Tall Boys, Jedi Boys, and Vampy Boys Give Us the Week in Toy News

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of the coolest action figures and merch we’ve been gleefully preordering this week. We’ve got the star of Shin Ultraman joining Bandai’s Figuarts line, a return to Jedi: Fallen Order with a fancy new Cal Kestis, and a very angry Living Vampire descending upon Mezco’s…

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Blade Will Be Marvel Studios' First Film Written By a Black Woman: Stacy Osei-Kuffour

About a year and a half has passed since Marvel Studios announced that multiple Oscar winner Mahershala Ali would join the MCU to play the famed vampire killer in a new Blade movie. And while the film still doesn’t have a director, it now has a writer.

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Source: io9 – Blade Will Be Marvel Studios’ First Film Written By a Black Woman: Stacy Osei-Kuffour

Netflix Anime Pacific Rim: The Black Shows Off Kaiju Galore in Its First Trailer

 The first and second Pacific Rim movies grossed $411 million and $291 million worldwide. Big numbers for sure, but not the kind of numbers that can sustain a massive franchise where each sequel, by its nature, has to get bigger. But the bones are there: the story is awesome, the world is fascinating, and the…

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WandaVision Just Pulled Out a Few Shockingly Big Guns

WandaVision hit a major turning point last week when it showed the state of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe outside of Westview, New Jersey by looking back on how Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Paris), Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), and Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) all came to be involved in the situation. This week’s “On A…

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Star Wars' Trandoshan Jedi Is Provoking Some Interesting Questions About Anger

One of the more interesting things about Star Wars: The High Republic’s cast of blindingly light goody-two-shoe Jedi is the layers through which their confidence in the Force and their grasp of it for good is presented. But few are as interesting as perhaps one of the most unexpected Jedi Masters of all: your lizard…

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Source: io9 – Star Wars’ Trandoshan Jedi Is Provoking Some Interesting Questions About Anger

The Brain-Bending A Glitch in the Matrix Questions Both Reality and Sanity

If you’re familiar with the work of documentary filmmaker Rodney AscherThe S From Hell, Room 237, The Nightmare—you know he excels at focusing on topics that stir up excitement and existential dread all at the same time. His latest, A Glitch in the Matrix, probes simulation theory with similar intent.

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Space Sweepers Is a Wild Space Action Movie With a Meandering Core

The first and last half-hours of Space Sweepers, Jo Sung-Hee’s new Netflix movie, have some of the grandest, most fun space action we’re likely to see in a movie this year. It’s got a bit of a problem, though: in between those chunks is another hour-plus of movie that can’t really decide what it wants to be until it’s…

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Source: io9 – Space Sweepers Is a Wild Space Action Movie With a Meandering Core

Chloé Zhao Will Take on Another Kind of 'Eternal' With Dracula

A day after her historic Golden Globe nominations for Nomadland (she’s the first Asian woman to be nominated as Best Director in its entire 78-damn-year history), Universal Pictures has announced that Chloé Zhao will helm their upcoming and latest take on Dracula. This news neither bites nor sucks.

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Source: io9 – Chloé Zhao Will Take on Another Kind of ‘Eternal’ With Dracula

Mads Mikkelsen Is Grizzled as Hell in the New Chaos Walking Clip

Like a gift from the heavens, we have been bestowed a new clip from Chaos Walking, the “unreleasable” upcoming movie starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, and jackets. Jackets for days. In fact, I forgot the movie was called Chaos Walking because I just call it Jackets: The Movie.

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Source: io9 – Mads Mikkelsen Is Grizzled as Hell in the New Chaos Walking Clip

Mike Cahill's Bliss Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy About Hitting Rock Bottom

Gloom, loneliness, and despair are constants in life, but over the past year, those sorts of feelings have crowded way closer to nearly everyone. Bliss, the latest from Mike Cahill (Another Earth, I Origins), proposes all that darkness is actually just a grim simulation beamed from an idealized reality. Or is it?

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Source: io9 – Mike Cahill’s Bliss Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy About Hitting Rock Bottom

LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'The Mathematics of Fairyland' by Phoebe Barton

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Mathematics of Fairyland” by Phoebe Barton. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on our website. Enjoy!

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Brandy, Whitney, and Cinderella Are Finally Coming to Disney+

Buckle up, Gen Z—the sweetest sounds you’ve ever heard are about to stream straight into your earholes. Next week, Disney+ will drop Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella like a glass slipper right into our home streaming devices. For those of us who’ve spent years happily settling for low-quality clips on YouTube, this…

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Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel Take Us Inside Nocterra’s Dark Apocalypse Team

When we last saw Nocterra, the new sci-fi post-apocalyptic series created by DC all-star Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel, its preview first issue (and a little name change) was making waves on Kickstarter. But now the series is getting ready for release at Image Comics—and io9 has an exclusive look at its literally…

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Source: io9 – Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel Take Us Inside Nocterra’s Dark Apocalypse Team

In We're All Going to the World's Fair, the Void Does More Than Stare Back

If you’ve been following the coverage of this year’s all-digital Sundance film festival, there’s a very good chance that by the time you read this review, you’ll have already seen some version of the image above from Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. 

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Source: io9 – In We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, the Void Does More Than Stare Back

Black Panther: Sins of the King Writer Geoff Thorne Wants to Ask the Tough Questions

Though we’re still a long ways out from Ryan Coogler’s follow up to the first Black Panther movie and the recently-announced Wakanda series heading to Disney+, there’s quite a bit going on with T’Challa in the broader landscape of Marvel stories about mortals stepping up to the plate to become heroes and more.

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Source: io9 – Black Panther: Sins of the King Writer Geoff Thorne Wants to Ask the Tough Questions