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31 Aug

Elijah Wood Wants in the MCU But Who Would He Play?

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Elijah Wood knows a thing or two about big movie franchises. The actor has enjoyed a lengthy, illustrious career but will likely forever be known for portraying lead hobbit Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.  So, as you might imagine, when Wood stopped by Entertainment Tonight to discuss his latest film, Ted Bundy story No Man of God, the saga of Middle-Earth came up. What’s more interesting, however, is that Wood was also up for discussing other big franchises he is interested in, including Star Wars, in which he has already provided his voice to the…

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16 Aug

Would Casino Royale’s Director Helm Another Bond Movie Following No Time To Die? Here’s The Latest

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12 Apr

Charlie Jane Anders on Writing the YA Space Opera Her Teen Self Would Have Loved

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Charlie Jane Anders is making her first foray into YA with Victories Greater Than Death, a space fantasy adventure about a teen girl named Tina who happens to be the clone of a legendary alien captain and is faced with saving the universe from an alien organization known as the Compassion (good branding, I know). Luckily, Tina isn’t alone. She’s got her best friend Rachael, a group of brilliant teen humans from around the world, and what’s left of the Royal Fleet, a Starfleet-like space organization on its last leg. While the Compassion may be Tina’s main nemesis, she also…

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23 Mar

Why Would Microsoft Want to Buy Discord for $10 Billion?

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A recent report from Bloomberg suggests that Microsoft is interested in acquiring instant messaging and digital distribution platform Discord for the stunning rumored price of nearly $10 billion. If we allow ourselves to move past the standalone absurdity of that figure, the question becomes “Is Discord really worth that much?” The answer to that question ultimately requires you to properly analyze a lot of figures that are quite frankly too boring to even dream of extensively debating, but if we’re just talking about Microsoft and Discord as video game companies, then it actually makes quite a bit of sense for…

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20 Mar

What Zack Snyder’s Justice League 2 Would Have Been

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This article contains spoilers for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. There’s a whole lot going on at the end of Zack Snyder’s Justice League. For fans of Zack Snyder who were always on board with his unique vision for the DC Universe, the movie is a four hour feast, a celebration, and a vindication…but it ends with a tease for a Justice League 2 that promises to be even more intense and weighty than the director’s existing DCEU trilogy that began with Man of Steel. The Justice League epilogue is perhaps the most buzzy and infamous part of the Snyder Cut.…

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09 Mar

What Would a Queen’s Gambit Musical Look Like?

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Some ideas are too good to be constrained to merely one medium. Such is the case with Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel The Queen’s Gambit. After starting its life on the page, the story of chess prodigy Beth Harmon moved to television with a seven-episode Netflix adaptation starring the ethereal Anya Taylor-Joy. Now that Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit is racking up awards (with a presumable Emmy sweep still to come) it’s time for the story to enter into yet another medium. Deadline reported today that entertainment company Level Forward has acquired the theatrical stage rights to the novel. That’s right: The…

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12 Feb

Iron Fist Season 3 Would Have Been its Peak, Says Finn Jones

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is fielding a massive multimedia transition with star-studded television projects—launched with the current run of Disney+ series WandaVision—complementing the studio’s theatrical slate. While that initiative has relegated its former small screen endeavor, the Netflix “Street Level” Marvel shows, to the proverbial bin of forgotten toys, Iron Fist star Finn Jones maintains that his nixed Netflix series would have completed a poignant arc, as he reveals with plot details for the never-realized third season. Iron Fist, like continuity-connected cohorts Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, The Punisher and crossover team-up The Defenders, became the casualty of a shifting…

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24 Dec

Where in Fiction Would You Spend Christmas?

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It’s been a staying-in kind of year. That New Year’s Resolution you made to travel more? It’s gained 20 pounds, started cutting its own hair and is now in a jigsaw club with your neighbour Ken. The only marathon you’ve completed in 2020 is a Battlestar Galactica rewatch. The only mountain you’ve climbed is the metaphorical one it takes to shower daily. That beach trip you’d planned? It went okay actually. You made some bells by selling coconuts to Nook’s Cranny and dug up a bunch of Manila Clams with a flimsy shovel. For obvious reasons, escape is on our…

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10 Dec

Spider-Man 3: Charlie Cox Daredevil Return Would Redeem the Marvel Netflix Universe

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Casting news for Spider-Man 3, has been surreal and chaotic—in the best possible way. Now, in the aftermath of reports that villains from previous franchise iterations like Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock and Jamie Foxx’s Electro will return (in a manner not yet known), a strong rumor is now pointing to the addition of a displaced Marvel hero, Charlie Cox’s Daredevil; a move that, if true, would mark the first big screen acknowledgement of Marvel’s nixed Netflix television corner. The ever-growing rumor (recently boosted by trade TV Line,) implies that Cox’s Matt Murdock, a.k.a. Daredevil, will go from small-screen cancelation by…

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03 Dec

Harvey Dent “Would Not Approve” of Batman’s Lie in The Dark Knight

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This article contains spoilers for The Dark Knight Aaron Eckhart has been looking back at the role he played in Christopher Nolan’s revered 2008 Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and he feels strongly that Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent “would not approve” of his alter ego Two-Face, nor Bruce Wayne’s decision to take the blame for Dent’s killing spree in an effort to preserve his heroic image. In his new film Wander, Eckhart co-stars with DC’s other big screen Two-Face, Tommy Lee Jones, so he’s found himself reflecting on his turn as their shared hero-turned-villain. Calling The Dark Knight “a…

