Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe - Same Person? Quiz

Answer: Elijah Wood

Directed by Robert Rodriguez in 1998, "The Faculty" was expected to be a big teen horror hit in the same vein as "Scream", released shortly before, because it featured a strong cast of teens and horror actors going all-in on an alien body-snatchers story with all the classic tropes. Starring Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Clea DuVall, and Jordana Brewster amongst others, it was modestly well-received but hit theatres on Christmas Day - not the ideal for a horror project.

Elijah Wood starred in this one as Casey Connor, a bullied nerd who teams up with a group of outcasts to fight back against the creatures planning to invade Earth...starting with their teachers and the rest of the student body.

Answer: Elijah Wood

Playing the supporting role of Patrick, Elijah Wood was part of the cast of Michel Gondry/Charlie Kaufman's 2004 drama "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", which starred Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as a couple who elected to end their relationship by erasing their memories of each other, a choice regretted by the former as it was happening.

Patrick was amongst the technicians of Lacuna Inc. who performed the procedure, but he fell for Kate Winslet's Clementine in the process, using mementos from her past relationship in an attempt to win her over in their first dates. Naturally, the truth came out over the course of the process.

Answer: Elijah Wood

Wood reunited with Robert Rodriguez in 2005's "Sin City", an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel series, to play Kevin, a mysterious, mute psychopath who appears in the vignette entitled 'The Hard Goodbye' (which is headed by Mickey Rourke's Marv). Faithful to the source material, Kevin does little more than fight, kill, and stare quietly at characters (or into the camera), acting as an uncanny figure in an otherwise loud, gangster-noir world ripped straight from a comic.

Wood would also cameo in Rodriguez's film "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" while filming "Sin City".

Answer: Elijah Wood

A unique but perhaps less-known thriller, "Grand Piano" starred Wood as a pianist set to perform a complicated piece before an eager audience only to discover two things. First, the piano contained a complex lock that would open to reveal a safety deposit key. Second, the person that wanted their hands on it would be communicating with him, aiming a sniper at him from elsewhere in the building. If he missed a single note, he would be killed.

"Grand Piano" was written by Damien Chazelle, known for "Whiplash" and "La La Land", but it was directed by Spanish filmmaker Eugenio Mira. John Cusack also starred.

Answer: Elijah Wood

Heading into 2014, Wood started working both in front of and behind the camera, contributing to new movie releases both as a lead actor and a producer, and that started with the Leigh Whannell-written zombie movie "Cooties", which had Wood playing the role of a school teacher in the midst of an outbreak brought on by tainted chicken nuggets. What follows is the spread of feral children (as the infection does not cross over to adults) and the survivors' attempts to make it out alive.

Elijah Wood would continue his producing streak - without acting - with horror and subversive movies like "The Boy" (2015), "The Greasy Strangler" (2016), and the Panos Cosmatos film "Mandy" (2018).

Answer: Daniel Radcliffe

Based on the book of the same name by Joe Hill (son of writer Stephen King), "Horns" follows Ig Parrish, a man who wakes up to find that a pair of horns is growing from his head. The plot thickens when it appears that these horns give him powers, and it would stand to reason that they are not to be used for good.

"Horns" was one of a handful of films Radcliffe took on in the first couple years after the "Harry Potter" movies were done. Featuring him in a more mature horror role (along with "The Woman in Black", which released a year earlier), it allowed Radcliffe to flex new muscles in terms of acting range and help break the typecasting put upon him by eight movies in the Wizarding World. It was directed by French filmmaker Alexandre Aja, who had previously done "High Tension" and "Mirrors".

Answer: Daniel Radcliffe

Taking another 'weird guy' role in 2015, Radcliffe played Igor in "Victor Frankenstein", a stylized retelling of the classic "Frankenstein" story penned by Max Landis and directed by "Wicker Park"'s Paul McGuigan. Famously, Igor was never a character in the original Mary Shelley story, but instead introduced in films based on the work throughout the twentieth century. This version is told from Igor's point of view with James McAvoy in the Victor Frankenstein role.

"Victor Frankenstein" was quite poorly-received critically and failed to make its money back at the box office.

Answer: Daniel Radcliffe

An A24-distributed film brought to life by the directors who would, later, win big with "Everything Everywhere All at Once", "Swiss Army Man" was another instance in which Radcliffe went weird instead of dramatic, an indication that he was more interested in more 'out-there' roles. In this one, Radcliffe starred alongside Paul Dano, and the two of them were marooned on a desert island. The catch was that Paul Dano's character was alive and Daniel Radcliffe's was a bloated corpse.

"Swiss Army Man" premiered at Sundance in 2015 and was modestly successful and well-received, inevitably becoming a cult classic for its outlandishness and comedic elements.

Answer: Daniel Radcliffe

Ever wonder what it's like to have guns bolted to your hands? Radcliffe played Miles Harris in "Guns Akimbo" and put himself into that exact situation, forced to use his newly-bestowed weapons in a deadly game of life-and-death, broadcast to the world via underground live-streaming websites.

Though "Guns Akimbo" failed to make much money upon its release in 2020 due primarily to the COVID-19 lockdown, it was modestly well-received. Debuting in the Midnight Madness category at the Toronto International Film Festival the year before, it gained enough traction, at least as a gonzo action movie, to catch peoples' attention on on-demand platforms.

Answer: Daniel Radcliffe

Entirely true-to-life as an autobiographical film (unless you remember this is Weird Al we're talking about), "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" featured Radcliffe as Al Yankovic himself, tracking his life and career through highs and lows (including the creation of many of his food-based songs, the releases of his colossally-famous albums, his wild relationship with Madonna, and his encounters with Pablo Escobar).

Radcliffe was highly-praised by critics for the role in the movie as, while he looks nothing like Yankovic, part of the brief was to be outlandish and far enough removed from reality to cross the line into severe parody. As "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" was filmed towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, it released on the Roku Channel instead of in cinemas in 2022.