Movie Stuff You Only Now Just Realized - Part 7

[CJ]

The Emperor's New Groove was originally going to be a dramatic film, called 'Kingdom of the Sun', from the director of The Lion King.

The story was going to be a loose adaptation of 'The Prince and the Pauper' with Kuzco switching places with Pacha, (voiced by Owen Wilson) making him Emperor and Kuzco then living the quiet life as a Llama herder.

In the movie, Yzma wants to be young again and had a plot to block out the sun. Kronk was nonexistent in the film. Yzma instead had ghouls and mummies as her lackeys. In the end, she gets thrown into the sun and dies.

Disney execs thought it was too dark and the project was scrapped and reworked into 'The Emperor's New Groove' 20% of the film was completed (along with a musical number by Eartha Kitt, which made its way onto the film's soundtrack) by the time it was scrapped.

 

[Immortalfire]

Ben Stein can be seen in Ghostbusters II

Sophia Bush and Aaron Paul are in Van Wilder

 

[Sundancer]

Deadpool is invited to join the X-Men in both of his movies when he's not really a mutant, but a mutate.

Franics said the formula activates any latent mutant genes if they are there so I considered him having mutant DNA

 

[Schlosser85]

Just found out Bibi Besch (Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) was the mother of Samantha Mathis.

 

[3rdstone]

Eva Longoria was the producer of John Wick.

 

[Drizzle]

The South Park movie and Mary Poppins Returns have the same composer/co-lyricist.

 

[Manasrepublic]

Spider-Man is with a hyphen and not one word. Exactly like Super-Man

 

[Guts]

But it is just one word.

 

[Dave McFly]

In the movie Watchman Rorschach has a busted strap on his shoulder of his trenchcoat just like in the comic never noticed that til I re watched it the other day

 

[samsnee]

Spider-Man is with a hyphen and not one word. Exactly like Super-Man

 

[Sundancer]

Jon Favreau was in an episode of Friends. I learned that from the credits in the clip above

 

[Schlosser85]

Jon Favreau was in an episode of Friends. I learned that from the credits in the clip above

He was in a few episodes as Monica's (Courtney Cox) rich boyfriend.

Not just Happy Hogan either, they also had Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in a recurring role later in the show as Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) endgame love interest.

 

[Guts]

For the movie Interstellar, Christopher Nolan had a 500 acre cornfield grown for the movie after Zack Snyder had a cornfield grown for Man of Steel. Nolan also ran a side business selling the corn to make back some of the budget on the movie.

 

[samsnee]

He was in a few episodes as Monica's (Courtney Cox) rich boyfriend.

Not just Happy Hogan either, they also had Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) in a recurring role later in the show as Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) endgame love interest.

Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and the Grandmaster (Goldblum) also showed up.

 

[Schlosser85]

I don’t remember Goldblum.

 

[samsnee]

 

[DawnWarrior]

'Collateral' and 'Django Unchained' have very similar scenes where Jamie Foxx is in a tight spot surrounded by strangers with guns. Then he thinks "what would my new best friend who's a professional killer say in this situation?" So he starts talking like that, and it works.

 

[Teelie]

List of James Cameron movies*:
The Informationist (announced)
2025 Avatar 5 (pre-production)
2024 Avatar 4 (pre-production)
2021 Avatar 3 (post-production)
2020 Avatar 2 (post-production)
The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (delayed)
2016 Toruk: The First Flight (TV Movie) (collaborating director)
2009 Avatar
2005 Aliens of the Deep (Documentary)
2003 Ghosts of the Abyss (Documentary)
2002 Expedition: Bismarck (TV Movie documentary)
2002 Dark Angel (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Freak Nation (2002)
2001 Earthship.TV (TV Movie)
1997 Titanic
1996 T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (Short)
1994 True Lies
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1989 The Abyss
1988 Martini Ranch: Reach (Video short)
1986 Aliens
1984 The Terminator
1981 Piranha II: The Spawning
1978 Xenogenesis (Short)

* Excluding documentaries, shorts, television, and the trainwreck that was Piranha II, every single movie begins with either a T or an A that Cameron has directed. And The Informationist which has yet to go to production and may get a name change.

 

[samsnee]

And yet he complained about superhero movies killing originality a few months back.

 

[LvtLeeTDK]

General Hux and Caleb (Ex Machina) are played by the same actor

 

[CJ]

Toy Story's Sid was likely influenced by Beavis & Butt-Head, as he liked rock music, broke stuff, and wore similar clothes to Butt-Head.

 

[flickchick85]

Just saw Honey I Blew Up the Kid for the first time in probably 25 years, and realized:

A.) Keri Russell was the son's love interest, and
B.) John Shea's turn as the villain here is probably what got him the Lex Luthor gig on Lois & Clark.

 

[Dave McFly]

Adam Lambert the lead singer of Queen has a cameo in Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[DawnWarrior]

'Get Out' and 'A Quiet Place', which are already kind of spiritually tied (popular comedy actor directs new horror classic) have something else in common: both originally had much grimmer endings, until their respective directors decided, nah, we don't need to go that far, let's end it on a more positive note.

 

[Jordacar]

[minor spoilers for Hereditary]

Hereditary has something in common with Highlander:
-
paranormal forces triggered by decapitation.