Urban legend has it that Michael Biehn, who plays Hicks in James Cameron’s Aliens , was actually paid more money to not appear in the sequel. However, this is not accurate. When David Fincher started working on Alien 3 , Michael Biehn found out he wasn’t going to be in the cast. And he was very disappointed. He then […]
Spielberg only wanted to produce Schindler’s List , fearing that he would not be able to make a film that lived up to the subject matter. He then contacted Roman Polanski, himself a Holocaust survivor, to offer him the opportunity to direct the film. Polanski refused, considering the subject too close to his personal history. Spielberg and […]
I quote a little-known film: The Great Waldo Pepper ( 1975) by George Roy Hill with Robert Redford. A story of pilots from the First World War who become stuntmen at air shows. In the middle of the film, a character disappears in a completely unpredictable and yet completely credible way. It’s extremely well done and completely destabilizing! I […]
There is hardly anything “real” in cinema, for a simple reason: the mechanics of history and fiction are like science and magic. You can’t invoke one without disrupting the other. FOUR FILMS THAT TAKE A SOLID LOOK AT A HISTORICAL CONTEXT: 1. ” A Bridge Too Far” by Sir Richard Attenborough (1977). The veterans of The Real […]
It’s hard to believe, but Coca-Cola is often used to prepare the road before filming a car chase. When drying, the Coke becomes sticky and gives good grip to the road. It sounds like a joke, but it’s genuine. This is especially useful when the road is old or made of smooth stones. A concrete […]
Robert Pattinson agreed to play in Twilight a little too quickly . He didn’t anticipate the ordeal it would be for him. He thought the books were completely stupid and hoped the movies would move away from that. Once he was stuck in the role and the machine was running, he waited it out. But with each […]
1,400 actors attended London auditions for the lead role in Roman Polanski’s 2001 film The Pianist . But none of them caught the director’s attention.Polanski wanted Joseph Fiennes for the lead role. The latter, however, declined the offer, preferring at the time to concentrate on the theatre. The casting director in charge of the film then offered […]
The village of Walnut Grove for the series “Little House on the Prairie”. Michael Landon absolutely did not want the village built for the needs of the series to be used for another film. In fact, he was afraid that this village would later be used for a horror film or something. To preserve the […]
… it depends… If you want THE charismatic and funny Will Smith packaged in a tailor-made movie: Men In Black If you feel “Oh yes oh yes Mistress, punish me”: Wild Wild West If it’s a night out with friends and beer and we laugh at the film while knowing the lines by heart: Independance […]
Bourvil was in the terminal phase of Bone Marrow Cancer during his final filming: The Red Circle (one of his best roles) and The Atlantic Wall (1970). Jean-Pierre Melville has just chosen Bourvil to play the role of a policeman in his next film: Le Cercle rouge. That same day, the two men have lunch […]
