40 behind-the-scenes photos that shed new light on popular films (41 photos)

When it comes to big movies, we viewers see only a small part of what happened on the set. After all, while in the frame there is only one or two actors, there are hundreds working behind the camera people, if not more. It turns out that the real magic happens long before the lights go out in cinemas, but thankfully thanks to With such behind-the-scenes footage, we can appreciate this movie magic to the fullest.





1. Most of the Riders of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings were women with false beards. They owned horses filming



2. "Dogma" (1999). Legendary Alan Rickman as Metatron



3. Stunning foreground miniature by special effects maestro Emilio Ruiz Del Rio for Conan the Destroyer (1984)



4. Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington in Much Ado About Nothing (1993)



5. Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder on the set of Edward Scissorhands



6. How the Columbia Pictures logo was created



7. Anthony Daniels resting in the shade on the set of A New Hope in Tunisia, 1976



8. Patrick Stewart in Star Trek was originally supposed to have a wig.



9. Ghostbusters - Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson - at the firehouse (1984)



10. On the set of Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch



11 Tim Curry Turns Into Pennywise



12. Michael J. Fox rehearsing "Johnny B. Goode" on the set of Back to the Future (1985)



13. Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford study the script for The Empire Strikes Back (1979)



14. Chadwick Boseman and Ryan Coogler on the set of Black Panther



15. Shark Bruce from Jaws (1975)



16. Stan Lee on the set of the movie "Avengers: Infinity War"



17. Christian Bale makeup for Thor: Love and Thunder



18. Aubrey Plaza holding Grumpy Cat



19. Brendan Fraser, Pauley Shore and Sean Astin on the set of The Frozen Californian (1992)



20. Actors dressed as velociraptors on the set of Jurassic Park



21. Jennifer Connelly and Ludo from Labyrinth (1986)



22. Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber filming his last scene in Die Hard (1988)



23. Frame from "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (2006) before and after special effects



24. Heath Ledger on the set of The Dark Knight



25. Liv Tyler and Miranda Otto on the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King



26. Photo taken on the set of "Fight Club" (1999)



27. Sissy Spacek on the set of Carrie (1976)



28. Cigarette-in-hand Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix laugh while filming their last duel in Gladiator (1999)



29. Break on the set of the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"



30. Cesar Romero before filming the surf scene with Adam West in Batman (1967)



31. Lighting on the set of Jordan Peele's "No"



32. Jack Nicholson on the set of The Shining (1980)



33. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on the set of Grease (1978)



34. Malcolm McDowell tries on costumes for A Clockwork Orange (1970)



35. How much work does it take to shoot one shot with Will Smith sitting on a bench. "Men in Black" (1997)



36. The legendary scene from the movie "The Empire Strikes Back" from a different angle



37. Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen on the set of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)



38. Jamie Lee Curtis with Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double and James Cameron filming a helicopter stunt for "True Lies" (19 November 1993)



39. Alfred Hitchcock with a child on the set of The Birds, 1963



40. Jim Carrey fooling around on the set of The Mask