CURSED ATUK- The Incomparable story of a mysterious curse of unfilmed movie Atuk.

UNFILMED ATUK  

Probably you wouldn't have heard about Atuk because it was never completely filmed. This remains as an unfilmed script written by Tod Carroll which was based on the novel The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler. Don't take this one silly because Atuk curse has killed all the actors who had interest on taking the role. The curse of Atuk is infamous in Hollywood for it's reputation in killing several people.

The first Alleged victim of this curse was the Comedian John Belushi. He expressed a keen interest on taking the role of Atuk. When the curse struck, He was found dead of drug overdose in his room on March 5 of 1982. 

John Belushi

Sam Kinison was the second victim of this curse. In 1986 he was offered the role of  Atuk and he accepted it. After the filming of one scene he felt dissatisfaction about the script and demanded rewrites in the script. In 1992, he died in a car accident in which his wife survived without serious injury. 

In 1994 another comedy actor John Candy was approached with the role of atuk. he died of a heart attack while reading the script. It is also said that Michael O'Donoghue who was a friend of John Candy was struck with this curse. There are rumors that said Michael O'Donoghue has read the script before the death of John Candy. He died due to sudden cerebral hemorrhage.

The last person who showed interest on taking the role of atuk was the comedian Chris Farley. He considered John Belushi as his idol. Just like Belushi he was also found dead due to a drug overdose in 1997. Chris Farley's good friend Phil Hartman was also hit by the curse. In 1998, he was murdered by his wife. It is said that Chris Farley had shown the script to Phil Hartman and was encouraged to take on a role in Atuk.

Due to Atuk's sweet memories no one was really interested in the movie after these delightful events. This script was never made into a film. If you are interested in reading another creepy story please click here.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HARRY POTTER

Top 10 Interesting Facts about Harry Potter

1. J.K Rowlings and Harry Potter have the same birthday July 31.

J.K Rowlings

 2. Over 400 million Harry Potter books in 67 languages have been sold worldwide as of 2008.

3. J.K. Rowling is the first person to become a billionaire as an author of books.

4. Dementors are a representation Rowling’s struggles with depression which she suffered.

5. Tom Felton was initially auditioned for the roles of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley but was chosen to play Draco Malfoy.

Tom Felton

6.One of the cars used as flying cars in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was stolen from the set. It was discovered seven months later when an anonymous caller informed the Police about it.

7. Rupert Grint was removed from the set during the shooting of the kissing scene in "Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 1" because of his hysterical laughing.

8. Shirley Henderson was 37 years old when she played Moaning Myrtle in "Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets".

Shirley Henderson

9. Both Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint had a crush on Emma Watson in earlier films. Can't blame them.

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson

10. Emma Watson had a crush on Tom Felton who played Draco Malfoy.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOUR MOBILE PHONE

Top 10 Interesting Facts About Your Mobile Phone

1.In 1973, the first mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, a former Motorola inventor.

2.The first cell phone weighed 2.4 pounds and was 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches in size.It took approximately 10 hours to charge completely.

3.Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone or losing your signal.

4.Mobile Phone Radiation can cause Insomnia, headaches and confusion.

5.An average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.

6.67% of mobile users check their phone regularly even for no reason.

7.Nokia 1100 is the bestselling electrical gadget in the history. Over 250 million of 1100 were sold.

Nokia 1100

8. 90% of mobile phones in Japan are water-resistant because they use it when they are in shower.

9.Marcel Fernandes Filho is the fastest texter in the world, he texted the following message in 18.19 seconds: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”

10. This one is gross, your mobile phone contains 18 times more bacteria than a toilet handle does. I wish if this wasn't true.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SACHIN TENDULKAR

Top 10 Interesting Facts About Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

1. Sachin is named after a legendary music director Sachin Dev Burman.

2. During his early days, Tendulkar would win a coin from his coach Ramakant Achrekar if he could bat through an entire session of nets without being dismissed. Tendulkar has 12 such coins. He still has those coins with him.

3. At the age of 14, Sachin was a ball boy for the match between India and Zimbabwe at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 world cup.

