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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).

About the movie: In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		In the movie, the world will end on August 29, 2008, which was the date the movie was released.
b.		In Anchor Bays DVD, the end of the theatrical trailer (which shows the films title) has been cropped. The rest of trailer is in 1.85:1, but that last shot is around 2.35:1, which has caused confusion among fans. This aspect ratio change in the trailer was done by Disney to mask off Disney/Buena Vista names. Disney did not allow its name anywhere on the DVD package.
c.		"It Never Entered My Mind," sung by Betty Garrett (I), was deleted from the movie. Miss Garretts vocal is not contained on the soundtrack CD from Sony.
d.		In an interview at Comic-Con, Kelly LeBrock said when she did the kissing scene with Ilan Mitchell-Smith he stuck his tongue down her throat. "When the director said Cut, I was like: If you ever do that again Im going to kick your ass! laughs That was naughty. He was 14 years old!"

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		Liam Neeson has said he took this role just after filming Suspect, where he played a mute derelict, just to be in the sunshine around pretty girls; he admitted he still has not seen the film.
b.		Mechanical effects designer Isidoro Raponi built fake tarantulas to augment the 200 live ones used in the spider attack sequence.
c.		To construct 1 puppet of Coraline, 10 individuals had to work 3-4 months.
d.		The original edit of the film included scenes a helicopter rescue of the remaining students after two were killed by the Bigfoot monster. The rescue sequence was headed by the town Sheriff (Paul Kelleher) and was followed by a scene between the Sheriff and Crazy Wanda (Melanie Graham) outside her cabin during which the Sheriff assures Crazy Wanda that Bigfoot is still alive and well. Those scenes were cut when the initial distributor determined that the film would be more commercial if all of students were killed by Bigfoot in a climatic bloodbath; except one who would live to tell the tale. As a result of these post-production changes, Paul Kelleher ("Deadly Pursuit", "Moonlight Murders") appears only briefly as the Sheriff in a walk-on bit when the students first arrive in the village. However, he is listed as a member of the principle cast in the opening credits which were completed before the alternate ending was inserted into the film.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		The original Broadway production of "Starlight" on which the screenplay was based was written by Gladys Unger, opened at the Broadhurst Theater on March 3, 1925 and ran for 71 performances.
b.		Rachel McAdams was originally cast, but forced to drop out due to other commitments. Jacinda Barrett then stepped in to replace her.
c.		The first names of the parents of Tom Riddle (sr.) - Thomas and Mary, as written on the gravestone - are not mentioned in the books (but do still come from J.K. Rowling).
d.		Ray Bradbury asked both David Lean and Steven Spielberg if they were interested in directing the film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		The dude that robs Manny the first time is Carmine Giovinazzo (Detective Danny Messer from CSI: NY), cousin of the director, Buddy Giovinazzo.
b.		Disney made many changes to the film that Ray Bradbury and director Jack Clayton did not intend. Many extra special effects scenes were shot, and other changes were made before its release. According to the laserdisc commentary by Bradbury, much of his original intentions for the movie were destroyed.
c.		One scene called for Shirley Temple to slap Jane Withers. Temple repeatedly refused to do so, but after much coercion from director David Butler, she finally slapped Withers so hard that both girls burst into tears.
d.		A snow globe features in the movie. Snowglobes are thought to have originated in France in the early 1800s and contained many tiny chips of fine porcelain.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		In June 2006, the "Flying Dutchman" set ship was towed to Castaway Cay, Disney Cruise Lines private island, where it was displayed in promotion release of the movies.
b.		This film was supposed to feature George Zucco, but the actor had a stroke on the set and was committed to a sanitarium in San Gabriel, California until his death in 1960.
c.		In the spider sequence, the boys are noticeably older, since the scene was re-shot after the rest of the production had been completed. This was used to replace a sequence with a large mechanical hand which, like the animated appearance of the carnival, was deemed too hokey and was subsequently cut from the film.
d.		Adam Gennari, Joe Pontillo: [Script] The shooting script makes an appearance as Rogers book of plans.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		Stephen King wrote a rejected adaptation.
b.		After making Island of Lost Souls, Charles Laughton humorously claimed that he couldnt go to a zoo for the rest of his life.
c.		With the exception of one dubbed line, film is presented as silent with music, plus voice-over narration and silent-era intertitles such as "Priscilla split" or "Here comes Red" to announce the action.
