TIL that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix to star in Wild, Wild West
TIL that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix to star in Wild, Wild West
"....So i made 'Wild Wild West.' I'm not proud of it."
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Wild Wild West was a good movie, IMO it was just ahead of its time.
It was a reprisal of a tv show from the ‘60s. Maybe after its time?
GIANT MECHANICAL SPIDER.
That is all.
Jon Peters, one of the producers, had been trying to shoehorn a giant spider into a movie for quite some time. It wasn't that he thought it particularly needed to be in Wild, Wild West. He just wanted one, so he tried to get it written into every movie he was involved with until he finally succeeded. Hearing that really helped me understand the rest of that movie.
Oh yeah. He was desperate to get that big ol robot spider in the never filmed Tim Burton Superman movie starring Nicholas Cage too. Weird spider fetish ya got there Jon Peters
And Salma Hayek
I've been meaning to rewatch it, I saw it as a kid in theaters and thought it was cool but haven't seen it since