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The score wasn't just synths and samples, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra was brought in to actually perform it, giving the Constantinople soundtrack a weight that pure digital instrumentation wouldn't have managed on its own.
Deep in Oasis, at the northern edge of the map, you'll find Harold, a ghoul who has literally become one with a tree, now known as Bob. Harold first appeared as a mutated ghoul in the original two Fallout games, and his transformation into a sentient tree is one of the series' longest-running character arcs.
The Nathan Drake originally on the drawing board was pictured as a guy in his twenties, which is part of why his voice was pitched a bit higher and his build a lot leaner than the Drake players actually got in the finished game.
'Hope for the Future' was originally part of a larger orchestral suite McCartney composed for Destiny called 'Music of the Spheres.' Bungie shelved the full suite during development, and it wasn't released to the public until 2018, bundled with vinyl preorders of a Destiny soundtrack collection.
At the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, Uncharted 2 pulled in a then-record eight nominations and walked away with three wins voted for entirely by fans, including the big one, Game of the Year.
Sam Neill was born in Northern Ireland but grew up in New Zealand, so nailing a convincing 1920s Irish accent for Inspector Campbell didn't come naturally. He leaned on fellow actors James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson to help him get it right, only for the accent to later be dialled back so the show would land better with American audiences.
Writer Joshua Safran has said that his original top picks for the person behind Gossip Girl weren't Dan at all, they were Serena's brother Eric van der Woodsen or her on-off love interest Nate Archibald. Safran left the show before the final season aired, so the reveal that eventually landed wasn't the one he'd been building toward.
The film got the full fast-food tie-in treatment, with McDonald's releasing a set of eight Happy Meal toys based on it, plus another set a couple of years later blending in elements from the theme park ride too.
Before it was ever a TV show, Gossip Girl was being kicked around as a one-off feature film, and the name attached to play Blair Waldorf at one point was Lindsay Lohan. Wild to picture now given how synonymous Leighton Meester became with the role.
Creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage had just wrapped up their run on The O.C. and wanted to bring what they'd learned to a New York setting. That itch to do something bigger and glossier in Manhattan is basically where Gossip Girl was born.
