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Trivia: The film co-stars Ninja and Yo-Landi from the controversial rap group Die Antwoord. Director Neil Blomkamp actually wanted Ninja to star in his previous film "Elysium," but Ninja turned it down because he was uncomfortable with the idea of doing an American accent in his first major film role. Ninja and Yo-Landi reportedly did all of the murals and much of the set decoration for their home in the film.

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Trivia: "Chappie" was originally conceived as the first film in a trilogy. However, plans for any sequels were dropped after the film underperformed at the box office.

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Trivia: DVDs of "Firefly" and its follow-up movie "Serenity" were brought up to the international space station in 2007 by astronaut Steven Ray Swanson, who is a massive fan of the series. They are reportedly still a permanent fixture in the space station.

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Safe - S1-E7

Trivia: This episode features the first credited role of future star Zac Efron. Efron plays the young version of Simon in flashbacks.

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Trivia: Rebecca Gayheart was initially cast as Inarra, but was replaced after one day of filming as she reportedly didn't have enough chemistry with the rest of the cast. Morena Baccarin was cast two days later and reportedly started filming that same day to make up for lost time.

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Trivia: Neil Patrick Harris reportedly auditioned and was considered for the role of Simon. He later went on to play the titular character in "Firefly" creator Joss Whedon's "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog."

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Trivia: Executives at Fox took issue with nearly every aspect of the series during production, and caused a great deal of trouble for the creators. For example, Fox attempted to meddle with the story and characters, including attempting to force creator Joss Whedon to rewrite the characters Wash and Zoe so they wouldn't be married. Fox also disliked several of the episodes and aired them completely out of order (including airing the pilot last), making the plot extremely difficult to follow. Episodes were also frequently delayed for sporting events and shifted around, making it hard for fans to watch the series. Finally, Fox attempted to deceptively market the series as a "wacky" and "twisted" sci-fi comedy as opposed to marketing it as the sci-fi drama with comedic elements that it actually was. These are often cited among the many factors that contributed to its early cancellation. However, despite these factors, the series ended up becoming a massive cult hit among sci-fi fans.

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Trivia: Throughout the film, lines are very subtly used to divide the Kim and Park families. Ex. Walls, picture frames and other objects with vertical lines often appear between members of either family when both are on the screen. One of the earliest examples is when Mrs. Park is introduced, and we see her outside of a window. There is a very clear line in the window between she and Ki-Woo, implying a sense of separation. Instances like this are littered throughout the film.

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Trivia: Bong Joon-Ho originally intended to make "Parasite" a play, but he kept thinking about how he'd film it if it were a movie during the early writing process. He very quickly realised he instead had to make it into a movie.

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Trivia: The film is based on a book by Ned Vizzini. Vizzini based the book on his own stay at a hospital while dealing with severe clinical depression. Tragically, Vizzini lost his battle to depression and committed suicide in 2013, three years after the film and seven years after the novel was published.

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Trivia: At one point, you can see Craig reading the book "Be More Chill." The book was written by Ned Vizzini, who was also the author of the novel "It's Kind of a Funny Story" on which this film is based.

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Trivia: Dan Harmon, creator of the cult-favorite series "Community" and "Rick and Morty," was brought on to help fine-tune the film during post production by giving notes on the editing. He also helped re-write several scenes during reshoots.

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Trivia: The only "Candyman" movie to not get a theatrical release. The two prior films, and the 2020 "spiritual sequel" were all released in theaters.

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Trivia: Series star Tony Todd reportedly hates the finished film.

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Trivia: If you count Chucky and Tiffany's various on-screen deaths, the total body-count of the "Child's Play" films up to and including "Cult of Chucky" is 66. (Or an average of 9.4 deaths per film).

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Trivia: The design of "The Auditor" is actually based on unused concept art for Pinhead for a "Hellraiser" reboot that was never produced. They simply removed the pins and added sunglasses to the character.

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I remember seeing a killer scarecrow movie about 20 years ago, but I can't seen to track down which one it was. It definitely wasn't the Asylum "Scarecrow" from 2002. All I remember is that there were human remains (or something else) in a box or casket that needed to be destroyed in order to kill the scarecrow. And I think they were destroyed by having a machine drop a large weight on them, which made the scarecrow explode. I also remember a scene where a character tries to burn the scarecrow and delivers the line "How about a little fire, scarecrow?!" from "Wizard of Oz." I remember the movie being quite bad... but in a fun B-movie kinda way. Anyone know what killer scarecrow movie it was?

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Trivia: The director had to go and meet with representatives from the NAACP, as the studio feared the project would be misconstrued as being racist due to it featuring a black antagonist and dealing with racial undertones. The representatives found the entire process ridiculous, and fully supported the film.

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Trivia: Allegedly, hypnosis was used on Virginia Madsen to aid in the filming of a few key scenes. She became very uncomfortable by the process after a while and refused to allow the crew to do it ever again.

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Trivia: Tony Todd worked out a deal with the production to be paid a $1,000 bonus each time he was stung by a bee during the making of the film. By the end of production, he had earned $23,000.

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