Trivia / Blank Check

Trivia related to the Game Show:

• Creator Backlash: Art James and the staff are confirmed to have disliked this show, calling it "Blank Mind".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only Pilot #1 and Episode #3 are known to exist.

Related to the film:

• Creator Killer:
  • It's the final film to be written by Blake Snyder, who is one of the guys who wrote the "flatworm could write better" Sylvester Stallone Creator Backlash Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. After that, his next screen credit would be a memorial credit on Jeffrey Katzenberg's other major animation house DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon (2010) (Katzenberg was still chairman of the Disney studios when Blank Check was released).
  • It would also be 5 years before director Rupert Wainwright directed another film.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Tim Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Michael Keaton, Rick Moranis, Bill Murray, Chris Noth, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Kurt Russell, Martin Short, John Travolta and Bruce Willis were considered for the role of Fred Waters, Preston's dad, before it was taken by the late James Rebhorn.
  • Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Lawrence, Faizon Love, Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, John Witherspoon, and even rappers Biz Markie, Ice-T, Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur, were considered for the role of Juice before it was taken by Tone Lōc.

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