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01 Sep

Link Tank: Could Donnie Yen’s Rogue One Character Return?

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Could Donnie Yen’s fan-favorite Rogue One character Chirrut Îmwe make a return to Star Wars? “There is a lot to love about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The 2016 film brought us a look into characters who weren’t our original trio and weren’t destined for something greater in the larger Star Wars universe. They saved the galaxy and gave their lives to do so, and I will always hold this film close to my heart.” Read more at The Mary Sue Can’t make it out to a theater to see Shang-Chi? You won’t have to wait that long for…

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31 May

Mare of Easttown Season 2: Will Kate Winslet Return for Another Case?

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When it comes to zeitgeist-capturing crime dramas, HBO just absolutely cannot miss. It seems like every couple months or so, the hallowed pay cable network (and now streaming service…kind of) presents a compelling crime drama that captures TV fans’ imaginations. The latest effort is the excellent Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet as the titular small town Pennsylvania detective with an affinity for Wawa hoagies. Mare of Easttown wrapped up its story superbly in its seventh and final episode Sunday night. The case of Erin McMenamin’s murder has been wrapped up definitively and Mare and her community have begun the…

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28 May

Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 5 Has a Big Return of the Jedi Connection

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This Star Wars: The Bad Batch article contains spoilers. The Bad Batch are in more trouble than ever after running into ace bounty hunter Fennec Shand in “Cornered.” Although they manage to escape with their lives, and with Omega still safe and sound, Hunter and his team of clone mutants know that the bounty hunter (and new Imperial super-agent Crosshair) won’t give up that easy. In “Rampage,” a plan is hatched to get more info on the mysterious bounty hunter (they don’t know it’s Fennec from The Mandalorian yet) as well as the person who hired her to kidnap Omega.…

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28 May

Terry Silver’s Return Brings A Manipulative Villain to Cobra Kai Season 4

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Cobra Kai has spent three increasingly successful seasons of television reintroducing The Karate Kid film franchise’s cast of characters. Unsurprisingly, that effort is now confirmed to continue, thanks to a surprise teaser for the show’s fourth season, which has whetted appetites for the return of a major movie villain, Terry Silver. Indeed, the return of the character, the sinister schemer of 1989’s The Karate Kid Part III, could provide a game-changing sinister force for the show’s escalating war of rival karate dojos. Thomas Ian Griffith is returning as Terry Silver, the villain he played in an entertainingly over-the-top manner in…

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18 May

Doctor Who: Which Monsters Will Return in Series 13?

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Spoilers: contains reference to unofficial series 13 filming photography Doctor Who began life as a time-travelling sci-fi show with a historical bias and an educational bent. One thing – or, rather, one race – changed all of that: The Daleks. Those oppressive pepper pots gave the public a taste for the fearsome, the far-off and the fantastic, and the following five decades would be stacked with all sorts of aliens and monsters, from the sub-slime to the Drashig-ulous, and everything in between. A new showrunner always wants to put their stamp on the series, but if novelty is vital to…

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14 May

John Cena On the Firefly Funhouse Match and a Potential Return to the WWE

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For the first in a long time, there was no John Cena at Wrestlemania. Due to COVID-19 restrictions and his busy schedule filming the Peacemaker series for HBO Max, Cena was unable to partake in the WWE’s Showcase of the Immortals, sitting out Wrestlemania 37. Cena has appeared in 15 Wrestlemania matches, headlining the show five times and squaring off against legendary superstars like Shawn Michales, Triple H, Batista, The Undertaker, and The Rock. However, Cena’s last appearance on the Grandest Stage of Them All may have just been his very best. The COVID-19 pandemic caused 2020’s Wrestlemania 36 to…

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11 May

The Green Knight Trailer Promises Return to Wonderful Weirdness of Arthurian Legend

