Trivia / OneShot

The video game

• What Could Have Been: According to a post from Nightmargin, Niko's name was originally "Nico", but was changed to "Niko" in reference to Nikola Tesla and his work on lightbulbs. This ended up working out very well, as the Japanese word for sunlight is 日光, romanized as Nikko.
• Word of God: The various NPCs Niko runs into have names according to Night's tumblr. These actually show up in dialogue in the updated re-release, and some of them were changed:
  • First robot seen - Prophet ^re-release Prophetbot
  • Robot in the boat - Rowbot
  • Redhead in the factory - Silver
  • Alula’s Brother - Calamus
  • Corn mom - Maize
  • Big robots - Guardians
  • Dice head - George
  • Cafe guy - Mel ^re-release Ling

The film:

• Follow the Leader: The director James Nunn had been shopping the film around for six years, but was unable to get it made until the success of films like Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and 1917 convinced executives that it could be successful.
• Sleeper Hit: Ended up on streaming pretty quickly, but was successful enough that a sequel is now shooting.

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