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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Event Horizon (1997) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Event Horizon (1997) - Part (4) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997).
About the movie:
A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Gisele Bündchen
agreed to be in the movie only if she didnt play a model.
Stanley Tucci
was one of the last actors cast.
Daniel Sunjata
had originally read for Tuccis part, rather unenthusiastically since he had just finished playing a similar character, but then read the Holt part and asked if he could audition for it.
Simon Baker
auditioned by sending a video of himself, wearing the same self-designed green jacket he has on when he and Andrea meet for the first time.
b.
Directorial debut of a theatrical feature for producer-director
Robert Greenwald
.
c.
Joely Richardson
s character was originally written for a man. However, during auditions, director
Paul W.S. Anderson
had the part read by both men and women. He chose Richardson because of the British stage class that she would bring to the movie, and thought it would be fun to then "douche her with gallons of blood".
d.
James Caan
s film debut.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The overhead shot of the NURV campus is actually Simon Fraser University, located in Burnaby, BC
b.
The script originally described the Gateway machine as a smooth and featureless black orb suspended in midair between large, rotating mechanical arms. It also was said to contain a stable black hole within it at all times (which the ship used as a power source), as opposed to briefly creating a temporary one. Paul Anderson decided to redesign it to involve interlocking circles as a homage to the puzzle box in
Hellraiser
, which served as an inspiration.
c.
Tom Welling
s character, Nick Castle, is named after
Nick Castle
, the actor who played The Shape in
John Carpenter
s
Halloween
.
d.
According to
Robert Mitchum
s autobiography, Mitchum himself was openly contemptuous of
Shelley Winters
throughout the shooting of the film, and later claimed to have wished
Charles Laughton
had actually used Winters in the scene when her characters body is seen dead underwater.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
All of the sex scenes were shot the same day, leading
Sam Mendes
to comment, "Its so nice to have sex today after all this war and death."
b.
Writer
Philip Eisner
visited the set while the space suit sequences were being filmed. The suits were so heavy that the actors risked back injuries, prompting
Laurence Fishburne
to stop between takes, point at Eisner, and shout mock-angrily: "You! You Eisner! You did this to me!".
c.
Harold Russell
s first film role since his dual Oscar-winning performance in
The Best Years of Our Lives
, a gap of about thirty-four years. Director
Richard Donner
persuaded the one-armed actor to take a sabbatical from his work as head of the US Presidents "Commission for Affirmative Action on Hiring the Handicapped" to appear in the key supporting role of Wings.
d.
Chapter Titles: 1. Wings of Disaster 2. Death Rides the Storm 3. The Toll of Treachery 4. Battle in the Clouds 5. The Fatal Blast 6. Stark Terror 7. Flaming Doom 8. The Plunge of Terror 9. Torturing Trials 10. Flash of Fate 11. Terror of the Storm 12. Winning Warriors!
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Paul W.S. Anderson
: During the opening dream sequence, a book floats past the camera, featuring a picture of the director and his name.
b.
The sound stage for the Whoville set measured around 30,000 square feet.
c.
Martin Sheen
provides a narration at the beginning of the film. He played
John F. Kennedy
in
Kennedy
and would later act in the film
Bobby
, which is centered around the assassination of Johns brother
Robert F. Kennedy
.
d.
Underwent last minute editing when preview audiences laughed at the wrong parts.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
John Ford
originally wanted to cast
John Wayne
as Marty Maher.
b.
Steven Spielberg
was so confident with this film that he started making his next film (
Schindlers List
), placing post-production in the hands of
George Lucas
.
c.
For
Jason Isaacs
death scene, the plan was originally for his entrails to be still attached to him as he hung over them. Isaacs was then supposed to raise his head, showing that he was still alive, prompting
Laurence Fishburne
s character to shoot him in the head, to put him out of his misery.
d.
In the Italian version the song "Senza fine" is the original one, sung by the singer Ornella Vanoni.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Most dogfight sequences come from 1942 newsreels, with considerable cropping due to the need to adapt the image to the Panavision framing.
b.
