Blues Brothers 2000 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Blues Brothers 2000 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Blues Brothers 2000

[frances]

After the Russian funeral, one guys says, "Don't worry, you will drink vodka from their skulls." Dan Aykroyd is the owner of Crystal Head Vodka, which is sold in bottles shaped like skulls.

[kim]

Wally High's last film.

[ethel]

Paul Shaffer was the keyboard player, and inspirational early member of the original Blues Brothers band, but was prevented from appearing in the first movie for contractual reasons. He wrote the original music in this movie and gets a guest appearance as Marco the emcee at Queen Moussette's.

[carla]

Aretha Franklin and Matt "Guitar" Murphy reprise their roles from the first film, once again, respectively, playing the overbearing wife and henpecked husband. Both Franklin and Murphy passed away in 2018.

[ivan]

Just before "Ghost Riders in the Sky", the emcee of the festival introduces the final car stunt performer as "Dare-devil driver star Rick Avery." Rick Avery was the stunt coordinator for this film.

[marc]

In one scene, Cab (Joe Morton) mentions that when The Blues Brothers last performed, they caused damages costing $24 million, which was the budget of The Blues Brothers (1980).

[victoria]

The prison warden is played by Frank Oz, who also played the corrections officer who returned Jake's personal effects when he was released from prison in The Blues Brothers (1980). It isn't clear that both characters are the same person, but it would signify the career progression for the officer, as well as denote the passage of a significant period of time.

[cassandra]

When Buster (J. Evan Bonifant) tries to light a cigarette in the new Bluesmobile, Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) tosses the lighter out the window, just as Jake Blues (John Belushi) did in the first movie.

[kyle]

Both Dan Akroyd and John Landis hated the script and felt that the movie was going to be a failure.

[edgar]

Blues singer and harmonica player Junior Wells made his film debut, and his final screen appearance, as a member of the blues band in the strip club. He died just over three weeks before this movie debuted in theaters.

[ruby]

John Landis and Dan Aykroyd were reportedly very unhappy with the changes the studio forced onto the film, even coming close to quitting the project. Afterwards Landis made the independent movie, Susan's Plan (1998), as a way to cleanse his palate.

[ruby]

Cab has a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his office. In the first film, Curtis also has a picture of King in his room (as well as Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, and Robert Kennedy).

[kim]

104 cars were wrecked during filming. This beat the previous record of 103 cars wrecked during the making of The Blues Brothers (1980). This record was not broken until 112 cars were wrecked during the filming of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

[nicholas]

The film was dedicated in loving memory of John Belushi, Cab Calloway, and John Candy, all three of whom acted in The Blues Brothers (1980), and all of whom died before Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) went into production. Ironically, Calloway, the eldest of the three, died last at the age of eighty-six, which is older than Belushi's and Candy's combined ages at the times of their respective deaths (thirty-three and forty-three respectively).

[willard]

John Landis and Dan Aykroyd's original story pitch for the film had Elwood, Mighty Mack, and Jim Belushi's character Brother Zee raising money to refurbish their old orphanage. Aykroyd later admitted that the studio had been right to reject this pitch, as it was virtually identical to the story of the original The Blues Brothers (1980), but felt that their decision to instead make the film more fantasy-based, and aimed at younger viewers, ensured that the final product would be a critical and commercial failure.

[kenneth]

In the graveyard, after insulting the Russians funeral, in an attempt to gain "Mr. Fabulous", the Russian gunman is quoted saying in his native tongue, "You will be able to drink vodka from their skulls." This was said eight years before Dan Aykroyd created his famous Crystal Skull Vodka.

[christina]

The telephone booth, in which Elwood goes, has graffiti on it that reads "Max" and "Rachel", the names of John Landis' children.

[veronica]

The list of names that Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) gives as a reason to not quit ends with Robert K. Weiss, the studio executive who convinced Aykroyd and Landis not to quit the film.

[scarlett]

The "new" Bluesmobile is a 1991 Ford LTD Crown Victoria K9 unit. Bluesmobile tribute cars based on the new film, are easier to obtain than the Dodge Monaco, since the former has became a collector's item. The 1979 to 1991 Ford Panther platform cars (LTD Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis) have been in production even after the square-bodied generation ended in 1991 (the Panther platform is the final body-on-frame, rear wheel drive passenger car, which was phased out of production on September 15, 2011, a brief run of Crown Victorias were manufactured as final editions for the Middle East market). A Houston, Texas music duo, known for performing Blues Brothers tribute music, used an actual 1991 Crown Victoria former squad painted in the Bluesmobile livery. This particular Bluesmobile has been sighted in the Houston Art Car Parade until 2011 (including the previous year where Dan Aykroyd was the Grand Marshal alongside Houston Mayor Annise Parker (footage of this is seen in the documentary film Art Car: The Movie (2012)) when the music duo sold the car.