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Early plans had the Flying Dutchman crewed by literal ghosts, but director Gore Verbinski wasn't keen on that idea. Instead they went with living, barnacle-encrusted crewmen, brought to life using motion capture suits on real actors.
Getting the Kraken's tentacles to move convincingly was a nightmare for the animators. The solution came from an unlikely place: the animation director had his team study the octopus fight scene from the 1962 classic King Kong vs. Godzilla for inspiration.
Kuldra, the Dragon Queen you're working toward all game, picks up a much darker title by the time the story wraps up: in the Scorned Wilderness finale, she's referred to as 'the God Eater'.
Part of the production headed out to the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan for filming, which happens to be the exact same stretch of desert Oscar Isaac had already shot scenes in for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Andrew Scott's Moriarty was originally only meant to pop up briefly as Molly's boyfriend 'Jim from IT' in The Great Game. The writers were so impressed by him that they hurried to write in the swimming pool confrontation at the end of the episode, and that tense exchange between him and Sherlock was actually lifted straight from Scott's original audition script.
Marvel actually had to go back to the MPAA three times to lock in a PG-13. The sticking point was Coulson's death - the first cut had Loki's staff bursting clean through his chest, which was way too gory. Whedon dialled it right back to just a stab sound effect and Thor's reaction selling the horror of it, and honestly it hits harder for being left to your imagination.
Despite the critical and streaming success, reports emerged that Arcane's budget made it a genuine financial headache internally for Riot Games, reportedly contributing to the company scaling back its wider TV and film ambitions afterward, even as it kept commitments to the Noxus, Ionia and Demacia project alive.
Line up a sniper rifle on the moon and take a shot, and it'll actually change size on screen. Nobody outside Rockstar really knew why this was in there for years, until an ex-developer finally explained it on Twitter.
Down on Ashran's Stormshield hub is an NPC named Zaalendor, who strikes three signature modelling poses, Azure Steel, Le Talbuk, and Magnuum, direct nods to Derek Zoolander's Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum.
Watch Brucie work out during one of his cutscenes and you can spot Chinese character tattoos covering his torso. On his chest is the character for 'I,' but the ones on his back translate to 'transsexual.' Given how much time Brucie spends bragging about his own masculinity, it's hard to believe this one was an accident.