4. At first, Sachin wanted to be a tennis player and his idol was John McEnroe.

John McEnroe

5. During his school days, Sachin was a big bully. He used to pick up fights.

6. Sachin is ambidextrous, he bats with his right hand but signs autograph, plays tennis  with his left hand.

7. Sachin Tendulkar  is the youngest player to play in a Ranji Team at the age of 14 years.

8. Initially, Sachin wanted to be fast bowler but it was rejected by Dennis Lillee at the MRF Pace Academy in Chennai. He asked him to concentrate on batting.

9.Sachin is the first overseas player to play for Yorkshire in the  English County Championship.

10. Once Brad Hogg has dismissed Sachin. After this event, Hogg asked Sachin to sign on the picture of that dismissal. He signed on it and wrote underneath it "This will never happen again, Hoggy". Hogg has never taken his wicket in any of the innings they played together after that. Click here to read more about this.

Bradley Hogg

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CRISTIANO RONALDO

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CRISTIANO RONALDO

1. Ronaldo was born in a poor family. His father José Dinis Aveiro was a municipal gardener and his mother Dolores dos Santos Aveiro was a cook.

2. He was named after the US president Ronald Reagan, who was his father's favourite actor.

3. At the age eight, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha, where his father was the kit man.

4. Ronaldo was expelled from his school at the age of 14 for throwing a chair at his teacher. He said that the teacher disrespected him. After this incident, his mother made him concentrate mainly on football.

5. He does not smoke and drink. He doesn't drink because his father died of alcohol abuse at the age of 54.

6. Unlike other footballers, he doesn't have any tattoos because he is a regular blood donor.

7. He is the highest-paid footballer.He has a grand total earning of $80 Million per year. Of which, 52 Million he earns from salary and the other 28 Million from endorsements. Recently, Real Madrid has awarded Cristiano a 5-year contract worth $206 Million. 

8. Ronaldo's jump is higher than the average NBA basketball player.

9. At the age of 15 he was diagnosed of with a medical condition called racing heart and it was about to stop him from playing football.  He had an operation that used a laser to cauterize the area of his heart that caused the problem.

10. Here is an amazing story about Cristiano Ronaldo:

      Cristiano Ronaldo: "I have to thank my friend Albert Fantrau for my success. We played together for a youth club. When people from Sporting (Lisbon) arrived, they told us that whoever scored more goals would be accepted to their Academy. We won that game 3-0, I scored the first goal, the Albert scored a header, and the third was a goal that impressed everyone. Albert went to one on one with the goalkeeper. I was running next to him, he went round the keeper, all he needed to do was just to get the ball into the empty net. But, he passed it to me and I scored. I was accepted to the Academy. After the match, I approached him and asked him "why" and he answered; "You're better than me". Several years later, the journalist went to Albert's house and asked whether the story was true. It was confirmed. He also said that his career as a football player finished after that match and he is now unemployed. "But where did you get such a gorgeous house, a car? You seemed to be a rich person. You also maintain your family ... .. Where is all this from?." Albert proudly replied: it's from Cristiano.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LIONEL MESSI

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LIONEL MESSI

Lionel Messi

1.Messi is the first person in history who has won four FIFA/Ballons d'Or.Another interesting fact is that he won these four awards consecutively. He is also the first player who won three European Golden Boot awards.

2.Messi is a very shy person which makes others difficult to talk him over the phone.Most of the important messages are informed him as SMS and he uses this SMS for communication as well.

3.Diego Maradona has declared Messi as his successor because of the similarity of their playing style.

4.Messi had tattooed his son's name "Thiago" and handprints on his left calf.

5.Messi was born in a middle-class family, his father Jorge Horácio Messi was a factory steel worker and his mother Celia María Cuccittini was a part-time cleaner.

6.Messi was diagnosed a growth hormone deficiency at the age of 11 and his parents couldn't afford his treatment as it was $900 a month

7.Messi started playing football at the age of 5. Barcelona was very impressed by his skills when he was 13, which made them offer to pay his medical bills and move his family to spain.

8.The National Team of Spain has offered him to play and he has declined it.

9.Messi is the founder of Leo Messi Foundation, which is an organisation that gives children treatment and education facilities. This foundation helps to pay for medical treatment, transportation and recuperation of children having major medical irregularities.

He is also the goodwill ambassador of UNICEF.