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There will always be King Arthur movies, just like there will always be big screen riffs on Robin Hood. Characters with such mythic pedigree—and so readily available in the public domain—make this almost a given. Nevertheless, the King Arthur movies of the last few decades have left something to be desired, no? Whether it’s Antoine Fuqua and Disney’s questionable choice to produce a King Arthur movie without any of the actual magic or fantasy that made those legends enduring, or Guy Ritchie’s bizarre attempt to turn Arthurian archetypes into another boys-will-be-boys gangster movie—but now with medieval chainmail!—Hollywood has lately tried…

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03 May

Batwoman’s Kate Kane Recast & Return Walks a Fine Line

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This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 12. This season of Batwoman started out by asking the question: what happened to Kate Kane? And the latest episode, “Initiate Self Destruct,” finally gives us some answers. After traveling to Coryana to save Kate, and discovering Safiyah lied about her being there, Jacob, Batwoman, and Alice leave the island empty handed. They return to the news that body parts positively identified as belonging to Kate Kane washed up on shore, confirming definitively that she’s dead. Later we see a woman in a cell, fully wrapped in bandages, wearing Kate Kane’s…

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14 Apr

Rick Grimes Will Return to The Walking Dead Comic to Battle Aliens

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The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has always liked to tease that the real cause of the zombie outbreak in his long-running comic series was extraterrestrial in nature. Back in January 2020, Kirkman responded to a question on Twitter as to the zombie outbreak’s origin with a simple “space spore.” This was a joke, of course, but it was also a stealthy shout out to what The Walking Dead could have been. Kirkman originally developed The Walking Dead as a Night of the Living Dead comic. But when Image Comics encouraged him to develop his own idea so that he…

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07 Apr

Do Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s Stay Puft Marshmallow Men Confirm Gozer’s Return?

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“I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us: Mr. Stay Puft!” Ghostbusters: Afterlife just revealed how it will make those words from Dan Aykroyd’s Ray Stantz more prescient—and poetically meta—than ever. The line, from the 1984 original movie, was a contrite explanation for his impulsive decision to choose the now-iconic, pillowy “destroyer” form of ancient evil entity Gozer for its attack on the Big Apple. Now, the 32-years-awaited follow-up to the franchise’s original iteration (last seen with 1989’s Ghostbusters II,) is bringing back Mr. Stay…

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06 Apr

Q’s Return on Star Trek: Picard Season 2 will Follow “Significant Trauma”

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Star Trek: Picard is poised to bring back the disingenuously deferential greeting of “Bonjour, mon capitaine!” soon enough, with John de Lancie’s mischievous omnipotent entity, Q, now confirmed for a return on the show’s upcoming second season. It’s an intriguingly exciting development for the Star Trek: The Next Generation spinoff series, which has notably taken the titular former captain down a most curious existential path. Yet, according to star Patrick Stewart, Picard will be in the midst of devastating circumstances by the time Q materializes back into his life. Paramount+’s teaser trailer for Star Trek: Picard Season 2 is chockfull…

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05 Apr

The Walking Dead: Laura Return and Origin Explained

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This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. The Walking Dead season 10 finally came to a close with “Here’s Negan,” an episode based on the comic book storyline of the same name that takes a deep dive into the villain’s past. How did a high school gym teacher become the ruthless leader of the Saviors? The episode answers that question and shows how his villainous turn directly ties into his attempts to save his wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton) from cancer. In a flashback scene that takes place several years earlier, we watch as Negan goes on a supply run to locate…

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18 Mar

Could Durge’s Star Wars Return Lead to a Role in The Mandalorian or Book of Boba Fett?

