It’s been quite some time since we learned that Tom Hanks was going to play Gepetto in Disney’s live-action remake of its animated 1940 Pinocchio movie. Now we finally know the identity of the real boy who’s going to play the wooden boy, along with the stars playing Jiminy Cricket, the Blue Fairy, and more.
Source: io9 – Disney’s Live-Action Pinocchio Pulls Some Strings and Nabs Its Cast
After a brief moment of hype-driven confusion as to how many episodes WandaVision’s debut season would ultimately clock in at, the series is coming to a close this week with a ninth chapter that’s likely to answer just as many questions as it leaves standing about the life of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen).
Source: io9 – Your WandaVision Finale Theories May Disappoint You, Says Director
If you’re a sucker for pirate stories—which we are—you’re going to want to check out Crossbones, an upcoming fantasy from Kimberly Vale that follows an array of seafaring characters as they battle for the island throne. Today, io9 has a peek at the cover, as well as a nail-biter of a first chapter. Yo ho ho!
Source: io9 – A Pirate Captain Faces the Gallows in This Thrilling Excerpt From Crossbones
Actually, let me take that back slightly—there is quite a lot of chaos in Chaos Walking, but only in the sense that attempting to navigate a coherent arc through its jumbled, disjointed scenes is a frustratingly messy ask of its audience. Despite its big names, Chaos Walking’s languid energy is certainly not worth…
Source: io9 – Chaos Walking Has Too Much Walking, Too Little Chaos
Calls is an upcoming Apple TV+ series that is almost exclusively audio recordings of people making phone calls, and when you first watch—listen, really—this trailer is going to seem like the dumbest idea possible. Then, as you keep going, the hook becomes very clear—it’s what you can’t see that’s most frightening, and…
Source: io9 – Apple TV+’s Calls Sounds Like Twilight Zone on the Phone
Superman & Lois’ debut last week was all about bringing the CW’s own Man of Steel back down to earth a little bit, with familial struggles that he couldn’t solve with a punch or an eye beam blast. But when certain revelations about his family life brought the Kent-Lane team back to Smallville, the show presented the…
Source: io9 – On Superman & Lois, No One’s as Special as They Thought They Were
Between states across the U.S. now vaccinating people against covid-19, and the fact that many aspects of everyday society—like movies being released—only ever really slowed during the ongoing pandemic, there’s a way in which some people have begun to think things might be returning to “normal.” As a reminder, it’s…
Source: io9 – Disney’s CEO Is ‘Not Sure There’s Going Back’ to the Way Movies Were Released
Last Thursday, it was In the Lost Lands. Today, it’s Sandkings. Tomorrow: Every other non-novel George R.R. Martin has ever written?
Source: io9 – Yet Another George R.R. Martin Short Story Is Getting a Movie Adaptation
While The Cloverfield Paradox might not be a movie people look back on fondly, two of its stars are teaming back up for a sci-fi thriller of a different sort that could very well give them both an opportunity to show the world what all they can do with a darker, more sinister story.
Source: io9 – HBO Series The Girl Before Will See Gugu Mbatha-Raw Trapped in David Oyelowo’s House
It’s really happening. After years and years of false starts, the long-awaited TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s comic series is finally, truly getting made and we have proof—a very, very small amount of proof.
Source: io9 – Holy Crap, the Y: The Last Man TV Series Has Footage
I’ve just watched the trailer for Voyagers, the upcoming film from Neil Burger (Limitless), about eight times in a row, and I have no idea whether it’s is going to be a brilliant arthouse sci-fi movie or awful, incoherent garbage. However, I am certain it will feature teens becoming hedonistic assholes in space.
Source: io9 – The First Trailer for Voyagers Looks Like Space-Lord of the Flies
Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is a film that’s so different from most other movies of its kind, it didn’t even have to be fully formed for writers and actors to jump at the chance to be part of it.
Source: io9 – Raya’s Kelly Marie Tran and Adele Lim Talk Heroes and Much Needed Representation
The rightful heir to the throne of the planet Mandalore made her live-action debut in season two of The Mandalorian, fighting multiple times alongside our hero, Din Djarin. But don’t think that means Bo-Katan Kryze is a hero, even according to the actor who plays her, Katee Sackhoff.
Source: io9 – The Mandalorian’s Katee Sackhoff Says You Shouldn’t Trust Bo-Katan…Yet
At a time when DC is putting out comics about a new futuristic era of superheroics, writer Tom King and artists Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes are bringing Kara Zor-El front and center with a story that’s all her own.
Source: io9 – Kara Zor-El Will Speak Softly and Carry a Big Sword in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
In the final moments of WandaVision’s most recent episode, the name that’s been on everyone’s mind ever since Wanda Maximoff first showed up in Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s post-credits sequence was spoken.
Source: io9 – Now That WandaVision’s Said the Scarlet Witch’s Name, Here’s What It Means
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Source: io9 – Crank up the Savings With off Marshall’s Acton Bluetooth Speaker
Bruce Campbell just keeps on teasing his tiny role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Netflix is making a new Wu Assassins movie. Get another new look at Netflix’s DOTA anime. Plus, teases for the next season of American Horror Story, and what’s coming on Batwoman and The Walking Dead. Spoilers now!
Source: io9 – Updates From Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Borderlands, and More
My True Fairytale, the story of a teen girl who starts exploring her burgeoning superpowers after a traumatic experience, is the passion project of writer-director D. Mitry, who drew upon his own personal tragedy while he was creating it. io9 has an exclusive look at the trailer and poster today.
Source: io9 – In This Exclusive Trailer for My True Fairytale, a Teen Superhero’s Powers Begin to Awaken
And the other guy, too! Oh, and spoiler warning for the latest episode of WandaVision—don’t click through if you haven’t seen it.
Source: io9 – My Cries for an Agatha Harkness Toy Have Been Heard
