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Our first look at Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order is days away, with an official reveal planned for Star Wars Celebration. The Celebration panel will take place on April 13, but ahead of that big event the studio and EA have updated the official site with a new look at the game’s logo, and dropped a clue on social media.

As you might expect, the new logo puts a heavy emphasis on the word “Jedi,” as the order of warrior-monks is one of the most enduring parts of Star Wars pop culture. One of the few details we know about Jedi Fallen Order is that you play as a Padawan–essentially a rookie Jedi–who survived the Emperor’s purge in Revenge of the Sith.

The EA Star Wars Twitter account also dropped its own teaser, which appears to show an image of a shrouded lightsaber and the phrase “Don’t stand out.” This is likely a reference to the story, in which the remaining Jedi have gone into hiding. This game is said to be set against a backdrop of a dark time for the galaxy, as the Emperor consolidates his power and hunts down the few remaining Jedi. We don’t have a name or other identifying information about the protagonist, so it’s difficult to say yet how this new story will tie into the main narrative of the saga.

Respawn’s Star Wars game is one of the last remaining in production that we know of from EA, after the publisher canceled Amy Hennig’s Star Wars game and then shuttering an open-world Star Wars project. Respawn itself is having a big year, not only with Jedi Fallen Order slated for this holiday season, but also with the surprise-hit Apex Legends.

For more on Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, check out what we’d like to see from the game.

It is known that there will be a massive battle scene in Game of Thrones Season 8, and now one of the actors who fights in it has described what it was like working on it.

John Bradley, who plays Samwell Tarly in the fantasy series, told Entertainment Weekly that director Miguel Sapochnik has a “forensic sense of detail.” As you may remember, Sapochnik also directed the Battle of the Bastards Season 6 epic fight sequence.

“[Director Miguel Sapochnik] has such a forensic sense of detail the way he can see the point of view of all these different characters in his head and know what each individual beat meansto them. It’s so inspiring,” Bradley said.

Bradley also shared an anecdote from filming the sequence. He said he got carried away while shooting the sequence and did things himself as an actor that Sam probably wouldn’t have.

“When doing these huge fight sequences, you get carried away sometimes. You want to make yourself look as good as possible. Miguel said to me, ‘I know that you want to show you’re quite good at this. But remember your character. Sam’s not that good at this,” Bradley said. “You have to play him because that’s what’s going to be truthful. So stop being so good!”

Go to EW to read the full interview.

The battle scene from Season 8 sees living characters like Sam, Jon Snow, Daenerys, Sansa, Arya, Brienne, and others fighting against the Night King as his army; it’s the showdown that’s been teased since the show started years ago. The battle is reportedly the “longest consecutive battle sequence ever committed to film,” eclipsing the 40-minute Helm’s Deep battle scene from The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers.

Filming the episode took 11 weeks of night shoots. According to a report, up to 750 people worked all night for almost three months in sub-freezing temperatures and enduring cold rain, mud, and heavy wind.

Game of Thrones returns for its eighth and final season April 14 on HBO.

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.