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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Unstoppable (2010) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Unstoppable (2010) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010).
About the movie:
With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
Denzel Washington
recommended
Chris Pine
to
Tony Scott
for the role of Will Colson.
b.
In an interview,
Evan Rachel Wood
and
Jim Sturgess
said that they were at dinner one day and heard that
Ringo Starr
would be attending a screening in town. They promptly booked it to the theater and watched their movie with one of the original Beatles. Sturgess then asked Starr what he thought of it. He said he enjoyed it very much.
c.
Shot in 25 days.
d.
Filming takes place for a few weeks every year from 2001 to 2013.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
Biograph production number 608.
b.
John Sturges
was the original director, but on March 15, 1957, only a week before the shooting was scheduled to begin, he withdrew due to illness, according to contemporary news items.
George Cukor
took over and stated years later in a interview that Sturges left the project to replace
Fred Zinnemann
on
The Old Man and the Sea
, but a Cukor biography states that Sturges left the project when it became apparent that the film would be more of a love story than an action picture.
c.
Only 1 reel of this 6-reel film survives, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
d.
Real life train engineer
Jess Knowlton
served as a technical advisor to
Denzel Washington
. Knowltons daughters actually work at Hooters, which is how Washingtons Frank Barnes characters daughters wound up being similarly employed.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
The 222 minute running time excludes the Overture Music (played before the credits), the Entracte Music (played during the intermission) and the Exit Music (played after the film ends). All three were especially recorded for the film soundtrack, and were heard at the films original 1939 world premiere. They were seldom played by exhibitors until the 1997 New Line Cinema edition of the film restored them. They are also included on the DVD.
b.
This movie is one of the few movies out there where the credits run backwards (top to bottom; not the normal bottom to top).
c.
Twentieth Century Fox executives asked
Denzel Washington
to shave $4 million from his standard fee of $20 million. (They also asked director
Tony Scott
to cut $3 million from his usual $9 million fee.) Citing frustration with the lack of a start date, Washington withdrew from the film. Fox then came up with an as yet undisclosed enticement package, purportedly including a revised script, to bring Washington back on board two weeks later.
d.
Andie MacDowell
was totally surprised when
Peter Weir
asked her to gain weight. She had always been asked to do the opposite.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
When Clark is in bed trying to read the People Magazine with sticky fingers from the tree sap, the person shown on the cover of the magazine is Producer
Matty Simmons
.
b.
The "Stanton Curve" featured in the film is an actual rail line in Bellaire, Ohio. The line runs on a historic stone viaduct after crossing the Ohio River from West Virginia. However, the extremely dangerously-placed oil/chemical storage tanks beside the curved track do not exist and have been added in by CGI to increase the sense of danger.
c.
The terms "Morituri te salutamus" or "Morituri te salutant" were often used in by Roman gladiators in battles in the arena. It translates as "We/They who are about to die salute you."
d.
This was the final appearance of
Jean Rogers
as Dale Arden.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
Although it was sometimes hard to tell during the sugar puffed cereal/potato flake storm scene,
Chris Pine
performed all of his own stunts.
Denzel Washington
had seven stuntmen, one for each day of live shots on running trains. In addition to insurance concerns, according to
Tony Scott
, "Ds got a fear of heights, and I had him up at 25 feet on a 50 mph train, which was no easy task." When you do see Washington up on top of a tanker car, thats really him, though, not CGI.
b.
The book which Bob Lee Swagger reads in his home is 9/11 Commission Report.
c.
Once
Andy Serkis
was cast as Gollum, the designers had to alter their concepts of the character that they had been working on for about three years to marry up with Serkis features.
d.
During "The Tango Maureen", the eyebrow lift and jacket toss were added because the actors were having fun during rehearsals and the director liked it.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
Jason James Richters film debut.
b.
Joss Whedon
maintains the movie should be considered stand-alone and that any of the events, characters or character traits in the movie should not be referred to as canon for the television series of the same name.
c.
Filmed over a period of two years.
d.
Ironically, a train used in filming accidentally derailed in Bridgeport, Ohio on November 21, 2009 while being shot for the production. No one was injured in the incident, but production was halted for the remainder of the day.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
Sean Connery
was first offered the cameo of Lord Locksley (
Brian Blessed
) but passed as he felt he had been playing a lot of fathers in recent years.
b.
Instead of pre-recording their parts in studio sessions, cast members performed live in the theater, singing and playing their own instruments in front of a real audience of whom
Robert Altman
asked to choose their favorite takes.
c.
Denzel Washington
s fifth film under
Tony Scott
s direction.
d.
Shooting on the movie was wrapped up early by studio executives, in the interest of controlling costs, before some important scenes were filmed.
Charlton Heston
offered to return his entire salary for the movie if the studio would agree to film the opening scene - the massacre of soldiers and civilians by the apaches - and some re-shoots. The studio kept his paycheck and never allowed any more footage to be shot anyway.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on February 10, 1947 with Fibber McGee & Molly reprising their film roles.
b.
Fabian shaved off his chest hair in order to give his torso a smooth look for his many "beefcake" scenes.
c.
The film was in development since 2004. At various points,
Robert Schwentke
and
Martin Campbell
were attached to direct.
d.
Shane West
loved the car that he had in the movie so much, that he bought the car for only $5,000.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
The $8 million budget was financed by a wealthy producer-financier,
Sam Nazarian
of Element Films.
b.
The signer on Roys Odor Eaters championship check is
Sydney J. Bartholomew Jr.
, the movies production designer.
c.
A self-confessed acrophobic,
Denzel Washington
reluctantly performed the stunts where actually he runs along the top of the speeding train. What made the stunt even more hazardous was the fact that the train was empty, thus causing the individual cars to rock more violently. Even though Washington was "wired" as a safety precaution, the leaps from car to car presented a potentially hazardous sequence (interview:
Episode dated 26 November 2010
.
d.
During the chase scene, when the Joker takes over driving the semi after his driver is killed, the bullet holes on the windshield form a smiley face.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Unstoppable (2010)?
a.
Writers Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland were slated to direct the film. But due to unknown reasons, the duo bowed out and director Daniel Stamm took over.
b.
One of the rare talking animal movies in which the animals mouth doesnt move in sync with their lines.
c.
The locomotives used in the movie were leased General Electric AC4400CWs from Canadian Pacific (4 units) and EMD SD40-2s from the Wheeling and Lake Erie dressed up as the fictional Allegheny West Virginia Railroad.
d.
Richard Matheson
said that
The Omega Man
was so removed from his book that it didnt even bother him.
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