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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Speed Racer (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Speed Racer (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008).
About the movie:
The story begins with Speed Racer who is a young man with natural racing instincts whose goal is to win The Crucible...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
This was the first Nu Image production to be filmed in Bulgaria before the company bought the Boyana Film Studios based in Sofia a few years later.
b.
In one of Precious fantasies, she is shooting a commercial and we see a clapper. The names on the clapper indicating the director and cinematographer are Lee Daniels and Andrew Dunn, who are the films director and cinematographer.
c.
Elisha Cuthbert
and
Kate Mara
were considered for the role of Trixie.
d.
At the Italian Wedding, the guy sitting next to
Owen Wilson
who laughs at the "Jabroni" joke is Wilsons Uncle.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.
When
Jeremy Northam
s character plays the piano, it is either him playing, or his brother, who is a classically trained pianist.
c.
Racecar driver
Danica Patrick
was reportedly offered a cameo, but had to decline due to racing commitments with Andretti Green Racing and the Indy Racing League.
d.
Produced at a then-staggering cost of $13 million, the film went on to become Paramounts biggest-grossing movie to that time. For years it ranked second only to
Gone with the Wind
as the most successful film in Hollywood history.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
Gary Cooper
tore his hamstring and wrenched his back during the famous fight scene, and was in severe pain for most of the rest of the filming.
b.
The cast met with FBI personnel and underwent military weapons training for their roles.
c.
The pinup model in Jerris locker is
Amy Sedaris
. Sedaris also played the cocktail waitress in the "Teachers Lounge" scene.
d.
Keanu Reeves
turned down the role of Racer X.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
At the 1940 Academy Awards, the film got five nominations. It failed to win any Academy Awards, and
Charles Chaplin
was hurt by this. He already had spent twenty-seven years in Hollywood.
James Stewart
, the winner of the Best Actor Award (for which Chaplin was nominated), was not even planning on going to the ceremony until someone told him to go there hours before it began. Interestingly enough, this was the first year in which the winners remained secret until the moment they won their Awards.
b.
Julien Temple
and
Alfonso Cuarón
were attached to direct with
Johnny Depp
starring as Speed. All dropped out of the film due to delays in production and personal issues.
c.
The fictional town of New Spring is really Niles, California, where
Charles Chaplin
and Bronco Billy got their start around 1915.
d.
The wedding scene at the church took five days to film. An actual priest was cast as the priest.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
Roger Corman
decided to do an
H.P. Lovecraft
story as a break from his
Edgar Allan Poe
series while keeping the elements that made it successful. American-International took no chances. It gave the film a "Poe" title and marketed it as another in the series.
b.
Kyle Reese smiles only once during the entire movie, when Sarah makes to playfully throw the bag of dynamite at him after their night of intimacy.
c.
Some prints were shipped to movie theaters under the name "Race Chasers".
d.
Although Data is the owner of Spot, the cat,
Brent Spiner
who plays Data in fact hates cats and objected to the scene where Data finds Spot in the wreckage of the Enterprise, saying "Does he have to find the cat? Cant he find, like, Geordi or something?"
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
Carey Mulligan
,
Kristen Stewart
,
Rooney Mara
,
Emily Browning
,
Emma Roberts
,
Bella Heathcote
and
Ashley Greene
were considered to play India Stoker.
b.
The blue pick-up truck that Tommy Jarvis drives is the same truck that Pam (Melanie Kinnaman) drives in
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
.
c.
Partially based on the book Single Black Fatherm an autobiography about a single father raising his daughter. The book was also written by
Keenon Nikita
.
d.
In the original draft of the script, Royaltons name was Remmington.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
The watch in Speeds locker at the start of the film is a Heuer Monaco Sportiva. This watch was worn by
Steve McQueen
in the classic racing film
Le Mans
.
b.
The photo of a wife and child that one of the soldiers is looking at is actually a photo of
Eric Bana
s wife and child. The props department forgot to take a photo of a wife and child with them, so asked Banas wife and child who were traveling with him if they could use a photo of them in the movie.
c.
Jack Lemmon
attended a disastrous preview with his friend
Walter Matthau
. When the screening finished a distraught Lemmon asked his friend for advice about the picture, Matthau advised that Lemmon should "Get out of it"!
d.
On the DVD short documentary,
Claude Rains
daughter tells of a time when the two went to see this movie in the theater years after it was made. It was bitterly cold and his face was completely covered by a hat and scarf. When he spoke to ask for the tickets, the attendant immediately recognized his voice and wanted to let them in for free. Rains was quite upset at this and demanded that he pay full price.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
George C. Scott
was about fifty-three years of age and
Marlon Brando
was about fifty-seven years of age when this picture went into theatrical release.
b.
Harry Harvey
and
Murdock MacQuarrie
are listed as cast members by a modern source, but they were not seen in the film.
c.
Technically,
Speed Racer
was a first in many areas but two stand-out. It was the first film to use the Sony F23 Digital Film Camera and also to record in parallel to Sony HDCAM SR, for archive masters, and to Codex Digital Data Recorders for on-set uncompressed HD playback, digital dailies and file generation for editing and VFX.
d.
The film includes a very touching scene based on the execution of Private Eddie Slovik, the only case of a soldier executed in US Armed Forces during World War Two. In 1960,
Frank Sinatra
intended to produce a film based on the same story with a screenplay by
Albert Maltz
, one of the blacklisted in the infamous Hollywood Ten. But Sinatra was advised against it, because he himself could be suspected of communism, and finally decided against the project.
Carl Foreman
, who left the United States in 1952 because he was being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, decided to use the case of Private Slovik, and in the scene utilized the Frank Sinatra version of the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
According to
Michael Douglas
, director
Milos Forman
had his heart set on
Burt Reynolds
to play the part of McMurphy.
b.
Jack Larson
, who plays Bo the Bartender, played Jimmy Olsen in the
Adventures of Superman
TV series.
c.
According to
Michael Bay
on the DVD commentary, he had a fight with
Will Smith
over the ending. Three days before they shot the ending, Will agreed that he would say "I love you" to
Martin Lawrence
. The day they were about to shoot the ending, Will changed his mind and didnt want to say it. Michael Bay fought with Will for over a couple of hours about why he should say it. By the end of the fight, in complete frustration, Michael told Will that he didnt care anymore because he only had about 15 minutes to shoot the ending by this time or he didnt have an ending (he wasnt given additional days at the time of filming). When the scene was shot, Will finally says "I love you" to Martin. That shot appears in the final cut.
d.
According to producer
Joel Silver
, this movie was largely shot in greenscreen in 60 days.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Speed Racer (2008)?
a.
Milka Duno
, who plays Kellie "Gearbox" Kalinkov, is an actual professional race car driver in the Indy Racing League.
b.
Although Ishmael is supposed to be in his twenties,
Richard Basehart
was actually forty when the film was made - two years older than
Gregory Peck
.
c.
This film was simultaneously produced in two different versions. A CinemaScope version which has an aspect ratio of 2.55:1, and a spherical (non-CinemaScope) version intended to be matted during projection to a 1.75:1 aspect ratio.
d.
Anthony Perkins
elder son is named Osgood, possibly after Admiral Bridies aide of the same name. Anthony Perkins named his oldest son, "Osgood"(James Ripley Oswald Robert Perkins II) after Anthonys father, Broadway and film actor, James Ripley Oswald Perkins.
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