History Trivia / TheGreenMile

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* ScullyBox: To make [=6'5''=] Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan ''taller''. Specifically, to ''tower'' over David Morse (Brutal, [=6'4''=]) and James Cromwell (Warden Moores); at [=6'7''=], Cromwell is one of the tallest actors in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from this movie. John Coffey is only [=6'8"=] in the book, but in the movie, he appears to be close to '''eight feet tall'''.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Wild Bill's actor, Creator/SamRockwell, utterly '''despised''' the flashback scene showing how he kidnapped those two little girls before raping and murdering them. Not just out of genuine disgust for what the character was doing, but because he actually got along really well with the actresses who played the girls off-set. It was so bad that one of the girls actually started crying just because of how real it got.

** Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan had to stop lifting weights while filming to look more like a man from 1935.

* TheRedStapler: The film was one of the final nails in the coffin for Ol' Sparky in real life. The practice of electric execution was already falling out of favor, and Delacroix's death scene helped drive it to be nearly totally abolished in the states.

* TheDanza: Averted, but close: Creator/HarryDeanStanton played Toot-Toot rather than Dean Stanton or Harry Terwilliger.

* ActorInspiredElement: It was Michael Jeter's idea for Delacroix to be reciting the Hail Mary in Cajun French when he's in the electric chair.

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* MethodActing: Creator/TomHanks stayed in character as Paul Edgecomb whenever Creator/StephenKing visited the set. King asked him if he would like to sit in Old Sparky, but Hanks refused since he is in charge of the block.

* TimeShiftedActor: Old Edgecomb was played by 82-year-old Dabbs Greer in his final film role.

** Creator/JohnTravolta was offered the role of Paul Edgecomb, but turned it down.

** Originally, Creator/TomHanks was going to play the older Paul Edgecomb, but the makeup tests did not make him look credible enough to be an elderly man. Dabbs Greer was cast instead as the older Paul Edgecomb.

* CreatorPrefeerredAdaptation: Creator/StephenKing called this film the single most faithful adaptation of his work.

* BillingDisplacement: Michael Clarke Duncan is billed fourth despite John Coffey being the primary focus of the story.
* TheDanza: Averted, but close: Harry Dean Stanton played Toot-Toot rather than Dean Stanton or Harry Terwilliger.
* DawsonCasting: Doug Hutchison, who plays Percy, who is 21 in the novel, was 39 at the time. Also, Wild Bill was 19 in the novel, but is played by 31 year old Sam Rockwell in the movie.
* ScullyBox: To make [=6'5''=] Michael Clarke Duncan ''taller''. Specifically, to ''tower'' over David Morse (Brutal, [=6'4''=]) and James Cromwell (Warden Moores); at [=6'7''=], Cromwell is one of the tallest actors in Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from this movie. John Coffey is only [=6'8"=] in the book, but in the movie, he appears to be close to '''eight feet tall'''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnTravolta was offered the role of Paul Edgecomb, but turned it down.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnTravolta was offered the role of Paul Edgecomb, but turned it down.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The resolution to Mr. Jingles' story was resolved when King's wife literally asked him this question. King had forgotten the mouse existed and never had any plans to follow up until she reminded him.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/JohnTravolta was offered the role of Paul Edgecomb, but turned it down.

* ThrowItIn: As Del is getting ready to be electrocuted, he recites to himself the Hail Mary prayer in Cajun French; Michael Jeter ad-libbed this.[[note]]Though in the book, he did recite the Lord's Prayer in Cajun French.[[/note]]

* ThrowItIn: As Del is getting ready to be electrocuted, he recites to himself the Hail Mary prayer in Cajun French; Michael Jeter ad-libbed this.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: At the time the first installment was released to the public, King hadn't even figured out the ending yet... but still a set release scheduled for it.

* DawsonCasting: The actor who plays Percy, who is 21 in the novel, was 39 at the time. Also, Wild Bill was 19 in the novel, and is played by a 31 year old in the movie.