![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z022116thefly_trivia.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Andrew LaSane<\/b>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 11 Transformative Facts About The Fly<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. IT WAS PRODUCED BY MEL BROOKS.<\/span><\/strong> 2. BROOKS CAME UP WITH THE FILM’S MOST FAMOUS LINE.<\/span><\/strong> 5. JEFF GOLDBLUM AND GEENA DAVIS WERE A COUPLE.<\/span><\/strong> Andrew LaSane\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 11 Transformative Facts About The Fly.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… 1. IT WAS PRODUCED BY<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834","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=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14836,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions\/14836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nKnown as a master of comedy, Mel Brooks is also a fan of the horror genre. Producer Stuart Cornfeld convinced the reluctant studio to distribute the film if he could find the money to make it, and Mel Brooks was the first person he went to for help (the two had previously collaborated on David Lynch’s\u00a0The Elephant Man<\/em> in 1980). It was Brooks who encouraged Cronenberg to take the movie as far as he wanted. “[Brooks] said \u2018I want you to go all the way. Let yourself go, and don\u2019t hold back.\u2019 There were no restraints,” Cronenberg recalled. “They were willing to lose that percentage of the audience that would have liked the love interest stuff, but couldn\u2019t take the horror.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n\u201cBe afraid, be very afraid\u201d is a quote that many people have heard, but not everyone knows\u00a0comes from The Fly<\/em>. Cronenberg revealed in a commentary track that the iconic line was invented by Mel Brooks while discussing how characters should react to the early stages of Seth Brundle\u2019s transformation. The quote also became one of the film\u2019s taglines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nGoldblum was the one who campaigned for then-girlfriend Geena Davis to co-star in the film as journalist\/love interest Veronica Quaife, a.k.a. Ronnie. Goldblum admits in a special features documentary that he became jealous of her scenes with actor John Getz and had to be told to leave the set because of his emotional attachment. Their relationship also affected the way they performed the roles.\u00a0“The problem really in working with a couple who were so close and had been together for quite some time was that Geena, who was an adept mimic, she would basically\u00a0do <\/em>Jeff,” Cronenberg said in his commentary track.\u00a0“She was like Jeff in her linguistic rhythm, her speech rhythm, and her body language because Jeff has a very strange and infectious way of speaking and moving …one of the things we had to do was to disconnect Geena and Jeff for the sake of the movie.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"