The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #3 – The MGM Lion Actually Killed a Lot of People

So the story goes, Alfred Hitchcock was filming a lion for the MGM Logo when two burglars broke onto the movie set. The animal looked at the camera, roared with rage, and jumped out of frame to devour the criminals. The truth: Hitchcock actually had nothing to do with it. A total of seven tamed lions have been used for over the years, and none of them have ever harmed anyone.

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The More You Know

  • While shooting 'Batman Begins' (2005) in Chicago, a drunk driver panicked and crashed into the Batmobile because he thought it was an invading alien.spacecraft
  • Gone With the Wind’s fire scene is old sets being burned.
  • The Lion King was originally known as King of the Jungle until someone at Disney finally remembered that lions don’t actually live in jungles.
  • Beck Hansen wrote and composed the music played by the fictional band S*x Bob-omb in the movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World".
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