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The Darkest Minds Looks Like the Young X-Men Film We Never Knew We Wanted

Fox just released the first trailer for its adaptation of Alexandra Bracken’s scifi young adult series, The Darkest Minds. If you didn’t realize it was based on Bracken’s novels and took away the title, at first glance it’d honestly make for a pretty interesting looking member of the studio’s swathe of X-Men films. Set in … Continued

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The House With a Clock in Its Walls Trailer Features a Whole Different Kind of Haunted House

The latest film from the director of Hostel and Cabin Fever features a house so haunted, it has its own heart. However, despite Eli Roth’s reputation, this isn’t a gory horror movie. It’s produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, which means the scares are fun for the whole family! Starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett, … Continued

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Report: Amazon May Pay $1 Billion to Adapt the Hugo-Winning Chinese Novel The Three-Body Problem

The Hugo-winning Chinese novel The Three-Body Problem could become Amazon’s Game of Thrones. A new report from Financial Times suggests Amazon is pursuing a deal to make a three-season television show based on the trilogy from Liu Cixin, and it may be willing to pay up to $1 billion to do so. According to the … Continued

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Thrawn: Alliances Is Sending Darth Vader and Thrawn to Disneyland, Kind of

We at io9 pray to the altar of Grand Admiral Thrawn. This is a well-known fact. So when the first excerpt from Timothy Zahn’s new book, Thrawn: Alliances came online, there was quite a bit of excitement followed by pure elation at its awesome revelations. The excerpt, posted by StarWars.com, sets up the crux of … Continued

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This New Star Trek Book Is a Remarkably Intimate Look at the People Making the Show, as They Made It

The making of the original Star Trek television series, has been well documented at this point. But a new book examines some of the rarest artifacts from the cast and crew and their time making the series, through behind-the-scenes photos, letters to fans and producers alike, and much more—and we’ve got a wonderful look inside. … Continued

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Impulse, the Doug Liman Jumper Spinoff Series, Looks Way Darker Than We Were Expecting

The first trailer for a new YouTube Red series called Impulse just came online and, on the surface, it looks like your basic, intriguing, YA science fiction series. But this isn’t a basic YA science fiction series. Produced by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow, Bourne Identity), Impulse is named after the third book in the … Continued

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All the Things the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Novelization Adds to the Movie

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has finally made its way to home release this month, packed with featurettes, commentaries, and deleted scenes that enhance our understanding of the film. But this month also saw the movie enter another form: a novelization that adds more to The Last Jedi even beyond its deleted scenes. There’s one … Continued

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Steven Spielberg Tried to Get Star Wars Into Ready Player One, But Couldn’t [CORRECTED]

Correction: Despite his own quotes to the contrary, Steven Spielberg told Fandango Friday that Disney did allow Star Wars references into Ready Player One. You can listen to him talk about it below, followed by the original article. From Back to the Future and The Iron Giant, to Akira and The A-Team, Ernest Cline’s Ready … Continued

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The First Reactions to Ready Player One Are Mostly Positive… Mostly

Steven Spielberg’s latest flick Ready Player One had its world premiere at SXSW on Sunday, and many critics are in love with what they’re calling a touching tribute to pop culture and nostalgia. However, there are those who see it less as a love letter and more as pandering to a very specific subset of … Continued

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A Look at A Wrinkle in Time‘s Weird and Probably Unfilmable Sequels

Critics may have had mixed feelings about the new A Wrinkle in Time adaptation, but if it rules the box office this weekend, chances are Hollywood will consider making a sequel. The good news is there are already plenty more stories about Meg Murry and her family—but are any of them actually movie-friendly? It’s not … Continued

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5 Recent Scifi and Fantasy Books That Would Make Amazing Movies or TV Shows

Annihilation is out now, season two of The Handmaid’s Tale is coming soon, and tons of other high-profile scifi and fantasy adaptations are either already making a huge impact (Game of Thrones) or arriving soon with much fanfare (Ready Player One). So what should lure Hollywood’s genre-obsessed gaze next? We’ve got some suggestions. These recent scifi … Continued

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The Little Women Are Brooklynites in a New Graphic Novel Adaptation

Little Women is a classic novel about four sisters finding themselves and their purpose in life during one of the most tumultuous times in American history. To celebrate the novel’s 150th anniversary, the story has been modernized to bring us a group of girls who might face new challenges in a different (but still tumultuous) … Continued

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Fantasy Writer Terry Goodkind Now Claims He Hated His Book Cover Because It’s ‘Sexist’

Author Terry Goodkind—best known for the Sword of Truth series—recently came out with some harsh criticism of the cover for his latest fantasy novel, Shroud of Eternity, resulting in backlash from the artist and others in the scifi and fantasy communities. Now, Goodkind is saying that his problem with the cover was sexism all along. … Continued

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28 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Well Worth Checking Out in March

Spring is almost here, and with it a fresh crop of science fiction and fantasy books to fill your shelves—with stories about werewolves, witches, evil pioneers, psychic living weapons, reluctant superheroes, space travelers, robot angels, rogue princesses, and so much more. The One: A Cruise Through the Solar System by Eric Klein A regular dude … Continued

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A Space Traveler Uncovers an Impossible Mystery in the Thrilling First Chapter of Emma Newman’s Before Mars

A geologist whose art has captured the imagination of a space-obsessed multibillionaire accepts a new a gig on Mars, partially as a way to escape the postpartum depression that’s been plaguing her back on Earth. But as soon as she arrives, she makes a shocking discovery—and suddenly she’s surrounded by strangers she can’t trust in … Continued

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling, About a Planet Where Culture Itself Is Illegal, Is Getting a Movie

Before her passing earlier this year, acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin had been working on bringing her novel The Telling to the big screen. Today, the company behind it has announced it’s moving forward on the project, with a scifi favorite along for the ride. Bayview Films has announced that Leena Pendharkar, director of the … Continued

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Episodes From Doctor Who‘s Revival Are Getting the Old School Novelization Treatment

Doctor Who fans who grew up in the classic era of the show are more than familiar with the nostalgic legacy of the Target (no relation to the retail store) novelizations—in an era before repeats and home releases, they were often your only chance to re-experience an episode. These days episode novelizations are no longer … Continued

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You Can Magically Visit Parts of the British Library’s Harry Potter Collection Online

Last year, the British Library launched a Harry Potter-themed exhibition of rare art and manuscripts not just from the beloved series, but artifacts from folklores and mystical beliefs from across the world. Thanks to the rabid desires of the Potter fanbase, tickets quickly sold out—but if you missed out, you can now see parts of … Continued

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Michael B. Jordan Brings Ray Bradbury’s Haunting Dystopia to Life in the First Trailer for Fahrenheit 451

After what feels like ages, we finally have our first good look at HBO’s movie adaptation of Ray Bradbuy’s iconic novel Fahrenheit 451, and unsurprisingly, it’s bringing the heat. Literally. Set in a society where the written word is outlawed, Fahrenheit 451 follows fireman Guy Montag (played by Michael B. Jordan in the movie), a … Continued

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Fantasy Author Terry Goodkind Wants Everyone to Know How Much He Hates His New Novel’s Cover Art

Terry Goodkind—best known for The Sword of Truth series—has publicly apologized after posting scathing criticism of the cover art for his latest book, Shroud of Eternity. The author eventually laid the blame on his publisher, Tor Books, but the artist who created the cover says it’s not good enough. Goodkind recently wrote a post on Facebook … Continued