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Blade Runner and Alien TV series on the way:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck77gn5pzdgo
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Eh, I’d rather Scott wasn’t involved to be honest. I mean he didn’t even make the best Alien or Blade Runner movies.
Wrong. And wrong.
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I refuse to believe that Bel-Air show is not actually a parody.
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Raised by Wolves 2’s Trailer is Gorgeous and Just Creepy as Hell, Man – Gizmodo.com
No goo or snake babies in the trailer, but plenty of foreboding camera work.
Back when HBO Max was getting its feet off the ground in 2020, one of its big shows at the time was Raised by Wolves. Though some found Aaron Guikowski’s series about android parents tasked with raising some important human children to be a bit of a slog, the show was renewed for second season just a few episodes into season one. The first trailer for season two is here, and it looks…pretty creepy, which makes some sense since Ridley Scott is an executive producer on the show and directed its first two episodes.
“Perhaps we are becoming too human,” muses Mother (Amanda Collin) at the end of the trailer as she stands in a dark corridor and is covered in (presumably) blood. You may recall that at the end of season one, Mother gave birth to a snake baby that is somewhere on the planet and gets no mention in the trailer, save for a snake painting on a mug. It’ll surely be another threat for the family consisting of Mother, Father (Abubakar Salim), and their kids, as they’re all now part of an Atheist society that’s formed in Kepler-22b’s Tropical Zone. Whatever paradise they think exists here won’t last long, since Marcus (Travis Fimmel) is seemingly devolving into one of the creatures that the family encountered during the first season. In his quest to bring “purity” to Kepler, he’ll be doing it through some good old fashioned violence.
As someone who missed out on Wolves when it first premiered, the trailer does its job well enough that I’m interested in checking the show out closer to its February premiere. Outside of its tone, it looks really good, something you can always count on for HBO’s genre dramas most of the time, and it’s not a bad time for some weird sci-fi. So sure, sign me up for that in a couple of months.
Raised by Wolves 2 premieres on HBO Max beginning on February 3.
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‘Law & Order’ Flagship Returns To Production, As Wolf Entertainment Gives First Look – Deadline.com
Law & Order is back in New York, as Wolf Entertainment has issued a first look at the start of production for the revived NBC series.
Wolf Entertainment posted an Instagram shot of Anthony Anderson, reprising his role as Detective Kevin Bernard, along with new cast member/lead Jeffrey Donovan, who plays an NYPD detective whose name has not yet been revealed.
“Here we go. Season 21 of #LawandOrder is officially in production,” reads the caption.The show was revived in September after being canceled in 2010 after 20 seasons. The flagship spawned a long trail of spinoffs.
Joining Donovan and Anderson in the 21st season are Hugh Dancy (Hannibal, The Path), who will play an assistant district attorney.
The revived series is expected to bow on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 8 PM ET/PT. Spinoffs Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime will follow at 9 PM and 10 PM, respectively.
The new installment of Law & Order, from Wolf and writer-showrunner Rick Eid, will continue the classic bifurcated format and will once again examine “the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.”
Law & Order is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Wolf, Eid, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski are executive producers.
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‘Cowboy Bebop’ Canceled After One Season By Netflix
Of course… u_u
Man, Netflix needs to chill the fuck down with their shows… they’re really trigger-happy =/
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Camryn Manheim Joins ‘Law & Order’ Revival On NBC
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Hey guys, I think someone from NCIS is going to play Zorro
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Fez from the 70s show plays 50s hero
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Fez from the 70s show plays 50s hero Zorro
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I gotta stop drinking; I’m seeing doubles of everything!
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I gotta stop drinking; I’m seeing doubles of everything!
Four Krustys!
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I gotta stop drinking; I’m seeing doubles of everything!
Four Krustys!
For the record, that is officially the greatest Simpsons line ever.
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In case people are avoiding the Spoiler thread:
Sequel Series and Movie to The Expanse coming to Amazon Prime
Edit: No. See Paul’s reponse next post. Sorry about that.
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In case people are avoiding the Spoiler thread:
Sequel Series and Movie to The Expanse coming to Amazon Prime
Edit: No. See Paul’s reponse next post. Sorry about that.
Nope:
It's bullshit and appears to be pulled entirely out of someone's ass. https://t.co/WQIt2bK6ka
— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) December 22, 2021
I mean we'd love to do more, but no one has asked us to yet.
— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) December 22, 2021
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The 15 Best Law And Order: SVU Characters Ranked
Thanks for the lising @jrcarter
I’d put Barba a little higher but…
Ice-T made a great actor after all after his rap and music career.
Google Mariska Hargitay’s parents if you are interested.
Do they still use Hudson University as their school for all the college frat date rape plots? By now every should know: Don’t send your daughter to that school!
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Do they still use Hudson University as their school for all the college frat date rape plots? By now every should know: Don’t send your daughter to that school!
