With The Cloverfield Paradox and 10 Cloverfield Lane, the idea of a “Cloverfield” movie has endured long past the release of the 2008 original. But we never found out more about that story. That monster. And now, that might finally be changing.
Source: io9 – A Direct Sequel to Cloverfield Is Finally in the Works
The most recent episode of WandaVision was dynamite. It began to contextualize and answer questions people had in ways only a Marvel Studios show could while making the first three episodes even more crucial to the overall story. And if you think everything so far was good, this next video teases just how much more is…
Source: io9 – So You Thought This Week’s WandaVision Got Wild? Just Wait
When we last left the intrepid pilots of the Alphabet Squadron, the ragtag group of New Republic pilots had had a rough time of it, as do most Star Wars protagonists in the middle of their trilogy. Now, author Alexander Freed is about to conclude the series with Victory’s Price, coming out on March 2. But a new…
Source: io9 – Star Wars’ Alphabet Squadron Tries to Put the Space Debris Back Together in Victory’s Price
The Wrong Turn movies are nobody’s favorite horror franchise. But somehow, the series about cannibal mutants who prey on directionally challenged road trippers has been thriving for nearly two decades. And a since the seventh (yes, seventh!) Wrong Turn arrived this week, we’re taking a look back at the whole damn…
Source: io9 – All the Wrong Turn Movies, Ranked and Roasted on a Spit
What if you replaced all the characters in the opening sequence of the anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion with adorably pudgy cartoon cats? What if you replaced the lyrics to “Cruel Angel’s Thesis,” the series’ iconic theme song, with cat meows? Now, what if, instead of this just being some cute fan parody,…
Source: io9 – Cats in Evangelion, All Is Right With the World
After WandaVision’s first three episodes, the series was in the position to make a choice whether to keep on focusing specifically on Wanda and Vision’s suburban bubble reality, or finally shift focus to one of its other characters like Monica Rambeau, whose perspectives might provide some important information about…
Source: io9 – WandaVision’s Menacing Signal Is Finally Cutting Through the Noise
The intersection of pets and role-playing games is a natural one: both bring us hours of fun and enjoyment, all without having to leave our homes. But what if your cat, dog, or other loyal companion could join the game, too? An adorable Dungeons & Dragons-themed book shows us just what that might look like.
Source: io9 – Campaigns & Companions Will Delight RPG Fans Who Are Obsessed With Their Pets
After years of only existing in the primordial chaos of Zack Snyder’s mind, the (closest thing one can consider to the) infamous Snyder Cut of the Justice League is finally being released to the public both by way of HBO Max, and the movie’s premiere is coming soon.
Source: io9 – Zack Snyder’s Justice League Hits HBO Max This March
Is it “announce all the new animation” week at Netflix? Because we just learned that Kong Skull Island and the Tomb Raider games are getting anime series, and now Molly Ostertag’s best-selling YA graphic novel The Witch Boy joins these ever-growing ranks with an animated movie musical. You know…Disney style.
Source: io9 – Netflix Conjures Up LGBTQ Graphic Novel The Witch Boy as an Animated Movie Musical
It’s hard to top playing Batman, but George Clooney may get a shot. The Oscar-winning actor, producer, and director is joining up with writer Brian K. Vaughan to make Buck Rogers, a limited series about the timeless, hugely impactful sci-fi character.
Source: io9 – George Clooney May Play Buck Rogers in Brian K. Vaughan’s Series
As messy a film as it is, one of the most fascinating things about The Rise of Skywalker is how heavily it leans into the mythic fantasy that has long been pushed to the fringes of Star Wars movies. It’s weird stuff, expanding what we typically see of the Force and the strange worlds of ancient Sith magics and cults.…
Source: io9 – Marvel’s Darth Vader Comic Is Building on Mustafar’s Mystic Rise of Skywalker Shadow
Because you’re reading io9, you understand that by the time a movie makes its way to theaters or to a streaming platform, the project has gone through countless revisions at almost every step of the production process, from initial conceptualization to reshoots to the day the finished product is available to…
Source: io9 – The Emperor’s New Groove Didn’t Have an [INSERT NOUN HERE] By the Time It Was in Theaters
Shin Godzilla was a Japanese movie that brought the idea of the original Godzilla—a mindless giant monster and merciless force of nature—to see how modern Japan would handle him. Shin Ultraman, a similar reimagining of the hero who spawned the entire genre of tokutatsu shows from the same team behind Shin Godzilla, is…
Source: io9 – The First Shin Ultraman Movie Footage Is a Modern Blast From the Past
Today marks the first day of a film festival that introduced the world to filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Ryan Coogler, and Damien Chazelle, just to name a few. It’s day one of the virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Source: io9 – Nicolas Cage’s Prisoners of the Ghostland Was Only Going to Premiere in One Place
It seems like only yesterday that Marvel Comics enlisted your help for picking the next member of that vaunted group of mutant superheroes, the X-Men. As you might remember, the candidates available for you to vote for aren’t quite the most well-known X-characters. (Those polls numbers above are current, for the…
Source: io9 – Open Channel: Who Do You Want to Be the Next Member of the X-Men, Anyway?
Holy cow. Whenever we write these Co-op pieces where we ask our readers to help pick the best products, we always get wonderful insights from the comments, with some cheekiness mixed in for good measure. But I was not prepared for how passionate the response would be when we asked people for their favorite two-player…
Source: io9 – The Best Two-Player Board Game, According to Our Readers
In HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, a barely functional alcoholic with a history of profound trauma finds herself suddenly placed smack dab in the middle of both an FBI investigation and a murder mystery after she wakes up one morning in a hotel—only to find the man she’d hooked up with the night before brutally…
Source: io9 – The Flight Attendant’s Take on Mind Palaces Is the Series’ Surprising Strength
Disney+’s WandaVision series has (mostly) been a chipper televised event for the Scarlet Witch and her synthezoid husband. They’ve experienced all the enforced happiness that sitcoms from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s were built on, but a clip from this Friday’s coming episode looks like it’s going to explore what’s behind…
Source: io9 – This Week’s WandaVision Looks Jam-Packed With Marvel Links
In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, the lord of the Dreaming’s journey from imprisonment by mortals back into his abstract realm of thought brings him face to face with a number of figures across the unraveling reality. And now, Netflix’s adaptation has found a few of those faces, and the Dream himself.
Source: io9 – Netflix’s Sandman Adaptation Has Found Its Dream, Devil, and Demons
