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- Joel Stice
- Rip Torn’s wrench-throwing is not to be underestimated. The prop wrenches that Rip Torn hurled at Justin Long’s head were made of rubber, but that didn’t stop one from cutting open Long’s eyebrow.
- The DVD’s commentary is a joke. It’s customary for many DVDs to have commentary with the director, screenwriters and cast — in fact, it’s where most of these obscure facts originate from — Dodgeball’s commentary is one of the more entertaining ones out there and basically involves Vince Vaughn and writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber drinking beer and ragging on Ben Stiller for being late.
- Hollywood was doubtful of a movie about a misfit dodgeball team. Dodgeball was Rawson Marshall Thurber’s first feature-length screenplay and most of the major studios weren’t interested in the idea.
- Nobody enjoyed the dodgeball scenes. Before filming began the cast had a one month dodgeball refresher course, at which point they all remembered how much they hated dodgeball.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is a 2004 sports comedy film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, and Rip Torn. The film follows a group of unlikely misfits who enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in the hopes of winning $50,000 to save their cherished local gym from being ...
- Writer Rawson Marshall Thurber wrote the screenplay with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Justin Long specifically in mind for the roles of Peter, White and Justin, respectively.
- While most of the wrenches in the iconic wrench-throwing sequence were made of rubber, one of them was actually real. Long was injured when it hit him in the eyebrow.
- The filming process was hard on the equipment as well as the actors. Stiller reportedly broke three different cameras filming a single scene.
- Patton Oswalt provided voiceover work for the film, dubbing over Ben Stiller in one particularly risque scene and voicing the video store clerk at the beginning of the film.
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story: Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. With Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn. A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.
- Rawson Marshall Thurber
- 35 sec
Jun 18, 2024 · Twenty years ago today, a first-time director and a mostly green group of actors led by Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller introduced the world to the five Ds of dodgeball. In the process, they...
- Jake Kring-Schreifels
Aug 20, 2004 · The title for Ben Stiller's latest comedy has proved apt, with DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story being the States' sleeper hit of the summer. He stars alongside wife Christine Taylor and...
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A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain. White Goodman ( Ben Stiller ) is the owner and founder of Globo Gym, and would love nothing more than owning Average Joe's Gymnasium.
