Major Accidents That Happened On The Set of a Film

 Rocky IV

Although he wasn’t necessarily supposed to ask for this, Stalone asked Dolph Lundgren to actually punch him in the chest in order to make the scene where Rocky fights Ivan Drago more realistic. Lundgren obliged, but he hit Stalone so hard that a vessel in his heart swelled up and he had to be rushed to the hospital. Lundgren was the first one to reach Stalone while he was in the ICU, as a joke, he told Stalone that he could have one clean shot at his chest. Stalone laughed, and politely declined the offer. 

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The More You Know

  • The location of Tony Stark’s mansion in Iron Man is the same cliff from Planet of the Apes where the Statue of Liberty is sticking out from the sand.
  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • Peter Ostrum, Charlie from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, never acted in another movie after that and is now a veterinarian.
  • Sean Connery wore a wig in every single one of his Bond performances.
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