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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Virus (1999) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Virus (1999) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Virus (1999)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999).

About the movie: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999)?
a.		M. Night Shyamalans wish list for his various male supporting roles included names such as William Hurt, Sidney Poitier, Chris Cooper, Gene Wilder, Terrence Howard, Alec Baldwin, Vince Vaughn, Forest Whitaker, and Don Cheadle among others.
b.		In an IGN.com interview; Jamie Lee Curtis said the following about Virus: "Rob Reiner for his 40th birthday had a bad show business party where everybody brought show business clips... Robs was playing a hippie on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. singing Blowin in the Wind... Virus is so bad that its shocking... That would be the all time piece of shit...Its just dreadful... Thats the only good reason to be in bad movies. Then when your friends have bad movies you can say Ahhhh, Ive got the best one. Im bringing Virus."
c.		The kiss between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson at the end of the movie was not in the script, but was an "in the moment" ad-lib between the performers.
d.		According to the 1921 Motion Picture Studio Directory, Ben Lyon played the male lead in this film; however, no other reliable documentation concerning his participation has been found.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999)?
a.		The ship used for this movies setting was the ex-USAFS Hoyt S. Vandenberg. At the time of filming the ship had been decommissioned since the mid-80s and mothballed in the James River Reserve Fleet, Virginia. May 27, 2009, she was sunk outside Key West, Florida, USA to serve as an artificial reef and for recreational diving. She still had the Russian name on her from the movie as she went down.
b.		By the time he got the script for this film, Gregory Peck was hungry to do a comedy (he had not been in a comedy on film) and jumped at this opportunity. He later said that, at the time, he felt like every romantic comedy script he had the chance to read "had the fingerprints of Cary Grant on it".
c.		Natalie Daryll Had her waist-length hair completely shaved off for this film.
d.		Kenneth Branaghs decision to shoot in 65mm was largely inspired by a film format seminar conducted by visual consultant Rob Hummel. Hummel convinced him to use the format because of high-resolution and certain shots could only be achieved in 65mm. Also, Branagh once said that the intention was to give a sweeping feel to the play, hearkening back to the 1960s - epics like Lawrence of Arabia.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999)?
a.		Thomas Jane and Sean Bean were among those considered to play Kainan, before James Caviezel agreed to the part.
b.		The rights to Hal G. Evarts story were sold to Republic Pictures by his widow. Ironically, the serial isnt faithful whatsoever to Evarts original story: the writers substituted an entirely different story.
c.		Originally set for a Summer 1998 release, the films release was eventually pushed to January of 1999.
d.		In this film produced by the Walt Disney Company, a man named Walter started what became a huge company from his garage. In real life Walt Disney did this.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999)?
a.		The movie was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was originally going to be filmed in New Orleans, but due to hurricane Katrina it was moved up state.
b.		Dennis Quaid did much of his own pitching, but he was doubled in shots that required truly fast pitches, by former minor league pitcher Jeff Dowdy. No special effects were used to enhance the speed of the pitches; however, some camera tricks, such as "whip pans," were used to make Quaids own pitches appear faster.
c.		The lyrics of the Russian march heard during the end credits are actually the names of various cast and crew members pronounced backwards.
d.		Julianne Moore was pregnant during the filming of this movie.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999)?
a.		Several actors in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in this movie. These were (with their character names): Diane Bryan (Martha at Age 5), Donna Bryan (Martha at Age 7), Peggy Burke (II) (Helen at Age 7), Keith Moore (I) (Percy at Age 6), Mindy Sherwood (Helen at Age 5) and Walter Wright Jr. (Percy at Age 8)
b.		One of the prosthetic heads was accidentally made too tough for the decapitation scene it was intended for, and when Clint Howard struck it with the sword to his embarrassment it merely bounced off. Frustrated, he found a large sledge hammer then took some time to practice swinging it around until the added weight made wielding the sword seem easy by comparison, and when the scene was shot again he finally took the head off.
c.		Because of the ship being mothballed in the James River Reserve Fleet, on the border of Isle of Wight County and city of Newport News, the ship was covered in rust and disrepair when the filming started. For the movie, one side of the ship was painted and dressed up, leaving the other half in poor condition. Hence, only one side of the ship was ever filmed on camera for the movie.
d.		Robert Duvall had to use $4 million of his own money to complete the film. When the movie did well at the box office the distributors reimbursed him.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Virus (1999)?
a.		Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen play garbage men in a film made 17 years after their father Martin Sheen had played a garbage man in Badlands.
b.		Chuck Pfarrer explained in an interview that the comic book was based on the script that he wrote in the early-90s. Because of the special effects that the script called for, it was impossible to make the script into a movie at that time, and he handed it to Dark Horse Comics who published it in 1995. Several years later, when special effects technology had caught up, Pfarrer revised the original script.
c.		David S. Goyer mentioned in an interview that his favorite pre-audition choice for Batman was Jake Gyllenhaal, but that he was won over by Christian Bale after seeing his test.
d.		Barbara Mansells character is Martha Jane Canary. Martha Jane Canary is the real name of wild west legend "Calamity Jane".

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