AMC’s upcoming The Walking Dead spin-off has cast its first three actors. Alexa Mansour (Unfriended: The Dark Web), Nicolas Cantu (The Amazing World of Gumball), and Hal Cumpston (of the Australian comedy Bilched) are set to play the leading roles, according to Deadline.
Alexa Mansour (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)
If there’s any Fantastic Four creative team that can rival the greatness of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, it’s Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo. Sadly, we’ll never get another Waid/Wieringo reunion, but the prospect of Waid writing another FF project is appealing enough in its own right. That being said, don’t expect Invisible Woman to immediately recapture the charm of Waid’s original FF run. This is a very different type of story, which ends up being both a positive and a negative.
This miniseries spins loosely out of the events of the current Fantastic Four comic, as all the members of the Richards family re-acclimate to life on their home planet. The series is more directly tied to Waid’s SHIELD run, however, which revealed that Sue Storm once moonlighted as a secret agent when she wasn’t playing superhero and den mother. And now, that past is coming back to haunt her.
Psychonauts 2 will not release in 2019 as planned. Developer Double Fine, which was recently acquired by Microsoft, has announced that the adventure game is shifting to 2020.
The news was announced in a post to Fig, the crowdfunding website where the game raised $3.9 million in funding back in 2016. In the post, Double Fine said the delay–while it’s tough–is the right thing to do to make Psychonauts 2 a better game.
“We’re now targeting next year for release. We know it’s always disappointing when you have to wait a bit longer, but we also know that you are an amazing, supportive bunch, who–just like us –want the game to be as good as possible. So we’re hopeful you’ll understand,” Double Fine said.
Double Fine also confirmed in the blog post that, despite being bought by Microsoft, the studio will still honor Psychonauts 2’s release on every promised platform. That means the game will still come to PlayStation 4; it’s also coming to Xbox One and PC.
While you have to wait until 2020 to play Psychonauts 2, Double Fine’s next game–the 3D action rogue-like game called Rad–will release on August 20 for console and PC. That game is published by Bandai Namco.
One of the nice things about Batman is that even when the series stumbles, as it did in last month’s Batman #73, it never loses momentum for long. Case in point – Batman #74 manages to deftly put the book back on track after its thin, unsatisfying predecessor. This issue does far more to explore the unusual relationship between Bruce Wayne and his alternate universe father.
Issue #74 accomplishes two main goals. First, it helps further illuminate Thomas Wayne’s motivations. Alternate timelines notwithstanding, why would a father align himself with a man wholly committed to destroying that father’s son? The previous issue offered some insight, but this latter half of “The Fall and the Fallen” goes deeper. In the process, it ties back to an earlier chapter of the series and a twisted children’s book from Bruce’s past that continues to haunt him in the present. By the end, the reader will have a better sense of what fuels Thomas and why he thinks he’s working in Bruce’s best interests by depriving him of love, hope and willpower.
It’s apparent from the get-go that The Art of Self-Defense isn’t trying to put a spotlight on the real world as we see it. Writer-director Riley Stearns, for his second feature, channels the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) and Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York) in terms of tone, but he’s really telling a story one would find in the martial arts films of old. The twist, however, is that it’s set in contemporary, non-glamorous America (the film was shot in Kentucky).
The story follows Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), a meek accountant who, after a brutal mugging by a motorcycle gang, takes up karate classes with the unnamed local Sensei (Alessandro Nivola). The classes are intense not so much because of their content, but because of the instructor who seems picked right out of a Bruce Lee film. Casey lets it go to his head, wearing his small ascension to yellow belt proudly, and slowly falling under his Sensei’s spell thanks to the minor amount of power and gratification the classes give him.
Marvel Studios is indeed coming to next week’s San Diego Comic-Con and now word is beginning to trickle out about what Phase 4 films they’re expected to announce there.
According to Variety, Marvel Studios will reportedly formally announce The Eternals — and likely reveal the full cast, including Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Millie Bobby Brown, and Richard Madden — onstage at Hall H at their panel next Saturday evening.
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UPDATE: The Super NES Classic is already gone again.
Nintendo announced last year that it would stop production on the NES Classic and SNES Classic in 2019. We’re well into 2019 now, and listings for the retro systems have been disappearing from all the major retailers. As of right now, you can still get an NES Classic from GameStop at the MSRP of $59.99, but the price is higher elsewhere. As for the SNES Classic, it’s already gotten steep mark-ups everywhere it’s still available, though GameStop has refurbished units for $74.99. Here’s where you can still get the NES Classic and SNES Classic right now.
With Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home out of the way, MCU Phase 3 is over. Phase 4 is expected to be revealed during San Diego Comic-Con next month, and one of the movies in the mix is The Eternals. Now, a new report reveals who may star in it.
Variety reports that Stranger Things and Godzilla actress Millie Bobby Brown is in the movie, alongside Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones). The film is to be directed by Chloe Zhao (The Rider).
Other MCU Phase 4 movies are expected to be Shang-Chi, which will be the first MCU movie with an Asian lead, along with Doctor Strange 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Black Panther 2, and Black Widow.
The first Eternals comic was published in 1976 by late writer and artist, Jack Kirby (1917-1994). The Eternals, an offshoot of life created by an alien race called the Celestials, were established to protect the Earth from the Deviants, a dastardly project by the Celestials gone awry. 30 years later, eclectic writer Neil Gaiman gave the superheroes a facelift in 2006, bringing them and their universe to the modern era with a seven-issue miniseries that concluded in 2007.
For lots more, check out GameSpot’s rundown of everything we know about MCU Phase 4. You can also check out the video embedded above.
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An interesting bit of Earthbound history was just revealed on Twitter courtesy of Baten Kaitos director Yasuyuki Honne. During Honne’s stint at Namco, he apparently pitched Nintendo a concept for a Mother game on the Nintendo GameCube. It had a distinct art style, to say the least.
Honne revealed this secret Earthbound game in celebration of a new book about the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata that was just released in Japan last week. Japanese lifestyle company Hobonichi, founded by Earthbound creator Shigesato Itoi, published the book about Iwata.