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Best. Quest contact. EVER.

Speaking of Guy Ritchie: if you like his movies, you probably want to check out The Gentlemen series on Netflix that m'learned coll' mentions above. It's not a reboot or remake so much as a massive expansion of the idea, taking the very basic set-up - a massive underground weed farm under a stately home - and pulling in a whole new cast of characters, setups and buckets of blood. Ritchie has clearly benefited from having a much bigger writers' room for the series. It's still wordy as hell, but less awkward, and regularly gutlaugh funny ("Sorry, what's a... what's a leccy bill?"). It also gains from three solid leads in Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings, plus a big ensemble cast who still all get enough to do, and guest stars like oily-smooth Giancarlo Esposito who gets to drop epic quotes in every appearance. ("You know what I love about the British aristocracy? They're original gangsters. 75% of everything they got, they stole"). And no Hugh Grant, which - if you've seen the movie - is a good thing for once. Particular props to regular hard man Vinnie Jones - who's getting to show off a softer, more cerebral side a la Dave Bautista, and has clearly grown as an actor in the last few years. He's even a gentle, hesitant romantic, though it's gonna help a lot playing that against Joely Richardson.

MrWeebl - Rotate Your Owl

Lee was originally offered Dr No by Fleming and was stoked about getting the role: but Ian forgot to tell Harry Saltzman, and by the time he remembered they had already cast Joe Wiseman. Who hated every minute of it and preferred theatre, dahlink. Oddly, that works: Connery might not have shone quite as much against a truly charismatic villain, whereas Wiseman’s obvious disdain oozes through the screen and ramps up his superiority complex. By the time Fleming died, Lee was a superstar in his own right. And when Jack Palance turned down Golden Gun, Harry remembered what Ian had asked for… and who better to play the Anti-Bond? EDIT: while I'm at it and dreaming up roles for folks, I'd like to alter history a little bit and have whoever's playing young Chris Lee retrieving Lin Manuel-Miranda, who's playing Juan Pujol Garcia. One of the strangest/funniest stories of WW2... ...and would allow Chris (or his avatar) to sing on film, which he really only got to do the once. But it's magnificent.

Just scrolling through old threads, and if there are any movie producers out there reading this... Christopher probably wasn't Two-Face. But he was near as dammit a real-life James Bond - and as one of Fleming's friends, may have been a bit of an inspiration. So I would quite like to see a movie or TV series about Christopher Lee, Nazi Hunter. He was attached to SOE for a time during WW2 as well as RAF Intelligence, and then spent a couple of years tracking down escaped SS scum. Are there any current actors out there who could do tall, dark and evilly attractive (as well as that baritone?)

...that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

I don't go out and buy actual comics/graphic novels often, let alone preorder months ahead. But the subject is a true superbeing, seemingly invincible to the last, who could outfight Lobo, outdrink the Thing, out-wisecrack Deadpool, and had conquered more demons than fellow Brit John Constantine. It can only be... Ian Fraser Kilminster. https://z2comics.com/products/no-remorse-the-illustrated-true-stories-of-lemmy-kilmister-and-motorhead-hardcover/ As told by a large number of his friends and associates, including Lita Ford, Lars Ulrich, Neil Gaiman, "Philthy" Phil Campbell, Dee Snider, Triple H and Corey Graves of WWE, and some young upstart named Dave Grohl. Each story will also have a different illustration team on it. If you've got serious cash to splash (I don't), this also comes with a limited-edition vinyl copy of 1984's No Remörse best-of album, which you should be playing loud enough to kill your neighbours' lawn.

Livingston - Shadow

Even if the Bat isn't in it per se, I suspect he'll be some kind of lurking threat/presence.

