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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 30 Days of Night (2007) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 30 Days of Night (2007) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007).
About the movie:
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
Before the publication of The Andromeda Strain,
Michael Crichton
had written under many pseudonyms, one being Michael Douglas.
b.
Prior to her death Emma Sands insisted that her very good friend
Diahann Carroll
be cast in the role of Claudine.
c.
The scenes where characters are driving on the road out of town at night were actually shot during the day.
d.
A full face mask resembling a wrinkled bulldog was originally constructed for the character of Barf, but
Mel Brooks
quipped that if they were going to hide
John Candy
behind a mask, he might as well hire someone else for half the price. A nose and upper lip piece was tried next, which Candy approved but again Brooks did not. They finally settled on animatronic ears connected to a hairpiece, a small nose application and a patch over one eye just like the dog from the Our Gang shorts.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
Mechanical effects designer
Isidoro Raponi
built fake tarantulas to augment the 200 live ones used in the spider attack sequence.
b.
At the early stages of production, author-producer
Tom Tryon
wanted
Ingrid Bergman
for the role of Ada (the Grandmother), and
Mark Lester
for the dual roles of Niles and Holland. When Bergman passed, on account of a previous stage commitment,
Uta Hagen
was hired and brought aboard twins
Chris Udvarnoky
and
Martin Udvarnoky
.
c.
De Beers Group, which is the largest player in the diamond trade, has expressed reservations that the film will reduce public demand for diamonds. De Beers maintains the trade in conflict diamonds has been reduced from 4% to 1% by the Kimberley Process and it has been suggested the company pushed for the film to contain a disclaimer saying the events are fictional and in the past. De Beers has denied this.
d.
A picture of
Steve Niles
, who wrote the original comic book, hangs in the attic hideout.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
Prints were shipped to some theaters under the fake title "Red Impression".
b.
This movies initial box-office had total receipts at about one quarter of its budget. This movie made about US $1.5 million but cost US $6 million.
c.
The Los Angeles police cars have different mottoes: "To Protect and Serve" and "To Care and Protect."
d.
After Mayor Angelo J. Rossi complained that "Frisco" was an inappropriate contraction of his citys name, 20th-Century Fox agreed that whenever it was shown in San Francisco and its suburbs, the film would be renamed, "Hello, San Francisco, Hello".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
When the script was first written it was a number from "Cats" that Gertie was to perform at her school play, but the show closed before filming started. It was replaced with a number from "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street".
b.
Filming took 70 days, as scheduled.
c.
Tony Stark says "I am Iron Man" in the final scene. This is a homage to the series
Iron Man
, whose theme song had the lyrics "I am Iron Man!"
d.
Sergio Leone
had several meetings with ex-gangster/author
Harry Grey
, so that he could recreate America as seen through Greys eyes (speakeasies, opium dens and all).
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
David Brown
and
Richard D. Zanuck
, producers of the first two films, originally pitched this as a spoof under the title of "National Lampoons Jaws 3, People 0". This was based on a suggestion by
Matty Simmons
and
John Hughes
and was about a movie studio trying to make a second sequel to
Jaws
. It opened with author
Peter Benchley
being eaten in his pool by a shark and included a naked
Bo Derek
and shark-costumed aliens.
Joe Dante
was attached as director. The idea was crushed by
Steven Spielberg
, who threatened to walk from his deal with Universal. As it was, when Zanuck and Brown learned that their comedy was halted, they quit the studio.
b.
According to
David Slade
, veteran director
Sam Raimi
was slated to direct the film when the script was in its earliest stages; then Raimi opted to produce instead.
c.
Jimmy Steele
mimics the stairs for the scene where Richie goes down into the Madmans basement, because the room he was entering was actually a closet at the location house.
d.
The high school pictured in the movie is actually San Diego State University. A statue of the founder of the university can be seen in the shot at Missys car before Torrance and Missy go to see the Clovers.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
The airplanes seen on the ground in the film are decommissioned P-40Bs, of the type actually used by the American Volunteer Group in China; they have four prominent gunports on the engine cowling (but no guns.) In the aerial sequences the planes are 1941 P-40Es, with six wing-mounted guns and a smooth cowling.
b.
WILHELM SCREAM: Heard after man is thrown off metal roof by vampire during the initial attacks on Barrow.
c.
Timmy Prices house is actually co-writer Tom Coynes parents house, where Coyne was living during filming.
d.
The main character, Frank McCloud, describes having served with Noras late husband in the WWII battle at San Pietro, Italy; director/co-screenwriter
John Huston
had been involved in that battle as the creator of the documentary film
San Pietro
while he was in the U.S. Armys motion picture unit.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
Lloyd Haynes
movie debut.
b.
According to the DVD commentary,
Josh Hartnett
was sick with mono for two weeks of film. During that two week period, he had to fly to Venice, London, New York and Los Angeles for the premiers of
The Black Dahlia
.
c.
Brian Cox
took the part of Big John Harrigan against the advice of most of his colleagues and his agent.
d.
The film was initially released with the screenplay attributed solely to
S.J. Perelman
. This was later changed after
James Poe
and
John Farrow
sued.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
H Stern loaned more than 300 pieces of jewelry to the film.
b.
Junior Johnson is credited with inventing the "bootleg turn", in which a driver escapes a pursuer by sharply putting his speeding car into a 180-degree turn on the highway, then speeding off in the opposite direction before his pursuer can turn around. In the movie this is used to great effect twice on the same police officer: when he first encounters the officer he does a 180 and the chase begins and then uses the "bootleg turn" once more effectively causing the officer to embank his car on the road.
c.
Josh Hartnett
did his own stunts, and
Melissa George
did most of Stellas driving.
d.
Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr.
: policeman in police car during opening credits.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
In the Hulk comics, Bruce Banners father was named Brian Banner. He was renamed David Banner in this film as a tribute to
The Incredible Hulk
, where the Hulk was known as David Banner.
b.
Burt Reynolds
was originally cast to play Will Brocious.
c.
Shipped to cinemas in the UK as "Brooks Noise".
d.
Most of the night shots were actually shot during the day, using the day-for-night process.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 30 Days of Night (2007)?
a.
Jason Statham
did most of his own stunts.
b.
In the original animated series, Aeon was killed at the end of each episode, only to appear alive and well at the beginning of the next. In the film, all the people in the world have died and been re-born over and over in a most subtle reference/adaptation of the original series.
c.
Writer
Steve Niles
originally conceived and pitched the story as a film for some years, but it was turned down by studios and thus reworked as a comic book. Eventually one of the producers who had rejected the original pitch worked on the movie adaptation.
d.
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
appears in one shot as an orderly in the hospital. He is wearing the exact same costume his character, Mandingo, wore in
Sublime
, where he was a satanic orderly.
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