The bizarre story of the beloved 90s sinbad genie movie. Legend of the seven seas is a fine piece of animation, gloriously drawn, fluently animated, and well told, it was a depressing realization to its company dreamworks and the entire animated empire in hollywood. The mandela effect the actor sinbad in the movie shazam. The strange case of the sinbad genie movie that doesnt. In the latest case of collective misremembering, the actors role in aladdin has gained comparisons to a character in a film that never existed. The movie that doesnt exist and the redditors who think it does. Whenever i would see sinbad anywhere in the media i would recall him playing a genie, she says. While this movie does not actually exist, social media users circulated an image in an attempt to fool people into believing that this movie was real. In the movie titled shazaam sinbad played a genie who befriended a child. Shaquille oneal who played a genie in the movie kazaam the actor hosted an afternoon of sinbad movies on tnt. Such variables in this case most likely consist of a similarly titled movie called kazaam starring shaquille oneal who played a genie and was released in the 1990s, and memories of the actor sinbad dressed up like a genie when presenting an afternoon of sinbad the sailor movies which often featured a genie back in the 1990s. Theres so much proof its insane people can deny it.
If you were young in the 1990s, you might remember a childrens movie starring actor and comedian sinbad. According to epicjourneyman, the elusive sinbad genie movie has the kind of plot youd expect for a pgrated romp led by a popular comic actor. There is a 1996 childrens comedy film called kazaam, featuring baseball star shaquille oneal as a wishgranting. A movie called shazaam, starring the comedian sinbad as a genie. People have now resorted to calling out sinbad on social media for an explanation of what happened to the shazam movie. Even without the nonexistent genie movie, sinbad played a crucial role in your childhood.
There was a movie called legend of the seven seas with a character named sinbad the sailor and a hannah barbera cartoon called shazzan about the adventures of a genie and the two children a teenaged boy and girl who released him. Will smiths genie in aladdin revived the sinbad genie movie debate. In the latest case of collective misremembering, the actor s role in aladdin has gained comparisons to a character in a. The film stars will smith, mena massoud, naomi scott, marwan kenzari, navid negahban.
Sinbad is wearing a genie outfit consisting of a golden turban, golden pointy shoes, vest, big hoop earring and puffy pants. Fans say they vividly remember watching a sinbad genie movie dating back to the early 90s but finding tangible proof the shazam movie ever existed is impossible. I have never seen a movie with a real person playing a genie. Directed by guy ritchie, from a script he cowrote with john august, it is a liveaction adaptation of disneys 1992 animated film of the same name, which itself is based on the eponymous tale from one thousand and one nights. But even the word shazaam, makes me think of the actor sinbad in this genie costume. Sinbads shazaam is one of the most popular examples of the mandela effect. There are peopleon redditandtwitterattempting to find a movie call. There was, of course, a 1996 movie called kazaam in which shaquille oneal plays a genie. Footage of that sinbad shazam movie has finally been. This is only true on the time travel hypothesis, and only when the fact in question is not allowed to obtain at all. It also doesnt help the fact that i remember the bernstein bears, and not berenstain bears, when i was a. Great cast, great villain, great script and just the right balance of absolutely fantastic ray harryhausen special effects without being excessive or absurd as in the ridiculous and completely unbelievable baboon who appears to star in the deeply inferior sinbad and the eye of the tiger, 1977.
Juran and starring kerwin mathews, torin thatcher, kathryn grant, richard eyer, and alec mango. Sinbad never made a genie movie called shazaam, but that. Shazam shazaam with sinbad was real and here is all the. And im not mixing anything up with kazaam and shaq.
Transcript for comedian sinbad says hes open to playing a genie even if the movie. The seventh voyage of sinbad is one of my all time favourite movies. The shazam movie mandela effect has taken the internet community by storm. There never was a movie called shazaam, nor has sinbad ever played a genie. In early december, the new statesman published an investigation into a bizarre online community of redditors who all remember some in very vivid detail a movie from the early 90sin which. No you dont lolpeople claim to have seen a mysterious movie that never existedthis is one of the strangest internet stories you will likely ever read. Sinbad always dressed with incredibly bad fashion sense that kind of portrayed him as genie like or the ever adventurous sinbad the sailor. I dream of jeannie was the only realpersonplayingagenie that i was aware of, up to this point.
The 1990s movie shazaam starred comedian sinbad as a genie. People remember residual effects differently but how can you prove something you remember if its not existing here is proof. A popular internet theory holds that actor david adkins, better known as the comedian sinbad, played a genie in a popular childrens movie released sometime in the 1990s called shazaam. It was a typical childrens movie, with lessons learned and a happily ever after. Since i compare the word sinbad, it also makes me think of genies.
Will smiths genie in aladdin revived the sinbad genie. Comedian sinbad says hes open to playing a genie even if. I thought apparently incorrectly that sinbad did the voice for a genietype cartoon character. The brave sailor sinbad and his loyal servant habeeb find themselves aboard the ship of captain aziz, a trip for which sinbad had spent all of his fathers fortune. The movies characters are a brother and sister with a father who doesnt give them enough attention. A popular internet theory holds that actor david adkins, better known as the comedian sinbad, played a genie in a popular childrens movie. The strange case of the sinbad genie movie that doesnt exist even if people insist they saw it.
