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By its second week, Arcane was outpacing both Stranger Things and The Mandalorian as the most in-demand digital streaming series in America, according to audience analytics firm Parrot Analytics, with total demand for the show growing well over 600% in just a couple of weeks.
That same fan, Kevin Cordasco, got asked by Vince Gilligan what he wanted to see in the ending. His answer was more closure on Gretchen and Elliott, Walt's old business partners — and sure enough, they got extra screen time in the final stretch of episodes.
Watch an enemy soldier carrying a tac-light weapon and the beam is right there. Pick that same gun up yourself, though, and the light disappears instantly. It's not a bug so much as a shortcut, the light is actually attached to the enemy character model rather than the weapon itself.
Graham McTavish, reprising his role as Charlie Cutter, and Alan Tudyk had already filmed scenes for the earlier version of the game before Amy Hennig's departure. Once their contracts were voided along with the change in direction, neither character made it into the final release.
Ride near the train tracks in northern Lemoyne around 3am and your horse might start acting spooked for no obvious reason. Stick around and a ghostly train comes barrelling down the line before fading away. It's never explained in-game, but a fair few players reckon it's a wink towards the phantom train boss fight from Final Fantasy VI.
Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin and Billy Boyd all got the Elvish word for 'nine' tattooed on themselves during the shoot, in the same script but different spots on their bodies. John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli, was the one holdout.
GTA V's development team swelled to more than 1,000 people at its peak, with production spanning over five years and some staff reportedly logging over 100-hour work weeks to hit the game's original release window.
Doing Gollum's raspy voice for every single line, take after take, wrecked Andy Serkis's throat, so the crew mixed him up a drink of honey, lemon and ginger in water that everyone started calling Gollum juice to keep his voice going.
When Robert Redford came back for his brief cameo, he apparently told the crew on set that this was going to be his last piece of on-camera acting before stepping away from the profession altogether.
