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The Marquis Music Store in Bill's Town is stacked with fictional album covers that are clearly winking at real bands - 'Into the Breach' by the Blaggard Boys riffs on AC/DC's 'For Those About to Rock,' while 'Unidentified Objects' by FULLFUNK mirrors Parliament's 'Mothership Connection.' A fun little detour for anyone who actually stops to browse the shelves.
The loading screen for the bonus mission Mile High Club quietly nods to the 1980 comedy Airplane!. Listen closely as it loads and you'll hear one voice ask 'Surely you can't be serious?', followed by the classic reply, 'I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.'
Visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures handled over 170 shots for Season 1, and a lot of that work went into scanning the real, on-set Going Merry through photogrammetry so they could build a matching digital version for wider shots and stunts.
In the shot where Shelob stabs Frodo, the prop stinger actually caught Elijah Wood for real. He's said it was genuinely painful and left him in hospital for a few days afterwards.
John Noble's Denethor wears a sword on his belt for the entire film despite never once drawing it. The props department just gave it to him so he'd feel like part of the club alongside everyone else who actually fought.
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.
Brotherhood was the first entry in the series to let Ezio recruit and train his own roster of assassins, sending them off on missions across Europe. It's a small addition but it's the one that really cemented the idea of Ezio as a leader rather than a lone wolf.
During the theatrical trailer campaign for Halo 2, the usual xbox.com web address quietly swapped to ilovebees.com for a split second. Anyone who typed it in found a site that looked like it had been hijacked by an AI, and over the following months it unspooled an entire alternate reality game explaining how the Covenant actually managed to track Earth down, something the first game never answered.
Walt hurling a pizza onto the roof in frustration looks effortless, and that's because it basically was — Bryan Cranston nailed the throw on the very first try, and the crew reportedly considered it a one-in-a-million shot.
Some fans and critics argued the show's Irene Adler was a step down from Conan Doyle's original, who beats Holmes by simply outsmarting him rather than falling for him. Moffat pushed back on that reading in an interview with The Guardian, pointing out that in the original story Adler's 'victory' was just running off and getting married, which he didn't think counted as much of a feminist win either.
