Leonardo told Marc Maron on his WTF podcast that he was cast as a character who was supposed to deliver a somewhat wordy insult to Sara Gilbert’s character. He couldn’t get it right, though, so the director simplified things and told him to just enter the room, look at Sarah, and say, “Problems.” In the end, the whole bit was cut from the movie.

Farley’s brother John recently appeared on the Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast and said, “He had, like, five (looping) days left, he’d shot it all.” He then says the studio asked him to finish the missing audio. “But it was right after (Chris’s death), like ’97, so I said ‘No, thanks.’ Now, I’m looking at it like, Dear God, what have I passed up?” 

The studio wanted John to imitate his brother’s voice, which John said he could do “back in the day.” He then reiterated, “It was way too soon. So, I was like, ‘forget it.’” 

Hughes was infamous for how quickly he wrote his screenplays, and even completed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week.

In his book Nevertheless, Baldwin claims that he was in the middle of negotiating with the studio for the sequel when Ford approached them about taking over the role. Baldwin goes on to allege that The Hunt for Red October director John McTiernan asked Ford if he felt bad for snatching the role from Baldwin, and Ford replied, “Fuck him.” Baldwin later described Ford as “a little man, short, scrawny, and wiry, whose soft voice sounds as if it’s coming from behind a door.” 


In Ford’s defense, Baldwin was starring in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway when negotiating for the sequel, and the studio was frustrated with his unwillingness to say when exactly he’d be done with the play and available to film Patriot Games. So, the studio’s move to Ford wasn’t totally unwarranted.

Ford played Ryan a second time in Clear and Present Danger, which usurped The Hunt for Red October as the highest-grossing film in the Jack Ryan franchise (a fact that must pain Baldwin to no end).

As you might imagine, the quality of the stream was…not good. According to Defector (which did an interesting deep pe on this historical event), the web hosting company operated on only 1.5 Mbps (which was significantly less than the current average of 42.86 Mbps). 

Film critic Lucy Mohr, who was hired to MC the streaming event (which cost $7.50 to watch, by the way), said that, looking back, it is likely the lowest-fidelity movie ever to stream over the internet. She then compared it to Eadweard Muybridge’s project Horse in Motion, which — in 1876, long before movies really began — showed a series of photos that, when looked at in succession, gave the appearance of a moving horse. So, yeah…early days stuff.

Still, Party Girl deserves credit for going first (it’s also a cult classic worth watching if you’re a fan of Parker Posey and/or indie ’90s movies).

Disney had previously made successful direct-to-video sequels to their hit animated films (like Aladdin 2: Return of Jafar), and the strategy had become their model for keeping the characters alive…and making the sequels more affordably. Pixar, however, pushed back on downgrading the Toy Story franchise to direct-to-video, and got their theatrical release…something Disney is surely happy with today.

The Bodyguard — starring Kevin Costner as a former Secret Service agent hired to protect a music star played by Whitney Houston — was a huge hit in 1992. Even if you never saw the film, you almost certainly know the soundtrack, which featured Houston’s smash “I Will Always Love You.”

A few years later, Costner pursued a wild idea — to make a sequel where his bodyguard character would be tasked with protecting a member of the royal family, and he wanted Princess Diana to star! According to Costner, Diana was cautiously interested in making her film debut and consented to Costner having a script written for them. Sadly, the finished script reached Costner’s desk just a day before she died.

The death of Lee (whose father Bruce also died tragically young) was due to a series of mistakes by the production team that led to the 28-year-old star being shot with the remnants of a real bullet instead of a dummy cartridge. Cameras were rolling when the actor fired the gun, fatally wounding Lee.



Paramount decided against proceeding with the film, but Miramax picked it up — and added $8 million to help finish the production. After some rewrites, Lee’s remaining scenes were completed using a stunt double and CGI effects (that were revolutionary at the time). The Crow’s long hair — and the dark, grimy nature of the film’s cinematography — helped make this subterfuge convincing.

According to Leguizamo’s autobiography, it was clear to everyone early on that the movie would be a disaster, so the onscreen Mario and Luigi spent a lot of their days dipping into Hoskins’s scotch to make the experience less interminable.

Unfortunately, during one take, an inebriated Leguizamo was behind the wheel of their characters’ van (not a good idea!) when he hit the gas too fast and the door closed on Hoskins’ hand, breaking his finger. If you look closely, you can see Hoskins wears a cast on his finger at times in the movie.

Affleck, despite the slight tension in the room, didn’t shut up. He continued making fun of the film’s concept on the commentary track for several more minutes.

Cage told James Lipton on Inside the Actor’s Studio, “I never drink when I act, but I wanted to incorporate in some scenes actual drinking. So, that scene in the casino when I’m freaking out, I’m really drunk.”

In the scene, when security pulls Cage’s character from the casino, Cage repeatedly screams, “I am his father!” This line was improvised by the actor. He told Lipton, “That was sort of a primal scream that came out of me that wasn’t in the script.”

Furlong grew up in the greater Los Angeles area, but was a regular working-class kid (living with his mom and, later, his aunt — his father wasn’t in the picture) who hung out with his friends at The Boys’ Club and collected CDs. So, when he walked into The Boys’ Club one day in the early ‘90s, he had no reason to think anything out of the ordinary was about to happen — but it definitely was.

Mali Finn, the casting director for Terminator 2: Judgement Day, had grown tired of all the professional actor kids who’d auditioned for the role of young John Connor, and decided to go look for a more natural kid out in the world. One of her stops? The Boys’ Club, where she spotted Furlong playing with his friends.

Furlong — who’d never acted a day in his life — was very suspicious when this random woman approached him and asked if she could talk to him. As he told the Los Angeles Times, “I didn’t know who she was. She came over to me and said, ‘Can I talk with you?’ So, I said, ‘What did I do wrong?’”

After three intense interviews and some acting lessons, Furlong found himself on set acting opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. He finished the ‘90s as one of the decade’s most popular teen stars, with additional roles in films like American History X, Pecker, and Detroit Rock City. All thanks to The Boys’ Club!