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The Bodyguard (1992)

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• This film was originally proposed in the mid-'70s, starring Diana Ross and Steve McQueen, but was rejected as "too controversial". The film concept was to be attempted again in the late 1970s, with Ryan O'Neal and Diana Ross cast as the leads. The project fell through after only a few months because of irreconcilable differences between O'Neal and Ross, who had been dating.
  
  
• Rachel's mansion is the same mansion as the "horse's head in the bed" mansion in The Godfather (1972).
  
  
• Rachel and Frank go and see Yojimbo (1961), which was released in the United States as "The Bodyguard".
  
  

• Crew driver Bill Vitagliano was killed in an on-set accident when he was crushed between two colliding scissor-lifts, during the preparation for an underground parking garage scene.
  
  
• Lawrence Kasdan's first ever screenplay.
  
  
• The proposal for this film was rejected 67 times.
  
  
• The camera operator riding the dolly rail during the airplane scene where the camera revolves around actors Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston fell off when the centripetal force surprised him while shooting the scene. The cameraman climbed back onto the rigging during filming to retain operation, finishing the scene, which was kept in the movie.
  
  
• The film had to undergo some hasty re-cutting when test audiences jeered Whitney Houston's performance.
  
  
• At the fictional Academy Awards ceremony, the Best Sound Oscar goes to Mychal Smith and Kay Colvin (who were in reality the Boom Operator and Cable Person respectively), the Best Song winner is written by Nancy Garber (who was really the film's Art Department Researcher) and one of the fictional nominated songwriters was Leslie Moraes (who was really the film's Assistant Location Manager).
  
  
• Kevin Costner said that he based his portrayal of Frank Farmer on actor Steve McQueen. He even went as far as to get McQueen's trademark haircut for the role.
  
  

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