Survival and city-building mashup Frostpunk 2 is set to release in just a couple days on September 20, and fans couldn’t be more excited. That hype is due to just how good its predecessor, 2018’s Frostpunk, is. If you haven’t played the original game, it takes the resource-management and society sim elements of the…
Survival and city-building mashup Frostpunk 2 is set to release in just a couple days on September 20, and fans couldn’t be more excited. That hype is due to just how good its predecessor, 2018’s Frostpunk, is. If you haven’t played the original game, it takes the resource-management and society sim elements of the…
Marc Bernardin, a television writer/producer (Star Trek: Picard) who has also written multiple comic books and hosts the Fatman Beyond podcast with Kevin Smith, has teamed up with writer/producer/actress Tiffany Smith (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) to create a new anthology called Deepest, Darkest, which will “weave together stories of horror, suspense, dark comedy, and edgy science fiction” – and they have assembled quite an impressive cast for the project. That cast includes Smith herself, as well as Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Rahul Kohli (Midnight Mass), Phil LaMarr (Pulp Fiction), Raymond Lee (Top Gun: Maverick), Caitlin Bassett (Quantum Leap), Sujata Day (Definition Please), and Kevin Avery (The Great North).
Deepest, Darkest will consist of eight segments that are set to be directed by Bernardin, LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead), Ubah Mohamed (The Handmaid’s Tale), Lamont Magee (Black Lightning), Deric A. Hughes and Benjamin Raab (Warehouse 13), Day, and Avery. Here’s the pitch: Have you ever had a secret? One so big, so awful, so horrifically extreme that you had no choice but to keep it to yourself? Something that if anyone else knew that revelation would shift your world on its axis? What if there was someone whose job it was to listen to those secrets — because she could never remember them? What would you pay for absolution?
Each story in the film will revolve around that most human of impulses: the keeping of secrets. Our central character is Tara, a survivor of a devastating accident who now suffers from short-term memory loss — and who makes ends meet by hiring herself out as sort of a freelance confessionist. Over the course of these eight chapters, we’ll examine that part of the human condition we keep closest to the vest. Guilt. Damage. Pain. And how through the telling of these stories we might exorcise that pain. Oh, and Tara will find herself in mortal danger. A lot.
Rachel Walker, Carrie Finn, and Kyle Smithers are producing the film, which has M3GAN screenwriter Akeela Cooper and Late Night with the Devil star David Dastmalchian on board as executive producers. The budget for the film is currently being raised on Kickstarter, with seven days left to go in the campaign. As of this writing, $136,668 has been raised of the $250,000 goal.
Rosario Dawson told Deadline, “I’m a big fan of… well, I guess I shouldn’t tell you which project I’m working on but all of the writers and directors [on Deepest, Darkest] are amazing, so getting a chance to work with them was an opportunity that I didn’t want to miss.“
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I really miss Swordbreaker, a shotgun from the first Destiny game that became a staple of my loadout back in the day. Over the three years that I played Destiny, no part of my loadout felt as central to my identity as it did. I changed subclasses depending on the task before me, and I shuffled primary weapons in and…
I really miss Swordbreaker, a shotgun from the first Destiny game that became a staple of my loadout back in the day. Over the three years that I played Destiny, no part of my loadout felt as central to my identity as it did. I changed subclasses depending on the task before me, and I shuffled primary weapons in and…
Fortnite’s latest batch of quests for Chapter 5, Season 4, Week 5 is here. As usual, there are five new challenges for us to complete, but what’s nice about this week is that in addition to earning XP, completing these quests will unlock more Battle Pass items under the Quest Rewards tab. This guide will detail…
Fortnite’s latest batch of quests for Chapter 5, Season 4, Week 5 is here. As usual, there are five new challenges for us to complete, but what’s nice about this week is that in addition to earning XP, completing these quests will unlock more Battle Pass items under the Quest Rewards tab. This guide will detail…
The first trailer for Mickey 17 is here and it looks incredible. The next movie from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, it’s a sci-fi clone-killing conceit in space that will make The Batman star Robert Pattinson the butt of the violent joke when it hits theaters January 31, 2025.
The first trailer for Mickey 17 is here and it looks incredible. The next movie from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, it’s a sci-fi clone-killing conceit in space that will make The Batman star Robert Pattinson the butt of the violent joke when it hits theaters January 31, 2025.
With Deadpool & Wolverine clawing away at box office records and X-MEN ‘97 gaining huge streaming numbers, Awfully Good Movies is heading back in time with the TVA to discuss 20th Century Fox’s fourth and final X-Men prequel before their MCU merger… DARK PHOENIX! (Or as it was retitled on home video… X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX!)
That title change was just one of many problems that Fox had before and after filming the last of its mutant saga, with Bryan Singer getting #MeToo-ed out of the director’s chair and longtime franchise writer/producer Simon Kinberg taking his place to have another go at adapting Chris Claremont’s “Dark Phoenix” Saga, after his disappointment at poorly adapting it for Brett Ratner’s infamously disappointing X-Men: The Last Stand. But with its release delayed to fix the ending’s similarities to Captain Marvel, only to end up releasing one month after Avengers: Endgame was still snapping up box office profits, it was obvious that their future at Disney spelled doom for their final days at Fox.
As for the returning X-Men cast, many of the older actors from First Class visibly don’t want to be there (looking at you, Jennifer Lawrence!), while the younger actors who still need to prove themselves after Apocalypse get pathetically little to do, especially Sophie Turner as a Jean Grey whose evil transformation into the Phoenix mostly consists of her sulking for the camera a lot. And don’t get me started on Jessica Chastain as our big alien villain who plans to cleanse the blah blah blah, you’ve heard all this before, and she’s wasted even worse here than Christian Bale in Love and Thunder.
And with Hugh Jackman having retired (for now) from Wolverine after Logan already gave us a satisfying ending to the X-Men saga, his absence makes this finale to the once-great X-Men prequels a depressingly generic slog that’ll have you wishing Mickey Mouse would snap these younger X-Men out of existence already. Oh, and there’s a new X-Man who has sentient dreadlocks… in the words of Stan Lee, ‘nuff said!
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