Probably a cigar made from the dried and rolled leaves of stolen human lives, like most billionaire investors.* EDIT: reminds me of one of my favourite gags from The Mentalist: PAT: ...surely you don't think she's a witch? KIM: If dark forces did exist, stands to reason there could be people who control them for their own ends. PAT: They're called investment bankers, and they don't live around here, I assure you. Being in startups, I know two billionaires realtime. And yes, one's a bit of a pillock with a taste - or lack thereof - for sparkly things he likes to own but not use: and the other is a genuinely terrifying character I don't like being in the company of for multiple reasons. Neither shows an interest in the appropriate things I feel they should be doing, such as donating to hospitals, helping out the arts, building new technology, or patrolling the streets of London in high-tech armour while nursing multiple psychoses. Though given how scary the latter one is, I think he might make a fine Joker or Kingpin. And m'learned coll' Ghost is correct, I was just trying not to use the "W" word. *bonus points if you know that reference

Yes. There are varied dates on the rumour mill for a movie, but Thanksgiving 2025 was one of them - which would be one hell of a rush if true. This isn't entirely Kevin or anyone's fault. I sometimes talk boringly about the biz side of things, but one of the pressures the Mouse is under right now is a chap called Nelson Peltz. He is a high-profile "activist investor" - someone who deliberately stirs around companies to extract "shareholder value", ie dividends or increased stock price - and is less than shy about trashing the management publicly and privately to get their way. If he succeeds in persuading shareholders to vote two of his minions onto the Disney board, expect some major changes, quite a lot of sell-offs, and Disney a much leaner but lesser company afterwards. Amongst many, many other things, he has started to Have Opinions about what kind of movies Marvel should be making. I'll admit he's not wrong that Marvel have had a pretty awful run of form at the box office the last few times out, but I'd focus on... well... poor story choices and rushed development, rather than... erm... casting choices. Making better movies, with plot, and characters, and heart and soul, would get better results. It's possible that they'll begin the crossover in the Secret Wars arc, assuming that the DPvWolvie movie doesn't rewrite canon of its own accord, or in another Marvels movie: and given the Kang Dynasty has come to an abrupt end, anything could happen. I do like the idea of Jubilee and/or Gambit as your "introducing the audience" focus characters. I'm assuming there are some expectations (audience and otherwise) that Wolvie will be in it somewhere, though probably not Hugh. Kamala has also been flagged as a mutant, first half-jokingly, then as canon. I'd quite like to see them pull in some really leftfield ones as well, like X-Stacy, Sunspot or Honey Badger.

Just for once, I've gone the other way round. This is the Star card from the AI tarot deck I made... ...and this is (after much trial and error with available names)... Lady Starheart. Could use being able to move the star badge to the chest (and maybe need to choose a different, slightly more armoured top...) but yep, that works.

So here’s me getting in really early on a movie… Since Q4 last year, Marvel have been taking open script pitches for a new X-Men flick. So far, nobody has been appointed; and Marvel needs an out and out hit. If I’m already disappointed in this, it’s simply because the release date is supposed to be already scheduled and marketing budgeted, without even a concept in place. That seems… unwise. So if you fancied giving it a go… …what would you do? Would you adapt a classic arc or do something completely new? Who would be in your squad, your leads, and your antagonist(s)?

One of the many fine things about Matt Reeves’ The Batman was Colin Farrell’s transformation into one Oswald Cobblepot - and it’s rare these days when you want to see more of a villain. So, you got it. The series picks up a week after the movie ends… SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE MOVIE AND SERIES BELOW… There’s not much to go on beyond the teaser (plus the in-production original teaser from 2023 below) and cast notes at this point. Matt Reeves is only EP on this, but the directors and writers have some decent creds to their names. What do we think?

I can see that. Just rewatched a clip of the original, and it looks like she's wearing hard contacts in that too. Maybe we just never noticed without the hi-def closeup? Also, her eyes seem to change colour a lot depending on the role. Maybe it's one of her transformational schticks? https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/features/1156880-the-10-best-catherine-ohara-faces Happily, not this time - and since Tim loves him some stop-motion (which worked well for the weird/creepy in the original), why change? Per Keaton's People interview, it's all practical FX as far as they can get away with it: The one thing that he and I decided on early, early, early on from the beginning, if we ever did it again, I was totally not interested in doing something where there was too much technology. It had to feel handmade. What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you, to watch everybody in the shrunken head room and say, "Those are people under there, operating these things, trying to get it right." It's the most exciting thing. When you get to do that again after years of standing in front of a giant screen, pretending somebody's across the way from you, this is just enormous fun. Dafoe's also mentioned that - and says he only signed on for No Way Home because they let him do proper stunts. There seems to be some green-screen fatigue with actors these days, or frustration with not having enough to do (David Harbour just did the AOTD game remake - he's had full mo-cap done for What If S3, but wound up just doing face cap for AOTD, and prefers being able to do the whole thing.) There is also the point that a guy with a rubber glove pretending to be a rogue plate of prawns is gonna cost significantly less than one CGI tech and fifty hours of renderfarm these days. And if your actors don't mind masks, gag blood, wirework, body squibs and props - Keaton clearly loves 'em - go for it.

