Very little known facts about movies.

[Alex]

Someone seriously wanted to do a superman movie with nicholas cage as superman. Seriously.

Don't forget that he was supposed to fight a giant spider in it.

[Olivia Bauer]

Someone seriously wanted to do a superman movie with nicholas cage as superman. Seriously.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Nicholas Cage may still get to play Superman, as--apparently--Henry Cavill will no longer be playing the role. Thus, Marvel Fans have been saying come over to our side, as we want you to play Marvel's The Sentinel in a film.

[FatFreddysCat]

Someone seriously wanted to do a superman movie with nicholas cage as superman. Seriously.

Don't forget that he was supposed to fight a giant spider in it.

Kevin Smith did a brilliant bit about his brief but bizarre experience working on that film during one his spoken-word tours. It's long (about 20 minutes) but totally worth the watch:

Part 1:
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Part 2:
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[Trevor]

From The Alamo (2004) IMDB trivia page:

During production, local news stations sent helicopters to get aerial footage of the Alamo set. This was causing so much interference that everyone on the set was told to give the copters "the finger" so they could not use any footage.

[Svengoolie 3]

From The Alamo (2004) IMDB trivia page:

During production, local news stations sent helicopters to get aerial footage of the Alamo set. This was causing so much interference that everyone on the set was told to give the copters "the finger" so they could not use any footage.

I'm surprised the studio didn;t sue the people involved...

[Svengoolie 3]

The FBI condemned "It's a wonderful life" fir portraying bankers badly, which they described as communist.

[Pacman000]

Most Cinerama features were shot in 26 frames per second.

[Archivist]

The golden gun prop in the James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1972) was one of a few. They could be dismantled into constituent parts produced by the lighter company Colibri. All but one Golden Gun has disappeared in the intervening years, and the last Golden Gun was on tour in the traveling James Bond exhibition produced by the Barbizon.

[Svengoolie 3]

Stephen Colbert and his young sons were  in "The Hobbit".

[Svengoolie 3]

[Svengoolie 3]

The original monolith for the movie 2001 was a solid block of clear acrylic that weighed 2 metric tons.  It was the largest single acrylic plastic cast at the time.

Kubrick rejected it as it was almost impossible to film.

It ended up here...


https://londonist.com/london/secret/see-the-original-monolith-from-2001-a-space-odyssey