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* According to Philip Kaufman, he had just told his wife, Rose, that he finally completed the story for his planned ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film, ''Planet of the Titans'', when Paramount's Jeffrey Katzenberg called to inform him, the movie was canceled. According to Katzenberg, the higher-ups declared "There's no future in science fiction." This was two weeks before [[Film/ANewHope a certain film]] came out and proved that there was future in science fiction.

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* According to Philip Kaufman, he had just told his wife, Rose, that he finally completed the story treatment for his planned ''Franchise/StarTrek'' film, ''Planet of the Titans'', when Paramount's Jeffrey Katzenberg called to inform him, him that the movie was canceled. According to Katzenberg, the higher-ups declared "There's no future in science fiction." This was two weeks before [[Film/ANewHope a certain film]] came out and proved that there was future in science fiction.


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* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'' was initially pitched in 1986 to Creator/RogerCorman's Concorde-New World Pictures but was rejected when the company balked at the potential $5 million price tag. When the film was finally released in 1995, its notoriously TroubledProduction pushed its price tag to ''$175 million'''.

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* The BBC tempted fate during the Moon landing to a horrifying degree that -- thankfully -- never went through. While the astronauts were on the moon, the BBC decided to play [[Music/SpaceOddity "Space Oddity"]] by Music/DavidBowie. It was a space-y song, which is understandable. However, the last few lines of the song have Major Tom ask Ground Control to tell his wife he loves her, before his circuit dies. This implies he never makes it back to Earth, which was pretty creepy when you realized that no one knew if the Apollo astronauts would make it back alive.

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* The BBC tempted fate during the Moon landing to a horrifying degree that -- thankfully -- never went through. While the astronauts were on the moon, the BBC decided to play [[Music/SpaceOddity "Space Oddity"]] by Music/DavidBowie. It was a space-y song, which is understandable. However, the last few lines of the song have Major Tom ask Ground Control to tell his wife he loves her, before his circuit dies. This implies he never makes it back to Earth, which was pretty creepy when you realized that no one knew if the Apollo astronauts would make it back alive.[[note]]There was even a speech written for Richard Nixon to deliver if they were unable to return.[[/note]]


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* In 2020, a new entry in the ''... For Dummies'' was based on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which was mainly about travelling to and about the Japanese capital and their customs. By the time they came around - having been pushed back to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic - they were mostly behind closed doors and foreign travellers were banned from entering Japan.

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