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Meadow337

Meadow337

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I'm an inveterate collector of useless facts and there are many examples when it comes to books and movies, books into movies and movies into books.

Here are some to get the ball rolling:


Did you know that Aldous Huxley wrote the screenplay for the 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland for Disney.

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Did you know that the targeting system readout on the Millenium Falcon was based on a paperweight Lucas saw on Arthur C. Clarke's desk.

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Prior to 1999's Office Space, Swingline did not make a red stapler (or rather, they had discontinued it many years prior).
The filmmakers painted a grey stapler red in order to make Milton's obsessive prop easier to see. When the movie became a cult favorite people began requesting the red stapler and Swingline reintroduced the color in 2002.
 
Did you know that Charles Dodgson's youngest brother, the Rev. Edwin H. Dodgson, served as an Anglican missionary and school teacher in Tristan da Cunha in the 1880s?

Charles Dodgson is better known as Lewis Carroll.
 
George Eliot was a lady. And according to Black Adder, Jane Austen was "a huge Yorkshireman with a beard like a rhododendron bush."

Ok, one was true, and the other wasn't, but both are useful (one to elicit 'Oooohs', and the other rousing laughter) and thus deserving of learning as useless facts.
 
OK so if I combine your literary (but no film tie in) DYK to Regdog's movie reference (sans any literary connection) I will have one post that fufills both requirements?

:rofl

BOOKS + MOVIES + RANDOM 'DID YOU KNOW' FACT
 
Jurassic Park:

When director Steven Spielberg and author Michael Crichton were working on a screenplay that would eventually become the television series ER, Spielberg asked the writer about the plans for his next book. Crichton told him about Jurassic Park, and Spielberg immediately tapped Universal to buy the film rights in May 1990—before the book was even published. He was so excited that he began storyboarding scenes from the book, even though there was no screenplay written yet!


Most books that lead to movies end up taking the film’s poster as their cover art, but for Jurassic Park, it was the other way around: The iconic logo on the poster was adapted from designer Chip Kidd’s T. rex skeleton drawing used for the original novel.
 
One nobel laureate in literature punched another in the face. Apparently it was over a girl. Figures.

Puncher=Vargas Llosa. Punchee=Garcia Marquez.
 
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