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Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford, who played on-screen frenemies Chuck and Nate, shared a two-bedroom flat in Chelsea while filming. They first bonded at an Arctic Monkeys gig, and by most accounts Crawford eventually moved out because Westwick was too messy to live with.
The main story quest on Mob of the Dead, called Pop Goes the Weasel, is built around the characters' escape attempt, and completing it lets players actually end the game and walk away alive rather than eventually getting overwhelmed by the horde. At the time, it was the first instance in zombies history where survival, not death, was the built-in ending.
Cavill wasn't just cast, he campaigned for it. He'd been a huge fan of the books and games long before Netflix got involved, and once he heard a show was in the works he kept pushing his agents to get him a meeting. Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich actually tested over 200 other actors for Geralt before she gave in and let him read.
Tsunagu Hakamada's hero name Best Jeanist is a pun lifted from a real denim enthusiast award, which lines up nicely with a Quirk that lets him manipulate fibers. Even his surname contains the kanji for hakama, a piece of traditional Japanese clothing.
GTA V's development cost is estimated at around $265 million, with a further $128-150 million spent on marketing, bringing the total to roughly $400 million. At the time of its 2013 launch, that made it the single most expensive entertainment product ever produced.
A rogue private server called Nostalrius pulled in over 150,000 active players running an unofficial version of vanilla WoW before Blizzard shut it down and got hit with a genuinely furious backlash, including a petition that raced past 280,000 signatures. Rather than let the demand fade, Blizzard eventually built its own official version, and WoW Classic launched to massive queues in August 2019.
Before he ever picked up Drake's holsters, Nolan North had already lent his voice to Naughty Dog, playing the mad scientist N. Gin across several Crash Bandicoot games. So when he walked in to audition for Uncharted, he wasn't exactly a stranger to the studio.
Viktor Reznov is voiced by Gary Oldman, and according to GamesRadar's rundown of the game's cast, he's just one part of a genuinely stacked lineup that also included Ed Harris as Hudson and Ice Cube as Bowman. Oldman's other credits stretch from JFK to Christopher Nolan's Batman films, which makes his gravelly Soviet soldier feel almost understated by comparison.
The scene where Loki forces a crowd to kneel in Germany wasn't shot anywhere near Stuttgart. It was filmed at Tower City Complex on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, dressed up to look European for the day.
Before either film had a proper screenplay, the writing team had already compiled roughly 60 pages of concepts and possibilities for how the two-part finale could play out. A lot of that never made the cut, but it shows how much was thrown at the wall.
