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Long before he was barking orders in the SAS, Billy Murray, the voice behind Captain Price in the original trilogy, spent years playing Don Beech on The Bill and later Johnny Allen on EastEnders. He stuck with the role of Price all the way through the first three games.
Getting Taweret into the show properly took some stubbornness from showrunner Jeremy Slater, who has said he spent a full week staring at a poster of the goddess in the writers' room before he was fully convinced she needed a proper role and a whole underworld episode built around her.
The trio of massive robots stomping around the Origins map aren't just nameless set pieces, they're called Freya, Odin, and Thor, and each one can crush zombies or knock down players unlucky enough to be standing under a descending foot. Getting caught in the wrong spot when one steps down is one of the map's more brutal running hazards.
When Varrock got its 2007 graphical overhaul, every green-and-yellow flag in the city was meant to be swapped for the new colour scheme. They missed exactly one, tucked away in a far corner, and eighteen years later it's still sitting there completely unchanged.
Nolan screened Ridley Scott's Blade Runner for his crew before production started, then reportedly turned around afterward and said something like 'this is how we're going to make Batman.' He's talked about how much he admired the way that film built a lived-in world without ever spelling out its edges.
Bale did plenty of his own stunts and fight choreography, but he flatly refused to get behind the wheel for the Batmobile chase sequences. That job went to stunt driver George Cottle, who reportedly went through four separate Batmobiles over the course of filming.
This was actually the first Naughty Dog project built with a dedicated facial capture setup, separate from full-body motion capture, a shift that helped push the studio's cinematics closer to photorealism than anything they'd made before.
One of the multiplayer trophies/achievements in GTA IV is literally called 'Assassin's Greed,' which is obviously just a wordplay dig at Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed. Rockstar loves naming achievements after other media, and this one's about as on-the-nose as it gets.
Comedy actor Thomas Lennon shows up as a doctor in Rises, and it's a nice little callback since he also played a doctor way back in Nolan's breakout film Memento. Blink and you might miss the connection between his two very different Nolan roles.
The Shire needed to look properly lived-in on camera, so the Hobbiton set near Matamata, New Zealand was actually built a full year before filming started, giving the gardens and hedges time to grow in naturally.