When an extras casting agency sent over some Mexican men that didnt quite have the right look, the filmmakers went to the local Home Depot and hired several day laborers to play small roles in various desert crossing scenes. While some complained that theyd "done this before" (i.e. cross the desert), others enjoyed it immensely and helped the filmmakers by offering insights into how to make the scenes more authentic.
c.
It is considered the first feature film of Chicano Cinema.
d.
From greenlight to completion, the film took 10 months, an unusually short amount of time for such a complex, special effects driven film.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Although the movie gets many of its predictions of the future wrong (Ted Kennedy winning the 1984 Presidential election) some are very close, especially the speculation about a massive earthquake in California which the movie predicts will happen in 1988 but in fact happened in 1989. Also the movie predicts that America would be at war with the middle east and that the war would begin early in the 1990s and in fact, at the beginning of the decade the country was in the Persian Gulf War.
b.
The country in North Africa in which the IRA train is never named, although a map of the camps is shown, and they are clearly in Libya.
c.
In order to express a sick enjoyment in the scene where
Dustin Hoffman
beats the man on the floor to death, he requested that there would be coconuts there for him to smash. In one shot you can actually see a bit of coconut flying off, which
Sam Peckinpah
passed off as brain matter.
d.
Paramount didnt officially greenlight the film until 10 weeks before production was due to begin. This meant that the production design was unnecessarily rushed and was the reason why many leading production designers turned the film down.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The scene where
Laurence Fishburne
finds
Jason Isaacs
hanging in the air with his chest cut open originally ran much longer, with Isaacs guts hanging out of him, and some of them laying on the table.
Paul W.S. Anderson
used a mylar mirror on an operating table to simulate the effect, with Issacs actually hanging on wires. This can be seen in the DVDs Making of Event Horizon documentary.
b.
Theres a scene after the credits.
c.
Film debut of
Ann Harding
.
d.
Bakshis car is a Morgan Sports Model, built from 1932-1939. Note that is has right-hand drive like all UK vehicles.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
The Porsche 917 which McQueen drove in the film (chassis 022) would later be sold to a privateer for its last competitive year driven regularly by
Reinhold Jöst
and Willi Kauhsen, before later being sold to race driver and film participant
Brian Redman
. Redman then sold it to
Richard Attwood
, the 1970 winner and another film participant, who referred to it as "his pension". Attwood then resprayed it to his 1970 winning color of red with white stripes as well attending numerous shows with it. He later sprayed it to the blue and orange Gulf Oil colors for promotional purposes and auctioned the car off at RM Auctions during the Monterey Historics weekend for less than £1 million in 2000 to Los Angeles Times publisher
Otis Chandler
, a noted collector. Chandler then sold the car to Bruce McCaw, and it was maintained at Vintage Racing Motors in Redmond, WA. Later, it was moved on to the hands of its current owner,
Jerry Seinfeld
.
b.
This was Twentieth Century-Foxs third CinemaScope production.
c.
Having just done a PG-13 movie,
Mortal Kombat
,
Paul W.S. Anderson
was very keen to do something more adult and gruesome. This was why he turned down the chance to direct
X-Men
.
d.
The filmmaker was on such a tight budget that the films ultimate weapon, the "focusing disintegrator", was actually a Hubleys Atomic Disintegrator toy cap gun, bought for a dime, with a flashbulb added as a beam. (In some scenes the words "Hubleys" can clearly be seen embossed on the side of the gun.) Atomic Disintegrators can be bought today on eBay for upwards of $300.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Event Horizon (1997)?
a.
Around 2000, the film was going to be a made-for-TV special to be produced by UPN, and
Tyler Mane
was approached to play Thor.
b.
With this film,
Frank Lloyd
became one of only two directors to win the best director Oscar without their movie also being nominated for best picture. The only other film to win a directing Oscar without a best picture nomination was
Two Arabian Knights
, which won the only Oscar ever given for Comedy Direction to
Lewis Milestone
. Both Lloyd and Milestone won additional best director Oscars for directing best picture winners, Lloyd for
Cavalcade
and Milestone for
All Quiet on the Western Front
.
c.
Paris Hilton
shot the song "Come Up and Try My New Parts" on her first day on set.
d.
Jeremy Irons
and
Amy Brenneman
were originally set to star in the film.
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