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Most three-kill streaks in Black Ops just give you information, like a Spy Plane. The RC-XD breaks that pattern completely, handing you a remote-controlled car packed with explosives that you drive straight into enemies before blowing it up. It's the only reward at that low a killstreak tier that lets you rack up an actual kill with your own hands rather than just intel.
Pattinson's screen test for the role happened in May 2019 while he was mid-rehearsal for Tenet in LA. He told Nolan he had a family emergency to slip away, and Nolan immediately clocked what was actually going on and called him out on it.
Before they became one of New Reno's most ruthless drug cartels, the Mordinos were two freed slaves scraping together a living by farming peyote cacti and selling it to tourists as 'the Reno experience.' It's a surprisingly humble origin story for a family that ends up controlling most of the city's drug and prostitution trade.
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.
When Katie Holmes decided not to return for the sequel, the studio considered Sarah Michelle Gellar, Isla Fisher, Emily Blunt and Rachel McAdams before Maggie Gyllenhaal ended up taking over the role of Rachel Dawes.
Wayne Baker, the technician and consultant who helped run the IMAX cameras on set, sneaks in a brief cameo of his own. It's the only shot in the entire film that's a genuine close-up captured in the IMAX format, a nice bit of behind-the-scenes recognition tucked into the finished movie.
The animatronic Treebeard puppet was 14 feet tall, and getting Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan up into its hands took so long that during breaks they'd just stay perched up there rather than climb down and back up again.
Before it was ever an FPS, Halo was pitched as a real-time strategy title for the Mac, and it was actually shown off on stage by Steve Jobs at Macworld Expo back in 1999. Microsoft bought Bungie not long after and the whole project got rebuilt from the ground up as an Xbox launch title.
Years before Destiny released, an advertising billboard reading 'Destiny Awaits' appeared in Bungie's Halo 3: ODST, complete with an image of Earth and what looks like the Traveler hovering above it, an early, subtle tease of the studio's next project.
Geoffrey Rush has said he didn't need to do much soul-searching to find Barbossa's character — the moment he put the hat on, the arrogance and theatrical flourish just came naturally. He's joked the feather alone told him everything about the man's ego.
