The Queen of the North is about to become a gun-toting British archeologist. According to recent reports, Game of Thrones Sophie Turner is set to play the lead role of Lara Croft in Amazon’s Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider TV series.
The Queen of the North is about to become a gun-toting British archeologist. According to recent reports, Game of Thrones Sophie Turner is set to play the lead role of Lara Croft in Amazon’s Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider TV series.
Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Nick Wechsler (The Boys), Anthony Ingruber (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), Aaron Glenane (Danger Close), Carlos Sanson Jr (Legacies), Ana Thu Nguyen (Mortal Kombat 2), Adolphus Waylee (Nautilus), Richard Brancatisano (The Messenger), Marcus Johnson (Talk to Me), and Jake Ryan (Savage, Underbelly) star in writer/director Luke Sparke’s upcoming sci-fi horror film Primitive War – and while we don’t have a release date for this one just yet, a featurette has just arrived online to give us a behind-the-scenes look at the making of it. You can check that out in the embed above.
An adaptation of Ethan Pettus’ sci-fi military book series, Primitive War is set during the Vietnam War and features American soldiers facing off with dinosaurs! The story follows an elite recon unit known as the Vulture Squad. In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War they are sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. They soon discover they are not alone. Dinosaurs have been let loose in the jungles.
Sparke is producing Primitive War under his Sparke Films banner, alongside producers Carmel Imrie and Carly Sparke, executive producer Geoff Imrie, and co-producer Alex Becconsall. The writer/director/producer had this to say about the project (which is said to blend action with survival-horror and war themes) when it was first announced: “This ain’t no walk in the park. I was captivated by the imagery surrounding Ethan’s book and the story it told. I’ve worked hard on capturing that essence but also the grittiness, horror aspects and military edge. My vision is to feel like the characters have walked out of the film Platoon and into the jaws of the greatest predators the planet has ever known.“
Pettus added, “I’m thrilled to see Luke’s interpretation of my work. I know his team is giving this project everything they’ve got.“
I haven’t read the books by Ethan Pettus, but Vietnam soldiers taking on dinosaurs sounds like the makings of an awesome movie to me. I’m looking forward to seeing how this one is going to turn out.
Are you interested in Primitive War? Take a look at the behind the scenes featurette, then let us know by leaving a comment below.
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As Ted Lasso once opined, “Don’t sell yourself short. If anything, sell yourself tall and get it altered later.” But for the loyal Ted Lasso fans, season three couldn’t even pretend to sell itself tall, leaving a taste that was far from being worthy of biscuits with the boss. Now, Jason Sudeikis is blowing the whistle on the haters, saying they lacked imagination and commitment for the third season of Ted Lasso.
Jason Sudeikis doesn’t think the viewers gave the third season of Ted Lasso a proper go, even saying they may have been a little too eager to judge rather than accept changes. “Much like live theater, the show, especially Season 3, was asking the audience to be an active participant. Some people want to do that, some people don’t. Some people want to judge—they don’t want to be curious.”
Objectively, season three of Ted Lasso is quite disjointed and contains a number of storylines that just didn’t need to develop as much as they were. We all love Keeley, but her strongest moments were always in and around the boys of AFC Richmond, not when launching her own firm. There are some strong episodes to be sure (“Mom City” and “Sunflowers” being the standouts), but overall it just lacked the magic that the first two seasons had. For what it’s worth, our own Alex Maidy gave it a 9/10 in his review.
Sudeikis continued his criticism of the Ted Lasso season three naysayers by adding, “I’ll never understand people who will go on talking about something so brazenly that they, in my opinion, clearly don’t understand. And God bless ’em for it; it’s not their fault. They don’t have imaginations and they’re not open to the experience of what it’s like to have one.” This – and many more stories – are highlighted in the new book Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way Into Our Hearts.
Despite the third season of Ted Lasso feeling like a yellow card to the fanbase, it could end up returning for a fourth. If so, I’ll definitely be there to cheer on the team, but am aware that the best times might be behind us.
What do you think? Does season three of Ted Lasso have more strong points than it’s given credit for? Or are we better off like a goldfish over it?
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Overwatch 2 is running a limited-time event called Overwatch Classic that reverts the game to its original roster, rulesets, and hero kits. It’s miserable to go back to, especially if you have no nostalgia for Overwatch as it existed in 2016. However, it is bringing back some old meme-y strategies from back in the…
Overwatch 2 is running a limited-time event called Overwatch Classic that reverts the game to its original roster, rulesets, and hero kits. It’s miserable to go back to, especially if you have no nostalgia for Overwatch as it existed in 2016. However, it is bringing back some old meme-y strategies from back in the…
Back in my day, we had daredevils like Evil Knievel and Super Dave Osborne. They’d defy death while entertaining crowds of cheering fans, risking life and limb for applause. I never wanted to be a daredevil, but I did appreciate their bravery and risk-taking approach to life. Jay Baruchel is a daredevil enthusiast, too, and he’s reuniting with Goon’s Michael Dowse for The Stunt Driver, an upcoming comedy about the daredevil stuntman Ken Carter.
According to Deadline, The Stunt Driver revolves around “The Mad Canadian” Carter, who “attempts to execute the boldest maneuver of his career during the 1970s, launching a rocket car off a 90-foot-high ramp across the St. Lawrence River. The stunt would have him jump from Canada into the United States, covering more than a mile.” The film “follows Carter’s quest to make his seemingly impossible dream a reality, chronicling his preparation for the jump and the absurd challenges he faces along the way.”
Jay Baruchel and Michael Dowse’s The Stunt Driver is inspired by the National Film Board of Canada’s 1981 documentary The Devil at Your Heels. Production kicks into high gear in Montreal in the spring.
“Ken Carter’s story speaks to anyone who has dreamed the impossible and been kicked in the teeth trying to achieve it. I couldn’t be more excited to work with my old friend Jay. Jay brings the perfect combination of comedy, belying great dramatic tension to this complex showman,” Dowse said about re-teaming with Jay Baruchel for The Stunt Driver.
Jay Baruchel recently played Carter in Nick Santora’s Fubar, an action comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a C.I.A. operative on the edge of retirement who discovers a family secret and is called back into the field for one last job. Meanwhile, his work is complete for Chandler Levack’s Mile End Kicks, a romantic comedy about a 24-year-old music critic who gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal’s indie music scene in 2011.
Are you familiar with Ken Carter’s stunt work? You can watch footage from his final stunt on YouTube, but I must warn you, it’s disturbing. I’m sure Dowse and Baruchel have big plans for The Stunt Driver, and we’re curious to see how the project comes together.
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Mythic Quest season 4 finally has a release date. Apple TV’s workplace comedy starring Rob McElhenney and Charlotte Nicdao about a video game studio and its lovable but emotionally stunted staff returns for another raft of episodes in January. This time around, however, the show is also getting a micro-spin-off series…