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Roger Cormier <\/strong>and Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present 16 Nostalgic Facts About Stand by Me<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong> Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 3. COCA-COLA ALMOST SHUT DOWN THE MOVIE ENTIRELY.<\/strong> 14. STEPHEN KING WAS IMPRESSED.<\/strong> 13. REINER CAME UP WITH THE TITLE.<\/strong> Roger Cormier and Mental_Floss present 16 Nostalgic Facts About Stand by Me. Here are three of my favorites… 3. COCA-COLA ALMOST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13214\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe soda company bought Embassy Pictures, the film’s original production company, and announced they weren\u2019t going to fund Stand by Me<\/em> just two days before they were set to start shooting. Television legend Norman Lear\u2014who had worked with Reiner for years on All in the Family<\/em>\u2014was one of the three owners of Embassy prior to its sale. He believed in the project enough that he agreed to personally foot the film’s $8 million budget.<\/p>\n
\nAfter Reiner screened the finished product for the author, King excused himself for 15 minutes. When he returned, he said it was the first time one of his stories was successfully put on film. King even applauded Reiner for changing it so that Gordie picks up the gun instead of Chris, wishing he had thought of that in the first place.<\/p>\n
\nColumbia Pictures didn’t like the idea of using The Body<\/em> as the movie title for a variety of reasons. Reiner thought naming it after the Ben E. King song that plays at the end of the movie would be good. Co-writer Raynold Gideon<\/i> said Reiner’s suggestion was the \u201cleast unpopular option.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"