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Avengers: Infinity War ended in heartbreaking fashion, with Thanos wiping out half of the universe’s population–and that included some of the superheroes fans have come to know and love like Spider-Man and Black Panther. It had some adult themes, it’s safe to say.

But what if the story was told in a children’s book? That’s the thrust of a silly new segment from Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. He assembled many members of the Avengers to read aloud from a fake book called “Twas The Mad Titan Thanos.” The best part of the skit is not knowing about the jokes and set-ups, so we won’t spoil that for you here. Check out the video below, and be sure to stick through until the end.

Avengers: Endgame hits theatres on April 26. There are many theories as to what will happen as it relates to the Avengers’ plans to defeat Thanos; you can find out more about GameSpot’s own theories in this roundup of what we think might happen.

GameSpot recent saw new footage of Endgame, and you can check out this post to learn about 10 new things we learned.

This month’s Avengers: Endgame is said to be the final film in the MCU for its Phase 3. Marvel has plans for many more movies, of course, but don’t expect the film studio to announce them anytime soon.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told IGN that he can’t even confirm if Marvel will be at San Diego Comic-Con in July because that, in a way, would be “sort of a post-Endgame spoiler.”

Feige did confirm that Marvel will start to talk about its Phase 4 films “soon after” Spider-Man: Far From Home opens in July. That film hits theatres on July 5, and San Diego Comic-Con takes place later in the month, so it is at least theoretically possible that Marvel will attend.

Marvel has a five-year plan for new MCU films, and the “first few years of which” will be announced relatively soon, after Endgame and Far From Home, Feige said.

Now that Disney owns Fox, it controls franchises like X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four. But will characters from those series join the MCU?

“It’ll be a while,” Feige told i09 specifically about the possibility of X-Men joining the MCU. “It’s all just beginning and the five-year plan that we’ve been working on, we were working on before [the Fox deal was finalised]. So really it’s much more, for us, less about specifics of when and where [the X-Men will appear] right now and more just the comfort factor and how nice it is that they’re home. That they’re all back. But it will be a very long time.”

Feige went on to say that the next five years of Marvel films is “not apples to apples” in regards to the past and future output from Marvel. “It is two very distinct things and I hope they’ll feel very distinct,” he said. “But there is a similar mentality going into it, which is, ‘How can we continue to tell stories with some of the characters that audiences already know and love in a unique way, in a different way, in surprising way, of which we have a lot of plans and ideas and work already going into it?’ [Then] ‘How can we introduce new characters that even hardcore fans, comic fans, have barely known or barely heard of.’ That’s really exciting too.”

One of the new Phase 4 Marvel movies could be Shang-Chi, which is Marvel’s first superhero film with an Asian lead. It’s reportedly the movie that Marvel is filming in Sydney, Australia.

The next Stephen King novel to be adapted for the screen is his 2006 book Lisey’s Story, which is being turned into a TV show for Apple’s nascent original programming division. Now it’s been reported that veteran actor Julianne Moore, who won an Oscar for Still Alice, will star in Lisey’s Story. She will also executively produce it, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

King himself is writing all eight episodes of the first season, while he’s executively producing as well. Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams and another executive of Bad Robot, Ben Stephenson, are also executive producers on the show.

For Moore, the show is notable because it’s the first time she’s playing a lead role on a TV show after multiple decades working in film, though she did win a Daytime Emmy for her recurring role on As The World Turns. She has been nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Still Alice.

Moore plays Lisey in a story set two years after her husband’s death. “The series explores a series of events that causes her to begin facing amazing realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten,” Variety reported.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, multiple outlets bid for Lisey’s Story before Apple ultimately won out. It’s not immediately clear when Lisey’s Story will premiere or who else will star in it. According to THR, “high-profile” directors are being sought for it.

This is just the latest screen adaptation of a King novel. There have been so many over the years, including movies like The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, and Green Mile, as well as the more recent films like It and Pet Semetary. In terms of TV productions, there have been shows based on King’s The Mist and Under the Dome, just to name a couple.

