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io9MoviesDune’s Cast Is Extremely Proud and Incredibly Close
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has amassed one of the biggest, most talented film casts in years. Many of them are bona fide superstars. You might expect that putting them in glorified wetsuits in the middle of the desert would cause one of them to complain—at least a little. However, when asked that very question, the director’s … Continued
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io9The 100 Did a Murder
I am consistently impressed by The 100, a CW show originally about criminal teens sent to a raditation-ravaged Earth as proverbial canaries in the coal mine, but is now about some kind of massive war that spans time and space and is just loaded with religious zealots and apocalypse cults. Few shows are so accomplished … Continued
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io9MoviesThe 6 Coolest Dune Book Spoilers We Spotted in the Trailer
The first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune was full of sand, which is rough and coarse and gets everywhere. But it also hinted at a few key, exciting moments from Frank Herbert’s book, ones that we simply have to talk about. After the spoiler warning below, we enter a no-holds-barred zone where anything and everything … Continued
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io9On Star Trek: Lower Decks, We Finally Meet an Ensign Who Actually Sucks at Their Job
When Star Trek: Lower Decks was first announced, the elevator pitch was essentially “people on an unimportant Starfleet ship being comically bad at their jobs.” And while its heroes have done plenty of mucking up (about as much as any Starfleet officer we’ve met on screen does, really), Lower Decks so far has introduced a crew … Continued
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io9MoviesReport: Wonder Woman 1984 and Dune Release Dates Likely to Be Moved
Are you still buzzing over that new Dune trailer today? Well, it’s probably best if you dial it back just a notch. Deadline reports Warner Bros. is very likely to move the release dates of Wonder Woman 1984, currently scheduled for October 2, and Dune, currently scheduled for December 18, back. Though exact dates have … Continued
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io9MoviesBreaking Down the Spice, Worms, and Pain Boxes in Dune‘s First Trailer
It’s finally here. We’ve been waiting months to see a (moving) look at Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel Dune. The debut trailer showed a beautiful but dangerous world on the brink of destruction and gives several hints that you may have missed on first viewing. Allow us to dig a … Continued
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io9Oh Hell Yeah, Q’s Coming to Star Trek: Lower Decks
John de Lancie is returning to Star Trek, and in just the right medium for more Continuum shenanigans. During yesterday’s Star Trek day celebrations—which gave us, among other things, a new Discovery trailer and very important images of David Ajala wearing a cat like it’s the fall’s hottest new look—the crew behind Star Trek: Lower … Continued
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io9Meet the Next Legendary Star Trek Pet: Grudge the Cat
We have breaking news. The upcoming season of Star Trek: Discovery is going to be the best one ever. We know this, for a fact, because it’ll be the first with Grudge the cat. Grudge, played by a floofy feline named Leeu (which means “lion” in Afrikaans), was introduced Tuesday as part of the big … Continued
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io9MoviesAs More Movie Theaters Open, We Ponder How the Rest of 2020 Will Play Out
Slowly but surely, movies and movie theaters are coming back. A few weeks ago, Disney released The New Mutants. Last weekend, Warner Bros. opened Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. In less than a month, if all goes according to plan, Wonder Woman 1984 will be in theaters. And yet, as these theaters and movies open, nothing feels … Continued
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io9MoviesIt’s Time to Prepare for the Sequels and Prequels of the Future
Losing weight, reading, creating something new: We all have our own goals when it comes to bettering ourselves during quarantine. Some of those goals are lofty. Others are much more manageable. Like, perhaps, preparing for the world on the other side of quarantine. And that preparation can mean anything. Like, let’s say, getting ready for … Continued
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io9The Mandalorian Season 2 First Look Teases a Game of Thrones-Style Escalation
The first season of Disney’s The Mandalorian was all about putting the pieces in place. You’ve got the story of a Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), who’s found himself taking care of his own bounty. Entertainment Weekly has the first look at season two, which sees Mando struggling to keep his charge safe—as outside forces converge to … Continued
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io9MoviesHugo Weaving Was Nearly Set to Appear in the Fourth Matrix Film
It just didn’t quite work out. The Matrix 4 is an exciting sequel, but is missing a couple key principles: Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving. While Fishburne wasn’t invited to join the movie at all, Hugo Weaving, apparently, was, and nearly ended up appearing in the film. Weaving played Agent Smith in the original trilogy, … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsWe Only Find Them When They’re Dead Is a Hauntingly Beautiful Comic About Strip-Mining God
It’s rare that a comic book can make slicing up hunks of celestial flesh one of the most soothing sights of the week, and yet, here we are. Out this week from Boom Studios, the first issue of Al Ewing and Simone di Meo’s We Only Find Them When They’re Dead—featuring colors from Mariasara Miotti … Continued
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io9Tokusatsu Nights Are Alright for Fighting
Giant robots are cool. Giant superheroes, too. Giant monsters? Also cool. But you know what makes them cooler? Fighting. At night. This not particularly trenchant insight came to me recently while watching an episode of the current Ultraman series, Ultraman Z. This year has, among other things, found me in the truest throes of returning … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsLesbian Necromancers in Space Will Break Your Heart
Forgive me, but Tamsyn Muir’s incredible debut, Gideon the Ninth, absolutely ruined me last year. The novel racked up a lot of accolades, and Muir has followed it up with a breathtaking sequel—Harrow the Ninth—that will disgust, amuse, and maybe even titillate you, and then break your heart all over again. And like a masochist … Continued
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io9Star Trek Is Celebrating Its Anniversary With Its Own Virtual Event
Next week, it’ll be 54 years since Star Trek properly hit screens with the airing of the salt-vampire goodness that is “The Man Trap.” To celebrate, the franchise is not getting salty at all: it’s celebrating with a 24 hour livestream event of panels and watch parties to get everyone in the mood. Announced today, … Continued
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io9TelevisionNetflix’s Biohackers Is Not the Tech Utopia You Might Expect
The German sci-fi series Biohackers has debuted on Netflix, ostensibly telling the story of a medical student who gets caught up in the world of biohacking. However, as we see in the first episode of this six-episode series, there’s a secret lurking underneath the surface. One that’s grabbed our attention. This is the debut of … Continued
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io9Lower Decks‘ Romantic Farce Asks What Happens When You’ve Seen Too Much Star Trek
So far, Star Trek: Lower Decks has found itself striking a pretty fine balance between jabbing at its franchise’s nerdiness and truly embracing it. But this week, in perhaps its closest move yet to comedic farce, it ponders an interesting question: what happens when a Star Trek character has seen too much Trek for their … Continued
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io9Star Trek: Discovery‘s Third Season Brings Trek‘s First Explicitly Trans and Nonbinary Characters
Star Trek: Discovery is heading into a new unknown next season, but the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery won’t be alone. CBS All Access has announced that two new characters are joining the cast for season three, and will be the franchise’s first explicitly nonbinary and transgender characters. In an announcement on StarTrek.com, the network … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsStar Wars Author J.W. Rinzler Goes to the Moon With His New Book
Star Wars. Indiana Jones. Alien. Planet of the Apes. Author J.W. Rinzler has written books on them all. However, for his latest project, he’s tackling a story that’s more famous than all those iconic movies combined: the Space Race. Rinzler’s latest book is called All Up, a fact-based fiction thriller blending impressive research and creative … Continued