I think they’ve used it maybe once in the past few seasons. I once planned to write a spec script for SVU entitled, “Not That Damn School Again”
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You know the Banks family, but not like this. From executive producer Will Smith and Westbrook – #BelAirPeacock is streaming February 13. 🚕 Let's go home. pic.twitter.com/r6LD6y2yK3
— Peacock (@peacockTV) January 10, 2022
I actually think this could end up being pretty good.
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‘The Lord Of The Rings’: Amazon Reveals Series Title & Teases Second Age Tales
Amazon Prime Video’s series adaptation of The Lord of the Rings now has a name.
The streamer has revealed that its upcoming J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation will be titled The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and has teased some details that will undoubtedly excite fans of the Second Age.
It comes ahead of the launch of the series on September 2.
“This is a title that we imagine could live on the spine of a book next to J.R.R. Tolkien’s other classics. The Rings of Power unites all the major stories of Middle-earth’s Second Age: the forging of the rings, the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron, the epic tale of Númenor, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men,” said Showrunners J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. “Until now, audiences have only seen on-screen the story of the One Ring – but before there was one, there were many… and we’re excited to share the epic story of them all.”
The series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth — thousands of years before the events of the Lord of the Rings films and the novels. The series brings to screens for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
Amazon revealed the name in a video that you can watch above.
Headlining the ensemble cast are Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne & Patrick McKay. They are joined by executive producers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond, and Sharon Tal Yguado, and producers Ron Ames and Christopher Newman. Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and directs along with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
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I am a huge fan of the Peter Jackson LOTR trilogy, so this series will have a lot to live up to. On the other hand, if it helps me forget the Hobbit trilogy, it will have done its job.
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Good for Fraction.
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“Gee, Red, it sure is a shame that Hyde got caught up in that awful cult!”
“Dumbass.”
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New Futurama? Did not see that coming.
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New Futurama? Did not see that coming.
Honestly, I’m not surprised. A lot of shows are nostalgia driven.
I hope they manage to get DiMaggio on board.
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New Futurama? Did not see that coming.
I hope they manage to get DiMaggio on board.
CHEESE IT!!!!
Futurama fans threaten to ‘boycott’ new revival series over recasting of Bender https://t.co/47JJmFSyLo
— John DiMaggio (@TheJohnDiMaggio) February 10, 2022
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https://deadline.com/2022/02/better-call-saul-premiere-dates-sixth-final-season-1234930761/
Better Call Saul season six starts on 18th April with two episodes on the first night, then the next six episodes over the next six weeks, then a break before returning with the final six episodes from 11th July.
Can’t wait!
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I’ll go out on a limb here and predict there will be a quest, and a fellowship of sorts.
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I’ll go out on a limb here and predict there will be a quest, and a fellowship of sorts.
Dude, spoilers!
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Sam Waterston Teases ‘Wonderful Surprise’ Return on ‘Law & Order’: She’s ‘One of My Favorite People on Earth’
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The replicants are heading to the small-screen as Amazon Studios has put a live-action series set in the Blade Runner universe into development.
Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1982 Blade Runner movie, is executive producing the series, Blade Runner 2099, a follow-up to the feature film sequel Blade Runner 2049, which was released in 2017 and directed by Denis Villeneuve.
Silka Luisa, showrunner of Apple TV+’s upcoming Elisabeth Moss-fronted drama series Shining Girls, is writing and exec producing Blade Runner 2099, which comes from Alcon Entertainment in association with Scott Free Productions and Amazon Studios.
The project, which would mark the first Blade Runner live-action series, is in priority development at Amazon Studios, which is fast tracking scripts and eyeing potential production dates. Staffing is currently underway for writers to join a room. Scott may direct if the series moves forward, sources said.
1982’s Blade Runner, which is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is set in a dystopian LA in 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants escape back to Earth, a cop reluctantly agrees to hunt them down. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos starred.
The 2017 sequel, which is set in 2049, starred Ryan Gosling as a replicant blade runner, who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize society. Ford and Olmos reprised their roles from the original and it also featured Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto.
As indicated by Blade Runner 2099‘s title, the latest installment of the neo-noir sci-fi franchise will be set 50 years after the film sequel.
Elsewhere in the franchise, Blade Runner: Black Lotus is an anime series that debuted late last year on Adult Swim and Crunchyroll. It is set in 2032 and centers around a female replicant, voiced by Jessica Henwick.
Blade Runner 2099 is the latest extension in the Blade Runner franchise since Alcon Entertainment in 2011 acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to the 1982 sci-fi classic.
The company, which is behind Prime Video series The Expanse, has been ramping up activities across the Blade Runner franchise in the last few years. Last year it struck a licensing deal with Striker Entertainment to create a range of Blade Runner consumer products and, in September, Alcon Entertainment co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Kosove revealed that the company has two people whose job it is to keep the franchise’s timeline and continuity intact.
Kosove and his Alcon co-founder Broderick Johnson are exec producing the series along with Michael Green, who wrote Blade Runner 2049, Ben Roberts and Cynthia Yorkin as well as Scott Free Productions’ David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger.
