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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Babylon A.D. (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Babylon A.D. (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008).
About the movie:
Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
Tong Po is mistakenly billed as playing himself (on the films credits). In fact
Michel Qissi
played the villainous Thai for this film and its sequel
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back
.
Kamel Krifa
played the character in the 4th. Qissi can also be seen in two other Van Damme movies,
Bloodsport
and
Lionheart
. In Bloodsport Qissi is the fighter that gets his leg broken by Chong Li. In Lionheart (AWOL) Qissi plays Moustafe who alongside another legionnaire is trying to bring Lyon from America back to Africa.
b.
In the original novel upon which the film was based, Admiral Farley C. Barnswells flagship is the USS Eisenhower, a good guess on the part of the novelists
Fletcher Knebel
and
Charles W. Bailey II
: an aircraft carrier of that name would not be ordered until 29 June 1970, a full eight years after the books publication.
c.
The film is based on the novel "Babylon Babies" by
Maurice G. Dantec
.
d.
According to a 1988 interview in Playboy magazine,
Bruce Willis
was offered a lead role but was forced to turn it down because filming was about to start on the first 6 episodes of
Moonlighting
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
Alfred Drake
s film debut.
b.
A contemporary review mentioned that the character, "Trigger Bill, was a composite of outlaws "James H. Dog Kelley", "Blinky Jones" and "Dr. John W. Doc Holliday".
c.
Two dream sequences for this film were made in the 2-color Technicolor process. This was the first commercially released color footage to be lit with artificial light.
d.
The movie got almost no promotion, due to a feud between
Mathieu Kassovitz
and Fox studios over the final version.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
The film is based partly on Herbert Asburys book of the same name. In it the depiction of the riot (which is still the largest in US history) is more in line with historical fact, which portrays the gangs as pro-slavery, racists, and lynchers.
b.
In a poll on IMDb, the movie was voted as having the best plot twist, beating out
The Sixth Sense
,
The Crying Game
, and
Witness for the Prosecution
.
c.
French actor
Vincent Cassel
was initially sought to be cast in the lead role.
d.
To achieve the shot where the camera travels inside
Leland Orser
to see the alien fetus about to be birthed, Orser had a camera shoved down his throat and then pulled out. This was then reversed.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
The round Sigil Tattoo seen on
Vin Diesel
s neck is known as "The Gate of the Necronomicon" and is protective, symbolizing Man, the Creator and The Watchers.
b.
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h has at least four different edited versions due to delivery requirements for different distributors. The Directors Cut, a 2hr and 6 minute standard definition version which has not been released, is the only version of the film that Writer/Director Sam Akina and Producer Vu Le approve of.
c.
Ronald Colman
appeared courtesy of
Samuel Goldwyn
.
d.
There are 15 deaths in the film: 3 are stabbed, 5 shot, 1 dies of a broken neck, 1 is incinerated, 3 are killed in a car accident, 1 dies after head was bashed, and 1 unknowingly drank alcohol containing traces of peanuts to which he was severely allergic.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
Cal, Ricky and Girard were all actually introduced during driver introductions at the 2005 UAW Ford 500 at Talladega. Ricky and Cal were cheered, but when Girard was introduced as a driver from France driving the Perrier car, the entire crowd started booing without any prompting.
b.
The movie was heavily advertised in infomercials for producer Santo Rigatusos "Santo Gold" mail-order jewelry business. The movies price tag of $2 million was paid for by the proceeds from the business.
c.
The role of divorce attorney, Thomas Chaney, Sr. was slated to be portrayed by actor Marco Perella, who was unable to work on the project due to production conflicts. Actor David Stokey took over the role 2 weeks before filming began in June of 2004.
d.
Vin Diesel
dropped out of the lead role of
Hitman
to star in this movie.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
According to
François Truffaut
, Director
Stanley Kramer
may have watched The Paradine Case before he shot the Nuremberg Trial in
Judgment at Nuremberg
. Truffaut mentioned about some of the similarities between the two films in an audio interview with
Alfred Hitchcock
.
b.
One of the sketches in the Book of the Dead comes from
William Blake
s painting "The Great Red Dragon And The Woman Clothed With The Sun".
c.
In March 2007, the film crew in the Czech Republic took a two-week hiatus to deal with uncooperative weather, such as the lack of snow, and problems with set construction.
d.
The cover of the LIFE magazine in Mr. Madsons shop shows
Laurence Olivier
in
Hamlet
; another Shakespeare reference is on the bridge where Mike and Doug fight (it reads "Shakespeare Bridge," the real name of a bridge in L.A. where the movie was filmed).
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
The film had to be bailed out by the studios insurance company, after running over-budget and falling significantly behind schedule.
b.
In the early 1990s
Bernd Eichinger
s option on the rights to The Fantastic Four were about to expire, to avoid this he commissioned
Roger Corman
to make a film (
The Fantastic Four
) as quickly as possible so he could keep hold of the rights. This was mainly to thwart
Chris Columbus
who was after the rights at the same time. Cormans version only cost $2 million, neither him or his cast and crew knew that the film was dumper-bound. It has however been seen in bootleg and download versions, with the general critical consensus being that it was a terrible movie.
c.
Former US Marine Corps Drill Instructor
R. Lee Ermey
was not originally hired to play Gunnery Sgt. Hartman but as a consultant for the Marine Corps boot camp portion of the film. He performed a demonstration on videotape in which he yelled obscene insults and abuse for 15 minutes without stopping, repeating himself or even flinching - despite being continuously pelted with tennis balls and oranges.
Stanley Kubrick
was so impressed that he cast Ermey as Hartman.
d.
Was the #1 movie in the country the week it was released.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
When Daisy Evans (Joan Marsh) leaves the movie theatre, she pauses to look at a poster for The Stolen Jools (
The Slippery Pearls
) ("with 55 famous stars"), a popular two reel short subject of 1931.
b.
Mathieu Kassovitz
developed the film adaptation for five years.
c.
Judy Garland
was scheduled only to sing with
Mickey Rooney
in this film, and producer
Arthur Freed
offered her $50,000 (or half of what she owed the studio for medical bills) to do one take. At the first public screening, the fans asked for more of her, so Freed offered her another $50,000 to do a second song. By the time her scenes were filmed, she had paid back the studio but had made nothing.
d.
The Ferrari 308 used in the movie belonged to director
Hal Needham
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
Body count: 35
b.
Was not screened for US critics.
c.
Second filmed production as a director for
Robert Duvall
. The first was
Were Not the Jet Set
, a documentary.
d.
This is first movie Bill Williams and Barbara Hale made together after their marriage in 1946. They were married over 46 years until his death in 92.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Babylon A.D. (2008)?
a.
The story was inspired by the 2005 NYC transit strike that lasted three days.
b.
American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 claims that, except for Double Indemnity (1944), this was Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurrays only joint screen appearance. Fact is, they also co-starred in The Moonlighter (1953 and Theres Always Tomorrow (1956).
c.
The film features Barcelona as both a setting and a word in the movies title. New York director
Whit Stillman
was once labeled the new
Woody Allen
after making his first film
Metropolitan
. Coincidentally, Stillmans subsequent film was called
Barcelona
.
d.
When the film was released, director
Mathieu Kassovitz
called it a "bad episode of
24
." In an interview with amctv.com, Kassovitz said that Twentieth Century Fox interfered throughout production, and he never had a chance to shoot a scene the way it was scripted, or the way he wanted it to be.
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