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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dancehall (2012) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dancehall (2012)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dancehall (2012).

About the movie: The remarkably well-preserved body of a young woman surfaces from the icy depths of Lake Placid, New York, opening up a twenty year-old murder case that digs into the darker side of some very rich residents.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dancehall (2012)?
a.		Average Shot Length = ~10.6 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~8.9 seconds.
b.		Jackie Earle Hayley was initially apprehensive about taking on the role of Freddy Kruger, but changed his mind very quickly.
c.		Lake Placids already-established international draw, along with an economic incentive from the state, were key factors in deciding to shoot Dancehall entirely in upstate New York.
d.		Leonard Nimoy was originally asked to act in and direct this film, but he declined after reading the script and being told there was not time to fix the parts with which he had problems. According to Nimoy, there was a character named Spock in the script, but the lines were so bland they could have been spoken by anyone (those lines were given to James Doohan as Scotty; Nimoy later pointed to this as proof he was right).

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dancehall (2012)?
a.		The films writer, Richard Wenk, has reported that he originally conceived of the project with himself as writer and director and, before shopping it around to anyone else, first approached Richard Donner because they had a struck up a good relationship when Donner really liked his rewrite of a script for a Lethal Weapon 4, even though that script was not used. Wenk said that upon hearing his pitch for his new film, Donner "liked it so much that he didnt want me to direct it; he wanted to direct." Wenk tells this story in the documentary about screen writing, Tales from the Script.
b.		The boxing gloves used in the championship fight were called Casanovas. They were illegal in the U.S. but Sylvester Stallone says the producers chose them anyway because of their sleek appearance.
c.		This was the final feature film for director Joseph H. Lewis. He would spend much of the next decade directing television episodes before retiring from the industry.
d.		Dancehall is based on a best-selling mystery novel inspired by a real incident. In 1963, a womans body was discovered by a group of divers, right off rocky cliffs of Pulpit Rock, not far from the Lake Placid Marina, New York. Eventually it was identified as Mabel Douglass, founder and the first dean of New Jersey College for Women -- now Douglass College, part of Rutgers University --, who had disappeared after a solo outing in a rowboat on Lake Placid 30 years earlier. Her body was intact as it sat in the cold and still waters of Lake Placid, but partially disintegrated after being brought to the surface. The womans drowning was eventually determined to be accidental but left several questions unanswered, perhaps the most intriguing being: Could she have possibly been murdered.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dancehall (2012)?
a.		Dancehalls producer Edwin Graham first heard the legend of Mabel Douglass when he was canoeing on Lake Placid in 1980. Then he found Bernard F. Conners novel and just fell in love with the story.
b.		The exterior of the movie theater was an actual theater, while the interior was a set created on the back lot at Universal Studios Florida.
c.		Henry Fonda was generally unhappy with the quality of the films he had to do while under contract with 20th Century Fox. This was one of only two films from that period that he was actually enthusiastic about starring in. The other was The Grapes of Wrath.
d.		Heather ORourke, who played the little girl Carol-Anne, and Dominique Dunne, who played the teenage daughter, are buried in the same cemetery: Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Dunne was strangled into brain-death by her boyfriend in 1982, the year of the films release. Six years later, ORourke died of intestinal stenosis.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dancehall (2012)?
a.		The character Special Investigator Brint played by Stephen Lang is based on real-life investigator Mark B. Cross.
b.		The role of Klaatu was originally intended for Claude Rains.
c.		During filming, Mark Ryan acted as a stand-in for the Transformers on set, to give the actors a physical presence to react to/act against. He also ad-libbed characters during the films post-production. He was eventually taken on board to voice the Autobot Bumblebee.
d.		John Leguizamo wanted the part of Vinny but was offered the role of Johnny instead. Director Joseph B. Vasquez had promised the role of Johnny to his best friend but the studio preferred Leguizamo.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dancehall (2012)?
a.		Before writer Charles MacArthur was assigned to the project, he saw a preliminary script and protested to MGM studio head Irving Thalberg that the play "The Lullaby" was hopelessly old-fashioned and wouldnt be a good film debut for his wife, Helen Hayes. Thalberg heard him out and told him, "You dont like it - youre a writer. You fix it," and hired MacArthur to do the script.
b.		Dancehall is adapted from a 1982 novel of the same name written by Bernard F. Conners which was first optioned in the 1980s by Francis Ford Coppolas American Zoetrope studio. After about a decade the rights reverted back to the author. Producer Edwin Graham reached out to Conners in the early 1990s and was able to secure the rights to make the film.
c.		The title of the John Grisham book on which the film is based is "Skipping Christmas". It wasnt used for the film to avoid confusion with another Christmas-themed film, Surviving Christmas.
d.		Hilary Swank underwent a serious training schedule to prepare for this film. She gained nearly 20 pounds of muscle due to the workouts.