ReelReveal #91

Its writer spent over a decade on the script and couldn't find an ending, so he went off and made Kill Bill instead. Luc Besson talked him out of turning it into a mini-series. Leonardo DiCaprio was his first idea for the villain before he decided the part needed a native German speaker; Adam Sandler turned down the bat-wielding sergeant and Simon Pegg had to drop the British lieutenant for Tintin. Rod Taylor came out of retirement to play Winston Churchill; Mike Myers plays a general.