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22 Aug

Ryan Reynolds Has a Point: Wesley Snipes’ Blade Would Be Great in the MCU

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The whispers and, if you’ll pardon the pun, sniping around Marvel Studios’ long-gestating Blade reboot have reached a level of farce with MCU fans. As someone who was actually in Hall H when two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali walked on stage to don a hat emblazoned with the famous vampire hunter’s name, I can attest excitement for the project was electric in 2019. However, after more than five years of false starts, emerging and exiting director hires, and plenty of rewrites, the movie still seems no closer to fruition. It was in fact only a few months ago that THR reported…
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22 Aug

Salem’s Lot Director Kept a Key Part of the Stephen King Book In the Movie

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Fifty years after his debut novel Carrie, Stephen King remains a major name in horror. So when writer/director Gary Dauberman signed on to adapt King’s second novel Salem’s Lot, he made sure to stay faithful to the source. And that fidelity. included keeping the movie in the same decade as the 1975 book. Turns out, that wasn’t much of a challenge. “Most of my stuff is set in the ’70s,” Dauberman told Vanity Fair. “I love the music. I do love the costumes. I just love the vibe of it.” Salem’s Lot tells the story of writer Ben Mears (Lewis…
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22 Aug

The Movies That Defined Generation X

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Gen X are a funny lot. Generally acknowledged to be made up of folks born between 1965 and 1980. This means Gen Xers were teenagers between the ’80s and the late ’90s. Crucially this also means it’s a generation that grew up without any meaningful internet and no mobile phones, who were used to relying on cinema trips to watch trailers, Blockbuster Video for our weekend viewing and highlighting the TV guide at Christmas. Streaming services, of course, did not exist so movies we watched at the cinema, recorded off the telly and even potentially owned on VHS (if you…
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22 Aug

Mad Max: Fury Road Would Have Radically Different Ending with Mel Gibson

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The Immortan, the man who every War Pup and wretch in the Citadel was raised to worship, is dead. Less a warlord than a god among insects prior to this moment, Hugh Keays-Byrne’s villain ruled the Citadel with an iron fist. Yet when instead of Joe’s hulking figure, it is the silhouettes of Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) and the Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) who emerge from his car, screams of delight rush through the throngs of unwashed masses. The king is dead. Long live the queen. Maybe. It would seem Furiosa will at least have an opportunity to rule as…
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21 Aug

We Finally Know What George Miller’s Martian Manhunter Would’ve Looked Like in Justice League Mortal

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Finally, the Martian Manhunter has revealed himself. A founding member of DC‘s Justice League of America, the shape-shifting Martian J’onn J’onzz was slated to appear in one of the most infamous canceled movie projects, the Justice League film almost directed by Mad Max creator George Miller. Miller’s Justice League: Mortal would have featured the “Big Seven” most associated with the Justice League, including the Martian Manhunter. And to play the Manhunter, Miller turned to one of his favorite collaborators, Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the first Mad Max film and would later go on to play Immortan Joe in…
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21 Aug

From Alien to Star Wars: The Problem with Bringing Back Dead Actors

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This article contains Alien: Romulus and The Flash spoilers. The reviews are in, and some fans are already holding Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus up as the best xenomorph feature since Ridley Scott’s 1979 original and James Cameron’s Aliens from 1986. It feels like a new era of the Alienverse is ready to burst forward from Hollywood’s chest. But while there’s plenty of praise for Alvarez’s back-to-basics approach, which tries to capture the pulse-pounding horror of Scott’s Alien, it’s not quite a perfect outing. As well as some criticizing the suitably batshit ending that echoes Alien Resurrection’s bewildering finale, it’s the…
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21 Aug

The Den of Geek Weekly Quiz! Movie Spaceships

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Which of these characters has NOT appeared as a captain of the USS Enterprise in the cinematically released Star Trek movies?Captain GarrettCaptain PicardCaptain HarrimanCaptain PikeHan Solo claims the Millennium Falcon can do the Kessel Run in under how many parsecs?1491219In Pandorum (2009), crewmembers awaken from cryosleep to find their colony ship is…At the bottom of an oceanMarooned in deep spaceIn hellA simulationIn Wall-E (2008) the survivors of humanity live aboard a vast space cruise ship called The Axiom. What is an axiom?A statement accepted without questionSomething from a different timeA model of perfectionA typical example of somethingIn the movie Starship…
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21 Aug

