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[apocalypsos]

So for the past few days, I've been hopping around the IMDb to check out the trivia sections for all of the new blockbusters coming out this summer.

Okay, so this isn't all of it, but my favorite ones so far ...

While shooting on the streets of Chicago, a person accidentally crashed into the Batmobile. The driver was apparently drunk, and said he hit the car in a state of panic, believing the Dark Knight's vehicle to be an invading alien spacecraft.

*snerk* Well, I don't know about you, but when aliens invade, I've always believed our best course of action will be to run them over en masse with our cars. ;)

Christian Bale's trailer didn't have his name on the door but said "Bruce Wayne" instead.

HEE! See, now that's something I appreciate in my Batman. *giggles*

A quote from Christian Bale that some of the crew had on the back of their t-shirts (the wardrobe dept. did it as a joke) said: "It's hot, dark and sweaty and it gives me a headache."

*dies laughing*

Before Christopher Nolan took over, director Darren Aronofsky was attached to make a Batman movie based on the graphic novel "Batman: Year One" and have the author Frank Miller write the screenplay. By 2003 there was a first draft screenplay with story boards, which are properties of AOL Time Warner. Warner's decision for not producing the film is unknown, but based on the details that have since leaked out, it would probably have to do with the screenplay, which strayed a considerable amount from the source material, making Alfred an African-American mechanic named "Big Al," the Batmobile being a suped-up Lncoln Towncar, and Bruce Wayne being homeless, among other things. This is all detailed in 'David Hughes' ' book "Tales from Development Hell."

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I ... I just ... Big Al?! WOW. Now that is some incredible crack. Seriously.

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George A. Romero was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) that he asked them to appear in this, the fourth part of his "Dead" series, possibly in cameos as zombies.

Okay, see, that alone would be worth my ten bucks. *adores*

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While filming nearby, Tom Cruise along with a 20 member entourage including Steven Spielberg visited a Lexington, Virginia, Dairy Queen. Cruise saw a jar on the counter with a photo of Ashley Flint and her story. Flint was in a go-cart accident a few months earlier, leaving her family with a mountain of hospital bills. Cruise put $5000 cash into the jar.

I swear to God, the man has two settings -- pretty cool, and batshit insane fucktard.

While filming in a residential neighborhood in Howell, New Jersey, residents lined up for autographs. Tom Cruise said if anyone pushed or shoved or acted rudely he would stop immediately. One woman pushed her way through and Cruise stopped, just like he warned.

See? (Now, that's a cool move.)

Comments

[silverhill.livejournal.com]

I ... I just ... Big Al?! WOW. Now that is some incredible crack. Seriously.

It has even weirder connotations if, like me, you grew up in central Illinois and have the mental association of Big Al's, the strip joint in Peoria.

[midnightbex.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think of that until you said it. That strip joint is rather well known apparently (I'm from Northern Illinois myself).

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

George A. Romero was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) that he asked them to appear in this, the fourth part of his "Dead" series, possibly in cameos as zombies

*Squees a squee she didn't know she had in her*

I lurrrrve Shaun! I would totally go see that if they had cameos!

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

I swear to God, the man has two settings -- pretty cool, and batshit insane fucktard.
Exactly.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I just want to know when Mel Gibson slipped Tom Cruise some of his Crazy Pills. I'm scared of them both now. ;_;

[foreverrogue.livejournal.com]

*Gawks*

They... they wanted to do what to Alfred?

That's... just... there's no words!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know! They're not allowed to do that to Alfred, damn it! Alfred's one of the coolest characters in the DC-verse just the way he is! Grrrr.

[pelennor-fields.livejournal.com]

Given how few cool characters the DC-verse has, I'm glad Warners left that alone.

ESPECIALLY given what they tried to make Kevin Smith do to Superman.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, I missed this. What did they try to make Kevin Smith do to Superman? o.o

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ooo! If I'm remembering correctly, it involved Clark's powers coming from the suit and Lex being from Krypton, too, among other monstrosities.

[foreverrogue.livejournal.com]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Alfred is perfect the way he is.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Al?

AL?

Sheesh, and I though NASBROOM Harry Potter was bad...

[adjectivegirl.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Okay, I can see in some alternate universe, how that version of Batman would be truly epically awesome. In some way. Not that it should happen. But still. Hee. Big Al.

[denial-girl.livejournal.com]

Cruise put $5000 cash into the jar.

So he just randomly carries around $5000 in cash to Dairy Queen?

Somehow I doubt the validity of that story.

[midnightbex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the guy hitting the Batmobile sort of blew their 'we'll sneak in in the middle of the night and then only film at night and no one will see!' plan. It actually resulted in there being a ton of people downtown when they were filming on lower Wacker the next night. (not that the scenes they were filming of the Batmobile being chased by Gotham police cars weren't on the news the all that week anyway)