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20 Apr

Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan’s Departure Casts Doubt on Overwatch 2

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Long-time Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan stunned many by announcing that he has decided to leave Blizzard after almost 20 years with the company. “I am leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 19 amazing years,” writes Kaplan in a brief farewell letter. “It was truly the honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to create worlds and heroes for such a passionate audience. I want to express my deep appreciation to everyone at Blizzard who supported our games, our game teams, and our players. But I want to say a special thanks to the wonderful game developers that shared in the journey…
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18 Nov

Star Wars Deepfake Casts Star Trek’s William Shatner as Luke Skywalker

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Hello, and welcome to yet another edition of “looking at the internet’s constant supply of disturbing deepfakes and rating them according to both their objective skill and existential horrors.” Today’s offering is Star Wars-themed, and d’you know what? Not sure we’ve ever covered a Star Wars deepfake before, so this will be a unique entry into the Den of Geek library. It’s a very silly library. We don’t enforce a ‘no talking’ rule, so feel free to yell in the comments as standard. “What if a young William Shatner had been cast as Luke Skywalker?” certainly isn’t a question we…
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02 Nov

Avengers: Endgame Deepfake Casts Nicolas Cage as Captain America

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Hello, and welcome to another 5-second distraction from the madness of 2020 ‘what if?’ moment of retrospection here at Den of Geek, where we occasionally take a look at the deepfakes of YouTube and Reddit and then try not to judge their quality too severely. Instead, we tend to ponder how they make us feel on an existential level, and a deepfake starring Mr. Nicolas Cage as Captain America certainly has us reflecting on Marvel’s unseen multiverse, and what could have been. This isn’t the best deepfake we’ve seen so far this year (that would probably be this one) and…
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14 Oct

Black Adam Casts Sarah Shahi Opposite Dwayne Johnson in DC Movie

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Dwayne Johnson’s developing DCEU movie, Black Adam, may have recently seen its December 22, 2021 premiere slip away in a recent reshuffle from Warner, but the film is nevertheless progressing, as evidenced by the latest news, the addition of Sarah Shahi to its main cast. The casting, which validates recent rumors, will see Sarah Shahi join Black Adam, as trades such as Deadline and Variety now report. Her character is being described as a university professor and freedom fighter leading the resistance in Kahndaq, an Egypt-like fictional nation in DC Comics lore. Shahi joins headliner Johnson in a cast that,…
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13 Oct

Furiosa Movie Casts Anya Taylor-Joy as Lead, Adds Chris Hemsworth, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

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It seems George Miller’s Furiosa, a prequel movie to Mad Max: Fury Road, is about ready to put it into drive. And its cast is providing a lot of horsepower out of the gate, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Chris Hemsworth all also joining the new film set in the ‘Mad Max’ universe. The casting of Taylor-Joy is not entirely a surprise since Miller has made clear for the last year that he intended to cast a younger actor in her 20s to portray Furiosa’s origin story. While this has been bittersweet for fans, and Charlize Theron who…
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06 Oct

Resident Evil Movie Reboot Casts Chris and Claire Redfield, Jill Valentine, Albert Wesker, and More

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The new Resident Evil movie reboot is moving forward, giving the fan-favorite horror franchise a fresh start unrelated to Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich’s film series, which finally concluded in 2016 after six installments. The movie is being written and directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) and is said to be more faithful to the classic video games. Indeed, if the castings reported by Deadline are any indication, this new take on the zombie story will lean a bit closer to the source material as opposed to Anderson’s far more action-packed adaptation. The movie has cast all of…
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06 Oct

Game of Thrones Prequel House of the Dragon Casts Viserys I

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It can now be confirmed that Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon is definitely pursuing the “Dance of Dragons” civil war from Westerosi history, and one of the key figures that led to that conflict has just been cast: Meet your Viserys I in Paddy Considine. The news was announced by HBO Monday evening, with the premium cable network revealing the English-born Cosidine is stepping into the crown of Viserys I after playing Mr. Martin on HBO’s The Third Day. The actor has previously appeared in The Outsider, The Death of Stalin, and Hot Fuzz. As confirmed…
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30 Sep

