Bilbo Played Frodo First
Twenty years before he played Bilbo on screen, Ian Holm voiced Frodo Baggins in the BBC's 1981 radio dramatisation of The Lord of the Rings. When the film came knocking, he ended up on the other side of the story entirely.
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The First Instagram TV Premiere
Adult Swim rolled out Rixty Minutes before it actually aired on TV, splitting it into 109 separate 15-second clips posted to Instagram. Nobody had done that before, which technically makes it the very first television episode premiere to happen on Instagram.
The Secret Dance Club
During Never Surrender, if you flip a switch on a far-off platform near the hospital and make your way back to Club Errera, the whole place transforms. Instead of gunfire you get grunts and a Brute DJ spinning 'Siege of Madrigal' like it's the end of the world (which, to be fair, it kind of is). That track's actually a callback to Bungie's old Myth games, so it's been quietly following the studio around for years.
The Biggest Prop Ever Built
The dead oliphaunt used in the film is, on record, the largest movie prop ever constructed. Peter Jackson apparently still thought it wasn't big enough.
More Saucers Hiding in Plain Sight
The Mount Chiliad mural isn't the whole story. Follow its clues far enough and they point to three more UFO sightings scattered across the map: a saucer hovering over a mural painted by hippies at Salvation Mountain, another looming above Fort Zancudo's military base, and a third that's crash-landed out in the Pacific Ocean, each one just as easy to miss as the last.
Gwent's Real-World Inspirations
When the Gwent team needed inspiration, they didn't turn to other fantasy card games. They borrowed ideas from the tabletop games War, Netrunner, and Condottiere to figure out how cards should move and interact on the board.
Mark Ruffalo Played Both Banner and the Hulk
Thanks to how far motion capture had come by 2012, Ruffalo wasn't just voicing the Hulk in cutaways, he actually performed the majority of Hulk's physical movement himself in a mocap suit. It's the first time in a live action film that both sides of Banner were played by the same actor, and you can genuinely see Ruffalo's mannerisms in the big guy if you look closely.
It Was Almost a Live-Action Film
Before it was ever an animated show, Invincible was being developed as a live-action movie back in 2017 through Universal Pictures. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, both massive fans of the comic, were attached as producers, and their company Point Grey Pictures is still part of the production credits on the show today.