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io9The Mandalorian Tempers High Action With Some Rewarding Character Work
After Moff Gideon kidnapped Grogu (Baby Yoda), the Mandalorian and his newfound crew had a singular goal: Find the Child and get him back. That journey took them to a few new places, with a few familiar faces, and through some tense, emotional moments that got to the core of Star Wars as we know … Continued
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io9MoviesDisney and Pixar’s New Animation Announcements Were Wild
While most of the news out of this year’s Disney Investor Day was focused on what’s coming next to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and the Star Wars franchise, Disney and Pixar also announced a host of bold, new animated projects revolving around both characters we’ve met before and a variety of fresh faces. Both Disney chief … Continued
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io9MoviesDune Director Slams Warner Bros. for HBO Max Release, Warns It May Doom the Franchise
Fear might be the mind killer, but streaming could wind up killing Dune itself. Director Denis Villeneuve is speaking out against WarnerMedia’s recent decision to give all of next year’s movies simultaneous releases on HBO Max, warning that it could mean the end of the franchise before it’s even begun. “Warner Bros.’ sudden reversal from … Continued
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io9The Stand Cast and Crew on Updating Stephen King’s Classic and Bringing Captain Trips to Life
Production on CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand wrapped shortly before the pandemic took hold. With an eerie new context now couching its release, the series aims to update the 1978 novel, which was previously made into the 1994 miniseries and features a new ending written by King himself. A recent … Continued
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io9TrailersServant‘s Creepy Baby Is Back in Season 2 Trailer
Tell no one, baby lives. By its season one finale, M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series Servant had raised more questions than it had actually answered about live-in nanny Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free), the show’s soft-spoken, deeply religious agent of chaos. In the trailer for its second season premiering next month, Leanne returns to … Continued
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io9TrailersIn The Midnight Sky Trailer, George Clooney Tries to Warn Astronauts of a Climate Disaster
A group of astronauts have ventured out into space and are now on their way home, but what if there’s no home to go back to? In the latest trailer for Netflix’s The Midnight Sky, star and director George Clooney is desperate to keep a crew of returning explorers, led by Felicity Jones, as far … Continued
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io9TelevisionBrian K. Vaughan Is Resurrecting Another Sci-Fi Classic
Chris Evans has joined Adam McKay’s asteroid disaster movie at Netflix. The Green Hornet and Kato reboot has found its writer. NBC has tapped a female-focused take on Zorro. Plus, good news for The Handmaid’s Tale, what’s to come on Star Trek: Discovery, and were-folks fight Santas. To me, my spoilers! Don’t Look Up Deadline … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsMeet the Heroes of Disney+’s She-Hulk and Hawkeye Series
Despite whatever buzz and seeming confirmations you may hear about the casting in major Marvel projects, nothing’s really set in stone until you hear the words from Kevin Feige himself, as was the case during today’s Disney Investor Day when the presentation turned to She-Hulkand Hawkeye. After an initial bit of confusion as to whether … Continued
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io9MoviesChris Evans Will Play the Original Buzz Lightyear in a New Pixar Adventure
Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear was an action figure with delusions of grandeur, imagining himself to actually be the space ranger his toyline was based on. Now, 24 years after that idea, Pixar is returning to it to tell an all-new sci-fi story about the original Buzz Lightyear saga. Lightyear, announced at today’s Disney Investor Day … Continued
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io9TrailersWandaVision‘s New Trailer Is a Nod to Scarlet Witch’s Most Twisted Storyline
After days of Marvel teasing that something WandaVision-related might be dropping sometime this week, Disney’s most-recent Investor Day delivered in the form of a brand new trailer. Unlike WandaVision’s first trailer that focused on playing up the series’ use of various kinds of sitcom aesthetics to tell a genre-bending story, the newest digs more into … Continued
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io9MoviesFantastic Four Finally Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and More Huge News
It’s official. The Fantastic Four is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts (Spider-Man Homecoming) will direct. And that’s only the beginning. The news came at the end of a long, densely packed Marvel Studios presentation during Disney’s 2020 Investor’s Day event. Here’s a little tease. But that was just the beginning of the news. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsMs. Marvel Makes Her MCU Debut in This First Look
Have no fear, Marvel universe—Ms. Marvel is here! Just revealed at the Disney Investor Day event, our first look at Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, in the upcoming Ms. Marvel Disney+ series from Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Meer Menon. The series follows the young Carol-Danvers-loving Kamala as she finds herself transformed … Continued
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io9Alien Is Coming to TV…and Earth
The rumors are true: Alien is coming to TV. Shortly before all the Star Wars news overtook today’s Disney newsapalooza came the announcement that FX is working with Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion) to create a series based on Ridley Scott’s blockbuster sci-fi horror franchise. The big news, besides the fact that this is even happening, is that … Continued
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io9MoviesPatty Jenkins Will Direct the Next Star Wars Movie, Rogue Squadron
It’s going to be some time before we see a new Star Wars movie in theaters but, now, at least we know what that’s going to be. On Disney’s 2020 Investor Day Thursday, it was announced that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins would direct Rogue Squadron, scheduled for release December 22, 2023. It’s described as … Continued
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io9TrailersStar Wars: Bad Batch‘s First Trailer Shows the Fall of a Republic
The Clone War may be over. But Clone Force 99’s war is only just about to begin. Today at the Disney Investor Day livestream, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy revealed the first look at what to expect from the Clone Wars continuation based around the elite Clone force introduced in Clone Wars’ seventh and final season. … Continued
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io9Huge Star Wars Updates: Andor Teaser, Obi-Wan Timeline, Lando Show, and The Acolyte
Star Wars and Disney+ will continue to get cozy even when The Mandalorain isn’t around. At Disney’s 2020 Investor’s Day event, significant updates were given on the other Star Wars official shows we knew were coming to Disney+. First up, the Diego Luna-starring Cassian Andor series Andor will be released in 2022 and began filming … Continued
