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30 Apr

Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Sharon Carter Arc Explained by Head Writer

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This article contains SPOILERS for THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER. One of the more controversial narrative threads of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the journey of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter. The niece of S.H.I.E.L.D. charter member and Steve Rogers’ great love Peggy Carter (and, briefly, a love interest for Cap as well), the well-meaning and pure-intentioned Sharon found herself out of favor with the U.S. government and on the lam after helping Steve in his quest to find and clear Bucky Barnes in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War — which included disregarding orders and returning the…

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28 Apr

Link Tank: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Head Writer Explains Lemar Hoskins’ Fate

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The head writer of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier explains the reasoning behind Lemar Hoskins’ fate in the show. “In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s fourth episode, the titular pair of former Avengers are on a mission to stop Karli Morgenthau (Erin Kellyman) and her fellow Flag-Smashers. The group’s ill-defined plan puts them at odds with John Walker (Wyatt Russell), the U.S. government’s newly christened Captain America, and his fellow soldier, Lemar Hoskins (Clé Bennett). Head writer Malcolm Spellman recently discussed the implications of their big fight.” Read more at Gizmodo. On National Superhero Day, let’s take a…

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08 Apr

Batman v Superman Writer Describes Post-Release “Mood of Fear”

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Now that Warner Bros. has seen consistent success with its line of DC superhero movies, the future of the DCEU seems assured with a healthy slate of films on the horizon, and with the Snyder Cut of Justice League finally released into the wild, you would think it might be time to finally stop worrying about the franchise’s early missteps, notably the difficulty that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice had getting out of the gate and the subsequent effect it had on Justice League. But then screenwriter Chris Terrio comes along and delivers a bombshell interview to Vanity Fair…

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05 Apr

Godzilla vs. Kong Writer Talks About Spending 8 Years in the MonsterVerse

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This article conatins spoilers for GODZILLA VS. KONG. Aside from studios Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, and certain behind-the-scenes executives, the four MonsterVerse movies to date have embraced largely different creative and directorial visions for each outing. This includes the latest installment Godzilla vs. Kong. But even though all four movies have had different directors, somewhat different tones, and mostly different casts, one of a handful of constant names has been that of Max Borenstein. Borenstein has had a writing credit on all four MonsterVerse movies, starting with penning the screenplay for 2014’s Godzilla. Since then he’s co-authored the…

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05 Apr

Link Tank: Game of Thrones Spinoff Writer Hopes Canceled Series Will Still Happen

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The writer for one cancelled Game of Thrones spinoff is still holding out hope that the series will happen. “In a post-Game of Thrones universe, HBO is still looking for its next huge hit. Is the answer more Game of Thrones? After initially announcing plans for several spinoffs only to cancel all of them except House of the Dragon, HBO signed a new five-year deal with George R.R. Martin in late March of 2021.” Read more at Inverse. The newest Spanish-language crime thriller on Netflix, Sky High, is a lackluster heist movie not worth your time. “As you scroll through…

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02 Apr

Godzilla vs. Kong Director and Writer Talk Future of The MonsterVerse

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This article contains spoilers for GODZILLA VS. KONG. Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth movie in the so-called MonsterVerse–following Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)–and it’s the culmination of the mythology and story arc built up over the previous three pictures. The MonsterVerse series so far has led to this climactic battle between the two most powerful Titans on Earth, and with the film’s ending leaving their futures open-ended, the question is where does the MonsterVerse go next? We have our own ideas and theories about how it should go, but of course…

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26 Jan

Link Tank: Comic Book Writer Tom King on Batman and Love

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Check out this exclusive interview with comic book writer Tom King on his Batman run, Bruce Wayne and love, and more. “Since his rise in the mid-2010s as a must-read comic book writer with an unlikely background in the CIA, 42-year-old Tom King has used superheroes — both ones you know (Batman) and ones you don’t (Mister Miracle) — to explore themes often avoided in the stereotypically masculine genre: Love and marriage.” Read more at Inverse. Microsoft has apparently filed a patent for a chat bot technology that mimics real, deceased people. “From customer service to Marvel marketing gimmicks, chat…

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15 Jan

The Internal Debate Within the Writer of One Night in Miami and Soul

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It’s one of the most kinetic moments in One Night in Miami. As a character observes, the banter is over and friends are pulling out knives: Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Malcolm X just challenged Leslie Odom Jr.’s Sam Cooke on his responsibility as a Black artist to the Black community. “You bourgeois negroes are too happy with your scraps to know what’s at stake here,” Malcolm says, demanding Sam take advantage of this elusive thing called celebrity and speak up for all those voices who never got a mic. Yet to Cooke—an artist with his own record label that keeps the rights…