Thanks, Moogs. …aaaanywaaaay… yes, the thing looks pretty, and I would like it to have substantial gameplay and characters, and preferably not explode my gfx card on minimum setting.

*googles* …huh. And yet he’s still working, including on the Deadwood series and movie. BTW, is it me or is there something VERY odd about Delia’s eyes in that trailer?

Me/DW and Loki the Wonder Kitten, reading the comments. Prompt: A 1950s redhead pinup goth with long messy hair and a black tuxedo kitten, peering over their glasses at a laptop screen, with an expression of puzzlement and frustration Exc: ugly, deformed, noisy, blurry, distorted, out of focus, bad anatomy, extra limbs, poorly drawn face, poorly drawn hands, missing fingers,mismatched eyes RealVisXL on Playground.com, 512x512, Guidance 7, Quality 30, randomised seed, Stable Diffusion XL, Karras

Day-oherewegoagain... Not much to go on in the trailer, but Ortega and Ryder together is major goth cred right there. The cast list has some clues, though: Monica Belluci as Beetlejuice's (ex?)wife, and the great Willem Dafoe. Dafoe has previously spoilered something... Catherine O'Hara returns as Delia Deetz (I think the trailer shows Charles's funeral - though that's no reason Jeff Jones and his fabulous moustache won't show up). Add Burn Gorman (Torchwood, GoT) as a probably-creepy local reverend, and Felipe Cates as Ortega's Goth Ken (well, by the looks of things, anyway. Very... polished). One thing: neither Geena Davis nor Alec Baldwin are listed as returning, and their attic is empty and dusty apart from the town model. So I guess the Maitlands successfully moved out/on/up. Again, no reason they won't cameo at some point. I'd probably be up for this one anyway, but if there's a proper plot - a reason this film needs to exist, as someone put it in the news lately - that'd make me happy.

...is that... good? They've worked on a few things including Spiderman 2, GoW:Ragnarok, and Alan Wake II... so a lot of sequels. Beyond that, no idea. (I will say they've got the most appallingly designed website I've seen since the days I was mucking around on GeoCities. My eyes... the goggles... they do nothing...) No idea at this point, but probably, unless we've got timey-wimey-dimension-hoppy-activity going around and that's not great. Or an early version of Red Guardian. Or Peg. She's listed as "Nanali". Per the usual Wiki lores, she was Queen of Wakanda back in the Golden Age, while Azzurri was Black Panther. Here's she's introduced as an intel agent, so it may be she becomes Queen after this. And as we've seen from the movies, it's both regular and expected that the royals not only serve, but get their claws dirty. Also according to the Wiki, Wakanda largely stayed out of WW2, apart from dealing with a couple of Nazi infiltrators like one Colonel Klaue. Probably, plus a red beret, a packet of Gaulois and a resigned air of ennui. I get annoyed when toons are obviously destined for le frigo and/or traitorous, so let's hope she's got more to contribute than feeding us plot explanations. And that Howard will do more than just being a SANTA type for upgrades plus the odd wisecrack.

...so, very smooth and atmospheric story trailer. Some of the in-game animation looks early and may need some more work, but backgrounds look suitably gorgeous. Not sure about Cap's new voice, and he's coming over a little more of Chris Evans' native Bawstaahhn to my ears than Cap's Brooklyn or the cultured Midlantic from the movies. All four will be playable at different points of the game (having to get into Gabe's jazz stylings would be nice...), plus NPC help from Howard Stark and a Resistance member called Julie (probably not love interest, if Peg has anything to do with it.) If you're a fairly serious gaming nerd, this is one of the first titles to use Unreal 5.4: ...which I think might be a little taxing for the average PC to run full spec. What do we think, True Believers?

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Slash (ft Brian Johnson & Steve Tyler) - Killing Floor