d.		In the cage-fighting scene, Tito Ortiz is shown as the victor in a fight between himself and Chuck Liddell. In reality, the two have fought two times in the UFC, with Chuck winning both fights.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" is from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, Scene IV, Act i, spoken by the second witch.
b.		A few scenes were filmed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the real-life location of the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, during its demolition. The wing of the hotel they were using hadnt been touched by the demolition crew yet, in order to preserve items from the pantry where Kennedy was shot.
c.		The character of Cobra Bubbles, voiced by Ving Rhames, bears a marked resemblance to the gangster he played in Pulp Fiction, right down to the same earring.
d.		Writer Terry Black was approached by New World Pictures to write a sequel to Dead Heat. Black told a New World executive that a sequel would be hard to do because all the main characters died at the end of the first film. The executive responded "youve got a resurrection machine... you figure it out." The sequel however was never made.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		In the scene in which Leo is cleaning Martin Riggs house, you can hear the song "Im Not Scared", by the short-lived British pop group Eighth Wonder, of which Patsy Kensit was the lead singer.
b.		Barbra Streisand, who was originally attached to star as Laura Mars, sings the theme song "Prisoner" from this movie. Its the only song that Streisand sings from a movie in which she does not appear.
c.		The volcano in this film was built from scratch in farmland outside Fallbrook, California. Each shot required packing with hundreds of pounds of explosives and a carefully-orchestrated "eruption" to be filmed by the cameraman seated on the front skids of a helicopter. One eruption went off a little early and nearly took out the chopper, burning off the cameramans eyebrows and some of his hair. Because the eruptions looked so good, this ersatz volcano provided stock footage for decades of other films, commercials, etc.
d.		Steven Spielberg was considered to direct this movie.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		For the films initial release in May 1938, an unusually elaborate, 8 minute full color trailer was produced, which unfortunately does not survive in the Warner vault. Only the reissue trailer (1948) is available now.
b.		The lines "And in despair I bowed my head / "There is no peace on earth," I said, / "For hate is strong and mocks the song / Of peace on earth, good will to men." / Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; / The wrong shall fail, the right prevail / With peace on earth, good will to men" is from "I heard The Bells On Christmas Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
c.		Cinematographer Hal Mohr replaced Tony Gaudio.
d.		The original play opened in New York on 10 February 1913.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)?
a.		Life magazine was interested in the re-teaming of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, so Robert Aldrich thought it would be a great idea to have the women pose for photographs sitting on tombstones. Davis was all for it while Crawford was a little reluctant, but because it was for Life magazine she went along with it. Aldrich had a fake cemetery built a short distance away from the house and the photos were done in three to four sessions. The sessions were done during filming, and lasted for hours. Joan would be ready when Bette would be called away. Then when Bette returned, Joan would be gone, back in her trailer, with her clothes off, resting. She would take a long time getting ready. For the last session, Bette came back and Joan was missing, so Davis went to the back of the house to Crawfords dressing room, rapped on the door, stood outside and yelled, "Joan Crawford. Get your clothes on and come do these photographs, right away." Joan came hurtling out the door and the photographs were finished.
b.		This movie was filmed on location in Yugoslavia and specifically Dubrovnik, now part of Croatia.
c.		Although the characters name has changed, Frank McHugh plays the same part as he had in the original version titled "One Way Passage."
d.		A special-effects sequence that took place at the beginning of the film was cut shortly before the movie hit the theaters. In this sequence, the carnival materializes from the smoke of the train - the smoke from the engine "becomes ropes and canvas tents. Tree limbs grow together to form a ferris wheel and a spider web mutates into a wheel of fortune." This sequence was the first time that computer animation was used to animate organic material, and it was combined with traditional animation. The scene was deemed not convincing enough and was cut from the film at the very last minute (according to an issue of "Twilight Zone Magazine" that was released the same month as the film, the scene was going to be in the final print).

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