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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008).
About the movie:
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
Ben Affleck
took a part in this film to be near then-girlfriend,
Gwyneth Paltrow
.
b.
Heather Chasen
was a contender for the role of Magda.
c.
Murray Silver Jr.
and
Myra Lewis
sold the film rights to the book for $115,000, plus a share of the profits. The two were supposed to serve as script consultants, but after the rights were sold three times, they lost that role when Director
Jim McBride
and Producer
Adam Fields
opted to put some distance between the film crew and their real-life counterparts.
d.
Joseph Patrick Finn
: producer of many X-files episodes, is the whispering priest seated next to Father Ybarra during the staff meeting where Scully first mentions using Stem Cell therapy.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
Before the DVDs Game tour with Ezra and Emma of the Mansion, during the direction, the reader was
Tony Jay
.
b.
Chris Carter
: sits on a bench outside Scullys office. He is holding an urn containing the ashes of his dog, Frankie, who died during filming.
c.
Rob Brydon
played
Dustin Hoffman
in a deleted scene, which took place at the 1980 Academy Awards and involved Sellers losing the Oscar for Best Actor (for his performance in
Being There
) to Hoffman (for his performance in
Kramer vs. Kramer
), during his acceptance speech Hoffman declared "I refuse to believe that I beat Peter Sellers". Though the Academy Awards scene was deleted, the framing scene of Sellers watching it on TV is still in the picture. It has merely been reedited so whats playing on the TV has been changed to the scene from
Being There
that he filmed. The look on Sellers face as he watches was originally his expression while rewinding the tape of Hoffman saying "I beat Peter Sellers" and playing it over and over again.
Stephen Hopkins
says on the DVD commentary that the scene was altered because his dramatic point got lost in the exposition of showing Sellers lose the Oscar.
d.
To pick up authentic slang for the film script, screenwriters
Billy Wilder
and
Charles Brackett
visited the drugstore across the street from Hollywood High School, a burlesque house and the Hollywood Park racetrack.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
Chris Carter
originally planned to make this movie right after the end of the TV series, and use it to end the alien invasion storyline. Since production was delayed for over five years, Carter decided to focus on a standalone mystery in order to make the movie appealing to people who werent familiar with the shows mythology, leaving the invasion subplot for a possible third film.
b.
Filmed at the same high school as the TV show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
, who plays Buffy in the series and who co-starred with Freddie Prinze, Jr. in
I Know What You Did Last Summer
, has a small, non-speaking cameo. The same high school was used in
Not Another Teen Movie
that parodied this movie in some cases line by line.
c.
James Coco
was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Drama for "Last of the Red Hot Lovers".
d.
Neville Brand
was considered for a major role.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
Initially this was due for release in 2000 with rumored titles including Death Waits for No Man", "Fire and Ice", "Pressure Point" and "Dangerously Yours".
b.
According to the commentary track of their compilation video
Direct from Brooklyn
, the video for "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants was filmed using this films tails and unused film.
c.
When Scully opens Franz Tomczeszyns rural mailbox, she reads the address of a bill for body parts and medical supplies. The address is on Bellflower in Somerset, West Virginia. Director,
Chris Carter
s hometown is Bellflower, CA.
d.
The studios first choice for director was
Robert Zemeckis
.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
When in full Robocop costume,
Peter Weller
would remain in character between takes, only responding to directors instructions when properly addressed as "Robo".
b.
A subplot was removed involving drug smugglers. It was feared this would give it an R-rating and wasnt necessary to the plot.
c.
When Mulder and Scully are talking in bed, the book lying next to Scullys pillow is "Beautiful WASPs Having Sex" by Dori Carter,
Chris Carter
s wife.
d.
This was Paramounts biggest hit of 1946.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
Sylvester Stallone
gained the necessary weight for the role by eating a steady diet of giant pancakes served at a local pancake house.
b.
Three people who worked on the film were victims of the
Joseph McCarthy
HUAC hearings - director
Michael Gordon
, screenwriter
Carl Foreman
, and actor
Morris Carnovsky
, who played Le Bret in the film.
José Ferrer
himself was investigated, but managed to escape the blacklist.
c.
Mulder, Scully, and Skinner all enter the film with the camera behind them rising to eye level.
d.
Donald Pleasence
was the original choice for the character of Blair. Pleasence was unable to perform the role due to a scheduling conflict.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)?
a.
The book Christian is reading during class, Junky by
William S. Burroughs
is another clue and indication of his sexual orientation - as the author, Burroughs had strong homosexual desires.
b.
The Rottweiler who portrayed the two-headed dog was named Okie. The second head (an appliance attached to the dog with Velcro) was nicknamed Dokey.
c.
This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
d.
Nearly a dozen different locations, including three different states, were used to film the climatic gunfight at the end.
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