Dustin Hoffman wandered onto the Blockbuster shoot as a friend of Nancy Meyers; the chateau lunch interior is the Greystone Mansion; Iris's cottage was built in a field in Surrey with the interiors on soundstages; it snowed during the...
DeSean Jackson, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marcedes Lewis and six other future NFL players went to Long Beach Poly; Butler gained 20 to 30 pounds, ate a real donut across 20 takes and took up smoking; Pablo Schreiber used his prior weapons...
Producer Laura Shuler Donner (as transcribed) met John Hughes after reading his National Lampoon article and his story of a disastrous stretch looking after his two kids; Hughes brought in Aaron Spelling from his TV deal; Universal...
Director Boaz Yakin knew nothing about football and was sent by Bruckheimer to a two-week football camp; filmed in Georgia, not Alexandria, with school interiors at a rival of one host's high school; LeBron James's favorite movie; the...
The Ohio prison, Stephen King's rights check, the tense shoot, prison and money details, Morgan Freeman's son, the sewage prop, Alan Green, the ending, the oak tree, visitors, deleted scenes, and prerecorded narration
Michael Eisner and Don Simpson argued over who originated the idea until Simpson died; Gilbert Hill was a real Detroit detective; the theme reached number three on the Billboard chart; a 2013 CBS pilot with Brandon T. Jackson as Axel's...
Body count of 30; a 1979 prequel with Tom Berenger and William Catt; Catherine Ross clashed with George Roy Hill and later married Conrad Hall; Montezuma's revenge in Mexico except for the stars; Redford did his own train-top stunt; Bob...
Affleck studied men accused of killing their wives, especially Scott Peterson; Affleck lost a bet that Fincher would not notice a tiny lens change; the bar is now a real restaurant in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Affleck's first on-screen...
Frank Dux's claimed 329-0 Kumite record was disproved by the Los Angeles Times; Sheldon Lettich says Dux's tall tales inspired the script and a corroborating witness later recanted; Dux was fight coordinator and trained Van Damme for...
