Sources IMDb trivia, The Reservoir dogs screenplay, and other websites.

13 of them.

1. Tarantino originally wrote the role of Mr pink for himself and refused to give it up until he saw Steve Buscemi’s audition.

2. Mr browns dialogue about like a virgin was originally intended for Mr pink this was when Tarantino was still planning on playing pink. Once Tarantino took the role of Mr brown the dialogue was switched to Mr brown.

3. Mr white was originally supposed to be the one went on the famous waitresses tipping rant, but this was later rewritten for mr pink instead.

4. Lawrence Bender, who was the producer was originally going to play Nice Guy Eddie, before Chris penn auditioned. Nicholas cage was also rumored to be considered.

5. Tim Roths agent’s wanted him to try out for Mr blonde or Mr pink. Roth however wanted to play Mr Orange.

6. Tarantino wanted James woods for a role in the film. Jon Cryer and David Duchovny also auditioned for roles.

7. Lawrence Tinney was fired on the third day of filming, because he was easily distracted and would constantly forget his lines.

8. Vincent Gallo was considered for the role of mr pink.

9. Sam Jackson and Ving Rahmes were considered for roles in the film. Jackson rumored for Mr Orange and Rahmes for the role of Holdaway. They would later be in pulp fiction.

10. Monte hellman was rumored to have been the first choice to direct this film, because Tarantino was an unknown at the time, however Tarantino lobbied hard to direct dogs himself, Hellman took the executive producer role instead.

11. This is Tarantino’s shortest film to date.

12. Harvey Keitel signed on as co producer that way Tarantino and bender would have an easier time finding funding, he also paid for them to host casting sessions in new york.

13. George Clooney and Matt Dillon were considered for mr blonde. Viggo Mortensen also was rumored to have auditioned for a minor role.

(I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place to ask this kind of question, but r/moviedetails doesn't allow questions, so I thought I would tap into you other movie buffs....)

In the movie Wayne's World, does the character of Wayne Campbell ever wear a plaid/flannel tied around his waist, or is that only Garth?

it's for my Halloween costume -- I've searched and found photos of other people who have done it both ways (with the flannel & without)

60s:

1969. Midnight cowboy. Pacino was considered for a small role as a Vietnam veteran, but could not fit it into his schedule.

70s:

1972. Brother son sister moon. The director did not like Pacino’s acting style and rejected him.

1973. The king of marvin gardens. He turned it down to do the godfather.

1974. Mean streets. Martin Scorsese showed the mean streets script to Francis Coppola who then in turn was rumored to have showed the script to Al Pacino, but Pacino’s agent told him no and told him if he took the role then they would fire him from the godfather.

1975. Bang the drum slowly. Al Pacino was cast but dropped out of the role due to a scheduling problem. *

1974 Lenny. Al Pacino turned down the role but later said he regretted it. *

1975. Funny lady. Was considered for the lead role.

Taxi driver 1976. Pacino turned down the lead role of Travis.

Marathon man 1976. Al Pacino was John Schlesinger's choice to star in the film and Schlesinger wanted Julie Christie to co star with him as well. However Robert Evans insisted Dustin Hoffman be cast.

Family plot 1976. Al Pacino was considered for the lead role.

Close encounters of the third kind 1977 Pacino turned down the role.

Star Wars 1977. Pacino turned down* Han Solo.

Slap shot 1977. He lost the role because he couldn’t ice skate.

Apacolypse now 1978. Al Pacino turned down the role because he didn’t want to be outside of the country fearing he’d become ill like he did in the godfather part 2.

Days of heaven 1978. Pacino turned down the lead role.

Coming home 1978. Pacino was considered for Jon Voight’s role.

Kramer Vs Kramer 1979. Al Pacino did not feel the role was right for him.

80s:

Blow out 1981. When the role was originally written for an older actor. Pacino along with Richard Dreyfuss were considered.

Arthur 1981. Al Pacino was considered for the lead role.

Rambo 1982. Al Pacino was considered for the lead role.

Absence of malice. Sydney pollak wanted Al Pacino for the lead role.

Flashdance 1983. He was afraid the role would hurt his gangster image.

Beverly Hills cop 1984. Pacino turned down the role.

The Pope of greenwhich village 1984. Al Pacino and Robert De Niro were offered the lead roles but it never came to fruition. They talked about it during an interview for the movie heat in 1995.

Lethal weapon 1987. One of dozens of actors considered at one point to play the Mel Gibson role of Riggs.

Angel heart. Was considered for the Mickey Rourke role.

Die hard 1988. Pacino turned down the role of john mcclane.

Born on the Fourth of July 1989. Script was written in the 70s. Sidney lumet was going to direct with Pacino in the role. It ended up being in development hell for years and was finally made in 1989 with Tom cruise and Oliver stone as director.

Johnny handsome 1989. Passed on the role that went to Mickey Rourke.

90s:

Goodfellas 1990. Pacino was considered for the role of Jimmy Conway.

Pretty women 1990. Turned down Gere’s role.

Misery 1990. Pacino turned down the lead role.

Lethal weapon 3 1992. Pacino turned down the role of villain jack travis.

Se7en 1995. Al Pacino was an early candidate for the role of Somerset to co star with Denzel Washington as Mills but both actors turned down their respective roles.

Crimson tide 1995, Al Pacino originally had gene Hackman’s role with Brad Pitt playing Denzel Washington’s role. But both dropped out.