Ms. Marvel Disney+ Series Casts Newcomer Iman Vellani As Kamala Khan

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With the announced Ms. Marvel TV series for Disney+, Disney is looking to the next generation of superpowered crimefighters to keep the Marvel good times rolling. And with its choice for who will play the titular role, Disney is looking to the next generation of actors as well. According to Deadline, Marvel has tapped newcomer Iman Vellani to portray Kamala Khan a.k.a. Ms. Marvel in its upcoming Ms. Marvel series. How much of a newcomer is Vellani? As of press time, she doesn’t even have an IMDb page. Deadline notes, however, that Vellnai was the part of the Next Wave…
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30 Sep

The Godfather Making-Of Movie Casts Oscar Isaac as Francis Ford Coppola

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Like Michael Corleone dreaming of a life with Kay, Hollywood may never be able to go back to the way things were in the 1970s… but they can make movies about what is generally viewed as their second golden age! Fresh off news that Ben Affleck will direct a movie about the making of Chinatown, another Paramount Pictures masterpiece of the New Hollywood era is getting its own film with Barry Levinson’s Frances and The Godfather. And now Jake Gyllenhaal and Oscar Isaac are climbing aboard, with the latter playing Francis Ford Coppola. The news comes out of Deadline, which…
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30 Sep

Batwoman Season 2 Casts Victor Zsasz

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Batwoman Season 2 is already in for some pretty big changes, with Javicia Leslie taking up the mantle of the Bat. Now, she’s got a villain to face, as well. Alex Morf will be joining the cast of Batwoman as the vicious serial killer Victor Zsasz for the show’s second outing, according to reporting from EW. Morf makes the move to Batwoman from another Bat-adjacent show, Gotham, where he turned in a couple of episodes as Sykes, a gang leader during the No Man’s Land story. Morf’s resume is dotted with comic book shows, with a stint on Daredevil too.…
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30 Sep

Netflix’s The Sandman Series Casts Tom Sturridge as Dream

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From the Good Omens and American Gods TV series to the How to Talk to Girls at Parties film and at The Ocean at the End of the Lane play, it’s been a good couple of years to be a fan of Neil Gaiman adaptations. This is especially true if you’re a fan of The Sandman, the acclaimed comic book series written by Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Earlier this year, Audible released a multi-part audio drama directed by Dirk Maggs with Gaiman acting as the creative director, executive producer, and narrator on the project, and Netflix continues to move…
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29 Sep

Avengers Deepfake Casts John Krasinski as Captain America

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John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt both lost out on major Avengers roles back when the MCU was in its infancy. Blunt was originally Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau’s pick for the part of Black Widow, before she had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts and Scarlett Johansson ended up snatching it from her grasp, and Marvel was keen to compare Krasinski with its other Captain America: The First Avenger choice, Chris Evans, before making a firm casting decision for Steve Rogers. After seeing Krasinski audition, Evans came out on top, and the rest was history, but…
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25 Sep

Black Adam Casts Aldis Hodge as Hawkman

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The DC Extended Universe just got a little more extended with the casting of actor Aldis Hodge as Hawkman. A major talent already having a big couple of years between several film and television projects, Hodge is now set to next star opposite Dwayne Johnson in Black Adam, a superhero film connected to 2019’s Shazam. The news, which was announced late Friday evening, further underlines that the Johnson-led Black Adam will be reaching back into the annals of early comic book lore, with Hawkman, alias Carter Hall, being a character who first appeared in 1940 via Flash Comics #1. Additionally,…
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18 Sep

