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Check out the latest Google Doodle’s game that celebrates the start of the Tokyo Olympics. You’ll play through Champions Island where you can participate in 7 different sporting events. The 7 include Rugby, Ping Pong, Archery, Skateboarding, A Marathon, Rock Climbing, and Artistic Swimming. Check out all 7 mini games in this gameplay clip.

By Erick Tay on July 23, 2021 at 1:00PM PDT

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Tony Todd has been a working actor for almost 40 years with his most recent role was giving a voice to the macabre and mysterious character Scare Glow on Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Todd’s version of Scare Glow will be the first time the glowing ghoul has been adapted in animation, and he might have done too well of a job.

At the Masters of the Universe: Revelation panel for Comic-Con at Home, Kevin Smith talked to Todd about the casting choice behind him and how the rest of the cast, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, reacted to how he brought Scare Glow to life.

“We pushed that voice to the limit,” Smith exclaimed. “It is a fantastic performance, and you and Sarah–your interplay, is magical and you didn’t even get to act off one another.”

“We were watching it early this morning before school and my daughter loved your voice,” Gellar said. “‘He’s my favorite’, she said. I literally asked my daughter what did she think of me in that scene and she told me that she honestly forgot I was in it. She’s so obsessed with you and your voice about how eerie and honest…but you were the whole conversation.”

Chris Wood, who plays He-Man and his counterpart Prince Adam, chimed in agreement about what Todd brought to the character and how he found it genuinely horrifying.

“Tony’s Scare Glow, oh, it’s amazing, man,” Wood said. “It’s so scary and I don’t want to spoil it for people who haven’t seen it, but that whole episode and the center of it being fear…Tony, you just own that. It’s so compelling. Oh my God, what a blast.”

Scare Glow is hardly the first time Todd has lent his voice to terrifying and foreboding characters. In the past, he’s supplied the voice of Darkseid in multiple DC Comics animated movies, Zoom–though uncredited–in the CW’s Flash, and even the Decepticon Dreadwing.

The first part of Masters of the Universe: Revelation can be streamed on Netflix starting today.

Spirits were high and downright slap-happy during Comic-Con@Home’s Tuca & Bertie panel, which offered a few peeks behind the curtain on what it was like reviving the cult-hit animated series during a year full of COVID and wildfires. After being canceled in 2019 by Netflix after only one season, the show is now winding towards wrapping Season 2 on Adult Swim on August 1.

Creator and executive producer Lisa Hanawalt’s comments mainly turned towards the unexpected opportunities that running an animated show over Zoom provided. “We had one day in person before the pandemic got so bad that we could not be in an office anymore,” explained Hanawalt–so the staff had to get creative, which counterintuitively meant getting much more strict about the show’s day-to-day. Whereas previously the show had a more organic process, Hanawalt explained that writers literally submitted “almost a syllabus [of their ideas and jokes].”

The remote dynamic also helped open the show up in a couple of ways. Both Hanawalt and executive producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg (BoJack Horseman) enthused over how the staff was able to add writers who weren’t based out of Los Angeles, and Waksberg observed that this added flexibility also created a new ambition: To have each episode of Season 2 function as “an entree into the series.” Waksberg specifically highlighted Episode 4, “Nighttime Friend,” as being particularly successful at this.

But mainly, the panel explored the drawbacks from having to work remotely. Joked Waksberg, “We didn’t have to smell each other… but on the other hand, we didn’t get to smell each other.”

Movie director and writer James Gunn has shared his thoughts on the future of comic book and superhero films, calling them “really dumb” and “mostly boring for me right now.” Speaking to the Irish Times, Gunn said comic book and superhero films run the risk of fading in popularity if they don’t mix things up and try out new approaches.

“We know about the way cowboy films went, and the way war films went,” he said. “I don’t know, I think you don’t have to be a genius to put two and two together and see that there’s a cycle to those sorts of films, you know, and that the only hope for the future of the comic book and superhero films is to change them up. They’re really dumb. And they’re mostly boring for me right now.”

Gunn went on to say that he was a big fan of comic book and superhero movies at the beginning. He said he was blown away by the visual effects when he saw Superman as a kid. Later on, he was a big fan of Iron Man from Marvel, again, for the visual effects that showed Tony Stark flying around in his supersuit. “And that was a beautiful thing to be able to do. But if the movies don’t change, it’s gonna get really, really boring,” he said.

Gunn tempered his comments by acknowledging that some superhero and comic book movies these days are innovating, but in general, he hasn’t been blown away by what he’s seen of late.

“There are people trying to do some different things with superheroes. So it’s not it’s not 100% a rule that everybody isn’t, but a lot of superhero films are boring. And so for me, I think it’s just about bringing in other elements,” he said.

Gunn directed Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel, and he’s lined up to direct 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as well. He also directed The Suicide Squad, which releases on August 6, and he’s writing and directing the spin-off TV show Peacemaker. Outside of that, Gunn is attached to write and direct the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special.

