Did You Know These Classic Films Were All Remakes?

Vanilla Sky

The 2001 flick "Vanilla Sky" was adapted from a 1997 film called "Open Your Eyes." In this adaptation, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, and Kurt Russell tell the story of a young man's fantastical story of his life through flashbacks. Reality and fiction blend together with mess and mayhem in both films...

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The More You Know

  • Executive producer of Toy Story and Chief Pixar shareholder Steve Jobs picked Bob Dylan as his first choice to write and perform the soundtrack to the film over Randy Newman.
  • In the movie Dredd, they slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 times to create the "slow motion" noise.
  • Inspiration for the Hulk came from Frankenstein’s monster.
  • The cat in "The Godfather" was a stray.
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