Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in Lord of the Rings because he didn't understand the script.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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Eminem was offered the lead role in the 2013 sci-fi movie, Elysium. He was interested but he turned it down due to one major condition not being met; Elysium would have to be shot in his hometown, Detroit.
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People actually live in the Mos Eisley set from Star Wars.
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If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.
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