The chants of the orc army in The Lord Of The Rings movie were produced by a stadium filled with more than 25,000 New Zealand cricket fans. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://screenrant.com/orcs-lord-of-the-rings-trivia-facts/
Movies
WTF Fun Fact – Evel Knievel’s Stuntman
The 1977 film Viva Knievel! starred Evel Knievel as himself but used stunt double Gary Charles Davis for the more dangerous motorcycle stunts. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Psycho’s Secrecy
Alfred Hitchcock bought all the copies of Robert Bloch’s Psycho, which was published in 1959, in order to keep the plot twists a secret for the film debut in 1960. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://variety.com/2017/film/news/alfred-hitchcock-psycho-secret-1202457671/
WTF Fun Fact – Iron Man Making Money
Robert Downey Jr. went from being paid $500,000 for playing Iron Man in the first Iron Man movie to making $50 million in the first The Avengers. His pay peaked at $80 million for Avengers: Age of Ultron. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/4-times-robert-downey-jr-043039758.html
WTF Fun Fact – Over And Out
The popular idiom “over and out” from TV and movies makes no sense in actual radio communications because “over” means you want a reply and “out” means you do not expect a reply. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/over_and_out
WTF Fun Fact – Hillbilly Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t allowed to dub his own role in Terminator to German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future sound like a hillbilly. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/learn-languages/celebrities-speak-languages/
WTF Fun Fact – Deadpool Mystery
The first Deadpool movie was only greenlit after test footage shot by the directors two years earlier was leaked online. The identity of who leaked it at 20th Century Fox remains a mystery. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_(film)
WTF Fun Fact – Whipple-Scrumpets
In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas where at one point known as Whipple-Scrumpets.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28980257
WTF Fun Fact – Judas Accidental Death
Two actors have died while playing Judas in live Biblical plays by accidentally hanging themselves for real during the death scene. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/24/world/americas/brazil-actor-hanging/index.html
WTF Fun Fact – Jake Gyllenhaal Frod-Oh No
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal tried out for the part of Frodo in the Lord of the Rings but was not even aware he had to have a British accent for the role, resulting in one of the worst auditions they had. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/jake-gyllenhaal-says-audition-frodo-hot-mess-201512105.html
WTF Fun Fact – Mr. Miyagi Childhood
Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi in the 1984 classic Karate Kid, was 2 years old when he contracted spinal tuberculosis and was confined to a bed in a sanitarium for 9 years. When experimental medicine finally cured him, he was sent to live in an internment camp in Arizona with his family. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://people.com/archive/after-a-lifetime-of-misfortune-karate-kids-noriyuki-pat-morita-battles-his-way-to-a-happy-ending-vol-25-no-26/
WTF Fun Fact – Academy Awards Mystery Oscar
The Academy Awards originally handed out a golden statue called the Academy Award of Merit in 1929. However, the origination of how it became known as an Oscar is a mystery. One story claims that the then Academy librarian, Margaret Herrick, thought the statue resembled her uncle Oscar. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/origins-oscar-how-prized-statue-870191
WTF Fun Fact – Makeup On A Shoestring Budget
Robin Mathews won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling for the 2013 movie Dallas Buyers Club which had a makeup budget of only $250 for the entire 28 days of production. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/02/dallas-buyers-club-makeup-oscar-nomination
WTF Fun Fact – Mr. Potato Head
Don Rickles, the voice of Mr. Potato Head, passed away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replace him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first three films, video games, and other media and were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/28/toy-story-4-potato-head/
WTF Fun Fact – The Untrained Godfather
Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather books who helped adapt them to film, had no formal training and had never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars for the first two movies, he decided to buy a book to help him learn to how to screenwrite. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701492922/a-look-back-at-the-godfather-with-mario-puzo-and-francis-ford-coppola
WTF Fun Fact – Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd has both Tourette’s and Asperger’s and was born with webbed toes and two different colored eyes. He also has an obsession with police and ghosts, which is how the idea of Ghostbusters came to be. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.montgomeryacademyonline.org/blog/dan-aykroyd-battling-with-aspergers-and-tourettes1651/
WTF Fun Fact – No Mafia In The Godfather
The movie The Godfather does not contain the words ‘mafia’ or ‘la cosa nostra’ because of a deal struck between the producer and the mafia. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/93739/when-mob-protested-godfather
WTF Fun Fact – The Matrix Sushi Recipes
The Matrix production designer Simon Whiteley confirmed that the green falling code in the Matrix is loads of sushi recipes. – WTF Fun Facts