Codes for review and content creation around Black Myth: Wukong, the highly-anticipated action game from Chinese studio Game Science, went out earlier this month ahead of its August 20 launch. It now appears that at least some streamers and YouTubers who received the game early were also told explicitly not to mention…
Garth Ennis has written some great, popular comic books over the years, with some of his work including the creation of the books Preacher and The Boys, and fan favorite runs on Marvel’s The Punisher. Preacher and The Boys have both gotten TV series adaptations, and ideas from Ennis’s Punisher books have made it to the screen. Now The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that the Ennis-created horror comic Crossed is also getting an adaptation, with the independent company Six Studios picking up the rights to make a film based on the series.
Ennis has written the screenplay for the Crossed film, and Six Studios is searching for a director. They’re planning to put together a budget in $2 million to $3 million range for the project… but if the right talent comes on board, the budget could be increased. The hope is that, no matter who ends up taking the helm or starring in the film, Crossed will be heading into production this fall.
Crossed takes place in a pandemic-stricken world, in which those who catch a disease are marked with a cross-like rash on their faces. Those afflicted follow their worst impulses — think a zombie apocalypse, but instead of zombies, these are humans who retain their intellect, but are homicidal maniacs. The screenplay Ennis wrote is said to be based on the first ten issues of the comic, but there’s a lot more source material to pull from if this film were to launch a franchise. There have been more than 200 issues of Crossed comics from various writers and artists.
Carl Choi of Six Studios is producing the Crossed film with Ben Hung of Retro Entertainment and Ken Levin of Nightsky Productions. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Hung and Levin developed the project with Ennis and brought the property to Six Studios. Six Studios’ Jeff Huang is executive producing with Ennis, Carl Amari, and Bill Patterson.
Choi describes the Crossed script as an intimate, human story and the most faithful adaptation of the comics possible. The producer told The Hollywood Reporter that it’s like “Contagion meets The Walking Dead, with hints of Alex Garland’s Civil War, in that it’s a road movie across a ravaged United States.”
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Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters is set to return for another season and the dark comedy is said to be returning in the vein of the show Big Little Lies. Entertainment Weekly has the new first look of the upcoming season with some details of the story continuation revealed. The first thing unveiled is the newest image of the Garvey sisters pictured above. After two years, we get a new look at Sharon Horgan as Eva, Anne-Marie Duff as Grace, Eva Birthistle as Ursula, Sarah Greene as Bibi, and Eve Hewson as Becka.
Apple has announced that the second season of Bad Sisters will premiere with two episodes of the eight-episode run on Wednesday, November 13. Then, it will be shifting to a one-episode weekly release every Wednesday through December 25.
Season 2 is said to be picking up two years after the sisters escaped the events of the first season. However, trouble is not far behind as the logline for the upcoming season’s plot reads, “When past truths resurface, the ladies are thrust back into the spotlight, suspicions are at an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed, and the sisters are forced to work out who they can trust.”
The cast returning from season 1 will include Daryl McCormack (who was seen recently in this year’s big hit Twisters) as Matt Claffin, who ended up falling in love with Becka last season. Barry Ward returns as Inspector Fergal Loftus. Michael Smiley is back as Roger Muldoon, Grace’s kind-hearted next-door neighbor. Additionally, Saise Quinn returns as Grace’s daughter Blanaid. Yasmine Akram is back as Bibi’s wife Nora. Jonjo O’Neill reprises Ursula’s husband Donal Flynn. Also, Peter Claffey (who is also notably taking the lead in the Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) returns as Becka’s ex, Callum.
Season 2 will also bring in a new cast of characters that will include Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve, Harry Potter), Owen McDonnell (True Detective: Night Country, Great Expectations), Thaddea Graham (Sex Education, Doctor Who), Deirdre Mullins (Shadow and Bone), Lorcan Cranitch (The Crown), Liz Fitzgibbon (Normal People), and Justine Mitchell (Conversations With Friends, Derry Girls).
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An MMO wouldn’t be complete without a generous dose of grinding, and while this is true for Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s online game eases the pain slightly by adding Daily Roulettes. These missions help more efficiently procure some of the different resources in the game. This guide will help explain what Daily…
An MMO wouldn’t be complete without a generous dose of grinding, and while this is true for Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s online game eases the pain slightly by adding Daily Roulettes. These missions help more efficiently procure some of the different resources in the game. This guide will help explain what Daily…
Variety is reporting that Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga Lawrence in the popular 90s sitcom Boy Meets World, has recently revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, the good news is it was caught early and the actress is assuring fans that she’ll be ok. In her podcast, Pod Meets World, which she co-hosts with Boy Meets World castmates Will Friedle and Rider Strong, Fishel opens up about receiving her diagnosis at 43 years old. She stated, “I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for Ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer. It’s very very very early, it’s technically stage zero.”