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11 Dec

Owen Wilson’s Loki Character is Based on a Beloved Marvel Writer

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Among this overwhelming tidal wave of Disney project news that consumed us all Thursday night, we got to see the new trailer for Loki, which will be hitting Disney+ this coming May. As shown, this Loki isn’t the one who got choked to death in the opening moments of Avengers: Infinity War, but the Loki appearing during the Time Heist in Avengers: Endgame. After the events of the first Avengers went awry, that version of Loki was able to sneak away with the Tesseract and create a tangent universe. And now…he’s stuck running suicide missions with the Time Variance Authority.…

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19 Oct

The Last Starfighter 2 Inching Closer With Star Wars Writer

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After spending decades in the planning stages, a sequel to 1984’s cult sci-fi classic The Last Starfighter is finally throwing off the shackles imposed by endless rights issues and studio problems. In a new interview with Moviehole, the film’s co-writer, Jonathan R. Betuel, has offered an update on the status of The Last Starfighter 2, which he has been plotting for quite a while with Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels scribe Gary Whitta. Whitta has previously described the project as “a combination of reboot and sequel that we both think honors the legacy of the original film while passing…

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08 Oct

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories “Follow-Up” Teased by Writer Sam Barlow

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On Twitter, Sam Barlow (writer of Her Story and Telling Lies) revealed that he’s trying to pitch a follow-up to his 2009 horror game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. TFW an interviewer asks what you'd do to make a Shattered Memories follow-up today but you can't tell them because you're currently pitching that thing pic.twitter.com/ztnbcjjBck— Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow) October 7, 2020 Barlow expands upon that statement in a separate tweet in which he mentions that a follow-up to Shattered Memories is not the premise of his mysterious “Project A” game. However, he suggests that a Shattered Memories follow-up could be developed…

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17 Sep

Indiana Jones 5 Update: Why Writer David Koepp Left the Movie

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Indiana Jones 5 still seems to be part of Disney’s plans for the future, although as with everything else in this increasingly lost year of 2020, the pandemic has almost certainly slowed development on a project that was already crawling along for years. Of course, the big news revealed earlier this year — back in February, to be exact — was that Steven Spielberg was no longer going to direct the movie. James Mangold (Logan) was anointed his successor, making the fifth film in the series the first to be directed by someone other than The Beard (who is still…

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11 Sep

Superman Writer Departs Series

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Brian Michael Bendis, the legendary comics writer and one of the sharpest eyes for talent in the entire comics industry, is wrapping up his long run on the Superman comics in December. Bendis made the jump to DC in 2018, after a 17 year (potentially industry-saving, depending on who you talk to) run at Marvel, and immediately landed on DC’s biggest character. Man of Steel launched his run which, when combined with his follow ups on Action Comics and Superman, will have stretched to almost 75 issues after December’s Action Comics #1028 and Superman #28 hit. And that doesn’t include…

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03 Aug

X-Men Movie Writer Says He’d Gladly Help Bring Mutants Into The MCU

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Den of Geek recently had the opportunity to speak with David Hayter, the writer, producer and actor whose first big break in the film industry came when he had the opportunity to work on the screenplay for X–Men. The 2000 Bryan Singer-directed superhero film celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer and arguably opened the doors for the era of superhero movies we’ve enjoyed since. X-Men was made at a time before Marvel Studios existed as its own entity (later bought by Disney) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still eight years away from its blockbuster launch with Iron Man. During…

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30 Jul

Splinter Cell Anime Series Coming to Netflix from John Wick Writer

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Ubisoft may not be ready to bring Sam Fisher back to the world of video games, but Netflix is keen on making him the star of a new Splinter Cell anime series. Based on the series of stealth action games by Ubisoft and endorsed by late military fiction author Tom Clancy, the new anime is poised to explore a secret world of espionage, government conspiracies, and terrorist plots. The news comes from Variety, which also reports that John Wick and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier writer Derek Kolstad will pen the script and serve as executive producer. According to…

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16 Jun

Sam Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy Writer David Koepp Reveals Original Plans

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When director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man successfully swung to cinemas in 2002, moviegoers by and large were still oblivious to the extent—both financially and artistically—in which comic book movies would succeed, even after coming off the hit genre breakthrough that was 2000’s X-Men. Now, eighteen years and two Wall-Crawler iterations later, it has been revealed that the film in question was originally designed to kick off a more focused and pathologically potent story. David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay to 2002’s Spider-Man, reveals in an interview with Collider that his original plans had paced the film to start a Star Wars-esque…

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23 Apr

Back to the Future Writer Steps in After ‘Plot Hole’ Debate Reopens

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Back to the Future screenwriter Bob Gale has waded into a fresh round of debate over a ‘plot hole’ in the film’s story, almost 35 years after it was first released. The argument amongst fans over why Marty McFly’s parents don’t recognize him when he returns to 1985 began anew this week when Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn singled the film out in a discussion about ‘perfect movies’ on Twitter, saying “a perfect film can be different from a favorite film, or a great film. A perfect film is something that sings from start to finish with no…

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