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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stormbreaker (2006) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Stormbreaker (2006)

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About the movie: Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		Carrie Fisher traveled to the filming location of Finse, Norway, even though she was not scheduled to take part in any outdoor scenes.
b.		Extra scenes with Greta Garbo were added after previews to ensure that Joan Crawford didnt walk off with the picture.
c.		The building opposite Alex and Sabinas school is actually the Channel 4 headquarters.
d.		The house used as Jesses mansion was a real mansion in Mahwah, New Jersey that had been abandoned since the 1920s.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		The early edition of the script was published into a book.
b.		The lines between Riggs and Lorna about "semantics" and "some antics" were originally filmed inside Lornas car.
c.		The meaning of the word "Secaucus" and the phrase "Secaucus Seven" of the films title is that is refers to the seven college friends of the sixties generation who made a an exit at a turnpike on the way to a demonstration rally in Washington, D.C to protest against the Vietnam War. The seven (amongst others) were stopped by police, arrested, detained and gaoled in Secaucus, New Jersey. "Secaucus" refers to the town Secaucus in New Jersey whilst "Secaucus Seven" references "The Chicago Seven". "The Chicago Seven" were 7 protesters who were charged with a number of offenses including conspiracy and inciting a riot during protests and demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
d.		Alan Silvestri was first suggested to provide the score but has been replaced by Klaus Badelt. However, some movie posters still show the credit "Music by Alan Silvestri". These posters also show a different story credit, omitting the fourth story writer Jay Wolpert: "Screen Story by Stuart Beattie and Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio".

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		Jimmy Carr worked two days.
b.		While editing some of the film, Marsh lived in a friends laundry room in Gainesville, FL. During the day, he worked at a Borders bookstore where, ironically, he would often shelve copies of "Rebel Without a Crew" and DVDs of "El Mariachi."
c.		Because the action of the movie is so completely wedded to the music, the script was mimeographed on special music paper, with the action and dialogue printed between the staves and timed to each measure.
d.		The late Dominique Dunne auditioned for the lead role.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		For this co-production between India and the USA, scenes were shot in both English and Hindi. Dubbing in post production was was used where language was a barrier.
b.		Anthony Horowitz, author of the book, recommended Alex Pettyfer to play Alex Rider after seeing his impressive performance in the lead role in the British TV drama Tom Browns Schooldays.
c.		A Jewel Production. Universal, not owning its own theater network, devised a 3-tiered branding system to identify and sell its product: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige pictures produced to potentially command higher roadshow ticket prices). This branding system would fade away by late 1929.
d.		Except for the Flint Tropics, all of the team names and uniforms are the same as the real ABA.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		On the audio commentary of the film, director Roger Donaldson and Colin Farrell joked that the huge rear projection screen on set (valued at $300,000) was powered by turbine pedaling monkeys to make it as bright as it was.
b.		Because Alex Pettyfer was only 15 at the time, he was not allowed to drive the car in the car chase mentioned in the book, so it was instead converted to a horse chase so as the chase could still take place.
c.		The last film that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis did together before breaking up as a comedy team.
d.		Rob Zombie was offered to direct, but turned it down to work on his pet project House of 1000 Corpses_.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		There are plans to turn the other five Alex Rider books into films.
b.		After this black-and-white production finished, Twentieth Century-Fox would implement the policy of utilizing Technicolor for all future Betty Grable features. The only monochromatic exception would be her guest spot in Four Jills in a Jeep, crooning the standard from 1908, "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" (music by Karl Hoschna, lyrics by Otto A. Harbach -- which she already had performed the year before in the Technicolored Coney Island. Miss Grable would not exempt from the Technicolor clause two black-and-white dramas offered her: The Razors Edge (Anne Baxters Oscar-winning part) and Pickup on South Street (the Jean Peters role). For Bettys final picture, How to Be Very, Very Popular, Color by DeLuxe was employed.
c.		Every time Inspector Clouseau says Miguel, he pronounces it incorrectly by adding the sound of the letter u. All the other characters who say it pronounce it correctly (with a silent u).
d.		Jeff Bridges was offered the role of Grady, but was not cast over salary disputes.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		The working title for the film was "Biohazard".
b.		Many of the Windmill theatre scenes, such as the portraits, and the Native Americans, came from old photographs of the Old Windmill Theatre.
c.		A famous painter was hired to create the paintings that Gene Kelly displays on the streets of Paris.
d.		The school scenes were filmed at The Grey Coat Hospital school in Westminster, London, which is actually a girls school.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		The last scene of the movie was Jacksons casket laying in his classroom at VMI, as the camera slowly pulls back to reveal his wife, child and students. This scene was actually filmed but deleted from the theatrical cut, as well as the DVD.
b.		When John Wayne informed Bruce Dern that Derns character would shoot Waynes, he told Dern that audiences would hate him for it. Dern responded by saying, "Yeah, but theyll sure love me in Berkeley."
c.		Invited to be closing movie of 2010 Houston Worldfest Film Festival and won a Platinum Remi award for Romance Theatrical Film.
d.		Fifteen-year-old Alex Pettyfer was chosen from five hundred other boys for the coveted lead role of Alex Rider.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		The scenes of Tim Allen racing a shopping cart were shot at the Target Store in Minnesota.
b.		The Dracula sequence was the last one completed for the film. It had to be shortened because William Holden smashed his new Ferrari into a wall and wound up in a splint.
c.		The scene where Mr. Dawes, Sr. (Dick Van Dyke) has trouble negotiating the step in the banks meeting room was not originally in the script. While viewing a make-up test for Dick Van Dyke in the projection room, Walt Disney saw Van Dyke entertaining crew members on the test film between between takes with some comic routines, among them the "stepping down" routine of an old man trying to step off a curb without hurting himself. The test film not only convinced Disney to cast Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes, Sr., but Walt specifically requested that crew members "build a six-inch riser on the board room set so Dick can do that stepping-down routine".
d.		As the lead character of Alex Rider engages in mountain climbing, scuba diving, martial arts and many other extreme sports, the role is said to be one of the most physically demanding ever undertaken by a child actor.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Stormbreaker (2006)?
a.		BBC News 24 presenter Simon McCoy has a cameo as the newsreader in the film announcing the Stormbreaker computer.
b.		Gary Cole, playing Mike Brady, went on to play Vice President Bob Russell in The West Wing. Interestingly, the man pretending to be Carol Bradys first husband in A Very Brady Sequel, Tim Matheson, also went on to play the Vice President John Hoynes in "The West Wing".
c.		18th July 1966: Police seized this film, and arrested the manager of a local Nashville cinema, for contravening a municipal order that banned films, as this, for contents of an obscene nature.
d.		After the movie was finished, Laurence Olivier went to New York for a short time, and had dinner in a restaurant with friends. During the dinner, he recalled to his friends something he said about the movie while Furie was still directing: "This piss is shit." Olivier later said a reporter must have been at the table next to his, because the next day the New York Daily News reported what he said (though with both vulgar words changed to cleaner derogatory words.) This news soon spread completely across the country, and with threats of lawsuits in the air, Olivier quickly made a statement to the press claiming that in the end the movie had been made well and that he totally supported it. Olivier also wrote a handwritten ten-page letter to Richard Fleischer, not only apologizing for the restaurant incident, but also indirectly giving an explanation as to why he was making so many movies strictly for the money.

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