The usual suspects 1995, Pacino was considered for the role of Dave but turned it down because he was already playing a cop in another movie.

1995. Get shorty. Was considered for John Travolta’s role.

Snake eyes 1998. Originally cast but dropped out for unknown reasons replaced with Gary Sinise.

Runaway bride 1999. Pacino turned down a role in the film.

Rko 281 1999. After Dustin Hoffman dropped out, Pacino was considered to replace him but the film was eventually made into a tv movie instead.

2000s:

Traffic. Turned down the role of judge Wakefield.

the marine 2006. Pacino was supposedly considered for the main villain.

Elegy 2008. He dropped out.

Milk 2008. the script was written in the 90s and they were trying to get the film made during that time period Pacino was considered to play the lead role along with various others however the film wasn’t made until 2008 with Sean Penn.

That's not all, though. In 1989 he played Martin Brundle, son of the Brundlefly, in The Fly II. And the surname "Mc-" means "son of". So eventually, Stoltz did in fact star as Marty McFly.

I sent a video I created showing over 350 examples of symbols in movies to Eddie Muller of Turner Classic Movies. Eddie found it "fascinating." Eddie asked permission to use my name and describe my discovery on the air when he showed the movie "Three Strangers." Eddie had previously shown the movie about 2 years before on Noir Alley. He purposely rescreened the movie again so that he could tie in my Quan Yin discovery. By doing this, and mentioning my discovery, during the outro to the movie on July 20, 2020, Eddie is now on record as the television presenter who made the first public announcement my discovery. I’m sure Eddie has figured out the meaning of the Quan Yins and is keeping the secret. This makes me respect him even more, because just like the Quan Yin Cognoscenti, he also is keeping the secret, and thereby honoring all those Quan Yin Cognoscenti from bygone eras.

 I thought you might be interested in viewing my video showing these symbols in American movies beginning in 1930 and continuing through 2022. I began cataloging my discoveries in 2016, working with professors from USC, UCLA, Yale, and Chapman University. I created a video which shows over 350 examples of these symbols. I believe you will be amazed after viewing just the first 5 minutes of my video.

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 Steve Weston

During the filming of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, [...] nearly died three times.

1. He accidentally drank a bottle of acid which was placed next to his pop bottle;

2. He was in a scene where he was about to be hanged, someone fired a pistol which caused the horse underneath him to bolt and run while [his] hands were still tied behind his back; and,

3. In a different scene with him lying on a railroad track, he was close to being decapitated by steps jutting out from the train.

According to a deleted scene where they were making a commercial, Ray states that they have twice the know how and twice the power.

Travolta has had and up and down career many highs but also many lows as well such as battlefield earth. While pulp fiction revived his career in 1994, there was a point in the 80s where his career was in a slump, not only did he walk away from American Gigilo but he also turned down an officer and a gentleman as well. This was in the early 80s though while he was still considered a draw, by the mid 80s after staying alive bombed,, his career was in a terrible slump and it carried over into the late 80s,

Travolta would not get roles in top gun (1986) (BIG 1988) (die hard 1988) due to studios calling him box office poison in the late 80s studios were afraid to cast him.

So there's this minor moment in the movie mentioned, where Ultron comes face to face with Vision for the first time during their battle in Sokovia. I found it interesting, and likely intentional the way it's picturised, that they intentionally show Vision "descending" from above (akin to an angel, a good figure) while it shows Ultron ascending upwards (like a bad entity climbing out of hell). I found it quite nice, makes it seem like Armageddon.

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Universal refused to rehire Crispin Glover for the sequal as they believed he was asking for too much money, allegedly he was asking for $1 million dollars.

So they hired an unknown actor Jeffrey Weissman who vaguely looked like Glover and used a face mold of Glover that was made during the first film to assist in crafting his old age make-up, to make him look like Glover.

Glover and fiiled a lawsuit against Universal and Amblin Entertainment in October 1990, claiming his voice and likeness were used without permission. Glover argued he had a right to publicity, or the power to retain control over his own likeness. Universal countered they were simply perpetuating the character of George McFly, which they owned.

Without any admission of wrongdoing, Universal agreed to a settlement of $760,000.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Kzs4C1bDRw

Tamil & Hindi legend Sridevi was almost in a classic 90's blockbuster. Apparently Steven Spielberg had given an offer to Sridevi to star in a supporting role in Jurassic Park, but she declined the offer, due to her unfamiliarity with Hollywood. In an alternate universe, we might have had the legendary Indian actress forging a career in Hollywood!

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Was preparing a music quiz and saw on ImDb that Dylan Baker has listed in his films "The Last of the Mohicans" (as Mark Edrys)

Sure enough, a "Mark Edrys" appears in the credits of the film. But the minor character in question, a french soldier called Captain de Bougainville seems to be very much not played by Dylan Baker. See here https://youtu.be/zRzFTcEtA3U?t=114. Bougainville is the French soldier that reads the letter out loud.

So what's with the credit to Dylan Baker? A mistake? Or does it mean something else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e24Nk79xeU&list=UURgd-dOnRBBRAI9xD62VDsA&index=1

Insane that after all these years, RDJ has become the first alumn of SNL to have won an Academy Award! Though he was only on Saturday Night Live for like a year, its still a cool and interesting fact! Congrats to the legend!