Marvel’s She-Hulk Disney+ Series Casts Tatiana Maslany

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Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has landed the title role in Marvel’s upcoming series She-Hulk, according to Deadline. The news comes one day after it was announced that the studio had recruited Kat Coiro (Dead to Me) to direct the pilot and several episodes for the Disney+ series. Maslany will play Jennifer Walters, the cousin of Dr. Bruce Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk, who was first introduced into the Marvel Comics universe in The Savage She-Hulk #1 (February 1980). A lawyer, Walters is shot and seriously wounded by mobsters on the same day that her cousin visits her to reveal that…
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10 Sep

Batwoman Season 2 Casts Shivani Ghai as Safiyah

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The news of Ruby Rose’s departure from Batwoman Season 2 not only left the future of the Kate Kane character up in the air, but also the entire world of the show, which is built around the relationships Kate has with her friends, family, and colleagues. Now that we know Javicia Leslie will be stepping up to take the Batwoman mantle in Season 2, and that she will be playing Ryan Wilder, we’re desperate to know if she’ll be bringing any other new characters with her. Well, we just got another major casting announcement: The CW has hired Dominion actress…
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04 Sep

Amazon’s Jack Reacher TV Series Casts Title Character

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With Jack Ryan still awaiting its third season, Amazon’s supply of action heroes named Jack R. was running perilously low. Thankfully, the streamer announced today that it has cast the titular hero in its upcoming Jack Reacher TV series.  Alan Ritchson (Titans) will play the enormous lead in Amazon’s upcoming show based on Lee Child’s bestselling series of books.  We  say “enormous lead” because, in addition to being an ex-Army major in the military police, Jack Reacher’s whole deal is being an absolute unit. Child’s beefy creation is said to be 6’5 and top the scales around 250 pounds. A…
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01 Sep

Scream 5 Casts The Boys’ Jack Quaid for Major Role

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Jack Quaid is set to join the Scream film franchise revival, bringing newfound gravitas from a co-starring role on hit Amazon series The Boys, for which his mawkish everyman role proved integral in selling its irreverent ultraviolence. Paramount and Spyglass Media’s revival, otherwise known as Scream 5, has cast Quaid for an unspecified role, as reported by Variety. However, Deadline goes a bit further, describing Quaid’s part as a starring role in the ensemble horror entry. Besides a breakout role as tech store nerd-turned-vengeful-vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s imminently returning comic book adaptation series, The Boys, Quaid appeared in two…
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17 Aug

The Boys Season 3 Casts Supernatural’s Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy

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After 15 seasons of battling demons, gods, Leviathans, and a family legacy on Supernatural, Jensen Ackles will join the cast of The Boys Season 3, according to Variety. The Amazon Prime Video comic book series returns for season 2 on Sept. 4. “I keep wondering what I’ll do…. when @cw_supernatural finally ends this year,” Ackles announced on Instagram. “Then it hit me.” At which point in the video he’s tossed a copy of The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, while Elvis Presley’s version of the song “Soldier Boy” plays in the background. View this post on Instagram I…
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21 Jul

The Walking Dead Season 11 Casts Margot Bingham

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The Walking Dead may have—due to circumstances beyond its control—left its viewers in the lurch back in April with its yet-to-air Season 10 finale, but it seems that there’s news to be had about Season 11—casting news, specifically. Margot Bingham has joined the cast of The Walking Dead for Season 11, reports Deadline. While the trade can’t confirm what role Bingham will play, it’s certainly worth noting that she has already been involved with the series, having voiced the role of Eugene’s (Josh McDermitt) mysterious radio chat-mate/would-be-romance, Stephanie; a fact that might lead one to presume she’s set to play…
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17 Jul

Black Adam Movie Casts Noah Centineo as JSA’s Atom Smasher

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The rumors are true, Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam movie will also introduce characters from the Justice Society of America to the DCEU. Word on the JSA’s inclusion has been making the rounds for some time, but one of the key members of the team (and one with ties to Black Adam) has now been cast. Via THR Noah Centineo has been cast as Albert Rothstein, the hero formerly known as Nuklon, who then took on the role of Atom Smasher when he joined the JSA. Albert Rothstein is the grandson of the supervillain known as Cyclotron and the godson of…
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