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One of Star Wars’ most revered villains from its pre-Disney days of prequel-era stories is poised for a comeback. Durge, the fearsome bounty hunter best known from Genndy Tartakovsky’s 2003-2005 Star Wars: Clone Wars microseries, is set to make his Disney canon debut in the pages of Marvel’s Doctor Aphra #11. And with the upcoming arrival of Tartakovsky’s non-canon Clone Wars series on Disney+, it’s enough to make one speculate that bigger—live-action—plans might be in store for the character. Durge was indeed immensely popular in the defunct Legends continuity of Star Wars in the early 2000s to the point that…

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24 Feb

Kevin Feige Won’t Rule Out Return of Daredevil and Other Netflix Marvel Characters

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One of the questions lingering over the launch of a slew of Marvel Studios shows on Disney+ is whether the characters introduced on the nine Marvel shows that aired in the last decade on Netflix or ABC — including Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Agents of SHIELD, and others — could find their way to the Disney streaming service in rebooted form. That query was posed today to Marvel Studios chief creative officer Kevin Feige during a Television Critics Association (TCA) presentation for Marvel’s Disney+ offerings, which include the currently streaming WandaVision, the upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier…

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17 Feb

DuckTales Return Date and Series Finale Details Revealed

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If there was anytime I felt more conflicted about writing “woo-oo” in my life, it would be today. We already knew DuckTales was coming to a close but we didn’t know how it would end. Would we get one new episode a week for weeks? Would they air them all in a row? Well, Disney just released the info and it wasn’t quite what we expected. DuckTales will return on February 22, 2021 and will air one new episode a week until March 15, 2021. On that date we’ll be getting a 90-minute series finale! That’s less than a month of…

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03 Feb

What College Football’s Return to Gaming Means for NCAA and Madden Fans

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During a week in which the entire football focus is squarely on the biggest game of the NFL season, EA Sports called a trick play few were expecting: the publisher is developing a new college football game for the first time since 2013. All of a sudden, buzz shifted from whether Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers will beat Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV on Sunday — briefly, anyway — and squarely on the announced return of college football to gaming. Like Boise State’s epic Statue of Liberty play in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, nobody…

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14 Jan

Does a Chris Evans Captain America Return Undermine the Avengers: Endgame Finale?

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This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and several Marvel Comics storylines. Few big screen superheroes ever get perfect endings. Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne got one in The Dark Knight Rises, albeit one fans weren’t particularly pleased with. Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark went out in heroic fashion during Avengers: Endgame, but it was bittersweet and at the cost of his life. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine got a haunting sendoff in Logan. And Chris Evans, the most successful actor to bring Steve Rogers to life on screen, also got a perfect moment to put an end to Captain America’s story, traveling…

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14 Jan

Marvel Boss on Charlie Cox’s Daredevil Return: “We’ll See”

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It’s been over two years since Daredevil was cancelled at Netflix, but fans have never stopped pushing for Charlie Cox’s portrayal of the Man Without Fear to be revived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or a potential Disney+ series, and when Netflix’s exclusive rights to Daredevil expired last November, a new rumor began to circulate that Marvel was about to give those who had invested in three seasons of the nixed superhero series a chance to see Matt Murdock again in the multiverse-heavy MCU installment, Spider-Man 3. Well, Marvel boss Kevin Feige has been chatting with various sites as part…

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05 Jan

Goldberg’s Return on Raw Highlights WWE’s Legends Problem

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After John Cena, WWE stopped producing stars. That hurts a star-driven business like pro wrestling. For the last 80 years, the industry was built around a top star. Lou Thesz carried the torch in the late-’40s and into the ’50s. Bruno Sammartino was a top-drawing star in the ’60s and well into the ’70s. The ’80s belonged to Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, the ’90s were run by Steve Austin and the Rock. The ’00s were headlined by John Cena. But after Cena, WWE stopped producing stars. Wrestlers weren’t protected anymore and 50-50 booking has made the entire roster feel…

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19 Dec

The Mandalorian: Bib Fortuna’s Return and Death Explained

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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. Well, that was a very short-lived cameo, wasn’t it? In a surprise post-credits scene, Jabba the Hutt’s former majordomo Bib Fortuna returns to Star Wars live-action just long enough to get blasted off his dead boss’ throne. Played once again by veteran Star Wars engineer Matthew Wood, who also played Fortuna in an uncredited role in The Phantom Menace and later voiced General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith, the Twi’lek seems to be running things on Tatooine before Boba Fett shows up. In fact, Fortuna’s death happens so fast, he barely…

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