Fairly certain Elle's parents sold their souls to the Devil before she was born, and this is a supernatural reverse nepo-baby redemption story But I'm not 100% #moviesky #filmsky 🎬📽

#NowWatching 🎬📽 Legally Blonde (2001) Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Coolidge, Luke Wilson

It's rough & there's plenty of room for improvement But more importantly, I'M BACK!! 🤪 I break down the storytelling mechanics of this beloved classic, and reveal the universal pattern beneath #irongiant #filmsky #writing youtu.be/74LFtG7VuLY

#NowWatching 🎬 The Iron Giant (1999) Jennifer Aniston, Christopher McDonald, Vin Diesel

TIL in the Marvel universe, Santa Claus is the most powerful mutant on Earth He has teamed up with Marvel heroes several times to save the world, though usually with some form of a Hitler variant tied-in

TIL the actor who played Keno in TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze was Ernie Reyes Jr He also played Donatello in the *first* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie

TIL that Bruce Willis was offered the role of Riggs in Lethal Weapon but turned it down. It famously went to Mel Gibson Mel Gibson was offered the role of McClane in Die Hard but turned it down. It famously went to Bruce Willis

TIL the only film to beat Smokey & the Bandit at the box office in 1977... Was Star Wars: A New Hope Also, Smokey & the Bandit was largely improvised, aside from a generalized summary of a script

TIL the entire format of Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting show was copied almost exactly from an older show Bill Alexander's The Magic of Oil Painting was a direct influence on Ross, and Alexander would be deeply annoyed that is format was stolen wholesale

TIL in his childhood, Bob Ross was quite similar to Steve Irwin, in that he felt a strong connection and duty to care for injured animals Allegedly, Bob's father once returned home to find an alligator in his bathtub, under the care of his son

TIL the original concept for Darkwing Duck was called Double-O Duck, a deliberate parody of James Bond But the title "Double-O" wasn't a publicly used title. It was invented by Bond author Ian Fleming, which legally forced Disney to rename its show

TIL before they cast Whoopi Goldberg, the star of Sister Act (1992) was supposed to be Bette Midler Whoopi brought in "script doctor" Carrie Fisher to rewrite the movie and make it less Midler-ish Yes - Princess Leia did the final major rewrite of Sister Act 🤯

TIL the showrunners of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms know how to make it painful, even when you see it coming from a mile away

TIL child actress Leelee Sobieski quit acting despite a promising career in Hollywood Her disgust for the movie industry led to her rejecting it altogether, and now she's a painter & sculptor under her married name Leelee Kimmel

TIL the backstory of The Tin Man is true body horror Woodsman Nick Chopper's axe was cursed by the Wicked Witch, and cut off a body part every time he used it He replaced each part with a tin prosthetic until he was no longer human, then suffered a Ship of Theseus dillema with his own real head

TIL Rowan Atkinson was set to play Wadsworth in Clue (1985) but was rejected bc he didn't possess enough star power The role then went to Tim Curry

TIL casting Michael Keaton as Batman in Tim Burton's 1989 reboot was met with fierce backlash 50k+ letters demanded Keaton be replaced by Harrison Ford or Mel Gibson, or any actor with action credits

TIL while filming The Princess Bride (1987), Wallace Shawn feared that he was a casting mistake He performed the role of Vizzini convinced that he was going to be replaced at any moment bc of how perfectly casted everyone else was

TIL that a psychological horror episode of Firefly was written at the time of the show's cancelation The episode would have featured the traumatic back story of River Tam. The script was finished but never filmed, and still sits in the showrunner's home files

TIL that 12 Angry Men (1957) originally started as an episode of the anthology series, Studio One The original writer Reginald Rose was brought on to adapt his script for a feature film (a couple years after it was broadcast live)

TIL about Faye Emerson, who pioneered the role of late night show host... back in 1949! Her self-titled show included elements that are still popular 77 years later - unscripted interviews, fan mail readings, etc She's known today as The First Lady of Television 👑