Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody is a movie about the life of Freddie Mercury starring Rami Malek. This movie is focused on the creation and mainstream success of Queen, Mercury's struggle to come to terms with his own sexuality, and Queen's fight to stay relevant in the music industry. Rami Malek secured the Oscar for Best Actor in this flick. 

The Social Network

The Social Network is based on a book that was written by Ben Mezrich titled "The Accidental Billionaires", which chronicles the life of Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues as they became the founders of Facebook. Jessie Eisenberg stars as the distraught and removed Mark Zuckerberg as he navigates the world of for-profit engineering. This movie was nominated for eight Oscars and it snagged three of them. 

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The More You Know

  • A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
  • Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The "Like" button on Facebook was supposed to be the "Awesome" button.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.