Twitter Digest 3rd March 2010

With apologies for the delay (some of us have to work), here is the digest of Unfact tweets up to 3rd March 2010.

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Vincent Price spent most of the last day of his life hurling mangoes at photographs of Shirley Temple.

Oscar-fave The Hurt Locker is actually a loose remake of Mae West’s last film, Sextette. A VERY loose remake.

The working title of Saving Private Ryan was ‘Far-fetched triumphalist American war film 4,210 (The Revengening)’

Tim Burton has been ejected from an LA screening of Alice, for masturbating on the audience.

The long-awaited Roger Rabbit 2 will see Eddie Valliant and Roger investigating the Black Dahlia rape/murder case.

Gene Hackman played percussion on the Gerry Rafferty song ‘Baker Street’ (@leeblackwood)

Ben-Hur was shot entirely on location in Shropshire.

Jerry Goldsmith’s Omen theme was inspired by the bell on top of an ice-cream van which haunted his childhood.

Ray Winstone lives in london because he only drinks hard water. If he drank soft water his body would violently reject it. (@leeblackwood)

Eli Roth is planning to remake all 21 Bond films, in order, starring a chainsaw and three hand grenades.

Uwe Boll is planning to remake all 31 Carry On films, in order, starring Erica Durance and a talking sock.

Brian De Palma is planning to remake all 52 of Hitchcock’s films, in order, for no reason whatsoever.

Marlon Brando was convinced that his bath towels were recording his thoughts and transmitting them to the CIA.

George Lucas is planning to remake all 6 Star Wars films, in originally released order, starring no one at all. (@leeblackwood)

While filming The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn Monroe developed a topical infection that made her talk like Karl Malden.

Colin Firth didn’t know that his character in A Single Man was gay until someone told him on the red carpet at the BAFTAs.

The working title of Don’t Look Now was ‘No Peeking, Silly’. (@philrobs)

The Ipcress file only exists due to a typo. The original pitch was about a man who grows salad in his filing cabinet.

Matt Damon and Ben Afleck had a child together during Good Will Hunting. (@leeblackwood)

If you play the reels of Last Year In Marienbad in reverse order, Delphine Seyrig explains the plot of Memento.

Unable to find a genuinely possessed VW beetle, the producers of The Love Bug used trained wood-lice to operate Herbie.

The sound mixing for Terminator Salvation was done by an army of slighly drunk hamsters.

Christopher Walken has been taken into care, after claiming that all the world’s long grasses and shrubs are his enemies.

The Baldwin Estate is in talks to trade out Stephen Baldwin for Adam Baldwin and a Baldwin to be named later. (@malusman)

Director McG’s Covent Garden flat has been taken over by 500 intelligent squirrels, demanding more Charlie’s Angels films.

Odeon cinemas may refuse to screen Twilight: Eclipse, as the cost of drying the cinema seats will outweigh the ticket sales.

David Lynch recommends rubbing peyote on your eyelids before watching Inland Empire. But don’t do it while watching Lazy Town.

Jackie Brown was a last minute replacement for Tarantino’s doomed dream project, Freddie Mercury’s World At War.

The producers of Van Damme’s Timecop were successfully sued for plagiarism by the creators of Brit kid’s show, Mr Benn. (@ColossalFloyd)

At the insistence of Disney execs, four instances of the word ‘fisting’ were cut from Mary Poppins.

Morgan Freeman based his portrayal of Nelson Mandela on Richard Pryor’s work in ‘See No Evil, Hear No Evil’ (@danny_dickblood)

Lars von Trier’s controversial new film, ‘The Prophet Mohammed was a Homo’, has been postponed indefinitely.

Christopher Walken has been taken into care, after claiming that all the world’s long grasses and shrubs are his enemies.

Anne Francis’ costumes in Forbidden Planet were designed by a consortium of 50s space perverts.

Duncan Jones has spoken of his ‘deep regret’ at having to cut an all-Rockwell masturbation contest scene from Moon.

Michael Winners ‘Death Wash’ featuring Bronson, soap & a mortuary was canned when Radox refused to fund. (@unklerupert)

Sam Peckinpah originally wanted to make The Wild Bunch as a musical comedy, but sensibly reconsidered.

Michael Bay intends to remake Doug Liman’s Swingers. The phrase ‘you’re so money’ will become ‘holy shit, your face exploded’.

Park Chan-wook’s next ‘trilogy’ will deal with sexual health issues. Sympathy for Mr Gonorrhea will be out next year.

Genre-busting movie ‘Romulans & Rebus’ the space-based detective story based on the creation of Rome has been canned. (@unklerupert)