Fishel tells listeners that she was diagnosed with “high-grade DCIS with micro-invasion” and is planning to have surgery to remove it. She explains the big decisions that she’s made over the course of events. She admits that she had initially planned to only tell her immediate family and her friends, but no one else. Fishel stated, “I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days.” She thought she just wanted to “suffer in silence” and “suck it up,” but was inspired to take a different route when reading up material from author Glennon Doyle, who has argued that women need to help others at the beginning stages or during the “messy middle” of a battle instead of just waiting until they are out of the experience.
Fishel credits making her annual mammogram appointment the day she had received a text reminder to do so and explained, “They found it so, so, so early that I’m going to be fine. So, I want to share this because I hope that it will encourage anyone to get in there. If it’s time for your appointment, if you’ve never had an appointment before, get in there. If you have to find out that you have cancer, find out when it’s at stage 0, if possible.”
On the podcast, her co-hosts Friedle and Strong were revealed to be the close friends she told after her family. Friedle, who played the big brother Eric Matthews on Boy Meets World, said, “We love you, and you know that we’ve got you. Whatever you need, we’re here. You are going to be fine, and you might have some sucky days coming up, but we’re here for you.”
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Three years have gone by since it was announced that Edgar Wright was coming on board to direct a new take on the novel The Running Man, which was written by Stephen King under his Richard Bachman pen name. The Running Man was, of course, previously turned into a film back in 1987 that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and had little to do with the source material. Earlier this year, it was announced that Glen Powell of Top Gun: Maverick, Hit Man, and Twisters is following in the footsteps of Schwarzenegger to play the lead role in the new adaptation – and during a recent interview, Powell said that, while the new film is expected to be closer to King’s writing than the first adaptation was, it will still have that “fun Edgar Wright flavor” to it.
Powell told Screen Rant that he’s preparing for The Running Man. “I have been doing a lot of sprinting. That’s all I can say. I’ve been working on my sprint. [Laughs] No, I’ll say that Edgar Wright has been one of my favorite filmmakers for as long as I can remember. I think since Shaun of the Dead, I was like, ‘I can’t wait to work with this guy.’ And he just keeps churning out brilliant things that only his brain could concoct. The Running Man is something he’s so passionate about, and we’re really taking the Stephen King book and just adding a lot of fun Edgar Wright flavor to it, and it has been awesome. That’s going to be a really fun one; I’m super excited about it.“
Wright is producing the film with Nira Park and Simon Kinberg.
King’s novel has the following description: It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate – he needs money to treat his daughter’s illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is another issue when everyone else on the planet is watching – and willing to turn him in for the reward.
During an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast last year, Wright said he was drawn to The Running Man because, “I like the film but I like the book more, and they didn’t really adapt the book. Even as a teenager when I saw the Schwarzenegger film I was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t like the book at all!’ And I think, ‘Nobody’s [done] that book.’ So when that came up, I was thinking, and Simon Kinberg says, ‘Do you have any interest in The Running Man?’ I said, ‘You know what? I’ve often thought that that book is something crying out to be adapted.’ Now, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy! [Laughs] But it’s something that we are working on, yes.”
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While growing up in the ’90s, you rarely made it through a school day without someone asking, “Do you believe?” The question covers a wide array of topics. Still, they mostly want to know if you believe in aliens, cryptids, and other supernatural phenomena featured in Fox’s science-fiction series The X-Files. Starring David Duchovny (Special Agent Fox Mulder) and Gillan Anderson (Special Agent Dana Scully), The X-Files is a cultural touchstone for many. The show introduced creatures like El Chupacabra, the Human Bat, the Jersey Devil, the Soul Eater, Mr. Chuckleteeth, The Great Mutato, and Flukeman to scores of viewers. While parents were fretting about kids listening to Marilyn Manson, The X-Files was feeding their imaginations with abominations aplenty, with a smattering of relationship drama and sci-fi action for good measure.
Programs like The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales From the Dark Side, Twin Peaks, and more inspire The X-Files. Like those shows, The X-Files isn’t afraid to embrace taboo topics like conspiracy theories, government influence, and spirituality. Fans celebrated the show for most of its run before elements of the seventh and eighth season soured even its die-hard viewership. Duchovny’s Fox Mulder steadily becomes a guest character instead of a primary player, with new characters FBI Special Agents John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) entering the picture. Response to the new characters varies, with many missing Duchovny and Anderson’s chemistry on screen.
Regardless of the perceived dip in quality, The X-Files holds a special place in the hearts and minds of viewers. The show continues to endure with box sets selling like hotcakes, fan sites continuing to post analysis and theories, and general audiences pining for the program’s “monster-of-the-week” formula rarely seen in today’s episodic offerings. Thankfully, shows like Fringe, Channel Zero and Wayward Pines carry the X-Files torch for audiences craving mystery, urban legends come to life, and things that go bump in the night while escaping from beneath the bed. Who doesn’t like a good scare?
Are you a fan of The X-Files? Are you a Team Believer or a Team Skeptic? Could a reboot of The X-Files work in today’s streaming space? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Gone But Not Forgotten: The X-Files is written by Jessica Dwyer, narrated by Travis Hopson, edited by César Gabriel, and produced by Dave Arroyo.
