Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • So, you consider yourself to be something of a movie buff, do you? You may know the

  • entire script of The Goonies word-for-word, you might know which actors portrayed every

  • single character in the Harry Potter franchise, and you might even know which year every movie

  • in the Friday the 13th franchise was released, but what about those lesser known facts from

  • behind the scenes?There are a lot of facts about movies that might just take you by surprise

  • - and that's what this video is all about. Here's our latest edition of twenty rapid

  • fire behind the scenes movie facts... Captain America: Civil War

  • The working title of Captain America: Civil War was actually "Sputnik". In the comic books,

  • "Sputnik" was one of the words used to trigger the Winter Soldier's mind control.

  • Thor: Ragnarok Thor: Ragnarok will bring to life a loose

  • adaptation of the acclaimed comic book arc Planet Hulk, and will see Thor and Hulk squaring

  • off against each other on a gladiatorial planet, prior to teaming up to defeat the movie's

  • villains. Transformers: Age of Extinction

  • In an interview about Transformers: Age of Extinction, director Michael Bay described

  • the Autobot Hound as "a ballerina with guns". This line actually became part of Hound's

  • dialogue in the movie. Wolverine (Weapon X)

  • After 2016's Deadpool became such a huge success in spite of it's "R" rating, Fox are intending

  • to make 2017's Wolverine movie R-rated as well. Bring on the gore!

  • Deadpool Producer Simon Kinberg has said that Olivia

  • Munn auditioned for the role of Vanessa Carlysle in Deadpool - a role that ultimately went

  • to Morena Baccarin. However, Munn's audition led to her being cast as Psylocke in X-Men:

  • Apocalypse. X-Men: Apocalypse

  • In X-Men: Apocalypse, the song playing in the scene when Apocalyse finds Angel is by

  • the heavy metal band Metallica. It's called "The Four Horsemen" from the album "Kill 'Em

  • All", which was released in 1983 - the same year in which the film takes place.

  • The Legend of Tarzan Alexander Skarsgård was ultimately cast as

  • Tarzan in The Legend of Tarzan, but swimmer Michael Phelps was actually in talks to take

  • on the role. Fellow swimmer Johnny Weissmuller played the character in the movies of the

  • 1930s and 1940s. The Amazing Spider-Man 2

  • You may recall the scene in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in which Gwen Stacy gives a speech at her

  • graduation. Well, actress Emma Stone actually wrote that speech herself.

  • Spider-Man: Homecoming Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige will be working

  • as an Executive Producer on Spider-Man: Homecoming. However, unlike when he works on other MCU

  • movies, Feige will not receive any compensation for his role, due to the contract details

  • in the Marvel/Sony deal. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  • John Williams has composed the score for every Star Wars theatrical release to date, and

  • Rogue One will mark the first time in which that won't be the case.

  • Wonder Woman Wonder Woman will meet her love interest Steve

  • Trevor in her first solo movie. In the comic books, they met during World War II. In the

  • movie, they will meet in World War I. The idea is to highlight her immortality more

  • explicitly. Zootopia

  • In Zootopia, there's a nudist Indian Yoga instructor working at Mystic Springs Oasis

  • named Nangi. In India, Nangi refers to a naked woman in the Hindi language.

  • Maleficent Lana Del Rey sang "Once Upon a Dream" for

  • the end credits of Maleficent. Del Rey was personally picked by the movie's star, Angelina

  • Jolie, for the job of doing so. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan - who had previously played the Comedian in Watchmen - played Bruce Wayne's

  • Wayne's father Thomas in Batman v Superman, but he was actually considered for the role

  • of Bruce Wayne AKA Batman himself. The Martian

  • One of the key plot elements in The Martian is the force of the wind on Mars. It is shown

  • as being strong enough to topple a large rocket and carry big objects. In reality, the atmosphere

  • there is so thin, even the fastest wind would feel like a breeze to humans.The Jungle Book

  • In King Louie's temple in the new Jungle Book movie, one of the many treasures he has in

  • his possessions happens to be the Genie's lamp from Aladdin, another Disney movie.

  • Warcraft In spite of its extremely mixed critical reviews,

  • with huge takings of $8.5 million, Warcraft has recently the record for the largest weekday-midnight

  • opening in China. Avengers: Age of Ultron

  • For Age of Ultron, in order to make the Scarlet Witch's movements look more graceful in action

  • sequences, actress Elizabeth Olsen worked with a dance choreographer.

  • Suicide Squad Although Margot Robbie looks fantastic as

  • Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, Emma Roberts was actually offered the role first. However,

  • she turned it down to star in television's Scream Queens.

  • Suicide Squad In order to transform Akinnuoye-Agbaje into

  • Killer Croc, Suicide Squad's make-up team took five hours to apply prosthetics to his

  • face and upper body. The rest was body paint. Thanks for watching our list of 20 rapid fire

  • behind the scenes movie facts. Did you know about any of these? Which other great movie

  • facts do you know of? Let us know in the comments section below and be sure to subscribe to

  • our channel for more great videos like this one.

So, you consider yourself to be something of a movie buff, do you? You may know the

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it