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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : To Be King (2009) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : To Be King (2009)

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About the movie: A down and out boxer must find the courage to mend his life back together, after some unfortunate events.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: To Be King (2009)?
a.		Jimmy OPharrow: Boxing trainer.
b.		The script originally called for Mitch Wilkinson to stab Patrick Gates in the scene where they escape from the flooding gold city. This was taken out in post because it made the character "cross a line" that the director felt ought not be crossed. This is why there are almost no shots of Patrick Gates remaining in this scene: he was bleeding, and thats hard to hide. His sweater in the next scene had been ripped from the stabbing, and they were able to "unrip" his shirt with CG.
c.		In the bar there are two girls named Thelma and Louise, a reference to Thelma & Louise, also directed by Ridley Scott.
d.		The turboprop aircraft in which Borat is depicted as flying, is apparently wearing livery that includes Cyrillic-looking letters. The airplane is a Lockheed L-188 Electra, wearing Eastern Airlines livery of the late 1950s to early 1960s, and the image is reversed. Airlines then considered it important to trumpet using any turbine-powered engines as "jets". Thus the letters on the fuselage read, "FLY-EASTERN AIRLINES PROP-JET ELECTRA".

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: To Be King (2009)?
a.		The scene where Jenny Lerner first meets the president was filmed in the actual kitchen where Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
b.		Nigel Harvey was given one week to condition himself for the final fight.
c.		Writer Michael Nankin based the script on specific things from his childhood. For example, Nankin did have a best friend named Terry.
d.		At the time director Joseph Ruben was hired, Kim Basinger was attached to the project as Laura Burney. She soon turned the role down due to the feeling that she was not right for the role.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: To Be King (2009)?
a.		On the broadcast premiere, The SYFY Channel edited out the 2 sequences where the students meet at the grain silo, thus eliminating the subplot where they were driven to the party so no-one would have their cars or know where the party was actually held.
b.		Dastan is a name from Ferdowsis Shahnameh that means "the trickster".
c.		Paul Thomas Anderson: Tom Cruises director in Magnolia as a man on the train. It is reported that he is so hard to find that Anderson himself does not know where he appears.
d.		The lead actor Nigel Harvey and Director Steve Rahaman meet by chance outside the directors home in Queens NY. Nigel pitched a story to Steve and months later, it all became history. They are now the best of friends and have a partnership in Falling Leaves Productions us.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: To Be King (2009)?
a.		The film has one of the longest, most complex uninterrupted scenes ever made. In the scene, where two actors talking against a background, 16 of the 17 planes, four groups of four aircraft, took off at the same time. As the scene progresses, the actors entered a building and the same planes were seen through the window, climbing into formation. The problem was, for every take, the production manager has to call the planes back and made to take off again for every take of the particular scene. This was done four times.
b.		Michael Douglas turned down the lead role.
c.		Final ring fight took place at Starrett City Boxing Club in Brooklyn New York.
d.		The lines that Holmes quotes at the end of the film are a condensed version of William Shakespeares lines from Richard II. Richard II, 2.1, 40-51