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News

Just starting off with some sad news. A nutball shot 71 people were shot
in a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado. 12 were killed, and 59 were injured. Why anyone would want to commit such a senseless crime is beyond me. The incident has cast a huge shadow across the opening of the most anticipated movie of the year. Our hearts go out to the victim’s families.

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Trivia Question (Answer at the end of the Post)

The plot of the movie Men in Black changed during filming. Originally MiB had the task of stopping two warring alien races from going to war after “Edgar the Bug” stole the “Universe.” Several changes were made. Which of the
following is one of the changes made during filming?

A) Replacing Chris O Donnell with Will Smith as Agent J

B) The dialogue of the two aliens in the restaurant was changed to English

C) A scene with Jim Carrey talking out of his butt was cut

D) Replacing Clint Eastwood with Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K

Last Week’s Bonus Trivia Answers

Can you name three cast members of Batman Begins that appear in The Dark Knight?

“Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman! And Morgan Freeman of course.”- Alex J. Cavanaugh

“Adding to Alex’ answers, Cillian Murphy also reprised his role as the Scarecrow.” – Pat Dilloway

We would also have accepted Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb (Colin McFarlane)

Batman Begins is the first movie where Batman’s name isn’t changed
in the Spanish version of the film. What is Bruce Wayne’s Spanish name?

“I think Google says Bruce Wayne’s Spanish name is Bruno Diaz. Weird.” Pat Dilloway

Links

Some of these may be familiar if you follow us on Twitter @TheGeekTwins.

• 7 Awesome Batman Gadgets That You Can Actually Own. Fancy a grappling gun?

• Someone used a cell phone to capture MAN OF STEEL (2013) Secret San Diego Comic-Con Video Footage via @FilmBookdotCom It’s probably offline by now, but it looks promising.
• Watch Emmy nominated Futurama episode “The Tip of the Zoidberg” highlights online. Thanks Comedy Central via @hegeekshegeek
• How to draw Batman cartoons on everything Via @neatorama

• The big news this week were the names of the next big Marvel movies Thor 2: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and Iron Man 3. Not surprisingly Variety reports Sebastian Stan will return to Captain America 2 to reprise his role as Bucky. Comic fans know the character survived death and was brought back as a villain called “Winter Soldier” with a bionic arm. Plus, the Falcon’s going to be in it!
• Fans threaten to kill The Dark Knight Rises critics for negative reviews…Really? via Criticwire
• Five stages of bad superhero movie grief. Can you relate? Thoughts?

• Iron Man 3 director confirms—the villain IS the Mandarin! Via @Blastr

• Frankenstein imprisoning Dracula? He can’t even form full sentences! Via Let’s Get Out Of Here!

Trivia Answer

B) The dialogue of the two aliens in the restaurant was changed to English.

Originally the tall man (Carel Struycken) and Mr. “Little Dude Inside the Big Dude’s Head” Rosenberg (Mike Nussbaum) were rival aliens on the verge of war. To keep from having to reshoot scenes, the lines were dubbed in an alien language and subtitles were used to change their conversation to make them appear as friends.

While both Clint Eastwood and Chris O’Donnell were considered for the role, this was before filming began. Jim Carrey, thankfully, never appeared in the film.

Bonus Trivia Questions: First with the correct answer will be featured in next week’s post.

Easy: Name three cast members that appeared in MiB and the sequel MIIB.

Hard: Which director turned down the job because he felt it would “just be Blues Brothers in space?”

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