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The original plan for Series One was six standard hour-long episodes. After the pilot was shot in that format, the BBC decided to turn it into more of a TV event and asked for three feature-length 90-minute films instead. Moffat's actually credited that change as one of the reasons the show survived as long as it did, since fitting six episodes around Cumberbatch and Freeman's schedules would've been brutal.
Not content with just calling the shots, Favreau stepped back in front of the camera again as Happy Hogan, Tony's driver turned head of security, a role he'd keep returning to in later MCU films.
Leonida's animal population is genuinely huge, with alligators, boars, dogs, snakes, flamingos, dolphins and even sharks confirmed. Spot or study them in the wild or at the zoo and they get logged to a checklist, a system that feels lifted almost straight out of Red Dead Redemption 2.
For years fans insisted the September 11 attacks forced a big last-minute overhaul of GTA III before its October 2001 release. Rockstar has consistently said that's overblown and no major gameplay changes actually happened as a result.
The in-game book 'Kolb and the Dragon' functions as a playable choose-your-own-adventure story within Skyrim itself, letting the reader pick different paths through the narrative rather than simply reading static text like the game's other books.
Directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic were best known beforehand for Teen Titans Go!, a show that took plenty of liberties with its source material and wasn't always loved by comic fans. This time round, they've said they deliberately went the opposite way, aiming for a genuinely faithful, cinematic take on Mario instead.
In its first week alone, the game sold through more than 2.7 million copies worldwide across disc and digital, making it the fastest-selling first-party PS4 title released up to that point.
The East Empire Company, a recurring monopolistic trading operation in the series since Morrowind's Bloodmoon expansion, is a deliberate stand-in for the real-world East India Company. Its Skyrim warehouse even hides various in-game drugs, echoing the East India Company's real history of smuggling.
Hidden inside Ysgramor's Tomb, only accessible during a Companions questline, sits a helmet modeled after Darth Vader's iconic mask, one of two direct Star Wars references built into Skyrim.
