By Jeff | August 10, 2010
Straight from Entertainment Weekly, here’s five facts, you probably didn’t know about Raiders of the Lost Ark:
1. Tom Selleck was originally cast as Indy, but Magnum, P.I.’s producers wouldn’t release him from his contract. Fortunately, Harrison Ford swung in to fill the role.
2. The biplane in the opening of the film has the identification letters OB-CPO, a shout-out to Star Wars‘ Obi-Wan Kenobi and C-3PO. Also, in the Well of Souls, C-3PO and R2-D2 are among the figures on the wall of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
3. Debra Winger reportedly turned down the Marion Ravenwood role that eventually went to Karen Allen.
4. The movie’s funniest scene came about by accident. During the shoot in Tunisia, Ford caught dysentery and was too ill to film a long fight scene with an Egyptian swordsman. ”Let’s just shoot the f—er,” he said to Spielberg. So they did.
5. The monkey in the film was so uncooperative that hidden wires were needed to wrangle it around the set.
A civil case was filed against P. Diddy or Sean Combs by a California man claiming that he was assaulted by the rapper/hip-hop entrepreneur at a Hollywood nightclub last year. A Los Angeles judge had scheduled the hearing on May 27 with four witnesses testifying under oath against Combs on the alleged slugging that took place on February 26.
Former Lost and Lord of the Rings actor Dominic Monaghan is now part of the cast of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and will play the character of Barnell Bohusk. The film, which is slated to be released on May 1, 2009, is set 17 years before the X-Men trilogy and traces the origins of Wolverine (originally known as Logan).
29-year-old avid Linkin Park fan, Devon Townsend was sentenced last Wednesday by a New Mexico Judge to two years in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to stalking Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington and his wife. Townsend was given 60 days to surrender herself to Phoenix-area prison to receive mental healthcare.
20-year-old singer Aaron Carter was arrested in Texas after cops pulled him over speeding and allegedly discovered marijuana in his Cadillac Escalade. Sheriff Mike Chapman of Kimble County stated that his officers found less than 2 ounces of marijuana in Carter’s car. Carter’s manager announced that the singer will be posting bail and will return to Los Angeles.
37-year-old Grey’s Anatomy star Justin Chambers checked himself into the UCLA Medical Center to undergo treatment for severe exhaustion. The actor’s rep also announces that Chambers wishes that the media respect his privacy and his family throughout his treatment. Chambers was reported to check into the hospital on Monday and left on Wednesday.
Actress Scarlett Johansson is set to release her debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, on May 20 under Atco Records. The album is said to be a collection of songs written by singer-songwriter Tom Waits. The 11-cut album will be featuring one original and 10 interpretations. The complete track list is yet to be announced.
Tonight Show host Jay Leno has won a lawsuit which he, NBC Studios and other fellow comedians, including Rita Rudner, filed against Judy Brown’s publishers who are said to infringe copyright and trademark laws, as well as commit false endorsement, for publishing a series of joke books Leno and group claimed to be rip-offs from his show and stand-up routines.
The title for the new X-files Movie is official! The X-Files: I Want to Believe will be coming to a theater near you in a few years or so. For long-time (and I mean long time) X-Filers will recognize the title from Fox Mulder’s (played by David Duchovny) poster in his basement office.
According to creator, Chris Carter, the movie will deal more with Fox’s problems with his faith, rather than tracking down aliens.
“The reason we’re even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we don’t want to insult them by having to take them back through the concept again.”
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Chris Carter really isn’t into giving sneak peeks or even giving any kind of hint as to what will happen in the new X-Files Movie. We reported last time that the title was already leaked out into the press. This has somewhat nerved the creator in further tightening his lips.
Entertainment Weekly has been trying to interrogate the man, but he just won’t budge:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So, if you could just tell me what happens in the movie then I’ll be on my way.
CHRIS CARTER: I’m going to just tell you. No, I can’t, because we want to preserve the element of surprise. It’s more fun. And, in this day and age when you can’t preserve it, it makes it even more fun when it’s preserved.
What was the most extreme security measure you took this time around?
We only showed [the script] to certain crew members. And those crew members had to go into a room where the script was taken out of a locked cabinet, and then we had video cameras trained on them so they couldn’t use their phone or take pictures of anything.
Are you serious?
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