It has been more than five years since the release of Splinter Cell: Blacklist, so fans are understandably eager to find out what’s next for Sam Fisher. In a new interview, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot offered an explanation for what’s taking so long to bring the franchise back.

He told IGN that Ubisoft won’t bring back the franchise until it can do something novel with it. Not only that, but some of Ubisoft’s development teams became too anxious to want to work on a new Splinter Cell game due to pressure from fans, Guillemot said. And third, Ubisoft’s other big franchises like Assassin’s Creed are “taking off,” which has led the company to focus on them instead of Splinter Cell.

“When you create a game, you have to make sure you will come with something that will be different enough from what you did before,” Guillemot said. “Last time we did a Splinter Cell, we had lots of pressure from all the fans saying, ‘Don’t change it; don’t do this; don’t do that.’ So some of the teams were more anxious to work on the brand.

“Now there are some things and some people that are now looking at the brand; taking care of the brand. At one point you will see something but I can’t say more than that,” he added. “Also because of Assassin’s Creed and all the other brands taking off, people wanted to work on those brands more. so we have to follow what they like to do.”

Ghost Recon: Wildlands contained a very strong tease for Splinter Cell, with Sam Fisher voice actor Michael Ironside doing the voice in an Easter Egg. A Splinter Cell Easter Egg was also spotted in Ubisoft’s 2019 game Far Cry: New Dawn.

Further fuelling the rumors about a new Splinter Cell is the news that original Splinter Cell designer Clint Hocking has returned to Ubisoft where he is working on “unannounced projects.” Guillemot was asked if Ubisoft might bring back Splinter Cell for the next generation of consoles, which are apparently coming soon, but Guillemot wouldn’t be drawn into that conversation.

If Ubisoft does have a Splinter Cell announcement to make, it could happen during the company’s E3 2019 briefing in June, but nothing is confirmed at this stage.

Back in 2012 it was reported that Tom Hardy would star as Sam Fisher in a Splinter Cell movie, but whether or not that’s still the case is unknown.

What would you like to see from a new Splinter Cell game? Let us know in the comments below!

George R.R. Martin does not want HBO’s Game of Thrones to end. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter from the final season’s NYC premiere, Martin said he would have wanted the show to run longer. But while the main show is ending, there might be a prequel series someday, and of course he continues to write new books.

“I don’t think it should be the final season. But here we are,” Martin said. “It seems to me we just started last week. Has it been longer than that? The time has passed by in a blur. But it’s exciting. I know it’s an end, but it’s not much of an end for me. I’m still deep in writing the books. We saw five other sequel shows in development. I think I’m going to be hanging around Westeros while everyone else has left. (Laughs.)”

Martin said in 2018 that Game of Thrones could have run for as many as 13 seasons, thanks in part to the breadth of detail and history from the book series. Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff originally only wanted seven seasons, so Martin and company were successful at convincing them to do at least one more than they set out to.

The “five other sequel shows” is a reference to the Game of Thrones spin-offs that HBO has in various stages of development. The first of these hasn’t started shooting yet, though the producers are “getting very close” to beginning, Martin said. HBO has committed to filming a pilot episode for the show, but there is no guarantee it’ll get picked up to series. Whatever the case, Martin said he’s excited about the cast and crew for what he described as a “very different” show than the mainline Game of Thrones program.

“They have a great director and an amazing cast. I’ve been following along closely. I have my fingers crossed,” he said. “It’s different. It’s definitely very different. It’s set thousands of years in the past. You’re looking at a whole different era of Westeros. No dragons, no Iron Throne, no King’s Landing. It will be interesting to see what the fans make of that.”

Jessica Jones director SJ Clarkson is directing the show, which will star Naomi Watts. X-Men: First Class’ Jane Goldman will serve as showrunner.

Game of Thrones Season 8 premieres April 14 on HBO. For more, you can find out why actor John Bradley thinks Game of Thrones has changed TV forever.