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Leonardo DiCaprio turning down Titanic to star in Boogie Nights?! Yup, in an alternate timeline that could've happened!
Originally, the ballad in the film was supposed to be "Proud of Your Boy," a song Aladdin sings to his mom at the beginning of the movie. The film's composer, Alan Menken, knew there needed to be a ballad, so he reworked a song he and lyricist Tim Rice were doing for a magic carpet ride scene. The addition of "A Whole New World" also gave Jasmine a song to sing in the film.
Kurt (who had actually played Elvis in a 1979 made-for-TV movie) did the voicing as a favor for the film's director, Robert Zemeckis, and was uncredited for the part.
Galyn Susman — Toy Story 2's supervising technical director — remembered that Pixar had set her up with a computer at home that would periodically download an entire copy of the film. Sure enough, after she brought the computer in they discovered that she had most of the film on it, and they had only lost a few weeks worth of work.
According to the film's director, Steven Spielberg, Harrison was his first choice to play the role.
Also, another fun fact: The director of A Goofy Movie, Kevin Lima, went on to direct two more classic Disney movies — Tarzan and Enchanted.
Robin Schiff, who wrote the screenplay for Romy and Michele, also wrote Ladies' Room. And in fact, Lisa Kudrow was cast 'cause she had actually originated the role of Michele when the play premiered.
The scene where a bit of icing falls into the tea was actually an accident, but was kept in the film.
According to Kevin, he spoke to Diana about the film, and that it would have been about his Bodyguard character, Frank Farmer, protecting Diana (who would've played herself) from paparazzi and stalkers. And, like in the original movie, the two would have fallen in love. Diana died in the car accident right as Kevin had finished the script.
Michelle ended up passing on the role 'cause she felt it was too dark. And, of course, Jodie won her second Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
According to the film's writer-director, the late John Singleton, it was actually a joke (not the most tasteful joke, I know) he started when they were filming. The backstory is that both he and Tupac had HUGE crushes on Janet (who was not interested in either of them, 'cause she was secretly married at the time) and he would jokingly say, "We’re gonna have to get you an AIDS test for you to kiss my actress!" as a way to one-up Tupac. The joke became a rumor even before the movie was released.
The movie actually didn't have the budget for fake snow.
According to Danny, Tim Burton would just show him sketches, some phrases, and tell him what was going on in the story as a jumping off point for the songs — he and Tim ended up with 10 songs before there was a script. It was actually Danny's then-girlfriend, Caroline Thompson, who then went on to write the script and incorporated the songs into it.
The film only uses the seven colors found in the Dick Tracy comics (like red, black, yellow, green, and blue).
According to Julia, a lot of actors had been interested in the role of Edward, but, none of them were the right fit and most of them were comedians. It was actually the idea of the film's director, Gary Marshall, for the two of them to fly to New York City and meet with Richard in-person to try to convince him to take the role.
Bruce was then offered the one role that remained, Butch, the boxer. As luck would have it, the part was originally offered to Matt Dillon (who Quentin had envisioned in the role), but Matt told Quentin he loved the script, however he would need to sleep on it. That upset Quentin, which caused him to not want to cast Matt in the film.
Scar was going to also kill Simba at the same time that he killed Mufasa, but he didn't have time 'cause the pride showed up before he could break Simba's neck. This is also the reason why Matthew Broderick was cast as Simba — as that "Scar raising Simba" version of Simba was supposed to be a goof-off character inspired by Ferris Bueller.
Also, Céline Dion never wanted to sing the song and, in fact, she actually hated it (but, her late husband René Angélil persuaded her to do it). The studio put pressure on James 'cause they felt the song could be good for marketing, and because they had a deal with Sony Music for the soundtrack (and Sony wanted an end-of-film song to help sell albums). James decided to put it in the movie only after being won over by the demo that Céline recorded.