Trivia: The actor playing new IMF agent "India Zulu 254" is Alex James-Phelps - possibly a deliberate casting choice given a main character in the series and original film is called Jim Phelps.
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30th Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
30th Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
Trivia: After a delay caused by positive covid tests, Tom Cruise personally paid half a million pounds for a cruise ship for the cast and crew to isolate themselves on during filming.
30th Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
Trivia: Final budget was $291m, in large part due to the delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, making it one of the most expensive films of all time. Filming was scheduled to start in February 2020 with a planned release date of July 23, 2021. Filming eventually started on September 6, 2020 and wrapped in September 2021 - the film was released in July 2023.
22nd Jul 2023
Oppenheimer (2023)
Factual error: After the successful Trinity test in 1945, people in a crowd are holding small US flags with 50 stars on them (offset rows). At the time there were only 48 states and the flag had 48 stars in even rows. The 50 star flag didn't exist until 1960, after Alaska and Hawaii were made states in 1959.
8th Jun 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
Factual error: Kris is playing the original Gameboy and says he can't beat Bowser. No Mario game released before 1994 for the original Gameboy featured Bowser as a boss.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Trivia: There are two credit sequences - one shows a new Guardians line-up: Rocket, Groot, Cosmo, Kraglin, Adam Warlock and Phyla, one of the rescued children. The other shows Peter having breakfast with his grandfather.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Trivia: Quill keeps correcting people that "it's not a trap, it's a face off". After defeating the High Evolutionary they do actually take his face off.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Trivia: Groot's line at the end "I love you guys" was confirmed by James Gunn not to be Groot speaking English, but just to show that we the audience have become close enough to him to have learned to understand his language, as Gamora has too.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Trivia: Administrator Kwol, who gets shot in the leg, is played by Jennifer Holland, who is married to James Gunn.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Trivia: Lylla is voiced by Linda Cardellini, who also plays Hawkeye's wife.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Trivia: Nathan Fillion's third and most significant appearance in a Guardians of the Galaxy film. He voiced a CGI character in the original, and was meant to appear in posters in the background of the sequel, but those scenes didn't make the cut.
14th May 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
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."
21st Feb 2023
Loki (2021)
Question: He Who Remains talks about reincarnation, and says "see you soon" to Sylvie. Does he literally mean this version of himself will return? If so how, given he's, y'know, dead? Or does he just mean that another version of him will encounter Sylvie in due course, either his younger self or another variant?
Answer: No he doesn't mean this version of himself, he means the other versions. They are all basically him.
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.
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Suggested correction: While this is correct, an argument can be made that since the colour scenes are meant to be subjective and the black and white scenes are meant to be objective, Oppenheimer could have been unintentionally mapping the modern US flag onto this scene.
THGhost
That's a ridiculous stretch with zero evidence, not least as 48 star flags are seen in colour in other scenes. Sometimes a mistake is simply a mistake.
There is evidence, though. Nolan said so himself. Look it up. As for the mistake itself, I'm merely repeating what I've read on Twitter, and this correction was merely a suggestion. Seeing the 48 star flags in other colour scenes still doesn't disprove this theory. It is just a theory though, so no need to shoot it down so hard.
THGhost
He's said subjective in terms of the colour scenes being "first person", and maybe not strictly factual in terms of creating moments between characters and conveying emotion, but nowhere does that stretch to "one random scene happens to feature 50 star flags because Oppenheimer is mapping the modern flag onto it, when nothing like that happens anywhere else in the film."
Meh, take it up with Twitter. I just thought it was interesting, so I posted it here for a different point of view/perspective for others to read. It is most likely bull**** though.
THGhost
The fact that a director realized they had made a mistake and retroactively made up a deus ex machina explanation for it in no way invalidates the mistake. Nice try, Mr. Nolan but this posting is absolutely valid.
While Christopher Nolan's talked about the subjective/objective colour/black and white thing, which is entirely fair and no doubt exactly his intention, I don't think he's actually tried to "excuse" this by using that explanation, that's just other people trying to connect the two things. I'm not sure Nolan has commented on the flag issue in interviews at all.
Precisely, and I was in no way trying to invalidate the original mistake. I just found the whole theory interesting and posted it here. It is rather hilarious that a director with such attention to detail like Nolan would have missed something like this. We shall see if he gets it fixed for the streaming/physical release.
THGhost
It's not fixed in the home video version. However, the behind-the-scenes materials provide a reason for the mistake, in that putting a crowd in the scene was apparently a spur-of-the-moment decision. It's like that in their haste to bring in the crowd, the set decorators bought some modern miniature flags and put them into the scene without anyone realizing the 48/50 discrepancy.
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