10.Messi shares his birthplace with Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HUMAN EYE

TOP 10 FACTS INTERESTING ABOUT HUMAN EYE

1.Images formed on the retina of the human eye is upside down, split in half and distorted.Yeah, it's true our brain inverts the image right-side up.

2.An average person blinks 15-20 times per minute. By blinking, we are lubricating our eyes and it allows us to focus better afterwards.

3.Eye is the fastest muscle in a human body. It contract in less than 1/100th of a second.

4.Our retina cannot detect red colour. Although we have red, green and blue receptors, the red receptor only detects yellow-green and the green receptor detects blue-green. Our brain combines these signals into the red.

5.There is a phobia called Ommatophobia which is the fear of eyes.

6.Albert Einstein's eyes are preserved in a box in New York City. That's weird I wouldn't let anyone do that to me.

7.Human eyes develop two weeks after conception.

8.Only one-sixth of the human eye is visible outside.

9.80% of our memories are built depending on what we see.

10.Cornea doesn't need blood supply. Oxygen and nutrients instead diffuse directly from the tear fluid on the outside and the aqueous humour on the inside, as well as along the nerve fibres that are connected to the cornea. 

The Superman curse

         I always wanted to write something creepy and mysterious stuffs by which I am always fascinated about. So, let me write about Superman curse. I used to watch these animated series of this movie in my childhood. Lately, I came to know about this Superman curse which I found very interesting.

The Superman curse

   The Superman curse refers to a series of misfortunes that happened to the people who have worked in this franchise. I really liked those animated series and seriously I don't believe in this stuff. I like Superman. let's start with people who are said to be victims of this curse. 

Christopher reeve in Superman costume

Actors who are said to be victims of this curse

1.Kirk Alyn

            

Kirk Alyn

           Kirk Alyn played as Superman in 1940s low budget Superman serials. But he couldn't gain success in his career. He became restricted to voice-overs, commercials, and uncredited screen roles. He suffered Alzheimer's's disease and died in 1999 at the age of 88.

2.Bud Collyer

Bud Collyer

               Bud Collyer was a voice actor who gave voice to the first Superman cartoon in 1941. In 1966, he gave voice to The New Adventures of Superman. Three years later, he died of circulatory ailment at his 61.

3.Lee Quigley

 Lee Quigley played as a Superman as a baby in a film. He died of solvent abuse at the age of 14.

4.Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve was the most successful person in this list. He was very famous for his roles as Superman in the four Superman film series. In 1995, he was paralysed from the neck to down from a horse ride. Later, he died of heart failure in 2004.

5.George Reeves

George Reeves

George Reeves acted as Superman in the movie Superman and the Mole Men in 1951 and in the television series Adventures of Superman. In 1959, he was shot dead at his home. It was concluded as a suicide. It is said that his fingerprints were not found on the gun.

6.Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando in The Godfather

Marlon Brando acted as Joe-El in the film Superman: The Movie (1978), famous for his role in The Godfather. Misfortunes followed him also. In 1990, His son shot his half-sister's boyfriend. In 1995, his daughter committed suicide. He died in 2004.

7.Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder played as Lois lane. She suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1996, she disappeared for several days and found in a paranoid state. Kidder refused the idea of this Superman curse.

8.Richard Pryor

Richer Pryor acted as a villain Gus Gorman in Superman 3. In 1986, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In 2005, he died of cardiac arrest at the age of 65.

9.Joe Shuster

Joe Shuster was an artist who sold the rights to DC comics. In 1950, Shuster was losing his eyesight which made him quit his job and worked as a deliveryman.In 1976, he went almost blind and lived in a nursing home.

10.Fleischer brothers

Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer was the producers of Superman cartoons, they started quarreling each other followed by a financial crisis which made them sell the studio. The new owners of the Studio dismissed from the Studio and one of the brothers died of poverty.


   I have written whatever I found relevant about this curse. There are people who are said to be not affected by the curse. Henry Cavill, Brandon Routh, Bob Holiday and Dean Cain are some of them. I don't think Brandon Routh was successful after acting as Superman in Superman Returns. Let's see what happens to Henry Cavill who is the latest Superman "The Man Of Steel".

TOP 10 INTERESTING VIDEO GAME FACTS

TOP 10 INTERESTING VIDEO GAME FACTS

1.PSone was initially planned as a Nintendo console, with Sony set to design its components. But when Nintendo ditched the project Sony made it as its own product. 

