Questions tagged [production]
The act of creating a work (esp. movies: filming).
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What legal problems prevented T’Pau from being used in “Star Trek: Enterprise?”
While wandering through a Star Trek rabbit hole, I came across this tidbit on the Wikipedia page for T'Pol; bold emphasis is mine:
“Series producer Rick Berman said they originally intended that a ...
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Were silver highlights added to Darth Vader's helmet to make its surface seem more reflective?
In the Original Trilogy, the costumes used for Darth Vader's helmet were not all black, but had silver highlights applied in an alternating pattern:
Screenshot from A New Hope (via Reddit)
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What was the reason for the cancellation of 1899 after the first season?
1899 was cancelled by Netflix after its first season.
According to the Wikipedia article on 1899,
Netflix announced a few days after release that 1899 was in 58 countries the most watched product of ...
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Was the main story arc of 1899 completed in the season it had?
I really enjoyed Dark. 1899 is by the same creators, Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar. Unfortunately, it was cancelled after just a single season.
Is there any sense of completion in that single season,...
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What factors led to Disney retconning Star Wars Legends in favor of the new Disney Canon?
The Star Wars Expanded Universe is the culmination of decades of work with thousands of new characters and a multitude of plotlines, cultures and worlds, and which has been approved by LucasFilm via ...
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Was the end of episode 'sting' missing or moved for She-Hulk episode five?
Up until episode five of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, after the water colour credits there's usually a post credit sting.
I can't tell if the changing room scene was the sting for that episode or if the ...
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What has been changed in Stranger Things since it was originally released?
In a recent Variety interview with the Duffer Brothers (creators of Stranger Things) they state this:
We have George Lucas’d things also that people don’t know about,” he continued, while declining ...
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Similarities between TOS "The Apple" and "Who Mourns for Adonais" phaser sequences
Something I didn't pick up on when watching the original airings, but noticed while watching re-runs a very long time ago:
At the climax of "Who Mourns for Adonais", Kirk orders the ship to ...
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Why are there Asian subtitles in some renderings of these shots?
In the Star Trek original series episode "The Naked Time", there is a short sequence in which Spock makes his way from the bridge to engineering, encountering a delirious crewman along the ...
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Why was Gloria Baker's Shark never released as a toy?
Wikipedia informs me that Gloria Baker's Shark — a Porsche 928 that could turn into a submarine — was never released as a toy, even though this was her main vehicle in the TV series. Considering that ...
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Salaries of Star Trek Guest Stars
What was the salary range of the guest stars on the original Star Trek series?
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Was the pipe-weed on the set of the Lord of the Rings films real or fake?
Hollywood has been wrestling with the thorny problem of smoking-depiction in films ever since tobacco went out of fashion in the 1990s, replacing on-set smoking with herbal cigarettes, e-cigs and CGI.
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Who did Taskmaster's stunts?
There's a pretext for this question which is a spoiler:
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Which stunt actor(s) played Taskmaster? Was it different actors for different fighting styles?
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How big were the shooting models used in the original Thunderbirds TV show?
This is from a production perspective of the 1964-1966 Thunderbirds TV series.
The various Thunderbirds vehicles appear in numerous shots including bay scenes as their pilots are transferred aboard ...
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Why is Stephen Fry's narration of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone an hour longer than Jim Dale's on Audible?
Since the pandemic, J.K. Rowling released Stephen Fry's version of the audio book for free. However, the Jim Dale version is 8 hours 18 minutes and Stephen Fry's version is 9 hours 33 minutes. I know ...
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