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CD Projekt Red's in-house Gwent team has been quietly working on another standalone single-player card game, codenamed Project Golden Nekker. The studio has said it's meant to feel like its own thing rather than simply a repeat of the earlier Thronebreaker spin-off.
The script is credited entirely to actor Justin Theroux, who's better known these days for The Leftovers. This remains the only film he's ever written completely on his own, though he did share a co-writing credit on Tropic Thunder alongside Robert Downey Jr.
An early draft had a much darker beat where Thanos opens a portal to reveal he'd already been to the battlefield and tosses the head of the 2012 version of Captain America onto the ground in front of the heroes. Understandably, it never made it past the drawing board.
If you've only seen the theatrical cut, you've never actually seen Denethor in this film, he only appears once the Extended Edition adds his scenes back in.
In Intensive Treatment you can find the old holding area for Killer Croc, security collars and all. One of the lockers nearby has a photo of Croc's hand taped to it, along with a scrawled warning to keep your mitts off. Small detail, but it does a lot to sell how much everyone at Arkham fears the guy.
The whole game came together in just 22 months, with a solid 6 of those spent purely in pre-production before the team even got properly stuck into building levels.
Rourke didn't want Ivan Vanko to just be a snarling one-note bad guy, so he pitched the idea of giving him a pet cockatoo to soften him up a bit. When he had to fly back for reshoots, Jon Favreau even gifted him his own bird, so there are technically two different cockatoos in the finished film if you look closely at the crest markings.
You can spot Captain America's shield sitting in Tony's workshop, and rather than treating it like a sacred relic, Tony just slides it under some coils to level them out on his workbench.