PSone

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2.The real name of the game "Megaman" was "Rockman". It was released as Megaman because the word Rock was used to refer cocaine. It would have been nice if it is cocaine man instead.

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3.The best-selling console of all is Playstation 2.

PS2

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4.Super Mario World for SNES took over 29,000 hours to program and sold 17 million copies. Well, that's something.

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5.42% of the total gamers are female, 68% of the total gamers are above 18, Average age of a gamer is 30, 62% of the gamers are adult and 43% of tablet owners spend more time with their tablets than their TVs or PCs. Kids stuff.

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6.Matt Damon refused to appear in the video game "Bourne Conspiracy" because of high violent contents in it. But killing people in movies is alright. whatever?

Matt Damon

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7.The Xbox was initially planned to name as DirectXbox. But later it was changed to Xbox. I appreciate that because it's kind of weird to say that I have a DirectXbox. I would have preferred Playstation.

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8. Final Fantasy got its name as Final Fantasy because it was supposed to be Square's last game. At that time, they were about to bankrupt.

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9.Satoshi Tajiri got the idea of Pokemon after collecting caterpillars and observing them changes into butterflies in his childhood. How did that come?

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10.In Max Payne, Max's face was digitised from the series writer Sam Lake. But in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne they used "Timothy Gibbs".

   

5 INSANE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAKED THEIR OWN DEATH

5 INSANE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAKED THEIR OWN DEATH 

1.Timothy Dexter

Timothy Dexter

    Timothy Dexter(January 22, 1748 – October 26, 1806) was an american businessman, well known for his eccentric behavior. Once he has faked his own death to see people's reaction about it. About 3000 people attended his funeral. After revealing this mock play he caned his wife for not crying for his death. His family life wasn't rather successful,  he used to tell his visitors that  his wife is dead and the woman who appears in the house is a ghost. Another interesting thing about this guy is that he have even wrote book about himself without any formal education. At first, his book was handed over for free and when it became popular it was reprinted and sold eight times.
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5 INSANE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAKED THEIR OWN DEATH

2.Chandra Mohan Sharma

Chandra Mohan Sharma

            Sharma is the terrific person of this list. I really didn't like to include him in this list but felt like I should. He was a  Social activist in India.In April 2014, He faked his death by killing a man with the help of his brother-in-law and burning him in his car. After the creation of this death hoax he fled to Bangalore,India and managed to get a job. On August 2014, He was arrested from Bangalore with his girlfriend.
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5 INSANE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAKED THEIR OWN DEATH

3.Alison Matera

                     Alison Matera is the sweetest among this list. She told in the church that she was dying of cancer and soon her treatment would be starting. She gave them regular updates. later, she informed the pastor that she is dead by pretending as her nurse. The hoax was revealed when she was showed up on her own funeral by claiming as her sister. The reason for this fake death was that she wanted to separate from the church.
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5 INSANE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAKED THEIR OWN DEATH

4.John Stonehouse

 John Thomson Stonehouse was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson. He faked his own death on 20 November 1974. he left a pile of his clothes on Miami beach, it appeared like he was drowned or attacked by a shark. he settled his life in Australia with his mistress. He was arrested from Australia on the Christmas eve of 1974.
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5 INSANE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAKED THEIR OWN DEATH

5.John Darwin

John Darwin

  John Darwin was a teacher,businessman and prison officer. He faked his own death to get his life insurance to pay off his debt. His wife received his life insurance money and they planned to settle in Panama. Five years later, he walked into police station by claiming that he has lost his five year's memory. for more details John Darwin disappearance case

10 Interesting Facts about India

                     

10 Interesting Facts about India

1. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are originated in India.
   
2. Chess was invented in India.
3. India has the 2nd largest population in the world.
4. It is illegal to take Indian currency outside India.
5. Breathing of air of Mumbai is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.
6. Sadly, every hour an Indian woman dies because of dowry.
7. In West Bengal, Indian cows have photo ID card.
8. India has the most expensive home, constructed at the cost of about $1 billion. This is equivalent to the GDP of Somalia.
9. India's road network is long enough to loop around the earth over 117 times.
10. India hosts the world's biggest family. A man with 39 wives and 94 children.