After almost a dozen video games and one forgettable movie, Assassin’s Creed is leaping into a whole medium: streaming. Game company Ubisoft has partnered with Netflix to develop content based on the franchise, beginning with a live-action television adaptation.
Source: io9 – Assassin’s Creed Is Netflix’s Next Multimedia Franchise
While Steven Universe’s epic story has come to a close, the Crystal Gems aren’t quite finished with the world just yet.
Source: io9 – New Steven Universe PSA States the Obvious: Racism Is for Losers
Sure, Luke Skywalker did some psychic magic and blew up a superweapon. Princess Leia is a charismatic commander on the front lines. Han Solo is ride or die for his friends and fellow rebels, especially if he can cut up a tauntaun in the process. But the Rebel Alliance is not three people. It’s built on the shoulders…
Source: io9 – A Look Inside Empire Strikes Back’s Anniversary Anthology Reveals the Unsung Hero of Echo Base
Netflix’s upcoming The Midnight Sky, an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel Good Morning, Midnight, tells the story of a scientist who realizes that he’s the only person capable of saving a group of astronauts from returning to their calamity-stricken planet. But considering George Clooney’s very snowy beard,…
Source: io9 – In The Midnight Sky’s First Trailer, the End of All Things Is Beautiful
As it is wont to do every few years, Netflix took to Japanese audiences overnight and announced it would continue acquiring and funding a metric butt-ton of new anime projects over the next few years. That’s cool and all but anyway: yo, look at Jet Goddamn Jaguar.
Source: io9 – Netflix Announced a Bunch of New Anime and I’d Cancel It All for One More Second of This Jet Jaguar
In the late 1980s, around the time I started kindergarten, my older sister came home from church with a list of bands that worshipped the devil, according to her youth pastor. Eight years older than me and fiercely religious, my sister secretly went through all five rooms of our shitty rented house collecting cassette…
Source: io9 – Thank the Satanic Panic for Beetlejuice, The Addams Family, and the Golden Age of Creepy Kids’ Shit
Though Starz’s live-action adaptation has been met with more than a few bumps in the road over the course of its first two seasons, the series is set to return for a third season that will take its hero Shadow Moon to the strange town of Lakeside. He initially believes himself to be safe, only to find that things in…
Source: io9 – Neil Gaiman Says American Gods’ Third Season Is ‘Timely’ in an Open Letter to Fans
Adam Sandler’s heading to space and an alien spider is his only friend. Bette Midler says that the Sanderson Sisters will indeed return for the new Hocus Pocus. New set pictures from Scream 5 tease Courteney Cox’s return. Plus, Bruce Campbell teases Evil Dead’s new hero, and behind the scenes on His Dark Materials.…
Source: io9 – Updates From The Matrix 4, The Suicide Squad, and More
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Halloween is nearly upon us, and while the world has its mind on certain things that are happening in early November, there’s still room to get in the spooky spirit—quickly!—with these six horrific short films.
Source: io9 – 6 Spooky Shorts to Get You in the Halloween Spirit
It has had its bumps and its ups and downs, but Star Trek: Discovery has come bolting out of the gate with the start of its third season, leveraging its fascinating premise with stark, simple ideas that Star Trek has held since its very beginning. In the process, it’s finally undoing some of the things that have…
Source: io9 – This Might Be My Favorite Star Trek: Discovery Scene
Within the span of just a few months, Batwoman recast its lead actress and is now set to usher in an entirely new caped crusader who, surprise surprise, has just made her debut in DC’s comics. While we know a bit about what kind of person Ryan Wilder—portrayed by Javicia Leslie—will be, one of the big questions up in…
Source: io9 – Our New Batwoman Makes a Bold Impression in the First Season 2 Photos
A found-footage horror podcast is being turned into an eight-episode Netflix show executive produced by horror master James Wan. The show is called Archive 81 and it’ll star Mamoudou Athie (Black Box, Underwater) and Dina Shihabi (Altered Carbon, Jack Ryan).
Source: io9 – James Wan’s Archive 81 Could Be Netflix’s Next Horror Hit
Though Titans has never been one of DC’s strongest live-action series, HBO Max has given the show a third season—and with it, yet another chance to capture audiences’ imaginations with its depiction of a gritty world in which the Titans are seemingly the only people really trying to take down villains. All sorts of…
Source: io9 – Titans’ Red Hood Is on the Warpath in New Season 3 Images
The extreme level of secrecy behind the big reveal in the first season of Star Wars: The Mandalorian meant that the public’s immediate thirst for Baby Yoda merchandise went unquenched for a long time. Disney’s not making that mistake with season two, and ahead of the series’ return, Mattel has just revealed an RC…
Source: io9 – This RC Baby Yoda Waddles Around Your House Like a 50-Year-Old Toddler
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Appropriate that we can ring in the very end of this cursed year with witches and eldritch calamity.
Source: io9 – The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Final Battle Arrives on New Year’s Eve
Sometimes, it feels like a storyteller is just hungry for blood. You know, the George R.R. Martin types who revel in the shock and dramatic appeal of letting their characters die. With James Gunn on The Suicide Squad, that might have been more true than you’d think.
Source: io9 – James Gunn Reportedly Had Warner Bros. Agree He Could Kill Whichever The Suicide Squad Characters He Wanted
The power brokers
behind film and TV are only now just barely beginning to maybe understand the
value of diverse writers’ rooms, and the importance of having people behind the
screen who reflect the identities being explored on screen. Which makes Cheo Hodari
Coker’s accomplishments as the showrunner of Luke
Cage …
Source: io9 – Cheo Hodari Coker Talks Building an Inclusive Writers’ Room for Luke Cage
