DID YOU KNOW?
The 1986 film Stand By Me re-introduced a young generation to Ben E. King's "Stand By Me". The songs inclusion on the film's soundtrack is just one of many tidbits.- "Stand By Me" reappeared on the charts 25 years after its original release
- Actors who auditioned for Stranger Things were asked to read lines from the movie Stand By Me
- Stand By Me was based on Stephen King's "The Body"
- Stunt doubles from the iconic steam train scene featured four girls running across the railroad trestle (I have never been able to walk across a train trestle without the fear this movie put into my head)
- The train line no longer gets used except by the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad for sightseers
- The film was based in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon
- Rob Reiner, who directed the movie, later named his television production company Castle Rock Entertainment
- Castle Rock's first TV venture was a little show about nothing called Seinfeld