Walking Tall - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[norma]

Johnny Knoxville executed co-star Dwayne Johnson's signature WWE finisher, "The People's Elbow"

[eli]

Debut movie of Cobie Smulders.

[ethel]

Dwayne Johnson accepted the role because he felt this was "the right thing to do"

[javier]

Both Kevin Durand and Ashley Scott have appeared on the show Dark Angel (2000).

[willard]

At the beginning when Chris Vaughn asks the sheriff what happened to the former sheriff it is said that the guy was a great man but they found one day he had mysteriously skidded off a deserted road and died hitting a tree. This is a reference to how the real Buford Pusser died.

[darrell]

In filming the scene where Chris Vaughn smashes and breaks the tail light of Jay Hamilton's Porsche, Dwayne Johnson actually broke the car's tail light with his stick. (He was only supposed to pretend to break the tail light, with a "smashing glass" sound effect to be added later, in post-production.) After breaking the tail light, Johnson suddenly remembered that the Porsche was a rental car, which had been rented for one day to film that specific scene. He called over to his director, "Uh, Kevin, did we just buy this $90,000 Porsche?" Director Kevin Bray replied, through his megaphone, "Yes, thanks, Rock!" In the film, you can see actress Cobie Smulders sitting next to Neal McDonough in the Porsche. Her reactive flinch is genuine when Johnson smashes the tail light.

[ethel]

As a young man, Buford Pusser, the real-life sheriff upon whom this reboot of the movie is based, wrestled professionally across the South as "Buford the Bull". Dwayne Johnson, who plays the character inspired by him, began his acting career as a professional wrestler.

[dustin]

This is the second movie for Johnny Knoxville to be called "Ray Ray". His character in A Dirty Shame was named Ray Ray.

[darrell]

This is Ashley Scott's first movie in which she stars alongside a WWE wrestler turned actor, the actor being Dwayne Johnson. She later starred with John Cena in 12 Rounds (2009). John Cena and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have had many rivalries between each other in the wrestling world.

[scarlett]

Dwayne Johnson's stunt double in this movie was his cousin Tanoai Reed.

[ken]

DVD includes deleted scenes and an alternate ending.

[russell]

Both Dwayne Johnson & Kevin Sorbo have starred in 2 movie/TV shows with the same name, Walking Tall & Hercules.

[tom]

The film takes place in Kitsap County, Washington. The Kitsap Penninsula is across Puget Sound from Seattle, and is home to both the Bremerton Naval Shipyards and the Bangor Submarine Base. A large part of the population are military personnel, and unlike in the movie, the area has a very low crime rate. The movie was actually filmed in Squamish, B.C. The opening scene was filmed on the Bowen Island ferry to Horseshoe Bay