 15 years later. pic.twitter.com/k4KztgI9kz

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) March 12, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Among many brief cameos in 1991’s #Hook are #GwynethPaltrow as young Wendy, #GlennClose as the doomed pirate, David Crosby as another pirate, and #GeorgeLucas and #CarrieFisher as the kissing couple on Westminster bridge. pic.twitter.com/XCBqCQNNHs

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) March 5, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Steven Spielberg was in the early stages of a film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s medical screenplay when the author told him about #JurassicPark, which they went with first, only to later go back and help develop what would become ER. pic.twitter.com/zfDayDmY2U

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) February 26, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: The hugely popular American fried chicken chain #Popeyes is actually named after Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle character in 1971’s ‘The French Connection’, and not the spinach-munching cartoon sailor. pic.twitter.com/gvxNJgxONG

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) February 19, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Both the 1959 epic ‘Ben-Hur’ and its 1925 predecessor were based on the 1880 novel ‘Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ’ by Lew Wallace, who was previously a Union general in the American civil war, a lawyer, and the governor of New Mexico who arrested Billy the Kid. pic.twitter.com/uQQYpKi12V

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) February 12, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: The Nakatomi tower in 1988’s ‘Die Hard’ is actually Fox Plaza, the then unfinished headquarters of 20th Century Fox who produced the film, and charged itself rent for the privilege of using it. pic.twitter.com/bG7xbUNotZ

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) February 5, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: #Superman and #SupermanII were shot back-to-back but much of the sequel was then re-shot when original director Richard Donner was replaced, however Gene Hackman did not return for filming so unused footage from the original shoot and stand-ins were used. pic.twitter.com/EN8OUTEcZb

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) January 29, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Jeff Bridges was Terry Gilliam’s first choice for the lead in 1995’s ‘Twelve Monkeys’ after working with him in 1991’s ‘The Fisher King’, but the studio insisted on bigger star Bruce Willis, who ironically lost out to Bridges for the lead in ‘The Fisher King’. pic.twitter.com/HQmkUMlRCX

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) January 22, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: In an early incarnation of #Ghostbusters there were 3 team members with #JohnBelushi in the lead and no #BillMurray, but Belushi passed. In a later version #EddieMurphy was to play Winston Zeddemore in a bigger role, but he turned it down for #BeverlyHillsCop. pic.twitter.com/INCULg01kE

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) January 15, 2019

#TriviaTuesday: Aside from featuring in the original #StarWars trilogy and the #Disney movies, the Millennium Falcon makes a brief appearance in 2005 prequel ‘Episode III – Revenge of the Sith’, along with similar YT-1300f freighters in 2002’s ‘Episode II – Attack of the Clones’. pic.twitter.com/Zjxjcnxs5K

— FilmPhonic (@FilmPhonic) January 8, 2019

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