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T.J. Miller’s ‘Ready Player One’ Character Is Basically Boba Fett Steven Spielbergis aT.J. Millerfan, as he should be. Ever since Miller starred in one season of the short-lived DreamWorks show,Carpoolers, he’s been friendly with the legendary filmmaker, who wanted to cast him inOffice Christmas Party. After that comedy, Spielberg decidedto bringMiller into the OASIS forReady Player One. In the virtual reality-centric science fiction film, theSilicon Valleystar will play a character inspired by a bounty hunter we all know....

The ‘Die Hard’ Prequel May Tell You Everything You’ve Never Needed To Know About John McClane What’s with all the origin stories these days? Are audiences asking for them? Do studios think movie fans want their favorite characters demystified and explained to death? Isn’t a character’s behavior enough to illustrate where they’ve been and what they’ve seen? Apparently not, which is why we hear so much news about origin stories and prequels....

The 15 Best ‘American Horror Story’ Characters American Horror Story: Cultis currently underway, and the season is a remarkable return to form for the anthology series, which is semi-infamous for its great but occasionally hollow concepts. Still, even when the show flounders in plot, it’s an always-great showcase for actors looking to sink their teeth into meaty roles.Cultsees the return ofAHSveterans like Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters, who are turning in career-best performances as the trauma and phobia-afflicted Ally Mayfair-Richards and the maniacal Kai Anderson....

The Snyder Cut Will Be A “Radical Rethinking” Of ‘Justice League’, Costing Considerably More Than $30 Million To Finish According to WarnerMedia chairman and HBO Max headBob Greenblatt, the infamous Snyder Cut ofJustice League"does not exist." Yet. But as was revealedlast week, HBO Max is going to be providing funding so Snyder can make a finalized version, and one report claimed the new streamer would be spending $30 million to make that happen....

Theme Park Bits: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ At Walt Disney World, A New Disney Water Ride, And A Slew Of Disneyland Updates In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Disney has spent the past few years looking into new ways to keep easily distracted youths engaged while on their family vacations and the result has been various interactive experiences that “gamify” the theme park process (I’m old enough to consider a theme park trip enough of a game already, thank you very much)....

Trailer Round-Up: ‘Our Friend’, ‘Alien Xmas’, ‘Breach’, ‘Hunter Hunter’, ‘The Ultimate Playlist Of Noise’, ‘Skyfire’ The time has come once again for us to get our lassos and round-up some pesky trailers that escaped from the trailer farm! And then we’ll, uh, milk them. Okay, this metaphor has gone off the rails. In any case, a trailer round-up is where we put together trailers for some smaller titles that deserve attention even if they’re not huge blockbusters....

Trivia: Marvel Once Turned A ‘John Carter’ Story Into A ‘Star Wars’ Story This is a comic book story, not a movie story, but it’s a good one. It’s the sort of thing that happened in the comics industry of decades past, but would probably never happen today. The tale comes to you now thanks to a reminder by the tremendous artistWalt Simonson, who worked on Marvel’sStar Warscomic in the ’70s and ’80s....

Wheel Of Time Audiobook Coming From TV Adaptation Star Rosamund Pike We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon’s television adaptation of “The Wheel of Time,” the popular fantasy book series by Robert Jordan, will be paired with a new audiobook byMoiraine herself, Rosamund Pike. Macmillan Audio announced the news today that Pike will narrate an audiobook version of “The Eye of the World,” the first book in Jordan’s 14-book series that also includes an additional prequel novel....

‘(500) Days Of Summer’ Scribes In Talks To Adapt ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ By Former ‘Arrested Development’ Writer We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. ScreenwritersScott NeustadterandMichael Weberquickly established themselves as new talents to watch with their original dramedy(500) Days of Summer. Since then, though, the pair have shown a distinctly literary bent as they’ve lined up one book adaptation after another:The Spectacular Now,When You Were Mine(calledRosalinein the movie version), andBeginner’s Greek....

‘Border’ Is The Year’s Ugliest And Most Beautiful Movie [NYFF] How our stories take shape is worth considering, especially the weird ones.Let the Right One Innovelist John Ajvide Lindqvist helped bring his story to the screen in Tomas Alfredson’s film of the same name — a tender vampire tale about belonging — a process he repeats for Ali Abbasi’sBorder based on his own short story. As one of three screenwriters on the film (along with Abbasi and Isabella Eklöf), Lindqvist is tasked with yet another transmutation of meaning through a genre lens....

‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Has Started Filming Its Eighth And Final Season Nine-Nine! The NYPD’s finest are back on the beat, for the eighth and final season ofBrooklyn Nine-Nine. Production onBrooklyn Nine-Ninehas officially started, with the stars of the NBC sitcom, posting on Instagram to celebrate the occasion and show off their quarantine hairstyles. Cameras began rolling on the final 10 episodes ofBrooklyn Nine-Nineon Tuesday, which is set to air on NBC as part of the 2021-22 broadcast TV season....

‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Spoiler Review: Getting The Band Back Together For A Gunslinging Netflix Coda The biggest compliment one can payEl Camino: A Breaking Bad Movieis to say that it doesn’t detract from the legacy of one of the greatest television shows of all time. We knew we were in good hands with Vince Gilligan.Better Call Saulhas proven that he, as a showrunner, knows how to play in theBreaking Badsandbox again without destroying the castle he built before....

‘Escape Room 2’ Now Set For Release In Early 2022 Sony Pictures recentlyreshuffled some 2021 release datesdue to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Now, another title has been delayed. After being pushed back from its initial release in April 2020, the horror sequelEscape Room 2was never given a new 2021 release date. The movie is still on the way, but we’ll be waiting until early2022before we see where the next puzzle takes us....