Stonewall - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Stonewall or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Stonewall

[amber]

Joey King and Roland Emmerich previously worked together on White House Down. They would collaborate again on Independence Day: Resurgence.

[ray]

Roland Emmerich's first R rated movie since The Patriot (2000).

[carl]

Matt Craven and director Roland Emmerich previously worked together on White House Down (2013).

[linda]

While the film has its protagonist, a white male (who is gay) make the first act of defiance during the Stonewall riots, in reality is a black transgender woman who did it.

[bryan]

The Stonewall Inn or sometimes referred as Bonnie's Stonewall Inn was originally built as stables in the mid 19th century. By 1930 it became a Tearoom for heterosexuals. The Stonewall Inn first closed in 1964 after 34 year's of business as a Tearoom when the interior was destroyed by fire. It was restored by three mobsters in 1967 as a gay bathhouse and became the largest gay bar in the US. After the riots in 1969 it shortly closed. For twenty years the Stonewall ran as a Bagel Sandwich Shop, a Chinese Restaurant and shoe store before reopening in 1998 as simply Stonewall.

[camila]

Roland Emmerich's first anamorphic feature since Stargate (1994), and his first to use Hawk anamorphic lenses.

[norma]

The first trailer for the film led to accusations that Roland Emmerich had "whitewashed" the historical events depicted by creating a fictional white protagonist. Emmerich and others associated with the production defended his casting choices but a year after the film's failure Emmerich continued to engender controversy with claims that the Stonewall riots were a "white event" and blaming the failure on the initial whitewashing complaints.