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Party time is not so excellent for Brian Cox. As Deadpool & Wolverine easily crosses the $1 billion threshold at the worldwide box office, one Brian Cox – who has his own link to Marvel via playing William Stryker in X2 – is taking issue with comic book movies as a whole via one of the biggest hits of 2024.
Speaking to an audience at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (via THR), Brian Cox said that the artform of film has been heading in the wrong direction, especially compared to TV. “What’s happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do…I think cinema is in a very bad way. I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You’re kind of losing the plot.”
Ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched with Iron Man in 2008 (the year that The Dark Knight Rises actually dominated the box office) only three years haven’t seen a comic book movie in the top 10 worldwide – and two of those either didn’t have a major release or are directly pinned to the Covid-19 pandemic. But Brian Cox has been around long enough to know just why people keep hitting the multiplex. “[They are] making a lot of money that’ll make everybody happy, but in terms of the work, it becomes diluted afterwards. You’re getting the same old… I mean, I’ve done those kind of [projects],” referring to the aforementioned X2. He added, “So it’s just become a party time for certain actors to do this stuff. When you know that Hugh Jackman can do a bit more, Ryan Reynolds…but it’s because they go down that road and it’s box office. They make a lot of money. You can’t knock it.”
Brian Cox has never been one to shy away from his takes on pretty much everything related to the industry. Whether it’s blasting the modernization of James Bond or calling out Joaquin Phoenix for a “terrible” go as Napoleon or, yes, even how his own character was treated on Succession, Cox has as many takes as you might expect. So, no, it’s absolutely no surprise that he has taken issue with the titans of the box office.
Obviously Brian Cox isn’t alone on the take…But where do you stand on the issue? Are comic book movies just an excuse for actors to get huge paydays?
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Now in theatres, we have Alien: Romulus, a film that takes place between the events of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 follow-up Aliens. In October, the Batman franchise is getting a similar sort of “mid-quel” with the publication of a novel called Batman: Resurrection, which takes place between the events of Tim Burton’s 1989 take on Batman and its 1992 follow-up Batman Returns! Written by John Jackson Miller, Batman: Resurrection is available for pre-order, with the hardcover edition set to reach store shelves on October 10th.
Miller’s story has the following description: After The Joker’s death, Batman and Gotham City face a mysterious new threat in this direct sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic Batman.
The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman, continues his fight to protect the innocent and the powerless. By day, his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, wonders whether there may someday be a future beyond skulking the city’s rooftops or the cavernous halls of his stately manor alongside the ever-dutiful Alfred Pennyworth.
But even after death, the Clown Prince of Crime’s imprint can be seen in more than just the pavement. Remnants from The Joker’s gang are leading wannabes fascinated by his bizarre mystique on a campaign of arson that threatens the city—even as it serves greedy opportunists, including millionaire Max Shreck. And survivors of exposure to The Joker’s chemical weapon Smylex continue to crowd Gotham City’s main hospital.
To quell the chaos, Batman needs more than his cape and his well-stocked Utility Belt. Bruce Wayne is forced into action, prompting a partnership with a charismatic scientist to help solve the health crisis. But as he works in both the shadows and the light, Bruce finds himself drawn deeper into Gotham City’s turmoil than ever before, fueling his obsession to save the city—an obsession that has already driven a wedge between him and Vicki Vale. The loyal Alfred, who had hoped Bruce’s efforts as Batman could help him find closure, finds the opposite happening. Nightmares begin to prompt Bruce to ask new questions about the climactic events in the cathedral, and investigations by Commissioner Gordon and reporter Alexander Knox into the arsons only amplify his concerns.
Having told the people of Gotham City that they’d earned a rest from crime, Batman finds the forces of evil growing ever more organized—and orchestrated—by a sinister hand behind the scenes. The World’s Greatest Detective must solve the greatest mystery of all: Could The Joker have somehow survived? And could he still have the last laugh against the people of Gotham City?
Miller said, “Whereas the DC Batman ’89 comics are set after the Tim Burton films, I chose to place Batman: Resurrection in between Batman (1989) and Batman Returns; in effect, it’s a direct sequel to the first movie. That means characters ranging from Vicki Vale and Alexander Knox to Max Shreck and Selina Kyle from Batman Returns can appear in the book. Who does? Find out (this October) in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook! Directed by Burton, Batman shaped the writer I am. I saw it in the theater 12 times. I reviewed it for my college paper and wrote about it often in comics magazines, including an essay on the soundtrack by Prince. Writing Batman: Resurrection has been like reuniting with old friends. Best of all, we’re able to release it as Warner Bros. Discovery and DC celebrate Batman’s 85th anniversary throughout 2024. People always ask what world I wanted to get the chance to write in; I never named Burton’s take on Batman because I never imagined it could happen. But Editor Tom Hoeler found a way. (In October), come along with us — and go with a smile!“
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