Alien: Androids and AI Are Now the Center of the Franchise

This article contains very mild spoilers for the first episode of Alien: Earth. There originally were never going to be any robots in the world or mythology of Alien. As brilliant as Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett’s initial idea was about a crew encountering an alien organism that nestles itself inside a human host—or “impregnates […]

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Hunt for Gollum Movie Poised to Ask ‘What Does Frodo Do When He’s Happy?’

“I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.” When most people refer to that line, spoken by Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, they quote it to set up Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey’s thoughtful, resonate […]

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Static Shock Deserves a Live-Action Future in the DC Universe

When James Gunn unveiled the “Gods and Monsters” slate for the new DC Universe in early 2023, it signaled more than a relaunch. It was a commitment to cinematic storytelling that could be mythic, grounded, tragic, uplifting, and courageous. Within that bold vision, however, one name was still absent. Virgil Hawkins.  Virgil is the young […]

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