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01 Dec

Terminator 7 Would Have Introduced an Alternate Timeline

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While the box office performance of 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate resulted in the franchise getting lowered into a proverbial vat of lava as it flashed a thumb-up, it seems that plans exist for a seventh entry, which would have followed up on the wantonly retconned storyline—indirectly, anyway. Mackenzie Davis, who starred in Dark Fate (Terminator 6, if you will,) as cybernetically-enhanced human Grace, divulged a rather intriguing tidbit on the Happy Sad Confused podcast about the inevitably fruitless plans for a follow-up film. The character, hailing from a timeline altered by Terminator 2’s destruction of Skynet, was sent from the…

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25 Nov

Hannibal Season 4 Would Gender Flip Some Characters According to Mads Mikkelsen

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Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen has been discussing his hopes for a potential fourth season of the show just weeks after its creator, Bryan Fuller, revealed how he would approach reviving the serial killer drama. In Fuller’s adaptation of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lecter book series, which was canceled five years ago at NBC, Mikkelsen starred as the titular character alongside Hugh Dancy as Will Graham. The brilliantly deranged show went on to develop an ever-increasing cult following who would frankly love to see everyone’s favorite ‘murder husbands’ back for Season 4. Mikkelsen opened up about the possibility of reprising his role…

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11 Nov

How Darth Maul Would Have Completely Changed the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

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Darth Maul is one of the most recognizable, visually impressive characters to have emerged from the post-Original Trilogy Star Wars films, despite being dealt a dubious fate in his very first appearance in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. However, it seems that the franchise’s father, George Lucas, originally had plans for the double-bladed lightsaber Sith lord that were far grander than getting sliced in half and sent plummeting down a Naboo air shaft. While we already know various tidbits about Lucas’ original plans for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, some major new info has dropped in The Star Wars Archives…

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02 Nov

Sean Connery and Michael Caine are Godlike in The Man Who Would Be King

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“I’ll stand one day before the Queen, not kneel, mind you, but stand like an equal, and she’ll say ‘I’d like you to accept the Order of the Garter as a mark of my esteem, cousin,’” Sean Connery’s ex-British soldier Daniel Dravot proclaims in the 1975 period adventure film, The Man Who Would Be King. And with those words, and the epic death scene which followed, Connery completed the saga of a long-germinating work from one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors. John Huston was Hollywood royalty. His father, Walter, was an acting icon, and his offspring have all gone on…

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30 Oct

None of This Would Be Happening If Frank Zappa Had Been President

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The election is days away. No one knows if there will be an orderly turnover or the disorderly donut hole of malevolent maneuverings. The nation is divided and civil unrest is in the air. This follows a summer which was prophetically and perennially summed up in “Trouble Every Day,” a song from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s 1966 debut album Freak Out! “Wednesday I watched the riot,” Zappa sings on the song he wrote after seeing the Watts Uprising of 1965. “I seen the cops out on the street. Watched ’em throwin’ rocks and stuff, and chokin’ in…

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28 Oct

Would Streaming The New James Bond Movie Kill Theaters For Good?

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If the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, skipped theaters and went straight to streaming, how would you feel about that? The chances of that happening briefly flared up in late September when the studio behind the 007 franchise, MGM, put out feelers to Apple, Netflix, and other streaming services about picking up the 25th official entry in the series and the final one to star Daniel Craig. According to multiple reports last weekend in the Hollywood trades (after Bloomberg initially broke the story), MGM was looking for a deal in which the streamer would license the movie…

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05 Aug

Seth Rogen Jokingly Asks If Christopher Nolan Would ‘Kill His Greatest Fans’ with Tenet

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Seth Rogen’s An American Pickle was considering a direct-to-consumer distribution before it was the new normal. That is to say even before the coronavirus pandemic forced Sony Pictures’ hand in relinquishing the rights to the odd, pensive comedy to HBO Max, Rogen and the studio were already looking to part ways on the particular project. Which is pretty far from the odyssey of theatrical delays and frustrations Christopher Nolan’s Tenet is on. It’s an unusual comparison to make, but Rogen is the first to point to the lack of similarities while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter. Talking to that trade…

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09 Jul

The 100 Prequel Series Would Use a Lost-Like Flashback Format

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The following contains spoilers for The 100 backdoor pilot episode “Anaconda”. As backdoor pilots go, The 100 episode “Anaconda” is darn effective. The hour serves as an origin story for the human survivors of Earth’s first nuclear apocalypse, taking us all the way back to the pivotal moment in 2052 when the missiles were launched and a cult-ish group known as the Second Dawn locked themselves underground for protection. “Anaconda’s” story is compelling in and of itself, following Second Dawn leader Bill Cadogan and his semi-estranged family as they attempt to survive the end of the world and determine what…

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25 Jun

Warcraft Movie Director Explains What His Sequels Would Have Been About

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Warcraft director Duncan Jones has confirmed via Twitter that he had mapped out the basic story for a Warcraft film trilogy before plans for subsequent Warcraft movies fell apart. “Part 2 would have been Go’el/Thrall as a young orc slave in Blackmoore’s gladiator camp,” Jones says in regards to his intentions for a sequel to 2016’s Warcraft. “Here he meets & befriends a Tauren who tells him of another land to the west where his people come from, & where he might find allies & maybe a new home…” From there, Jones goes on to describe what an eventual third…

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24 Apr

What The Raid 3 Would Have Been About

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Director Gareth Evans has been doing the rounds promoting his new Sky Atlantic series Gangs of London (it’s bloody good stuff) and recently stopped by the Empire podcast to chat about a jumble of different subjects, including his standout action films, The Raid and The Raid 2. The conversation soon turned to why there hasn’t been a third film featuring Jakarta’s ‘rookie’ special tactics officer Rama (Iko Uwais) kicking people in the face. As huge fans of both of Evans’ Raid movies and watching people get kicked in the face, it’s certainly a question we’ve asked ourselves. Well, from Evans’…

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