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13 unusual facts about Bill Paxton


Anita Shreve

Her novel Resistance was turned into the 2003 movie with the same title Resistance, with Bill Paxton and Julia Ormond as the main characters.

Apollo Lunar Module

The Ron Howard film Apollo 13, a dramatization of that mission starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton, was filmed using realistic spacecraft interior reconstructions of the Aquarius and the Command Module Odyssey.

Beatrice Wood

In Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay, Cameron notes that Bill Paxton's wife loaned a copy of I Shock Myself to him.

Game over

"Game over" is also sometimes used as a phrase to concede defeat, as for example in the movie Aliens where one of the protagonists, Private William Hudson (Bill Paxton), shouts, "Game over, man!" after the dropship meant to rescue him and his expedition is destroyed.

German submarine U-571

U-571 was the name of the eponymous U-boat in U-571, a movie released in 2000, starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton and Jon Bon Jovi.

Hardin County, Iowa

Hardin County, along with Story County, was also a primary filming location for the 1996 movie Twister, starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.

Ivor Barry

Many younger movie fans may remember him as Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Chet (Bill Paxton) Donnelly's grandfather in the 1985 film Weird Science.

Phased plasma gun

In Aliens, another film by James Cameron, a "phased plasma pulse rifle" is a weapon that the excitable Private William Hudson (Played by Bill Paxton), jokingly informs Ripley is part of the Marines arsenal (along with knives and sharp sticks).

Shanghai Calling

Starring Daniel Henney, Eliza Coupe, and Bill Paxton, Shanghai Calling is a story about a group of Americans who find themselves immigrants in a foreign country.

With the help of his beautiful relocation specialist Amanda Wilson (Eliza Coupe), fast food entrepreneur Donald Cafferty (Bill Paxton), and a few others, Sam just might be able to save his job and learn to appreciate the wonders that Shanghai has to offer.

Spazchow

The song "Love Tap" was made into a short film by Rocky Schneck (later released on the video compilation Zabagabee) and featured Bill Paxton and Annerose Bucklers.

Star City, Arkansas

Star City, Arkansas was the stage for 1992 police thriller film entitled One False Move, starring actors Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, and written by Thornton.

Steven Grant

Grant's 2 Guns has been made into a major motion picture from Universal Studios starring Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Bill Paxton and Paula Patton.


Aledo, Texas

Bill Paxton, an actor and director, most famous for the HBO series Big Love, spent a few years living in Aledo before moving to Fort Worth, Texas.

Bill Camfield

The character acquired legendary status in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and is fondly remembered by his many now grown-up fans, including actor/director Bill Paxton (who used “Slam-Bang Theatre” footage in his film Frailty, a murder mystery set in 1960s Fort Worth) and underground comics artists Mack White and Gary Panter (both of whom mention Icky Twerp on their websites).

Black Market Magazine

Interviews would now include sci-fi film historian / former editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland Forrest J. Ackerman along with actors and directors such as Bill Paxton, Adam Rifkin, Wayne Newton, Jeffrey Levy.

Carl Franklin

The story follows three drug dealers, played by Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams, and Michael Beach and their interactions with an Arkansas sheriff played by Bill Paxton.

CFB North Bay

The low budget production, called The Colony, stars Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton and Kevin Zegers.

Daniel Hsia

The film also stars Eliza Coupe (as Henney's love interest, Amanda Wilson, a relocation specialist), Bill Paxton as a fast food entrepreneur named Donald Cafferty and Alan Ruck as Marcus Groff, a client of Chao's law firm.

He is most known for his first feature, Shanghai Calling which stars Daniel Henney, Eliza Coupe and Bill Paxton, and which Hsia won a Best Screenwriter Award for from the 2012 Shanghai International Film Festival and a Best New Director / Outstanding First Feature award from the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.