Exactly what new elements Gunn will bring to the table with these films remains to be seen. But the director has said Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will tell a “heavier” story, which could speak to what he’s trying to achieve in the space that will help set the movie apart.

“It’s pretty heavy actually. It’s a heavier story, so it’s an emotional process to go through,” Gunn told Entertainment Weekly of the script.

Before Gunn started working with Marvel and DC, he made the wacky and wonderful superhero movie Super starring Rainn Wilson, a film about a person with no superhuman abilities.

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The final Evangelion movie, Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time, will be released on Amazon on August 13, but that’s not the version that aired in Japan. During Amazon’s Comic-Con At Home panel, creator Hideaki Anno explained that after the movie was released, his team went back and polished up the best they could.

When asked what fans could expect for this revised version, Anno why he went back and explained the motivation behind doing so. “Creation does not have an end,” Anno stated. “Our staff is dedicated to work on projects as long as there is time, so we want to maintain the quality and improve it if time allows us. We don’t want to compromise on quality. So basically, that’s what our staff is determined to do.”

Anno explained that they stopped working on it because of the deadline, but because of it being moved to Amazon Prime, he explains that means there’s more time to get things right.

“We wanted to show the audience the best version of our work, and since we had more time, the staff took the initiative and to revise the film,” he said, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll affect the story itself. “We upgrade it technically, so it might not be something that everyone will notice.

“Even so,” he continued. “We still want to improve technical quality in detail.”

Thrice Upon A Time is the fourth film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series, and the previous movies are also set to be released by Amazon in August as well: Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (2009), Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (2009), and Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo (2012).

Wheel of Time is one of our most-anticipated upcoming fantasy shows, so we were eager to find out more about the adaptation during Amazon Prime’s virtual San Diego Comic-Con 2021 panel. During the panel, which consisted of a discussion with showrunner Rafe Judkins, Wheel of Time’s first teaser poster was revealed, and then subsequently tweeted out by the series’ official account. The poster confirms that the Amazon show will debut in November 2021. Check it out below:

Wheel of Time is an epic fantasy series that spans 14 novels. The character on the poster is a fan favorite named Moiraine, a sorceress who plays a pivotal role in the story, played in the adaptation by Rosamund Pike. During the panel, Judkins praised Pike’s portrayal of the character, explaining that the actress is fully embodying the beloved Moiraine.

The showrunner described the poster itself as a moment that should be familiar to fans of the series’ first book, The Eye of the World. “I think fans of the book will recognize this as a very iconic moment in The Eye of the World, and I think what I like about it is for people that don’t know anything about the books, this is a moment where you see our lead, Rosamund Pike, Moiraine, looking back over her shoulder and saying, ‘We don’t know what’s through here, but come along for the ride,'” he said.

Judkins described his own history with the series, explaining that he and his mother read them together, and that as a young gay person in Utah, he related to a story about characters who are different than those around them. He expressed his desire to stay faithful to the story while making the best version possible for the medium of television.

“[Wheel of Time] sort of sits in the fantasy pantheon as that connective tissue between Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. It was one of the first fantasy projects that really took you into this unbelievably expansive world and created more POV characters than you usually see in fantasy books up until that time,” the showrunner explained. “Obviously I want to stay as close to the books as we possibly can… There’s a great story there. We want to tell it, and we want to tell it in the way that’s best for television. This story is a true adaptation of the series. So there will be a lot of things that are different from the books, certainly, but I think it always stays true to the heart of the books and the spine of the storytelling.”

Judkins said the characters and the world itself are the two most important things he feels the show must get right. “Those are the things that drew people in and made them read these books over and over again and give them to their friends and come back year after year for 14 full novels,” he explained. “My job is to figure out how to most effectively bring that to TV.”

One of the most interesting moments that came during the panel involved a question from moderator Tim Kash about the polarizing way that Game of Thrones, a series to which Wheel of Time will inevitably be compared, concluded its final season. Kash asked Judkins whether he’s worried about running out of source material, to which the showrunner pointed out that Wheel of Time is a complete, published story already.

“My danger will never be running out of books,” Judkins said. “I think it’s more the challenge that we face is how do you tell this story the most cohesively and the most coherently in what is a reasonable number of seasons of television? … I think you really need to know the end of your story when you start telling it. I think that’s true for television even though it’s serialized and goes many years. I sat down and broke out what I thought eight seasons of the show might look like before I started writing the pilot, because I felt like you have to build in this knowledge of where you’re going and how you’re getting there from the very beginning in order to tell the stories the best you can.”

Judkins added that he believes the story of the Wheel of Time will resonate particularly during this moment in history. “I think thematically, right now a story that is really about balance is something that’s meaningful in the world,” he said. “I think with our world being very divided and hyper polarized it’s really refreshing to see a fantasy series that is not so much good versus evil as balance versus imbalance. And I think that that is a message that’s worth writing about right now and something that is really meaningful.”

Amazon’s Wheel of Time show doesn’t have an exact release date yet, but it’s scheduled to debut on Amazon Prime Video this November. Thankfully for fans, the series has already been renewed for a second season, so things must be looking promising.