In the Star Trek III, when the Admiral tells Kirk that the Enterprise will be retired as she is over 20 years old, Mike Okuda's text commentary says that NASA has less trouble with old spacecraft since the Space Shuttle Columbia was over 20 years old and still flying. Shortly after the DVD was released Columbia burned up on re-entry - exactly how the Enterprise died in Star Trek III.
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
Whilst playing Achilles in Troy, Brad Pitt tore his achilles tendon. Huh!
Jackie Chan was scheduled to shoot a scene for a movie on top of the World Trade Centre on 9/11. He changed his mind about doing the movie and backed out a couple of weeks before. The movie? Nosebleed - a film about terrorists trying to blow up the World Trade Centre.
In the film "Game of Death", Bruce Lee plays an actor who is shot on set when a prop gun proves to be real. Fifteen years later his son Brandon was killed in the exact same way.
Huh...
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
In The Swan Princess, John Cleese voices a frog who thinks he is a prince under a curse. In the Shrek movies, Cleese's character is a king who was once a frog (and is eventually turned back into one). Though, Cleese gave the former character more of a French accent.
"What has been done has been done and cannot be undone."--Ruth, All the Weyrs of Pern
"Dragons can't change who they are, and who would want them to? Dragons are powerful, amazing creatures."--Hiccup, Dragons: Riders of Berk