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04 Feb

The New Sci-Fi Dracula Western Could Unearth Themes Buried in Bram Stoker’s Novel

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Dracula has risen from his grave again. The news is hardly surprising since the most adapted character in cinema getting yet another movie is as inevitable as death and neck bites. However, the new Dracula project developing at Universal Pictures is of special intrigue given who is making it and why. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Chloé Zhao, fresh off receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, has signed on to adapt Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel… as a sci-fi Western set in the future. “I’ve always been fascinated by vampires and the concept of the Other…

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03 Feb

WandaVision: What Big Marvel Cameos Could Happen?

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This article contains spoilers for WandaVision and the broader MCU. During a recent interview, WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen teased that we’re about to see a Mandalorian-level cameo happen in the Marvel series. Without fully spoiling the cameo she was referencing, it was a fan favorite from the Star Wars franchise who emerged in Mando’s Season 2 finale. WandaVision featuring some notable guest stars hasn’t been a massive secret up until now, and a report that arrived way, way ahead of the premiere suggested that Evan Peters was about to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though it wasn’t known if the…

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25 Jan

Harry Potter: What an HBO Max TV Series Could Be About

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The only real magic left in this world is intellectual property and its nigh supernatural ability to print money. With media conglomerates prioritizing their streaming services, beloved IPs have never been more valuable in garnering interest, sign-ups, and subscriptions for streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max. WarnerMedia, the owner of the lattermost streaming service, also holds the rights to the Harry Potter IP, and of course they want to conjure up ideas to bring the world of The Boy Who Lived to television. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a Harry Potter live-action TV series is in early development…

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16 Jan

WandaVision: How a Bottle of Wine Could be the Key to the Entire Marvel Series

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This article contains WandaVision episode 1 spoilers, and potential spoilers for the rest of the series. With superhero movies – Marvel movies especially – what we know from the comics adds a bit to the experience. It lets us know what to look for and what to expect. Sometimes, the movie uses that against us. Sometimes you get something like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where comic fans knew the Bucky twist the second the movie was announced. Other times you get something like Logan, where the source material had you prepared for Wolverine being responsible for the X-Men being…

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05 Jan

Why The Elder Scrolls 6 Could Take Place in Hammerfell

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The long wait for The Elder Scrolls 6 (and confirmation of its console exclusivity) was recently broken up by this tweet from the Elder Scrolls team which many fans believe is somehow related to the upcoming sequel: Transcribe the past and map the future. 📖Here's to a Happy New Year!🕯 pic.twitter.com/bL44CzLDIE— The Elder Scrolls (@ElderScrolls) December 31, 2020 The meaning of that tweet is very much open to interpretation, but the placement of the lights, the wording of the text, and, admittedly, a few leaps in logic have led many fans to believe that the Hammerfell region featured at the…

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18 Dec

Why The Book of Boba Fett Could Be The Mandalorian Season 3

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian season 2 closed in exciting fashion with “The Rescue,” an episode that brings Mando and all of his friends face to face with the formidable Imperial forces of Moff Gideon. But after blasting through stormtroopers, only just avoiding a platoon of angry dark troopers (with the help of a very special guest), and capturing Gideon, the crew complete their mission to save Grogu. By the end of the episode, it seems clear that the group’s next objective is to take back Mandalore. But that might not be where The Mandalorian…

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17 Dec

How The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale Could Give Us the Ezra Bridger Moment We’ve Been Waiting For

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian season 2 finale is poised to be the series’ biggest episode yet. Mando and the cruel Moff Gideon are set up for a rematch, and this time, the stakes are higher than ever before, with little Grogu’s life hanging in the balance. Fortunately, Mando won’t be taking on the Empire on his own. He’ll have help from Boba Fett, Fennec Shand, and Cara Dune, but is that enough? Gideon not only commands a brigade of stormtroopers but also has the fearsome dark troopers at his disposal as well as the…

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12 Dec

How Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Could Reboot the Classic Legends Stories

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In the mid-1990s, the coolest, most hardcore Star Wars thing you could get into was the nitty-gritty world of Rogue Squadron. From the X-Wing novels by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston to the ongoing Rogue Squadron comics published by Dark Horse Comics to the iconic 1996 video game for the Nintendo 64, the Rogue Squadron storyline explored a corner of the Star Wars universe only teased in the Original Trilogy. Focusing on an elite squadron of Rebel (and later New Republic) starfighter pilots, the X-Wing and Rogue Squadron stories were not only like Top Gun in space but also…

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11 Dec

Doctor Doom Could be Mystery Villain in Loki Series

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Has Marvel already solved one of its major Fantastic Four reboot movie problems with the upcoming Disney+ Loki series? The evidence is compelling for sure, as a first trailer for the MCU spinoff is haunted by a cloaked figure in various ominous shots, and some are speculating that this will turn out to be none other than Reed Richards’ archenemy, Doctor Doom. The introduction of Latverian supervillain Victor von Doom does actually make a lot of sense at this point. Despite being a beloved and often despicable character in Marvel Comics, Doom hasn’t quite hit right in previous Fantastic Four…

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11 Dec

Jon Watts Directing Marvel’s Fantastic Four Movie Could Mean a Spider-Man Appearance

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Now that Marvel Studios has officially confirmed that a new Fantastic Four movie is in development — which will mark the proper introduction of Marvel’s First Family into its Cinematic Universe — here’s where we start speculating about whether Spider-Man might end up crawling up the walls of the famous Baxter Building. After all, Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige revealed at Disney’s bursting-at-the-seams-with-news investor’s conference on Thursday (December 10) that Jon Watts will direct the Fantastic Four movie. Yes, the same Jon Watts who helmed Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far from Home for Sony and Marvel, and who is currently…

