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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Licence to Kill (1989) - Part (4) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Licence to Kill (1989) - 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: Licence to Kill (1989).
About the movie:
James Bond leaves Her Majesty's Secret Service to stop an evil drug lord and avenge his best friend, Felix Leiter.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
The character Sara Melas sisters car is a BMW-manufactured Mini.
b.
Writer/director
Fred Olen Ray
initially pitched the idea for this picture to legendary exploitation movie producer
Roger Corman
. Ray told Corman he could make the film for only $250,000 dollars. Corman turned Ray down on the grounds that said budget was too low. So Ray made the picture on his own for only $140,000 dollars.
c.
After this movie was completed,
Alfred Hitchcock
worked on the film script for the spy thriller The Short Night. He never got to direct it due to his ailing health and it was not made. It would have been his fifty-fourth film. The Short Night still has never been filmed to this day.
d.
First EON Productions James Bond movie to receive a 15 Rating by the British Board of Film Classification. The highest rating in all previous entries in the series had been a PG level rating.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
According to the DVD commentary,
Timothy Dalton
was unavailable for
Talisa Soto
s screen test, so
Robert Davi
filled the role of Bond, and proved rather good in the part.
b.
The song thats playing in the lobby of the hotel before Thornhill enters the Oak Bar is "Its a Most Unusual Day".
c.
A Jewel Production. Universal, lacking a theater chain of its own, devised a 3-tiered branding system for its product: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions designed to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). This system would fade away in late 1929.
d.
According to
Peter Fonda
s auto-biography,
Tatum ONeal
was originally cast in
Karen Allen
s role. When the producers found out teenage ONeal was too young to be working without supervision, she was let go.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
Scott Speedman
suffered a concussion when a set prop that was supposed to be a piece of the wall Viktor had just thrown him through hit him in the head.
b.
Christian Slater
was almost cast as J.D., before
Brad Pitt
got the role.
c.
"Faster than a speeding bullet!" (when Clark catches the projectile fired towards Lois back). "More powerful than a locomotive!" (when young Clark outruns the Smallville train, AND years later, (as Superman) repairs the railroad; supporting the weight.) Finally, if referencing the alternate tagline from
Max Fleischer
s
Superman
, "Able to soar higher than any plane!" (when Superman takes the missile, bound for New Jersey, into space.)
d.
James Bonds weapon (on loan from the U.S. Coast Guard) during the opening pre-credits sequence was a 9 mm 16 round Beretta 92F (at the time of filming, Beretta 92F pistols were issued to U.S. civilian law enforcement agencies and the U.S. military). This marks the first time that Bond is seen with a Beretta in decades (in
Dr. No
, M ordered that Bond carry a different pistol, his signature Walther PPK as a replacement).
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
Loosely based on the
H.G. Wells
story "The Food of the Gods", about a substance that causes giant mutations in growing organisms. Children fed the substance become giants (capable of producing giant offspring), who choose to fight when their existence is threatened by adult authorities.
b.
Last Bond movie directed by
John Glen
.
c.
Official Selection E2 Film Festival
d.
The filmmakers made it a priority to shoot all of
Marlon Brando
and
Gene Hackman
s scenes first as they were the most in-demand actors and were committed to other projects straight after.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
William Holden
was the original choice to star in the first film,
The Omen
, but turned it down as he did not want to star in a picture about the devil.
Gregory Peck
was selected as his replacement. "The Omen" went on to become a huge hit and Holden made sure he did not turn down the part in this sequel.
b.
The cars driven by the "Hoovers" are Rover P6s (sometimes called the Rover 2000) built in Britain from 1963 until 1976. They were extremely popular with the police force in Britain where the 3.5 litre V8-engined model was used as a high speed interceptor. Three of the four P6 Rovers in the movie were North American market 3500S versions of the 3.5 litre V8 with triple hood scoops. The fourth was a North American 2000TC with triple hood scoops added by Columbia Pictures. All four of the cars had triple hood scoops.
c.
After production was completed, arrangements were made to allow
Elizabeth Taylor
to keep the horse.
d.
Final Bond film in which
Richard Maibaum
had a part in writing the screenplay. He would pass away in 1991. This was also the final Bond film on which long-time title sequence designer
Maurice Binder
worked. He too passed away in 1991.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
Eric Christmas last film.
b.
"The Hedda Hopper Show - This Is Hollywood" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 25, 1947 with
George Raft
and
Sylvia Sidney
reprising their film roles.
c.
Whilst on the set of
Scarlett
,
Timothy Dalton
officially announced his resignation from the role of James Bond on 11 April 1994.
d.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2002.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
Long-time James Bond series producer
Albert R. Broccoli
fell sick during the production of this movie. The thinness of the air in Mexico affected his lungs and breathing and he left the location accompanied by wife
Dana Broccoli
and daughter
Barbara Broccoli
. He was unable to return and this was the last James Bond movie in which he was on the set.
b.
Bill Murray
: Can be seen in the final gallery scene as a customer.
c.
Dennis Haysbert
was shuttling back and forth from the east coast to Los Angeles during the production of this movie, because of his commitment to TV show
24
, that was filming at the same time.
d.
In preparation for his role,
Ryan Gosling
restored the 1973 Chevy Malibu that his character uses in the film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
John Butler
as "Bradshaw" and
Effie Afton
as "Mrs. Marchbanks" are in studio records/casting call lists for their roles, but they did not appear in the movie, although both characters are mentioned.
b.
Due to the Writers Guild of America strike in 1989, long-time James Bond scriptwriter
Richard Maibaum
was unable to continue working on the screenplay. A long time member of the Guild, Maibaum felt he could not betray his membership and ghost-write the script. Co-writer
Michael G. Wilson
had to complete the screenplay on his own. This was to be the fifth and final pairing for the Maibaum-Wilson writing team which had started with
For Your Eyes Only
.
c.
Shot in 1989, not released until 1991.
d.
The studio originally wanted the film to receive a PG-13 rating but
John Moore
insisted on an R-rating, suggesting people would "smell a cop-out" if a remake of
The Omen
was to receive a family friendly certificate.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
Originally
Kristen Savage
was going to change her appearance again in the third act, this time to have a mohawk, and while scenes with the mohawk were shot they were eventually discarded.
b.
The working title of this film was "Sweating Bullets" and an early plot idea was about a calf named Bullets who saved his herd from a band of ghost cattle rustlers called the Willies.
c.
Edmund Cobb
, the uncredited actor who is easily recognizable to Western fans as the masked Rattler in every chapter, is nowhere to be seen in any other capacity as the story progresses, and when the real Rattler is finally unmasked in the final chapter, he turns out to be a different (credited) actor entirely.
d.
Pam Bouviers alias as Ms. Kennedy is a reference to
Jacqueline Kennedy
, whose maiden name was Bouvier. Her weapon was a .25 caliber Beretta 950 automatic.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Licence to Kill (1989)?
a.
When Truman-Lodge (
Anthony Starke
) says that the set up cost them $32 million dollars, that is an inside joke, a reference to the films $32 million dollar budget.
b.
Filmed in 1923, but not released until 1925.
c.
The one-take master shot scene of Lenny doing his act in a raincoat near the end of the film came from an actual tape recorded from a show he did that was sent to
Dustin Hoffman
by a student who saw the show. Lennys exact words in the scene on stage are verbatim from the tape of his show.
d.
According to
Eddie Murphy
, he was in talks with
Quentin Tarantino
for a role in the film.
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