Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

The Big Sick

Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan act as a fictionalized version of Nanjiani's romance with his real-life wife, Emily V. Gordon. "The Big Sick" follows Kazan as her character becomes deeply ill soon after she and Nanjiani begin dating. In reality, Gordon came down with a mysterious illness that led to her being put in a medically induced coma. Fortunately, it all worked out in the end.

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The More You Know

  • In the 2011 census for the Czech Republic, over 15 thousand people listed their religion as Jedi.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.
  • A cow-bison hybrid is called a "beefalo."
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