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The whole idea of skipping five years ahead and showing everyone broken and scattered wasn't originally treated as the main plot. It started life as a side concept the writers jokingly called their "What If?" section back when they were first mapping out the two films.
While walking through 1970s London, Loki and Mobius pass a poster for a Bollywood film starring one of Kingo's "family members." It's a sly callback to how Kumail Nanjiani's Eternals character covered up his immortality by pretending to be a long line of relatives who kept replacing each other as actors.
For the infamous 'body in the quarry' reveal, the props team built an eerily accurate fake corpse of young Will Byers. The Duffer Brothers have admitted they took it a step too far when they surprised Noah Schnapp's own mother with it on set, genuinely startling her before she came round and started taking selfies with the thing.
Look closely at the corner of the overworld map while travelling on foot and you'll spot a string of letters and numbers reading L5 AA 23 TK 421. That's not random flavour text, it's a mash-up of Leia's cell number on the Death Star and the stormtrooper ID Luke swipes when he goes undercover in Star Wars. Blink and you'll genuinely miss it.
World at War let two players sit on one console and play the campaign splitscreen, and unlike some later Call of Duty entries, both players earned experience points regardless of whether they were teaming up or going head-to-head in multiplayer.
Then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner was reportedly never sold on this project. He worried the PG-13 rating would scare off Disney's usual family audience and thought teenagers would see a movie based on a theme park ride as embarrassingly uncool. At more than one point during production he was ready to pull the plug entirely.
There's a genuinely funny poster on one of the balconies in Verrückt written in German that translates to 'Unattended children will be immediately sold to the circus.' Bit of dark comic relief hidden in an otherwise pretty grim map.
Nolan wanted Cotillard for Miranda Tate after working with her on Inception, and he stuck with that even when she got pregnant during pre-production. She ended up starting her scenes for Rises only about a month after giving birth, while also shooting Rust and Bone in France around the same time.
Amy Hennig directed the very first Uncharted, with Richard Lemarchand handling the design work alongside her. Between the two of them, they set the template for the pulpy, cinematic tone the whole series would end up chasing for years afterward.
The familiar Eagle Vision got a rebrand and an upgrade for this one. Now called Eagle Sense, it let Ezio lock onto a target and get a rough read on where they were headed next, handy if you wanted to sprint ahead and rig an ambush before your mark ever showed up.
