Trivia: The first MCU movie to feature the word "fuck", when Quill tells Nebula to "open the fucking door", a line that was improvised on-set and kept in because it was so funny. James Gunn anticipated being told to cut it out, but Kevin Feige left it up to Gunn's discretion. Feige said the Russo brothers had a "fuck" in an early cut of Avengers: Endgame, but they "didn't want that to be their legacy, so if you want that to be your legacy, then sure." James Gunn said that just made him even more keen to keep the line in, at which Feige "laughed his ass off."
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14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
21st Feb 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Trivia: The tiny pizza being embiggened by Hank is a deliberate nod by Peyton Reed to Back to the Future Part II, where a similar thing happens. Reed directed some behind the scenes footage for that film very early in his career.
31st Jan 2023
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Trivia: This was filmed back to back with the as-yet-untitled Avatar 3. But filming didn't start until the scripts were written for 2 further sequels, so the actors would know the paths that their characters were on. James Cameron allocated the scripts to different writers after months of meetings and storyboarding. He didn't tell the writers which script they'd be working on until the end, because he knew "they'd tune out every time we were talking about the other movie."
31st Jan 2023
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Trivia: Kate Winslet performed all her underwater stunts herself, in the process holding her breath underwater for 7 minutes and 15 seconds, breaking Tom Cruise's record, set while filming Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
31st Jan 2023
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
31st Jan 2023
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Trivia: The first film Colin Farrell's pet donkey "Jenny" has appeared in, making her a "diva", according to Farrell. Her real name is also Jenny - the name was kept to help her react to commands. She kicked Colin Farrell at one point when he was trying to feed her.
31st Jan 2023
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
Trivia: The jumpers worn by the cast were all knitted by hand by one woman for the film, Delia Barry.
16th Nov 2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Trivia: Winston Duke's line "you bald-headed demon" was improvised.
16th Nov 2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Trivia: Despite playing the ruler of an underwater kingdom, Tenoch Huerta didn't actually know how to swim before taking the role.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: The contract in the film stating no film can be made of The Mousetrap until 6 months after the theatrical run ends is actually true in real life as well, albeit only referring to English language versions. To date there have been Bengali and Russian films made of the play. The Mousetrap has been running near-continuously since it began, except for a break during the pandemic of just over a year.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: The storyboards shown for the proposed "action" finale of the Mousetrap film mirror the actual finale of this film.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: The "Rillington Place" murders referenced were real crimes, committed coincidentally by a man called John Christie. Sir Richard Attenborough played him in a 1971 film.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: Leo Köpernick's name was deliberately chosen to reference two British slang terms relating to police/crime: "Copper", meaning a police officer, and "nick", meaning to arrest someone.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: Sam Rockwell took inspiration from Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau for his portrayal of Inspector Stoppard, albeit with Peter Sellers' natural accent and more competent.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: This film was originally in development in 2016 with Hugh Grant and Keira Knightley starring, but put on hold after Disney bought 20th Century Fox.
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: Sheila says of the director "He was a real hound, Inspector". The Inspector's name is Stoppard, named for writer Tom Stoppard, who wrote "The Real Inspector Hound".
4th Nov 2022
See How They Run (2022)
Trivia: The hotel concierge is from Belgium but mistakenly thought to be from France, just like Poirot, another Agatha Christie creation.
14th Oct 2022
She-Hulk (2022)
Trivia: The receptionist who gets She-Hulk to sign an NDA is played by Matt Wilkie, who at the time was actually a receptionist at Marvel's studios. He was promoted before the episode aired, and showrunner Jessica Gao almost wished he hadn't been, saying "it ruins my dream, which was that somebody would watch the show and then have a meeting at Marvel Studios and then go to that actual lobby, see Matt Wilkie and sign the NDA".
26th Aug 2022
Boston Legal (2004)
Trivia: Alan tells Denny that he'll outlive them all, and will still be out there "doing Priceline commercials". William Shatner did commercials for Priceline for many years.
13th Jul 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Trivia: The actors in the play depicting the events of Thor: Ragnarok are Matt Damon (Loki), Luke Hemsworth (Thor) and Sam Neill (Odin), reprising their parts from that film. They're joined this time by Melissa McCarthy playing Hela.
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