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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Daybreakers (2009) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Daybreakers (2009) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Daybreakers (2009).
About the movie:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Daybreakers (2009)?
a.
Paula Abdul
: as a roller skater in front of Tail O the Pup.
b.
This movie was released in the USA on January 8th 2010, birthday of
Elvis Presley
s birthday. The character played by
Willem Dafoe
is named Elvis because of his love for the Presley song Burning Love.
c.
When Alice (
Annette OToole
) is stalked at the swimming pool, this sequence is a direct homage and remake re-working from an equivalent scene in the original
Cat People
. This scene is the main common element of the two films. Apart from the cat people, they are completely different stories.
d.
Claudia Cardinale
could not speak English, so Princess Dalas dialog was dubbed by twenty-year-old
Gale Garnett
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Daybreakers (2009)?
a.
In keeping with the original Nazis-as-villains idea, the hero originally saw
Adolf Hitler
himself standing on the balcony of the villains lair. He disappeared when the extensive re-shooting was done. Hitler was played once again by
Bobby Watson
.
b.
Kenny Loggins
was not the first choice to record the song Danger Zone for the film. Toto and
REO Speedwagon
were two of the groups considered prior to Loggins.
c.
Wes Anderson
and the brothers Wilson made a 13 minute B/W short film called
Bottle Rocket
which was first shown at the USA Film Festival in Dallas. It met with a sufficiently enthusiastic response that they took it to Sundance where it came to the attention of screenwriter
L.M. Kit Carson
who directed it to towards
Polly Platt
and
James L. Brooks
. It was with their intervention that the team were able to get financial backing from Columbia to expand their short into a feature film.
d.
Shot in 2007, according to an article in Entertainment Weekly (Issue #1085)
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Daybreakers (2009)?
a.
The scene in which a car is thrown over a cliff was initially intended to be far more spectacular - the car was to fly over the cliff and crash down to the ground. Unfortunately, the sling rope snapped because effects crew members neglected to remove the stoppers from underneath the cars wheels. The result was what is seen in the final film, the car slowly tumbles over the edge and becomes caught on a tree.
b.
This film is considered an "Ozploitation" (Australian exploitation) picture.
c.
George tells Nina that his date for his high school prom (the one to whom he showed a "good time") was named Lucy Jane. In a display of her offbeat sense of humor, that is the name of screenwriter
Wendy Wasserstein
s daughter.
d.
The film was a notorious flop when it was released in 1970, earning back a little over 10% of its $11-million budget, an enormous sum for the time (approximately $55.4 million in 2005 dollars). The films failure solidified
Sean Connery
s reputation for being box office poison outside of James Bond and torpedoed co-star
Richard Harris
chance at superstar status. Connerys career continued its non-Bond stall throughout the 1970s (with the notable exception of
John Huston
s
The Man Who Would Be King
), and Harris career as a leading man continued to decline until it went into eclipse in the middle of the same decade. While Connery would re-establish himself as a superstar in the 1980s, Harris never again was a front-rank star, though he wound up as a respectable and in-demand character actor later in his career.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Daybreakers (2009)?
a.
The screenplay differs drastically from
Alistair MacLean
s book in terms of characters, including the identity of the traitor and the two women who dont even appear in the novel.
b.
The makers of the movie hosted a contest in Worth1000.com (famous photo manipulation-contest site) to come up with images of how the world would look if nearly everyone were a vampire.
c.
For several years, from the time of
Errol Flynn
s death until the film was issued on videocassette and began to be shown on Turner Classic Movies, the title was changed to "Elizabeth the Queen", the title of
Maxwell Anderson
s original play on which the film is based.
d.
Stock music by Robert Van Eps and Dominic Frontiere was integrated into Samuel Matlovskys original score for "Namu". Van Eps music was composed for "The Outer Limits" TV segment entitled "Tourist Attraction", which was directed by Namus László Benedek. The ominous-sounding cues were used for the amphibious fish-monsters, the Ichthyosaurs.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Daybreakers (2009)?
a.
In this movie,
Lukas Haas
plays "Clifton Hanger" which is the name the late Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Midland used when he checked into hotels. Peter Fonda plays "August West" which is a character in the Grateful Dead song "Wharf Rat."
b.
Richard Linklater
taught
Miranda Cosgrove
how to do the screwed mouth face after she finds out what a groupie is and confronts Dewey about it.
c.
Despite being banned in some cities, the film was a hit, and helped to put
Jayne Mansfield
on the Top 10 List of Box Office Attractions for 1963.
d.
The corporation named Bromley Marks is named after Patricia Bromley Marks, the wife of Dick Marks, Australian advertising legend and mentor to
Michael Spierig
and
Peter Spierig
.
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