When you think about Blade Runner, you think about the unicorn. Even though the film is filled with famous iconography—from spinners and skylines to Harrison Ford himself—somehow it’s that origami unicorn that stands out as the most important. Maybe it’s because while those other things set the mood, the unicorn, as…
Source: io9 – Prove You’re Not a Replicant With This Rad Blade Runner Unicorn
Buckle up, friends: Marceline and Bubblegum are back.
Source: io9 – Adventure Time: Distant Lands’ New Trailer Has Bubbline, Evil Dragons, and a Sick Ride
With the delayed release of A Quiet Place Part II now set for early next year, Paramount is already working on expanding the franchise. It’s hired director Jeff Nichols to make a third film in the series, based on an idea by franchise co-creator, star, and director John Krasinski.
Source: io9 – A Third Quiet Place Movie Is on Track for 2022
The second episode of The Mandalorian’s second season took its central bounty hunter and his infant space gremlin son from the deserts of Tatooine to a dangerous new locale as part of a mission to help save a family. But within its larger, horror-driven plot, “The Passenger” ended up drawing attention to something…
Source: io9 – This Is Not the Way, Baby Yoda
It’s been a wild year for the comics industry, and perhaps few have had a wilder year than one of its biggest stalwarts, DC Comics. From battling fallout from the coronavirus pandemic to launching a major new distribution deal away from the industry’s most powerful distribution networks, to massive layoffs and…
Source: io9 – DC Comics Has a New Editor in Chief: Marie Javins
Body-swap horror comedy Freaky is the perfect distraction from the real-life horror show known as 2020. The film is clever, funny, gross, all the things you could want in a piece of entertainment: it’s also a tad disposable and obvious.
Source: io9 – Freaky Is Fun, But Familiar
Jennifer Jason Leigh is incredibly versatile, with a career that’s spanned wildly different movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Anomalisa, Single White Female, The Hudsucker Proxy, Dolores Claiborne, and The Hateful Eight. She’s not always the lead, and the films she’s in are not always masterpieces—but she…
Source: io9 – 6 Excellent Jennifer Jason Leigh Sci-Fi Performances
Last year, Magic: The Gathering built up its lore to an Avengers: Endgame of its own: powerful planeswalkers from across decades of Magic sets united to fight the dread threat of the Elder Dragon Nicol Bolas, and his plot to ascend to godhood. Now, a new artbook is collecting the story and sights behind the War of the…
Source: io9 – Look at the Art Behind One of Magic: The Gathering’s Biggest Events
This weekend might have given us a light at the end of a long tunnel, but it doesn’t change the fact that 2020 has sucked. Luckily, Lil Nas X is here to warm up our season with a Back to the Future III meets The Santa Clause tribute starring none other than Michael J. Fox himself.
Source: io9 – Back to the Future’s Michael J. Fox Has Sage Advice for Lil Nas X
Donald Trump has, within very few shadows of a doubt, lost the 2020 presidential election, but the fighting from his campaign has not stopped, now turning (predictably) to false claims of voter fraud. They even set up a hotline for people to call in tips! Unfortunately for them, the internet exists. And the internet…
Source: io9 – Alex Hirsch Used His Gravity Falls Voice Acting Talents to Prank Trump’s Voter Fraud Hotline
His Dark Materials is gearing up for its second season, and it might be even moodier than you expect, thanks (?) to the pandemic.
Source: io9 – Quarantine Might Have Made the Upcoming Season of His Dark Materials Even Darker
In some places, it can still be tricky to get a test for covid-19 done in a timely manner, forcing you to wait days for results. But not so on the set of Jurassic World: Dominion, which just wrapped a mammoth 18-month production that, among other things, used up 40,000 covid-19 tests.
Source: io9 – Jurassic World: Dominion Used a Whopping 40,000 Covid-19 Tests During Its Lengthy Production
Alex Trebek, the legendary television host who greeted Jeopardy! viewers night after night for nearly four decades, has died. He was 80 years old.
Source: io9 – Iconic Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Is Dead at 80
Today, in news from the utterly inexplicable: Both Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.,” and NSYNC’s ode to fucking off, “Bye Bye Bye,” have suddenly leaped into the digital charts, suggesting that the American people have suddenly and spontaneously picked up an interest in partying, as well as cutting ties with…
Source: io9 – Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.,” NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” suddenly charting for some reason
Lt. Commander Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) have had a long, challenging journey. Now, they’re together, but they’re not in the best of circumstances. In an interesting conversation, Rapp and Cruz discuss the way Discovery has developed its crew dynamics and how Stamets and Culber’s love story…
Source: io9 – Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz Talk the Messy Family Dynamics in Star Trek: Discovery
The production of The Mandalorian’s second season was followed by a ton of rumors about casting, a couple of which we already know to be true. Now, the second season hasn’t even finished running yet and the rumor mill is continuing apace, giving us a potential preview at both The Mandalorian and the growing Star Wars …
Source: io9 – We’re Already Getting Rumors About Future The Mandalorian Casting
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was a compelling cavalcade of phobias and monstrosities, but there’s plenty of room for a sequel to up the ante. And it turns out that sequel is still happening, and looking to be even more faithful to the source material.
Source: io9 – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Is Still on Pace to Get a Spooky Sequel
If there’s a zombie
apocalypse, Colin Firth is in trouble. Zombies don’t care how dapper you are,
after all.
Source: io9 – Colin Firth to Face Down the Undead in New York Will Eat You Alive