Blade Runner 2099 was taken to the streaming market last fall. When Scott in November teased the project, telling the BBC that a pilot and a bible had been written without sharing further details, talks with Amazon Studios had already been underway. The Blade Runner series is the second high-profile feature film directed by Scott that is being adapted for television; Noah Hawley is behind a reinvention of Alien for FX that is in prep for a 2023 production.
Scott Free Productions is currently behind HBO Max sci-fi series Raised By Wolves, which launched its second season earlier this month, heist series Jigsaw for Netflix, The Good Fight, which is heading in to its sixth season for Paramount+ and Steven Knight’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations for FX and the BBC.
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Internet racists are going crazy about black people, elves and dwarves in Middle Earth…I think it was to expected they would do this, but it’s quite interesting. There is no reason people of color couldn’t be in Middle Earth, if it is supposed to be a stand in for the whole Earth. Elves from other parts of Middle Earth could have different skin colour and characteristics, you could have black elves, East Asian looking elves, etc. I have no problem with this whatsoever.
If I recall correctly, in LOTR weren’t people from the East and the South (Harad) described as people of color? The argument that this is not faithful to Tolkien’s work doesn’t make sense.
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This is not a great trailer. It feels like it might as well be any generic fantasy show.
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21 seasons – Jesus. That means the people they sent to prison in the first season are likely paroled by now.
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Internet racists are going crazy about black people, elves and dwarves in Middle Earth…I think it was to expected they would do this, but it’s quite interesting. There is no reason people of color couldn’t be in Middle Earth, if it is supposed to be a stand in for the whole Earth. Elves from other parts of Middle Earth could have different skin colour and characteristics, you could have black elves, East Asian looking elves, etc. I have no problem with this whatsoever.
If I recall correctly, in LOTR weren’t people from the East and the South (Harad) described as people of color? The argument that this is not faithful to Tolkien’s work doesn’t make sense.
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21 seasons – Jesus. That means the people they sent to prison in the first season are likely paroled by now.
Or dead.
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Internet racists are going crazy about black people, elves and dwarves in Middle Earth…I think it was to expected they would do this, but it’s quite interesting. There is no reason people of color couldn’t be in Middle Earth, if it is supposed to be a stand in for the whole Earth. Elves from other parts of Middle Earth could have different skin colour and characteristics, you could have black elves, East Asian looking elves, etc. I have no problem with this whatsoever.
If I recall correctly, in LOTR weren’t people from the East and the South (Harad) described as people of color? The argument that this is not faithful to Tolkien’s work doesn’t make sense.
Is this true though? Aren’t there any modern fantasy writers who incorporate coloured people as heroes?
I think when it comes to Tolkien, it looks very much like he took inspiration from Europe’s battles with the Turks. The siege of Minas Tirith is like the siege of Vienna where the Polish calvalry showed up to defeat the Turks. It could be a coincidence of course…I dunno.
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Aren’t there any modern fantasy writers who incorporate coloured people as heroes?
JK Rowling comes to mind, not because she’s very diverse but because she’s so very popular. None of the main cast is coloured, of course. That would’ve been absolutely mad, seeing as JK is massive twat without brainworm-fueled beliefs.
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21 seasons – Jesus. That means the people they sent to prison in the first season are likely paroled by now.
They did an episode, way back, following up on the release of a character convicted in season 1, which was pretty cool.
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Should be interesting.
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What’s interesting about that is that so many of the regulars are people working at the Quantum Leap project. In the original series, it was basically only Sam and Al who were regulars, and everyone else was part of the guest cast for that week’s adventure. You only rarely saw glimpses of people at project Quantum Leap.
I guess this show is going to take a different approach and be more than just a historical story each week.
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The biggest draw for me in the original series was its heart. Scott Bakula’s conveyed Sam’s inherent goodness and wanting to make things better so convincingly without being saccharine.
I hope the series keeps its heart out front, first and foremost.
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I assume from the explicit reference to Sam there that they must be planning on having Bakula return as a cameo at least. A shame Dean Stockwell isn’t around to do the same.
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Or a complete disaster considering the original had Sam leaping into different races, genders and people with disabilities.
Why would that be disastrous?
It’s funny, in its own way Quantum Leap was a very ahead-of-its-time show in exploring such a diverse range of characters and situations. Odd to think that this would somehow count against it in the modern day.
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I’m sure having the Quantum Leap base as a constant set they can shoot on, will work out better financially than having to constantly change location and set dressing for new time periods for every scene in every episode.
You could have both. The Time Tunnel had a permanent cast back at base monitoring the lost time travellers and providing a commentary on their adventures.
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I always liked that the future project was so enigmatic and rarely seen in Quantum Leap though. It was occasionally talked about and every now and then they showed you some of it, but the characters that Sam had to help in the past were always the focus. Some really powerful stories in that series, especially for a young viewer like I was at the time.
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I’ve always thought Quantum Leap made a lot of sense in this era of reboots and reunions. Especially with the way the show ended. It’s just a shame they didn’t get around to it while Dean Stockwell was still with us. Would have been nice to see him one more time.
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