ThaOGDreamWeaver

Small update: Per Deadline, Season 2 is greenlit - plus a creator deal extension with FX for Noah Hawley. Production is moving to London, so I guess we call this AvC*. https://deadline.com/2025/11/alien-earth-renewed-season-2-noah-hawley-reups-fx-deal-1236614596/ *Alien Versus Cockneys. Cor blimey guv'nor, lookin' a bit peaky there with that 'angin out yer Dickie Dirt now ain'tcha...

Neat little interview with Arden Cho (Rumi): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17pj0gr75lo

New Atlantic - I Know (Love Decade Mix)

Thing is, there’s no word on EXACTLY which Trek property or era they’re working with, or if it’s a whole new set of characters. TOS is the obvious one. TNG is tricky unless you do Young Picard And Friends. And while I’d personally love a live-action Lower Decks movie, which would fit the Jons’ MO of doing something that loves and respects the material while being able to poke fun at it, I have my doubts… EDIT: per Variety, the movie is not a continuation or reboot of ANY previous Trek property. Risky… but I’d say that’s a good creative risk to take. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/new-star-trek-movie-dungeons-and-dragons-jonathan-goldstein-john-francis-daley-1236582221/

Small piece of news on this: Jon Goldstein & Jon Daley (who made the criminally underrated D&D: Honour Among Thieves amongst other things) have signed to produce a Trek treatment for Paramount. Naturally, many treatments over the years have been filed in the great bin at the end of the galaxy. But it does show that Paramount are moving forward quickly.

There are exceptions (though even Argylle still has good bits in it. And, of course, the boy can definitely dance.)

I'm never sure about trailers. About what you should and shouldn't tell the audience before they go into a cinema. There is at least one thing in here Gore should have never, ever let the trailer cutter pony up about. And while the AI+phone addiction = zombies plot is either a bit glib or a bit too on the nose for comfort, the rest looks a lot like Twelve Monkeys played for laughs. Could be fun?

Our three friends return for a spin round the Strip in time for Christmas. We've got Power Fists. Robots. Deathclaws. Kumail Nanjiani and Macaulay Culkin guesting. More revenge plotting. The Legion. Vault 31 defrosts all of Bud's Buds at once. Exploding mice. Big damn war sequences. All this and Ghoulvis too. Question is... in Vegas, can anyone take the House? Thangyallver'much.

Fun thing: Ralph went Method for Galactus. No, not becoming a planet-devouring overlord. Not sure even Dan Day-Lewis would go that far. But he did do his mocap in the full, practical Galactus armour - which was apparently heavy as all hell. He also described a new technique I've never heard of before. He was shot with an ultra-HD camera on an all-white set, bathed in very bright white lights (which made that armour get very hot.) That footage can then be blown up to giant scale without losing detail and digitally matted into real or virtual scenes. So, in effect, he was a human miniature prop. He rather liked that idea. He also practiced lines while standing on top of the tallest buildings he could find, to get the perspective of belittling pathetic Earthlings. As the man says, it's not easy to talk down to a small X of gaffer tape on a studio floor, so you've got to have your mind in the right place...

Thoughts:

The Blasters - Dark Night (Live in Pittsburgh) (NB: intro spiel is mildly NSFW)

Dolly Parton - Drive Me Crazy (FYC) - Live

Finally managed to catch this on D+, and both I and my non-True-Believer partner loved it. All-in-all, the most flat-out, no-notes-enjoyable Marvel offering since Shang-Chi, and definitely up there with the likes of Homecoming.