“The Blues Brothers” Set the Record For Car Crashes
John Landis, John Belushi, and Dan Aykroyd spent $30 million for the iconic music film, which was virtually twice the project’s budget. The reason behind the expenditure was the result of the extra cars they bought for $400 each, which they ended up crashing for a scene. In fact, the original movie once held the record for most cars crashed in a film at 103 vehicles, before “Blues Brothers 2000” came out in which 104 cars were wrecked. They also had cameos from VIPs like Cab Calloway and Aretha Franklin, which bumped up the film’s budget.