The Mad Max Video Game That Fills in Furiosa and Fury Road’s Gaps

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It is safe to say we will likely never watch Mad Max: The Wasteland, the long teased semi-sequel/prequel set between the events of the original Mad Max trilogy, which starred Mel Gibson, and Mad Max: Fury Road, the one that saw actor Tom Hardy step into the Aussie’s shoes. Like the movie that became this summer’s criminally overlooked Furiosa, The Wasteland was developed by franchise maestro George Miller and Nico Lathouris, the latter of whom is a dramaturge Miller originally brought in to develop an emotional authenticity and depth to Mad Max: Fury Road’s screenplay. Instead their exploration of the…
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20 Aug

Avengers: Doomsday Needs to Do Right by Shang-Chi

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“Welcome to the circus,” Bruce Banner told Simu Liu’s Shaun, aka Shang-Chi, at the end of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. At the time, the comment seemed to bring the Master of Kung fu into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then, however, the MCU has turned out to be an even bigger circus than Shaun or audiences expected… and not everyone is getting to share the spotlight. According to the entertainment website Inverse, who is drawing from anonymous and unconfirmed sources, the role of Shang-Chi in the upcoming Avengers movies has been as in flux as…
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20 Aug

Joker 2 Musical Sequences Will Not Be the Only Departures from the Original

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A quick perusal of social media shows some fans are still processing the idea that Joker: Folie à Deux, a sequel to Todd Phillips’ billion-dollar-grossing favorite of edgelords everywhere, is going to be a musical. The marketing is being a little coy about it, too, with only snippets of Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck humming a few bars of Burt Bacharach to himself, or Lady Gaga’s Harleen Quinzel playfully quoting Judy Garland’s “Get Happy.” But yes: Joker 2 is expected to be a full-throated, song-in-its-heart, toe-tapper. That departure from the first film is one of the most curious and appealing things…
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20 Aug

The Mad Max and Furiosa Movies Ranked

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There are many standards by which we can measure the influence of the Mad Max franchise. The series consists of five excellent movies, all made by Australian filmmaker George Miller and a host of co-creators. The series launched the career of Mel Gibson who, until his hate-mongering came to light, was one of the most engaging movie stars of the 1980s and ‘90s. And it defined the idea of the post-apocalypse so much that revved-up machinery and bondage gear has become the de facto look of the end of the world. At their center, though, the Mad Max movies are…
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20 Aug

The Mandalorian Movie Is Leaving Behind a Major Star Wars Mandoverse Character

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It’s been a year since Din Djarin and his young bounty hunting apprentice Grogu settled down on Nevarro to enjoy some much needed rest and relaxation. But we know that vacation won’t last forever. The upcoming Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu, will see the duo back in action, and they’ll be taking on the Empire once again, as revealed in a trailer shown exclusively to fans attending D23 earlier this month. Not only will they face off against the usual stormtroopers but their adventure will even take them to an ice planet populated by AT-ATs that may or…
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19 Aug

Alien: Romulus – How That Cameo Just Changed the Meaning of the Whole Series

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This post contains major spoilers for Alien: Romulus. It all comes down to Ash—or whatever he is called these days. If the duplicitous android/science officer aboard hadn’t overridden Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) security protocols and allowed the infected Kane (John Hurt) aboard the Nostromo in the original Alien, none of this would have ever happened. So it makes a certain amount of sense that Ash, one of the Alien franchise’s most insidious monsters, would return in Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a movie the director co-wrote with Rodo Sayagues. After all, the new film is determined to tie the whole franchise together,…
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19 Aug

Alien: Romulus Confirms Alien: Isolation Game Is Canon, Making Timeline More Sinister

