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Showrunner Matt Owens pitched turning a single throwaway manga mention into a full scene, Zoro's backstory duel with a Baroque Works agent called Mr. 7. Oda reportedly turned to his own staff and asked if he'd actually written that, since he had no memory of it and had never even drawn the character.
The character Black Belle borrows from two very different real-life figures at once, Belle Starr, the outlaw known as the 'Bandit Queen', and Annie Oakley, the famous sharpshooter. Rockstar seems to have blended traits from both into the one fictional character.
Small detail, but a telling one: this is the only mainline Uncharted game where the classic Nate's Theme doesn't play over the main menu at all, a quiet signal of just how much changed behind the scenes for this entry.
Alongside animated spinoff plans, there have been reports of a separate live-action League of Legends TV project, with location scouting reportedly taking place in Vietnam's Cát Bà Archipelago for a planned nine-episode series. It's a completely different production from the Arcane team's animated follow-up.
Real hobbits are meant to stand around 3'6", so Weta had to fake that constantly. Every hobbit actor had a scale double of that exact height, and depending on the shot, you might be looking at the double's whole body with the actor's face digitally added on top.
Among the confirmed landmarks players will be able to walk into are a full zoo, a working Vice City Metro Station, a massive airport, a football stadium, and a large military base, on top of the malls, hotels, nightclubs and pawn shops already shown off in trailers.
Every time someone starts a round of Pyramid Plunder, the game randomly assigns which tomb door is 'correct' for everyone on that world. Players eventually figured out that if you cram a huge crowd onto one world and get everyone spam-clicking a single door, you basically guarantee someone gets the right one almost instantly.
Before Annie became the tiny fire-wielding girl with a bear, she took cues from Lina Inverse, the explosive teenage sorceress from the anime Slayers. Riot originally planned for Annie to be a teenager too, but they eventually settled on a younger child instead, and looking at her now it's hard to imagine her any other way.
Eiichiro Oda reportedly reviewed Iñaki Godoy's Zoom audition tape personally, and told the actor later that the moment he saw it he started laughing because Godoy looked exactly like the Luffy he'd drawn, and he couldn't picture anyone else in the role.
Nami's first outfit in the live-action isn't a fresh design, it's based on one of Oda's earliest concepts for the character, back when he'd toyed with the idea of her being a cyborg who fought with a battle-axe.
