Russell Crowe Movie Makes use of Dragon Age Icon For Spanish Inquisition

I haven’t seen The Pope’s Exorcist, the horror film starring Gladiator and Lovely Thoughts actor Russell Crowe out in theaters proper now, but it surely sounds just like the movie is fairly middling, and that Crowe can’t elevate the poor tackle supernatural demons within the Catholic church. Frankly, I hadn’t heard of it earlier than in the present day, and the rationale I lastly did is definitely fairly hysterical. See, the movie, which by the way is billed as being “impressed by the precise recordsdata” of the Vatican’s chief exorcist, sees Crowe’s character studying some chilling issues a few founding father of the Spanish Inquisition. And in response to individuals who have seen the movie, it makes use of artwork from Dragon Age: Inquisition when referring to the real-world, Spanish one.

The Inquisition in BioWare’s fantasy sequence is the faction the participant instructions within the 2014 RPG, and it has a logo it makes use of to characterize the group all through. It exhibits an eye fixed with a sword behind it, which is a reference to 2 in-universe constellations referred to as Visus and Judex. You see the sigil on armor units, flags, and different props all through Dragon Age: Inquisition. On prime of exhibiting up within the sport and on merchandise, it additionally exhibits up in case you search “Inquisition image” on Google, and it looks like that’s what the Pope’s Exorcist crew did for a scene within the movie, as a result of they use the Dragon Age iconography in a scene the place it’s speaking concerning the Tribunal of the Holy Workplace of the Inquisition, the real-world non secular establishment that was liable for centuries of violence towards non-Catholics from the 1400s to the 1800s in Spain.

I chortle by way of the ache as a result of it seems like we received’t get Dragon Age: Dreadwolf anytime quickly, since writer EA’s earnings report earlier this week stated the sport wouldn’t be out in 2023. It’s been nearly a decade since Dragon Age: Inquisition launched in 2014, so followers have been ready an extended whereas to see the conclusion to the Solas storyline launched on the finish of that sport’s Trespasser DLC. Although the sequence has had some indicators of life by way of tasks like Netflix’s anime sequence Dragon Age: Absolution, now the latest factor I’ve seen of Dragon Age has been in a spiritual horror film slapping its iconography right into a scene with out a second thought. Dorian Pavus, I miss you. Name me.