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Star Trek: Bryan Fuller on the Snobbery Behind the Scenes

Like many aspiring screenwriters in the 1990s, Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller eventually became aware of Star Trek’s remarkable open submission policy and pursued an opportunity to write for the popular franchise, but after seeing the way things played out in the writer’s rooms on both of Trek’s beloved series at the time, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, things didn’t go quite the way he’d hoped. “I got wind of the open submission policy at Star Trek, which was to encourage writers to bring in ideas because it was syndicated and nothing had to connect, so there were a lot of…
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Why David Tennant Lost Hannibal Role According to Bryan Fuller

Bryan Fuller has been looking back at the past and discussing the future of Hannibal in a huge new interview. The NBC series, which focused on stories from Thomas Harris’ bestselling Hannibal Lecter books, was cancelled in 2015 before we could see the events of Silence of the Lambs play out Fuller-style, but it still has a thriving fan base who would love to see star Mads Mikkelsen and the rest of the cast return for Season 4. In conversation with Rolling Stone, Fuller opened up about the difficult process of casting Mikkelsen as the insidious and methodical Lecter, and…
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Breaking Bad: Bryan Cranston Has Some Thoughts on the Malcolm in the Middle Prequel Theory

He is the one who knocks…on the front door of 12334 Cantura Street.  If that sentence makes any sense to you, congrats! Your brain is irrevocably broken by television and you are aware of a popular fan theory surrounding two important Bryan Cranston roles: good father Hal on Malcolm in the Middle and bad father Walter White on Breaking Bad. The theory posits that Albuquerque drug kingpin Walter White actually survived the events of the violent Breaking Bad finale and in turn entered into the vacuum salesman Ed Galbraith (Robert Forester) criminal protection program and re-emerged as working class father…
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X-Men Cast Threatened to Quit Over Bryan Singer’s Botched Stunt That Injured Hugh Jackman

Bryan Singer may already be widely associated with controversy regarding his on-set behavior and extracurricular “activities,” but a lengthy exposé published today by THR has shed more unseemly light on the array of accusations about him and the culture of abuse and negligence that the director purportedly perpetuated. One such detail centers on a breaking point reached by the X-Men cast. According to the report, the cast of 2003’s X2: X-Men United had a consequential confrontation with Singer centered on his erratic, frequently-absent and narcotics-addled tenure over the sequel’s Vancouver production, which apparently resulted in the franchise’s breakout star, Wolverine…
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Bryan Singer MIA During X-Men: Apocalypse Shoot, Says Olivia Munn

Bryan Singer left filming on X-Men: Apocalypse for more than ten days to cope with a ‘thyroid issue’, according to actress Olivia Munn, who has recounted her experience of working on the film. Munn didn’t hold back when recalling Singer’s disappearance from the set of X-Men: Apocalypse, singling out the director’s lack of presence – a persistent problem that continued during production on Bohemian Rhapsody – as a notable example of men in the industry who “keep failing up”: “It’s the problem that I always had in this business, way before the #MeToo movement exposed so much,” she explained to…
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