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16 Sep

DJ Skee Partners with eBay for Post Malone Inspired Exclusive Cards

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This article is part of our Collector’s Digest editorial series powered by:  If you’ve been looking for a reason to make the return to in-person conventions this fall, eBay, DJ Skee, and Gen Con just might have what you’ve been waiting for. One of the most popular places to buy and sell rare TCG cards online, eBay is bringing a slew of merchandise and rare items to their booth at Gen Con, along with an exclusive collaboration with DJ Skee. During the event, eBay will be showcasing multiple rare, high-value Magic: the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards at their booth, with…
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11 May

Resident Evil Village: Lady Dimitrescu and the Real Serial Killer Who Inspired Her

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Resident Evil Village, Capcom’s newest vision of horror, unleashed its villain, Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, onto the world in January, and the internet has hardly been the same since. Before we’d even seen anything substantial from the new game, the nine-foot “Tall Vampire Lady” was already the sequel’s most popular character, the subject of countless memes and even a few…salacious mods and videos. With the release of the game this month, Dimitrescu’s star is shining even brighter. We just can’t stop talking about our Lady. And when you hear who the developers at Capcom turned to for inspiration when creating this…
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15 Apr

Chinese-Inspired Fantasy Books That Reframe Familiar Fairy Tales

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Reframing fairy tales has long been a common subgenre of fantasy fiction and, at the end of 2020, three authors put their own spins on stories (or fairy tale structures) familiar to most Western audiences by incorporating Asian mythology and settings. S. L. Huang combined European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood with the Chinese tale of Hou Yi the Archer to form a story of redemption, love, and family in Burning Roses. Chloe Gong cast tragic English characters Romeo and Juliette as gangsters in 1920s Shanghai—pitting them against a Lovecraftian monster rising from the depths of the Huangpu River…
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08 Apr

Saving Private Ryan: The Real History That Inspired the WW2 Movie

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The events as they’re presented in Saving Private Ryan would never happen that way. This was my grandfather’s terse review of the Steven Spielberg movie back in 1998. He would know. After serving in the Pacific Theater throughout the war—being there from Pearl Harbor to Saipan, and then Okinawa—he carried a quiet lifelong interest in documentaries about the World War II American experience. And he had little time for Hollywood sentimentality. “Eight guys for one man during D-Day? Never would’ve happened.” Indeed, the idea of eight men being potentially squandered during the largest seaborne invasion in history is probably a…
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02 Apr

Netflix’s The Serpent True Story: the Book That Inspired the True Crime Drama

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French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim first learned about serial killer Charles Sobhraj as a teenager in the 1990s. He picked up the book On the Trail of the Serpent from his older brother’s nightstand, and read about a manipulative murderer who drugged, stole from and killed a series of mostly backpacking victims along South Asia’s “hippie trail” in the 1970s. Two decades later, Rahim would be cast as Sobhraj in true crime drama The Serpent, an eight part series now on Netflix. In it, the actor sought to channel the unnervingly still, hypnotic but fast-striking cobra-like quality the book’s descriptions of…
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09 Mar

WandaVision Had Early Plans for a CSI-Inspired Episode

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Every TV series comes along with its own set of TV influences. But few shows in recent memory have shouted out their televised inspirations more loudly than Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+. Of course, that was all by design as Mind Stone-altered magic user Wanda Maximoff found herself in a world of her own making. Since the Maximoff family really enjoyed their sitcoms back in Sokovia, Wanda’s days in Westview paid homage to the classics like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Family Ties, Malcolm in the Middle, Modern Family, and more. But according to the series showrunner Jac…
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17 Feb

How the Passion of Hannibal Lecter Inspired a New Opera About Dante

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When you hear the name Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a few things spring to mind—and none of them are likely to involve Italian poet Dante Alighieri or opera. Of course there’s good reason for this, with Lecter’s exotic cooking ingredients superseding his gentler affectations. But even so, when author Thomas Harris first imagined how the character might move in the wild for the novel Hannibal, it was with baroque glee he unleashed the doctor in Florence: Italy’s Renaissance city and Dante’s medieval stomping grounds. Director Ridley Scott similarly understood that secret recipe. His film version of Hannibal relishes every Italian colonnade…
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22 Oct

Immortals: Fenyx Rising Hands-on Preview Shows How the Game Is Inspired by Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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In October, Den of Geek got four hours of hands-on playtime with Ubisoft’s upcoming action-adventure fantasy title Immortals: Fenyx Rising. In the online demo, which was guided by a Ubisoft demoist, we got to see a bit of the game’s open-world setting, the Golden Isle, which is heavily inspired by the milieu of Greek mythology. The game is vast, epic-looking, and from what I’ve played so far, has engaging combat and gameplay loops that should fill out its open world nicely. The story revolves around a dark titan named Typhon, who was banished to the underworld of Tartaros by Zeus…
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25 Sep

Noah Hawley’s Star Trek to Have Wrath of Khan Inspired Themes

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A mysterious new entry in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise may be on hold over at Paramount Pictures, but its appointed writer and director, Noah Hawley, is still thinking about his approach, even as its status remains uncertain. Intriguingly, Hawley hints at a more classic-minded theme for his hibernating project, citing immortal 1982 offering Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as a major source of inspiration—just not in a way one might typically think.   While the imminent fourth season premiere of Hawley’s FX series, Fargo, is the current item on his docket, he did offer some interesting…
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18 Aug

Netflix’s Project Power, and the Creatures That Inspired Each Ability

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Spoilers for Project Power to follow Not for nothing are we called Den Of Geek. So when we were given the chance to chat with Project Power directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost and discovered that for the film they basically became massive science and nature nerds in creating some of the effects, this was very much ‘our bag’.  Project Power imagines a world where a street drug, just known as ‘Power’ imbues the user with almost super-heroic abilities but for just five minutes. The trouble is, exactly what powers you are going to get can’t be predicted. Some get…
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10 Jul

The Secrets She Keeps Book Was Inspired by a True Story

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Warning: contains spoilers for The Secrets She Keeps First: if you’re watching The Secrets She Keeps on BBC One on Monday and Tuesday nights and don’t want to see plot spoilers for how it unfolds, please walk away now. However, if you’ve already binged all six episodes on BBC iPlayer, step this way.  The Secrets She Keeps is a 2017 novel by Michael Robotham, a former investigative journalist turned ghost writer, now a leading Australian crime author. The book is fiction, but its central plot – the abduction of a new-born from a hospital hours after birth – is reported to be inspired…
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