The First SoulHonky Facebook Movie Quiz
After taking far too many easy Facebook movie quizzes, I decided to try my hand and creating one of my own. The actual facebook quiz can be found if you search quizzes for Soulhonky.com. That version has multiple choice options for each answer. Here, I've removed that (mostly for space reasons).
So here it goes.
1. Which of these famous roles wasn't originally offered to (and turned down by) James Caan?
* Superman in Superman
* Chief Brody in Jaws
* Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer
* Det. Doyle in The French Connection
* Col. Lucas in Apocalypse Now
2. What was the original title of Pixar's "Cars"?
3, How was Little Shop of Horrors supposed to end?
4. Josh Brolin was initially rejected after auditioning for which movie?
* No Country for Old Men
* The Goonies
* W.
* Milk
* American Gangster
5. What actress appeared on TV in a homemade Catwoman costume in hopes of convincing producers to cast her in Batman Returns?
6. What was Leonardo DiCaprio's reason for turning down the role of Neo in "The Matrix"?
7. Adrien Brody spent months working on this Academy Award nominated film but then found out, at the screening, that his lead role had been cut to just a few minutes of screen time.
8. Had "The Natural" been faithful to the novel on which it was based, how would it have ended?
9. Jodie Foster left David Fincher's "The Game" over creative differences; who replaced her?
10. Which movie did Francis Ford Coppola agree to make because he needed money to save his winery?
11. This SNL star was originally slated to be the star of 30 Rock (the role was rewritten for Jane Krakowski)
12. What actor wanted to direct Frost/Nixon but was turned down by the playwright?
13. This actor was supposed to play Linus in Ocean's 11?
14. Recently, an acclaimed director was asked if he wanted to make a sequel to his most famous film. His response: "I would have less interest in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
Name the director and film.
15. What was the original title of M. Night Shymalan's "The Happening"?
Here are the answers.
1. To my knowledge, Chief Brody was never offered to James Caan, who is infamous in many Hollywood circles because of his history of turning down great roles.
2. "Cars" was originally called "Route 66". The title was changed to avoid confusion with the old TV show of the same name.
3, The original ending of Little Shop of Horrors had Audrey II (the plant) eat Seymour and Audrey. Then an army of plants takes over NYC. Seriously.
4. Josh Brolin was initially rejected after auditioning for No Country for Old Men.
5. Google Sean Young Catwoman and there's a video of her talkshow performance in the homemade Catwoman suit. Annette Bening was actually originally cast as Catwoman but had to drop out because she was pregnant.
6. After Titanic, Leo wasn't sure he wanted to do another FX heavy movie so he turned down "The Matrix". After toying with the idea of "American Psycho", opted for Danny Boyle's "The Beach instead."
7. Adrien Brody was told he was going to carry Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line but ended up having two lines and five minutes of screen time. He was disappointed, especially since he had been doing press appearances for a movie he wasn't in.
8. Robert Redford's character Roy Hobbs doesn't hit a home run at the end of "The Natural". In the novel, he strikes out.
9. Jodie Foste was replaced by Sean Penn. Reports were that Foster (who was 33 at the time) signed up to play Michael Douglas's daughter. The 51 year old Douglas, and apparently others, wanted her to play his sister. The role was rewritten as Douglas's brother and given to Sean Penn.
10. The Godfather Pt. 3 came about because Coppola needed money for his winery.
11. Rachel Dratch was originally slated to be the star of 30 Rock (the role was rewritten for Jane Krakowski)
12. George Clooney. wanted to direct Frost/Nixon but was turned down by the playwright.
13. Mark Wahlberg signed on to play Linus but left the film because he was the filming dates conflicted with his shoot dates for Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes".
14. David Fincher said that when asked about the prospects of a sequel to Se7en.
15. The Green Effect. He passed that script around Hollywood, got rejected by everyone, and then reworked it and it became The Happening.
