Aragorn Wasn't Always Aragorn
Viggo Mortensen only joined the production after filming had already started, stepping in for actor Stuart Townsend just a handful of days into the shoot. He hadn't even read the books before signing on.
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Launched the Same Day as GTA2's PS2 Port
GTA III hit shelves on the exact same release date as the PlayStation 2 port of GTA2, two years after the original came out. Odd bit of scheduling that meant old and new GTA were sitting on shelves side by side.
The Cast Rehearsed Together Like a Film Shoot
Unlike the first game, which was shot in a fairly rough open shed setup, Among Thieves had the whole cast rehearsing and performing scenes together on a proper soundstage with three or four mocap cameras running, letting the actors improvise off each other the way they would on an actual movie set.
The Mobile Spinoff Told Its Own Story
Alongside the console and PC release, Gameloft put out a completely separate Assassin's Creed: Revelations for mobile phones, done up as a 2D side-scroller. It quietly drops Sofia Sartor, Suleiman and Yusuf's death from the story entirely, and even gives Ezio two goes on Leonardo's flying machine, something the main game never lets you do.
Hayashi Composed the Whole Score Solo
On plenty of his other shows, like Haikyu!!, Yuki Hayashi split composing duties with fellow musician Asami Tachibana. For MHA he went it alone, cranking out 34 tracks for the first season and another 46 for the second entirely by himself.
Why Captain America Skips the Shawarma
Watch the post credits scene closely and Chris Evans is the only Avenger not eating, and he's clearly holding his hand up against his jaw the whole time. That's because he'd already started filming Snowpiercer and refused to shave his beard, so the makeup team stuck him in a wig and a prosthetic chin and hoped nobody noticed the awkward hand placement covering the seams.
Game of Thrones Easter Eggs Everywhere
Witcher 3 has more than one nod to Game of Thrones scattered through Skellige and Novigrad. A secondary quest even borrows its title, A Feast for Crows, straight from George R. R. Martin's fourth book in the series.
Seven Years In The Making
Fallout 4's first piece of concept art was made in 2009, about a week after Fallout 3's final DLC wrapped up, meaning the game had already been quietly cooking for roughly seven years by the time it launched in 2015. Lead artist Istvan Pely stuck with the Fallout concept work rather than moving onto Skyrim with the rest of the team.
Alas, Poor Orc
When an Orc dies during the Tournament of Ten Bloods, Boethia sighs 'Alas, poor Orc. This was not your finest hour.' It's a straightforward pun on Hamlet's graveyard speech, 'Alas, poor Yorick,' dropped in without any fanfare for anyone who happened to study the play in school.