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11 Dec

How Star Wars: The Acolyte Could Explore the Sith We Never Saw in the Movies

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Leslye Headland’s long-rumored Star Wars series finally has a title. Revealed during Disney’s Investors Day presentation in December, The Acolyte is “a mystery-thriller that will take the audience into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.” That synopsis doesn’t give us much, but does tease a darker show than what we’re used to from Star Wars. It could be one of the most creative, too. Since it probably takes place decades before the start of the film saga, features new characters, and explores the dark side of Force,…

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10 Dec

Jurassic World: Dominion Could Open the Door for More Jurassic Park Movies

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While the movie industry continues to be roiled by the coronavirus pandemic, with release dates and distribution strategies seemingly changing daily, production has been more or less able to continue on some of the most highly anticipated films of the next few years. One of those is Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth film overall in the Jurassic Park sequence and the third in the new trilogy that launched back in June 2015 with Jurassic World. That film’s director, Colin Trevorrow, returned for the new entry, which began filming last February, was shut down by COVID-19 for several months, and resumed…

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08 Dec

Link Tank: 10 Side Characters Who Could Have Been Protagonists

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Sometimes… characters who are secondary should’ve been protagonists. Check out ten such examples. “So, firstly: I’m not one to poo-poo on any author’s narrative choices when it comes to fiction. Part of why we love books is because of the way each author uniquely weaves together an unforgettable story. But as I’ve been reading and rereading old favorites in quarantine, I haven’t been able to help but notice that, sometimes, the oh-so-special Chosen One protagonist is a bit … dull … compared to the colorful cast of secondary characters that pass them by.” Read more at The Mary Sue. From…

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05 Dec

How The Mandalorian Could Reboot the Most Beloved Part of Star Wars Legends Canon

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. An Imperial Grand Admiral sits in a darkened room surrounded by his art collection. He’s plotting a massive comeback. He’s planning to rebuild the Empire and make this whole New Republic thing look like a massive joke. He’s got blue skin. Did I mention he loves art? If you read Timothy Zahn’s groundbreaking 1991 Star Wars novel, Heir to the Empire, then you’re familiar with this description of Grand Admiral Thrawn. And now that Thrawn has been name-dropped on The Mandalorian, there’s every reason to believe that some version of his story…

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04 Dec

The Internet Wonders if Jack Black Could Replace Marvel Star Chris Pratt in Everything

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It’s been, ohh, maybe a week tops since Twitter last spent a solid amount of time dunking on Chris Pratt, but in the latest round of “wailing on Chris Pratt for [insert valid and not-so-valid reasons]” the platform’s users have posited that Pratt could easily be replaced by School of Rock star Jack Black in any role he’s inhabited to date. Why? Well, why not? It’s Twitter. The wealthy Pratt, who married Arnie’s daughter Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019, has starred in a string of major blockbusters, including Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame, Jurassic World and The Lego Movie,…

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01 Dec

Could HBO’s Rome Movie Still Happen?

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HBO’s Rome ran for only 22 episodes. Divided over two seasons, the show premiered in 2005 and concluded in 2007. Yet despite its brevity, the original HBO epic left an indelible legacy—and some unfinished business. Reports of a possible Rome movie continuing the narrative of the series sprung up shortly after its finale aired in March 2007. By itself that episode seemed to offer plenty of finality, with the character of Octavian (Simon Woods) assuming the title of “First Citizen of Rome” (emperor), and Atia (Polly Walker) taking pride in her son’s triumph, even as she quietly mourned the death…

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19 Nov

Project 007 Could Be the Spy Game James Bond Never Got

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Developer IO Interactive shocked the world today by releasing a teaser trailer for a new James Bond game known simply as Project 007. I highly recommend you check out the teaser trailer for this Bond origin story project if you haven’t already done so. It has been eight long years since the release of the last James Bond game. If you’re wondering why it feels like it’s been even longer than that, it’s probably because 2012’s 007 Legends was a poor attempt at not only recapturing the glory days of Bond himself (its gimmick was that you got to play…

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18 Nov

Here’s What Scream 5’s Title Could Mean for the Franchise

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Scream 5 has wrapped filming. The announcement came via Twitter from original Scream writer Kevin Williamson, the godfather of the ’90s teen slasher era (he also wrote I Know What You Did Last Summer) and exec producer on the new Scream movie. Along with the production wrap announcement, Williamson also officially revealed what the title of Scream 5 would be. No, not 5cream, as the internet would have it, but just, simply, Scream. His wrap message reads: “That’s a wrap on Scream, which I’m excited to announce is the official title of the next film! Nearly 25 years ago, when…

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13 Nov

Link Tank: What Could Comic Conventions Look Like in 2021?

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With social distancing having been in effect since March with no end in sight, let’s speculate what comic-cons will look like in 2021. “We—and the convention-going community as a whole, especially our fellow artist alley peeps—hoped that things would be okay come summer, then fall, then winter. Deep down, though, I knew that the season was over for 2020. Having that many people gathered in a space for a weekend was too risky, so the question became, ‘What about 2021?'” Read more at The Mary Sue. If you botch your turkey from Whole Foods this Thanksgiving, you may be one…

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11 Nov

AEW Game Could Take Us Back to the Golden Age of Wrestling Games

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WWF No Mercy‘s generally accepted status as the greatest wrestling game ever made has always been a pleasant curiosity in a world that’s often defined by our divisiveness and desire to argue for the sake of arguing. WWF No Mercy is so beloved that it’s often hard to get someone to analytically break it down without eventually succumbing to wistful ramblings. Yet, the qualities that made the game so special really aren’t that complicated. In fact, much of the game’s success can be attributed to how uncomplicated it was. Essentially an evolution of developer AKI Corporation’s previous N64 wrestling games…

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