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• The sound of the unicorns at play is actually a recording of humpback whales.
  
  
• The voice of Gump (David Bennent) was re-dubbed by Alice Playten (Blix). For the German version, the voice of Blix (Playton) was dubbed by Bennent (Gump), who also voiced himself.
  
  
• Filming stopped when the "007" soundstage burned to the ground. The remainder of the film was shot on hastily constructed sets.
  
  
• Composer Jerry Goldsmith's original score was removed by the studio after the first round of test screenings. In an effort to appeal to "the kids", executives commissioned Tangerine Dream to create a replacement. Until 2002, Goldsmith's original score was heard only with the film's European release.
  
  
• The "icicles" in the treasure cavern were made out of several hundred pounds of paraffin wax.
  
  
• When it came time to assemble the full director's cut, the original session masters for the Jerry Goldsmith score could not be located. However, Mike Ross-Trevor of Hit Factory Studios in London had kept a two-track digital copy, mixed down from eight-track session masters, which he knew "would be worth preserving." Most of these tapes contained complete takes, which had to be re-edited from scratch to match the cues in the recut print.
  
  
• Ridley Scott drew most of his inspiration for "Legend" from the 1946 version of La belle et la bête (1946), as well as such Disney animated classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Fantasia (1940) and Bambi (1942).
  
  
• The face of goblin Blix (played by Alice Playten) was designed after that of Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. According to Playten, she thought up the idea, which was supported by director Ridley Scott. He then had Rob Bottin (special make-up effects) implement the concept.
  
  
• Ridley Scott admits that comments made by some pot-smoking attendees at a screening got the director second-guessing himself, and influenced him to cut the film from 150 minutes to 98.
  
  
• Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. and Jim Carrey were all considered for the role of Jack.
  
  
• Mia Sara was only 15 during the filming of Legend. Sara was actually born in 1967, so she was 15 in 1982, which is when production for the film began. But it took a further three years before Legend was finally completed by Ridley Scott because of the film's immensely troubled production history.
  
  
• The production was filmed on the Pinewood Studio sound stage that had been originally created for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
  
  
• Working title was originally "Legend of Darkness."
  
  
• Ridley Scott was inspired to cast 'Tim Curry' as Darkness after seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He had also considered casting Richard O'Brien as Meg Mucklebones.
  
  
• The famous scene in which Princess Lily is taken to see and touches the Unicorns by Jack, was actually filmed within the gardens of Pinewood Studos as at the time of filming, the vast Forest set had been destroyed by a fire. This information was stated by Ridley Scott himself on the Director's Commentary on the Ultimate Edition DVD.
  
  
• When the character of Jack dives off the rock in the Forest, it is Ridley Scott's daughter Jordan who is playing Princess Lily, and a stuntman playing Jack. This was done to make the rock look larger than what it was, the added close-ups of Mia Sara were added in during editing.
  
  

• SPOILER: The director's cut reveals an alternative ending where Jack remains in the forest and Lily goes home alone with plans to see him again soon.
  
  

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