That last one has been a frequent point of contention on places like reddit, where people have loudly argued that the prolific standup and actor was in a nonexistent movie called shazaam in the early 90s. In february 2007, actor mark curry credited sinbad and bill cosby for helping convince him not to commit suicide. Hundreds of people claim to remember a classic 90s movie starring comedian sinbad as a wishgranting genie but the problem is, that movie never actually existed. But to actually see sinbad in a genie outfit and even apply a movie title to it, shazam. Sinbad was born in benton harbor, michigan to two parents, louise and the baptist rev. Even though the movie is based in brooklyn, while max is talking with his dad in the car, you see a bus with red and orange stripes roll by. Sinbad has his arms crossed and his eyebrow raised.
It was suggested that the actor charles shaughnessy may have been cast as the dad in the missing sinbad genie movie this actor joined the cast of the tv series the nanny in 1993 and has a british accent, so is unlikely to be the actor it would seem. The cover says sinbad is bigger letters than shazam. This was not the original movie, the boy actor was different, he didnt. Aladdin is a 2019 american musical fantasy film produced by walt disney pictures. People insist that it was sinbad specifically who played the genie, and it you didnt even know who sinbad was, then you dont share the exact memory. Images of the voice actors who play the voice of genie in sinbad. David adkins born november 10, 1956, better known by his stage name sinbad is an. Despite rumors that comedian actor sinbad the stage name of david adkins died in march 2007, the 50yearold entertainer is alive and. If you remember shazaam, the movie that doesnt exist. Millions of people remember him making a genie movie in the early 1990s but it never. The mandela effect becomes reality with this scene from sinbads. Oddly enough, thats exactly what many people claim he did in the 90s and can even remember the movie, the posters for it and the clothes he wore. There has been many explanations to why people seem to remember the american standup comedian starring as a genie in a 1990s movie going by the name shazaam.
Inside the internets conspiracy theory about a nonexistent movie the imaginary film stars sinbad as a genie who grants wishes to two children. It has got many people debating the existence of a movie that others claim even the actor himself never existed. Superheroes, genies, the leftist agenda, and the mandela. Whether sinbad was ever in a movie where he played a genie. Sinbads film roles also include first kid, which he starred in, and jingle all the. Did sinbad play a genie in the 1990s movie shazaam. Sinbad to make genie movie everyone thinks he made already. The fact that sinbad never made a genie movie has gone viral on the internet as part of the mandela effect. Sinbad stopped fighting shazam because of the xfiles indiewire. Donald beckley adkins and was then known as david adkins. It was distributed by columbia pictures and produced by charles h. Shaq is a great athlete not so much a great actor or comedian.
I still cant believe disney made the actor playing aladdin wear a shirt under his vest in a movie set. Sinbad created a fake version of that 90s genie movie. That 90s kids comedy where the comedian sinbad played a genie in modernday. I first noticed the movie was missing around 2003 when hearing. The comedian on how hed react if someone found proof that the 1990s genie movie was real, and not just an example of the mandela effect. Have we crossed over from an alternate reality in which. The movie was released on dvd in 2003, packaged together with the three musketeers 1992 and the count of monte cristo 1997.
The cover movie poster of the 1995 movie houseguest has his head coming out of a mailbox on the left hand side which to some, might subconsciously be remembered as a genie coming out of a bottle. A new piece of information came to my attention last night thanks to a message from ucts432. I remember our family renting the movie from blockbuster in early 1995, just months after seeing aliens for breakfast which also had the main character played by the comedian sinbad. Have we crossed over from an alternate reality in which sinbad played a genie in a bad 90s movie. In february 2007, actor mark curry credited sinbad and bill cosby for. The man starred in 90s classics like jingle all the. Sinbad biography, age, wife, movies, shazam, comedy, genie. Looks like the sinbad genie from the shazam movie that existed but never really existed. He is primarily known as an actor and somewhat a writer and proved his. What the plot of the 90s sinbad movie that doesnt exist. I distinctly remember there was this vhs tape at the local video store for the movie shazaam. Sinbad plays a genie in shazaam alternate memories. How to cope with the fact that your favorite 90s sinbad.
Additionally, other shows and movies at the time could further muddle peoples memories. Sinbad did not play a genie in shazaam sinbad the stage name of the comedian david adkins certainly looks like hed fit well in the part of a genie. The 7th voyage of sinbad is a 1958 technicolor heroic fantasy adventure film directed by nathan h. Sinbad and the vizier of marabia, followed by evil magician koura, seek the three golden tablets that can gain them access to the ancient temple of the oracle of all knowledge. Subject at hand, they mention the belief that a genie movie starring sinbad named shazaam never existed, and everyone who remembers it is crazy and stupid, and what they mean to recollect is a movie starring shaq called kazaam. You cannot be both unaware of sinbad the actor comedian and have a memory of a nonexistent movie in which sinbad played a genie. Theres a sinbad shazam movie that a bunch of people claim theyve seen, even though no evidence of its existence had been found. In both the collapsed worldlines and in the simulation hypotheses, it would be allowed that residue of the remembered worldline exists.
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