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For the film Speed, Joss Whedon was brought in a week before shooting began, wrote "98.9% of the dialogue", added major plot points, and is credited with creating the "Pop quiz, hotshot" line.

Sleeping Beauty herself only has 18 lines of dialogue in the entire movie.

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1. Comedy film Airplane! is a direct parody of 1957 movie Zero Hour! Many scenes, situations, lines of dialogue, as well as the entire storyline, are redone almost verbatim

2. The directors for Guardians of the Galaxy wrote a script with actual dialogue for Vin Diesel so that he would know what inflections to give when he said his lines as "I am Groot".

3. During the fundraiser scene for The Dark Knight, Michael Caine was supposed to have some dialogue when the Joker first shows up. However, as it was his first time seeing Heath Ledger in his full Joker costume, he was so terrified that he forgot every single one of his lines.

4. Hans Zimmer created the Interstellar theme with no context to the movie, just a short story and 2 lines of dialogue.

5. Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame is a Star Trek fanatic and can quote every line of dialogue (from all characters) from the original series.

6. Oogie Boogie in the Nightmare Before Christmas was inspired by Cab Calloway's dialogue in a Betty Boop Cartoon, directly borrowing the line "Whatcha gonna do now?" "Gonna do the best I can!"

7. Most of the dialogue in the original Iron Man film was ad-libbed by Robert Downey Jr, and that Gwyneth Paltrow had more trouble matching him with a suitable line, since she never knew what he would say next.

8. There is one line that Southpark has never crossed due to network censorship. 9 years ago Comedy Central censored images and dialogue of the Prophet Muhammad from an episode.

9. Writer Chuck Ross sent the screenplay, 'Casablanca' to 214 agencies under the name, 'Everyone Dines At Ricks.' Ross was met with criticisms such as, "Too much dialogue, not enough exposition, the story line was weak, and in general didn’t hold my interest.”

10. Mel Blanc was not the primary voice actor for Elmer Fudd. Radio actor Arthur Q. Bryan voiced the character for 20 years from his creation in 1939 until Bryan's death in 1959, with Blanc providing only three total lines of dialogue for the character.

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The writer and director of the infamously bad 'Troll 2' did not speak english when he wrote the script. When the actors suggested they ad-lib their lines, he forbid them from altering his dialogue.

Harpo Marx only had one line of dialogue during his entire film career. It was in a silent film. - source

In the film Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), the title character (played by Christopher Lee) does not speak at all; he merely hisses. Lee claimed that he hated the dialogue he was given, while the screenwriter said he didn't write any lines for Lee. - source

SNL Alum Comedian Dana Carvey made his film debut in Halloween II (1981). He's on screen for 10 seconds and has zero lines of dialogue. His character is credited as "assistant."

In a number of early drafts of the Blade Runner screenplay Deckard kills Rachel, in some he realizes he is actually a Replicant, and in one Roy Batty's last line of dialogue before dying is "Crap". - source

Actress Ellen Burstyn received a Best Supporting Actress Emmy nomination for the HBO movie “Mrs. Harris”. She appeared on screen for fourteen seconds and only had two lines of dialogue.

Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer had no written lines for their roles in The Right Stuff. Instead, they both improvised the dialogue in their shared scenes.

South park - Most lines of Dialogue for Entire Cast

In Star Wars The Empire Strikes back, Prowse—who spoke all of Vader's lines during filming—was given a false page that contained dialogue with the revelatory line being "Obi-Wan killed your father." Hamill did not learn of the plot point until just before the scene was filmed

The first spoken line of dialogue came the movie “The Jazz Singer”, the line was, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothing yet!”

Jackie Chan often gets his tongue in a twist when he's trying to deliver his English lines. "To me, action scenes are so easy, but dialogue scenes drive me crazy", he says