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io9MoviesChanning Tatum Is Set to Star in a Monster Movie From 21 Jump Street Directors, Lord and Miller
Cue “The Boys are Back in Town.” Channing Tatum is reuniting with his very funny former directors on 21 Jump Street, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, for another film. A monster movie. As reported by Deadline, the masters of upcoming movie announcements, Tatum is joining Lord and Miller for a monster-related project at Universal Pictures. … Continued
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io9The Last of Us Television Adaptation Is a Go at HBO
From the mind behindChernobyl and some of the folks at game developer Naughty Dog, The Last of Us, the hit PlayStation series about a fungus-based zombie apocalypse, is officially making its way to television. As shared by HBO yesterday in a press release, the The Last of Us series, which has been in development since … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWe Need to Talk About Franklin
Way back at the very beginning of Marvel’s Dawn of X, the Fantastic Four and members of the newly founded mutant nation of Krakoa crossed paths in a fateful, chance encounter that underlined just what it is about this new mutant age that scares the rest of the world so much. That subsequent tension between … Continued
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io9Toys & CollectiblesTransfomers and X-Men Collide, and More of the Most Mutagenic Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things good and plastic. This week: Hasbro turns its transforming eye to another nostalgic mashup. Mando Monday reinforcements bring The Mandalorian’s big bad to the Star Wars Black Series. Also? Warm Kirby. Check it out! Hasbro Transformers Generations Collaborative: Marvel Comics X-Men Mash-Up, Ultimate X-Spanse … Continued
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io9MoviesBlack Panther 2 Will Reportedly Begin Shooting This Summer
The unthinkable loss of Chadwick Boseman understandably slowed down the timeline on Black Panther 2. Originally, production was aiming to start in March 2021 for a May 6, 2022 release, but then then tragedy struck. However, things have slowly begun to pick back up, and a new report says filming will begin in July 2021. … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsBlack Lightning‘s 4th Season Will Be Its Last on the CW
Hot off the news that Black Lightning’s reformed assassin Painkiller may star in his own spinoff series, the CW’s just announced that Black Lightning itself is coming to an abrupt end. Per Variety, Black Lightning’s upcoming fourth season will be its last. It’s interesting considering the news comes at a time when the series’ titular … Continued
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io9MoviesA New Predator Movie Is in the Works
Apparently the Predator franchise doesn’t bleed because you just can’t kill it. Despite a disappointing fourth entry in 2018, 20th Century Studios is looking to bring the sci-fi action franchise back to life with a mysterious fifth installment. Deadline reports that Dan Trachtenberg is in talks to helm a fifth Predator with a script by Patrick … Continued
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io9MoviesDeadpool 3 Finally Has Some Life
The Merc with the Mouth may finally be making his way to Disney’s Marvel Studios. Deadline reports Marvel has hired writers Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin to pen a third Deadpool movie, with Ryan Reynolds attached to reprise the role. According to the report, Reynolds has been taking meetings with writers and hearing their pitches … Continued
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io9The Mandalorian Brings Big Action and Even Bigger Mysteries
Chapter 12 of The Mandalorian saw our hero return to a familiar planet, meet some old friends, and go on an old-fashioned Star Wars adventure. Along the way, he learned some crucial information about the Child, the Empire, and reignited an old rivalry that’s sure to shape the second half of the second season. Did you … Continued
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io9Stranger Things Season 4 Adds a Horror Icon to Its Cast
So far, we don’t know too much about Stranger Things season four, other than the fact that Hopper is really, really far away from Hawkins thanks to the events of season three. But some exciting casting news announced today sheds a little more light on what to expect—and who to expect, for that matter. As … Continued
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io9Onyx Equinox Creator Sofia Alexander Opens Up About Weaving Mythology Into Reality
When the gods of Crunchyroll’s new anime-inspired series Onyx Equinox decide that the fate of humanity should be determined by an epic game, a young boy named Izel’s life takes a turn for the divine and dangerous. He’s tapped to become the one person capable of keeping the living from being sucked into the underworld. … Continued
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io9Kirby Morrow, X-Men: Evolution‘s Cyclops and So Many More, Has Died
Kirby Morrow, Stargate Atlantis’ Captain Kleinman and the voice behind some of the most iconic English anime dubs, has passed away at 47. Morrow appeared as Kleinman—the USAF Captain acting as the weapons officer aboard the Daedalus—in Atlantis and reprised the role once more in Stargate Universe. But if you grew up in the late … Continued
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io9TelevisionMs. Marvel’s First Set Pictures Are Here
The Pink Panther returns in a new movie from the mind behind the Sonic the Hedgehog film. Joe Manganiello teases Deathstroke’s return in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Katee Sackhoff discusses the Battlestar Galactica reboot. Plus, more Walking Dead casting, and a teeny new teaser for Batwoman’s return. To me, my spoilers! The Pink Panther Sonic … Continued
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io9The Mandalorian Chapter 12 Spoiler Discussion Zone Is Right Here
Is this finally the episode? Will The Mandalorian actually cross paths with the apprentice of Anakin Skywalker? At the end of last week’s episode, “The Heiress,” Bo-Katan told Din Djarin he could find a Jedi by the name of Ahsoka Tano in the city of Calodan, on the forest planet of Corvus. The episode then … Continued
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io9TrailersThe Fairy Godmother Makes a Comeback in Disney’s Godmothered
When you were growing up, every kids’ movie had some form of a fairy godmother. A magical being that teamed up with a young kid to make their dreams come true. However, some reason or another, that’s kind of stopped being a thing, which is where the new Disney movie Godmothered picks up. Directed by … Continued
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io9The Walking Dead Will Return in February, and a Terminator Is Along for the Ride
Season 10 of The Walking Dead is rising from the grave. As previously announced, the 10th season has been extended for six additional episodes and now we know those will start airing on February 28. When the episodes return, there will be a few new cast members, among them Terminator 2 star Robert Patrick as … Continued
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io9MoviesNew Superintelligence Featurette Has a Refreshingly Nihilistic View of Humanity
In director Brad Falcone’s upcoming HBO Max feature Superintelligence, Melissa McCarthy’s Carol Peters, a genuinely good-hearted woman, is tasked with proving that the human race deserves not to be annihilated by an all-seeing artificial intelligence that understandably has its doubts whether humanity’s past the point of saving. Carol is, of course, alarmed. Rather than following … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsDMZ Is Officially a Go at HBO Max, and Here’s the First Look
Wonder Woman 1984 isn’t the only DC news for HBO Max this week. The streamer has just officially greenlit its adaptation of the comic series DMZ from Roberto Patino and Ava DuVernay. It stars Rosario Dawson and Benjamin Bratt, and will be presented as a four-part limited series. News broke last year that DuVernay and … Continued
