Category: Games

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, the upcoming animated spin-off from the Vin Diesel-led action film series, will hit Netflix on December 26, 2019. In the lead-up to the series’ debut, several images of the series have been shown off, along with a cast list and brief synopsis.

The series will focus on Tony Toretto (Tyler Posey), the teenage cousin of series protagonist Dom Toretto. Much like his older cousin, he’s recruited by a government agency to take on a car-focused crime group: in this case, it’s called SH1FT3R. He and his friends have to stop SH1FT3R from taking over the world, and it seems that’s going to involve plenty of fast driving. The series will be youth-focused, and the image below of Tony with a giant glowing glove hints at some fantastical elements. Click through the gallery below for a first look at the series.

The series will also feature Camille Ramsey, Luke Youngblood, Charlet Chung, and Jorge Diaz in the main cast. Guest stars will include Similce Diesel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Manish Dayal, Jimmy Tatro, Carlos Alazraqui, Eric Bauza, Grey Griffin, Kevin Michael Richardson, Fred Tatasciore, and Tru Valentino. The series is executive produced by Neal H. Moritz, Chris Morgan, Tim Hedrick and Bret Haaland. It’s not clear whether or not Vin Diesel, or any of the other cast members from the film series (which will see a ninth entry next year), will make appearances in the series; if they do, it will likely be kept a surprise.

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Amy Hennig, the director and writer of Uncharted 1, 2, and 3, as well as Jak 3, Battlefield: Hardline, and Visceral’s cancelled Star Wars game, is launching a new games studio. Hennig has joined Skydance Media, the company that produced such films as Mission Impossible Fallout, Gemini Man, Annihilation, and Terminator: Dark Fate. She will oversee the company’s new game development label, working alongside her former Electronic Arts co-worker Julian Beak. This news comes via a report from VentureBeat, and Skydance has since issued a press release welcoming Hennig and Beak on board.

In a statement to VentureBeat, company CEO David Ellison says that the pair have been hired because “the interactive media landscape is continually changing and Amy and Julian are creative and visionary leaders of this evolution.” Hennig, whose first credit is 1989’s ElectroCop, says that her studio will make games aimed at both traditional gamers and “non-gamers,” and will work on “story-focused experiences” for “both traditional and emerging streaming platforms.” Hennig left EA after the closure of Visceral, the studio behind the Dead Space series, and the cancellation of the Star Wars game she was working on. At Skydance Media, she says, she met “kindred spirits” who believed in her work.

Hennig says that, while they haven’t settled on exactly what they will work on first, she will take on an “interactive showrunner” role, while Beak will serve as an executive producer on their titles. Her aim is to work as “a storyteller” with her games. She believes that the studio will remain “small and focused” under her supervision, working on smaller titles.

Skydance Media has some involvement in games already, and are working on The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, as well as their previous VR title Archangel. The company courted controversy earlier this year after hiring disgraced former Disney/Pixar animation chief John Lasseter, who left the company after allegations of sexual harassment arose. Lasseter’s hiring eventually led to Emma Thompson exiting a movie produced by the company.

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), the next DC film on the horizon, will focus on Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) post-Suicide Squad. A new trailer released in early October showed Quinn and her new pals working together in the wake of Quinn’s break-up with Jared Leto’s Joker. The titular emancipation seems like an important part of the movie from the trailer, but it’s possible that it won’t take up a lot of screentime–DC has been removing itself from Leto’s performance for some time, despite having plans for a standalone movie about the character at one point. Now, Warner Bros. has released a new synopsis for the film (thanks Uproxx), and the Joker does not rate a mention in it.

Instead, the synopsis makes it clear that this is Harley’s story, and makes it clear that Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor) will be the film’s major villain. Interestingly, the synopsis (below) omits the term “Black Mask”, Sionis’s supervillain alter-ego, in favor of his name.

“You ever hear the one about the cop, the songbird, the psycho and the mafia princess? Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a twisted tale told by Harley herself, as only Harley can tell it. When Gotham’s most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya’s paths collide, and the unlikely foursome have no choice but to team up to take Roman down.”

Many of these characters appear in the trailers for the film released so far, but we’re still wondering if Chris Messina’s Zsasz (which sounds like a major role from this description) will carry his iconic body count scars–the character makes a mark into his own body for every person he kills, and his entire torso is usually covered in them.

Birds of Prey will release on February 7, 2020, and is directed by Cathy Yan. It will carry an R rating, much like recent DC film Joker (which recently crossed the $1 billion mark in international revenue.) Margot Robbie will also return to the role for a third film, The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy 1&2). For more, check out our trailer breakdown for Birds of Prey.