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This article contains spoilers for both Alien: Romulus and Alien: Isolation. It’s a green, blinking box. Yet every time it appeared in the background of Alien: Romulus, a cold chill went down the spines of possibly millions of viewers, including this writer. That’s because if you ever played Alien: Isolation, Creative Assembly’s relentless survival horror game from 2014, those proverbial telephone boxes are the stuff of nightmares and lingering trauma. Appearing in more than one scene during Fede Alvarez’s love letter to the larger Alien franchise, these “registration points,” or emergency telephone booths, are littered throughout the Renaissance Space Station…
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19 Aug

Michael Keaton Gets Very Real About Playing Batman in the Canceled Batgirl Movie

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You wanna get nuts? Then ask Michael Keaton a question about a controversial topic, and he’ll get nuts. That’s what GQ discovered when they profiled Keaton in advance of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The magazine asked Keaton to weigh in on Batgirl, for which he returned as Batman. Even though the movie was almost finished, Warner Bros. decided to shelve it, electing for a tax break instead of completing and releasing the movie. The move outraged anyone who wants a long-running studio like Warner Bros to continue putting out movies. But not Keaton. “I didn’t care one way or another,” Keaton admitted…
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19 Aug

The Best Star Trek Books Ever Written

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Star Trek has always been about boldly going, so it’s no surprise the franchise quickly moved beyond television sets. Even before the series jumped to the big screen, Star Trek expanded into the world of paperbacks, first with novelizations of Original Series and Animated Series episodes and then with original stories created for the page. Starting with 1970’s Spock Must Die! by James Blish, the novels gave fans a chance to check in on the continuing missions of their favorite crews and characters. As of this writing, over 850 novels have made it to print, encompassing not only every series…
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17 Aug

Furiosa: The History Man Is the Most Important Character in the Mad Max Mythos

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The most important person in the Mad Max movies is not, in fact, Max Rockatansky. Nor is it Imperator Furiosa. It isn’t even one of the villains, be they Immortan Joe or Lord Humungus. No, the most important person is the tattooed old man seen in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Played by George Shevtsov, he is known simply to his flock and overlords as the History Man, one of many elderly people in the Mad Max universe tasked with keeping records of times past. When someone like Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) calls for a “wordburger,” it’s the job of the…
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17 Aug

Alien Movies Ranked (Including Romulus!)

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In space no one can hear you scream. Or at least that is what some rather ingenious 20th Century Fox marketers pushed back in 1979. Yet we did hear the people scream, and gasp, and panic as the facehugger’s tendrils tightened around John Hurt’s throat in movie houses across the world. And in the near half-century that followed, those screams continue to echo in our ears. Hence this weekend’s anticipated return of the xenomorph in Alien: Romulus, a movie which star Cailee Spaeny previously described to us as walking a careful line between the understated dread of the ’79 classic…
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17 Aug

Alien: Romulus Makes the Xenomorph Life Cycle Even Scarier with New Step and Metaphor

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This post contains massive Alien: Romulus spoilers. “I’m not going to go after the women in the audience. I’m going to attack the men. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make the men in the audience cross their legs.” So declared Alien screenwriter Dan O’Bannon in the 2002 documentary The Alien Saga, and no one can say he failed. The most famous moment in Alien involved Kane (John Hurt) giving violent birth after a facehugger forced itself inside him. Although later contributors would leave aside the male focus, pregnancy metaphors continued to drive…
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17 Aug

Alien: Romulus’ Biggest, Grossest, and Strangest Easter Eggs from the Other Movies

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This article contains spoilers aplenty for Alien: Romulus and the whole franchise. “I admire its purity,” a robot says during an infamous scene in Alien. Ian Holm’s synthetic science officer is of course referring to the “organism” (or “xenomorph” as Aliens later defines it). However, this line of dialogue has gone on to be cherished by science fiction fans all over the world as a metaphor for the original, sleek, and mysterious 1979 movie that started it all. It would seem director Fede Alvarez and his Alien: Romulus co-writer Rodo Sayagues would agree. Their new seventh entry in the mainline…
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