Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Originally, New World reportedly planned to re-write the dialogue in order to turn the film into a tongue-in-cheek comedy ( à la What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Originally Weiss made Jorgensen several offers to appear in the film, but these were turned down.

Originally, Curry rehearsed the character with a German accent and peroxide blond hair, but the character evolved into the sly, very upper class English mad scientist and transvestite that carried over to the film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and made Curry both a star and a cult figure.

Originally, the film was based more around and in Kansas City, Missouri.

Originally, Ephron wanted to call the film How They Met and went through several different titles.

Originally, James L. Brooks was interested in directing the film according to actress Leslie Mann who auditioned for a role but was not cast.

Originally named " UP Movietone ", in view of a partnership with the Movietone News service of 20th Century Fox, it went through several partnerships and name changes and was known as United Press International Television News or simply as UPITN, a name which also credited UPI's film and video service partner at the time, Britain's ITN television news service.

Originally appearing on Channel 4's The 11 O ' Clock Show, as the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show in 2000 and on HBO in 2003 – 2004, he is also the title character of the film Ali G Indahouse.

Originally RIPs were a rack of electronic hardware which received the page description via some interface ( e. g. RS232 ) and generated a " hardware bitmap output " which was used to enable or disable each pixel on a real-time output device such as an optical film scanner.

Originally an idea suggested by producer Irwin Yablans ( titled The Babysitter Murders ), who envisioned a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker, Carpenter took the idea and another suggestion from Yablans that it take place during Halloween and developed a story.

Originally he was Grandmama's son, but this was retconned in the 1991 film, and he became Grandmama's son-in-law instead.

According to Edward R. Pressman, producer of the film, " Originally, there was no one individual who Gekko was modeled on ", he adds, " But Gekko was partly Milken ".

Originally, the film was to end as Taymor's 1994 production had, with the implication that Lucius is going to kill Aaron's baby, but during production of the film, actor Angus Macfadyen, who played Lucius, convinced Taymor that Lucius was an honourable man and wouldn't go back on his word.

Originally scheduled to be premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Janet Leigh, Walter Murch and Rick Schmidlin attending, the screening was canceled in the eleventh-hour after threats of litigation from Welles ' daughter, Beatrice Welles, who has in the past issued similar threats against some parties who try to show or alter her father's work ( such as the Touch of Evil restoration or the completion of Welles ' last film The Other Side of the Wind ).

Originally, Paramount Pictures distributed the film worldwide.

Originally, photographs were taken using colour negative film.

Originally Lean considered filming in Mexico, but later decided to film in London and Madrid, partly to secure O ' Toole, who had insisted he would take part only if the film was shot close to home.

Originally known as Dippy Dawg, the character is more commonly known simply as " Goofy ," a name used in his short film series.

Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr.

Originally, there were plans to film the series there, on location.

Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.

Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

Originally it was only available during a few months of the year, but it is now grown in greenhouses and is available year-round.

Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at forty perches ( 660 ft ) long and four perches ( 66 ft ) wide ; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day.

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

Originally it was designed as a successor to PCI type connections.

Originally it was headerless, being simply 8-bit µ-law-encoded data at an 8000 Hz sample rate.

Originally, the B ( wireline ) side license was usually owned by the local phone company, and the A ( non-wireline ) license was given to wireless telephone providers.

' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the ' thing ' was the illness, but I decided to make it the ' thing ' as in the person standing in front of me.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

Originally Gaussian frequency-shift keying ( GFSK ) modulation was the only modulation scheme available ; subsequently, since the introduction of Bluetooth 2. 0 + EDR, π / 4-DQPSK and 8DPSK modulation may also be used between compatible devices.

Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.

Originally only Radiotext was available.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

Originally, costume or fashion jewelry was made of inexpensive simulated gemstones, such as rhinestones or lucite, set in pewter, silver, nickel or brass.

Originally money was a form of receipt, representing grain stored in temple granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia, then Ancient Egypt.

Originally called Dominion Day (), the name was changed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.

Originally called the Pioneer Mill, it was built by John R. Yale.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.