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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988).
About the movie:
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
This is
Edward Norton
s motion picture debut.
b.
The movie originally ended with the Terenzi brothers as the survivors of the exploding spaceship while Dave perished after killing the giant Klown, but since the executive needed a "upbeat ending" the Chiodo brothers filmed a second ending that is in all the versions where Dave and the Terenzi brothers survive the exploding spaceship by hiding in the "klown kar".
c.
Julia Stiles
auditioned for the part of Pam, but dropped out due to filming
10 Things I Hate About You
.
d.
When Emily, the character played by
Gale Sondergaard
, meets the new occupants of the house, one of the women asks her "Didnt I see you in Rebecca?". Sondergaards character is made to look like
Judith Anderson
s character in the
Alfred Hitchcock
thriller
Rebecca
, and Sondergaard herself bears a striking physical resemblance to Anderson.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
The $2 million budget went primarily on production costs. The clowns and visual effects were created almost entirely by the filmmakers at very little cost.
b.
One of the songs in this movie is not a
Cole Porter
song.
c.
Director
Nora Ephron
is the voice of the LA Times automated phone responder in the film.
d.
Binder approached singer-turned-actress
Mandy Moore
to play the youngest of the daughters but she backed out because she wanted to do publicity for an upcoming album.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
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.
According to
Quentin Tarantino
, Mr. Pink does in fact survive. You can verify this by increasing the volume of the background sounds: When Mr. Pink runs out of the building with the diamonds, police officers can be heard shouting at him to put his hands on the ground. Gunshots can be heard, then Mr. Pink shouts that he has been shot. You can then hear the officers talking to each other as Pink is arrested.
c.
The tools in the toolbox belong to
Tobe Hooper
.
d.
The original script draft was written by
Laura Albert
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
Debut of
Morgan Woodward
.
b.
Frank Mazzola
, who plays "Crunch" in the film, was an actual street gang member when he was a student at Hollywood High School. He was a member of a gang called "The Athenians." As such, he served as a technical advisor to Director
Nicholas Ray
and coached other actors in regard to street gang attitudes and mannerisms.
c.
During the scene where the Dwarfs wash before eating Dopey swallows a bar of soap. A sequence showing how they got the soap back out of him was filmed as a pencil test but was not included in the film. It was later shown on the "Disneyland" TV show along with pencil test segment for the song "The Music In Your Soup".
d.
Director
Stephen Chiodo
had hoped the shower scene would rival
Alfred Hitchcock
s masterpiece
Psycho
, substituting a toilet bowl swirl for the shower drain.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
Horrorcore rap group, the
Insane Clown Posse
often sample quotes from this film in their music, most notably on their "The Wraith: Shangri-La" album.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 26, 1948 with
Joan Caufield
and
William Holden
reprising their film roles.
c.
Set a record in its opening weekend for number of screens in the U.S.: 3,467 (later surpassed by
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
with 3,762).
d.
One of the hats the Mad Hatter presents to the Red Queen is Elsa
Schiaparelli
s "Shoe Hat" which was designed in the 1930s in cooperation with surrealist
Salvador Dalí
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
In
Dustin Hoffman
and
Anne Bancroft
s first encounter in the hotel room, Bancroft did not know that Hoffman was going to grab her breast. Hoffman decided offscreen to do it, because it reminded him of schoolboys trying to nonchalantly grab girls breasts in the hall by pretending to put their jackets on. When Hoffman did it onscreen, director
Mike Nichols
began laughing loudly offscreen. Hoffman began to laugh as well, so rather than stop the scene, he turned away from the camera and walked to the wall. Hoffman banged his head on the wall, trying to stop laughing, and Nichols thought it was so funny, he left it in.
b.
Julianne Moore
s brief role landed her an interview with
Steven Spielberg
, who would later cast her in
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
.
c.
First major movie where
Tippi Hedren
stars with her daughter
Melanie Griffith
. Previously, Hedren had starred in
The Harrad Experiment
where Griffith had had a very minor uncredited bit part as a student. The mother and daughter would later star together again in
Pacific Heights
.
d.
The scene where a Klown rams a car off the road and kills the driver was originally intended to be an opening prologue to the film, and the driver was to be the character Joe Lombardo. For this prologue there was also a scene shot where Joe and his date are kissing on a deserted dark road and after his date rejects him, he angrily drives off alone only to meet his demise with the Klown. However when it was decided to have an opening credit sequence be seen first, the kissing rejection scene ended up on the cutting room floor, and the car crash scene was placed at a later point in the film with the driver not being Joe Lombardo. He ended up being the name of a dead person that Mike and Debbie discover wrapped up in a cotton candy cocoon in the final version.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
In the original posters for the film,
David O. Russell
gets full writing credit, although the story is based on a draft written by
John Ridley
. It wasnt until Ridley took legal action that he received a "Story by" credit. Ridley blocked a novelization of the screenplay from being published. According to Ridley, he wrote the script as an experiment to see how fast he could write and sell a script. It took him seven days to write it, and Warner Brothers bought it 18 days later.
b.
The tagline seen on the DVD box art says "In space, no one can eat ice cream". This is a play on words that pays homage to the tagline for the 1979 film
Alien
, which states "In space no one can hear you scream".
c.
In the Directors Cut, a policeman was to commit perjury on the stand. While Daredevils sense allow him to detect perjury (since peoples hearts tend to beat faster when not telling the truth, and heightened senses allows one to detect the heart beating faster), the policemans perjury receives a false negative for the simple reason that the policeman had a pacemaker in his heart, which regulated his heartbeat. A similar incident happened in Daredevil #184, where a man with a pacemaker also received a false negative.
d.
First feature film credited to silent film juvenile actor
Coy Watson
Jr. who died on 14 March 2009 at the age of 96.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
An early version of the restaurant scene was shot showing the Chiodo brothers sitting at a table in the background as extras.
b.
The movie is set in Philadelphia. However, the ships used were at Patriots Point, Charleston South Carolina. The aircraft carrier, destroyer, and submarine are docked in the same positions as the movie.
c.
George Clooney
s second film opposite
Tilda Swinton
following
Michael Clayton
the year before. While in this film they play lovers, in the other they are rivals.
d.
The alien character played by
Mandy Patinkin
was originally going to be named George Jetson but Hanna-Barbera wouldnt give the rights to the name. The decision to call his character George in the movie was kept as an in-joke.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
a.
Jeremy Renner
tripped and fell down some stairs while carrying an Iraqi boy on the films set. Shooting was stopped for several days while Renners ankle healed.
b.
Originally
William Wyler
had planned only to film the first unit and leave the second unit duties to producer
Sam Zimbalist
. These plans were scuppered by Zimbalists premature death. MGM persuaded Wyler to see the film through to completion by offering him a sizable amount of money.
c.
This film was originally in pre-production in the early 1990s, with
Danny DeVito
and
Meryl Streep
set to play Boris and Natasha. Legal problems with copyrights prevented the film being made until several years later.
d.
The giant "King Klown" from the ending sequence, affectively called "Klownzilla" by the Chiodo brothers, was actually played by one of them (Charles).
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