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Vin Diesel’s most iconic role may be that of committed family man and car enthusiast Dominic Toretto, but the actor’s multiple turns as the hardened prison-break expert Richard B. Riddick are a close second. Diesel hasn’t just starred as Riddick in a trilogy of films, he also voiced the iconic sci-fi anti-hero in the well-received Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and Assault on Dark Athena. When talking to GamesRadar about Fast 9 and the current state of Riddick 4: Furya, Diesel mentioned that he would like to take advantage of the gaming space to create a new chapter in the saga of Riddick.

“We did have great success with Escape From Butcher Bay,” Diesel said. “It feels like an eternity ago now. But, I imagine that we would take advantage of the gaming space and add an extra chapter, but definitely, the [movie’s] script is already written. So it’s safe to say that we are moving towards filming the fourth chapter of Riddick.”

This isn’t the first time that Diesel has mentioned plans for a new Riddick game, as back in 2013 he mentioned that Payday studio Starbreeze was working on a new chapter. Nothing has happened since then, and for fans of the series, 2009’s Assault on Dark Athena still remains the most recent fix for Furyan-related adventures.

Diesel’s a busy actor right now, as he’ll be filming the sequel to F9 in January. The film has been a smash hit at the box office, taking in over $70 million at US cinemas alone during its opening weekend. Fast 9 reviews have been positive, and with the long-running film series quickly approaching the finish line, Diesel could finally have the time to live out a dream that he has been “dying” to get off the ground: appear in a musical.

For more on Fast 9, don’t forget to check out our breakdown on what the film’s post-credits scene could mean for Fast 10.

Apple TV+ has announced that its adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation will officially premiere on September 24, 2021.

Alongside the premiere date, it also unveiled a brand new teaser for the series that stars Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, and Leah Harvey. For those unaware, Foundation is set to tell the story of “four crucial individuals transcending space and time as they overcome deadly crises, shifting loyalties, and complicated relationships that will ultimately determine the fate of humanity.”

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“When revolutionary Dr. Hari Seldon predicts the impending fall of the Empire, he and a band of loyal followers venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish The Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilization,” The official description reads. “Enraged by Hari’s claims, the ruling Cleons — a long line of emperor clones — fear their grasp on the galaxy may be weakening as they’re forced to reckon with the potential reality of losing their legacy forever.”

Foundation’s showrunner and executive producer is Batman Begins and Man of Steel’s David S. Goyer, and the show is produced by Skydance Television with Robyn Asimov, Josh Friedman, Cameron Welsh, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Bill Bost also serving as executive producers. 

“In the decades since the ‘Foundation’ series first saw print, Asimov’s prophetic science-fiction work has never been more relevant than it is now,” said Goyer. “Growing up, I devoured ‘Foundation’ and dreamed of one day seeing it on screen – but a feature film didn’t seem big enough to embrace the ambition. Thanks to the broader landscape of streaming and a valuable partnership with Apple and Skydance, we are able to bring the series to the screen in a way that truly does it justice. ‘Foundation’ has always been at the top of my bucket list and I’m honored I get to play a part in finally bringing it to life. Whether you’re a fan of the novels or simply someone craving a mind-blowing epic, I’m excited to share with you what we’ve created.”

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On September 24, the first three episodes of Foundation will be released, and one new episode will debut each Friday during the show’s 10-episode first season.

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Fast and Furious star Vin Diesel revealed that the final installments of the franchise will start filming next year and will be a two-parter.

Diesel, who plays lead character Dominic Toretto in the franchise told Regal Cinemas that the end of the saga is approaching and filming will start relatively soon. “I’m doing Fast 10 Part 1 and Part 2, the finale of the saga, in January.”

Fast and Furious 9 recently made $70 million in North America during its opening weekend, which’s not only a box office record for the pandemic but actually, since 2019. F9 has the biggest start for a movie since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. So splitting up the final chapter of this franchise makes sense monetarily and something big tentpole franchises have done for over a decade now since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Filming for F9 took place in 2019 and the movie’s release date was delayed for more than a whole year due to COVID-19 as theaters closed nationwide and Hollywood productions shut down across the board. A release date or story details for Fast and Furious 10 has not been announced (maybe this is where we get that musical), but in the meantime, you can head over to our review for Fast 9.

Fast and Furious 9 is in US theaters now and hits UK theaters on July 8.

Apple’s new sci-fi TV show Foundation now has its first trailer, and it offers a glimpse into the intrigue and mysteries that await viewers. The show is led by David Goyer, who wrote The Dark Knight films.

Foundation, which is based on the Isaac Asimov’s novel series, follows a group of exiles who attempt to “save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.”

Jared Harris (Mr. Deeds, Chernobyl) stars as Dr. Hari Seldon, while Lee Pace (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit) plays Brother Day. The series also stars Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Laura Birn, Terrence Mann, Cassian Bilton, and Alfred Enoch.

Foundation’s showrunner is David Goyer, who previously wrote Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight movies and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Foundation premieres September 24 on Apple TV+. It’s just the latest big show coming to the service this year, following Ted Lasso Season 2 (July 23) and then The Morning Show Season 2 (July 17).

IGN can reveal that Grime – the bizarre, punishing action-RPG in which you play a stony body with a black hole for a head – will be released on August 2 for PC (via Epic Games Store, Steam, GOG, and Humble) and Stadia.

The grim-weird 2D adventure fuses action gameplay with RPG mechanics, including a very cool risk-reward system that sees you using a parry ability to absorb enemies’ powers to install as part of your own character’s build. You can check out a new trailer below:

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Along the way, you’ll upgrade stats, as well as equip mutating living weapons to fight your way through a labyrinthine world. All of that work will help you fight against enormous boss characters, who in turn offer new abilities that let you travel to new places on the game’s twisting map.

We’ve previously shown off Grime during our Awesome Indies event for Gamescom, and saw its introduction at this year’s Guerrilla collective – it’s more… sensual than you might have imagined.

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Actor Vin Diesel has revealed that he is “dying” to appear in a musical someday, and that it almost happened with Hollywood titan Steven Spielberg.

Appear on The Kelly Clarkson Show to promote F9, Diesel was asked directly if he’d like to make a Fast & Furious musical. He didn’t answer that, but he said that overall he’s interested in being in a musical one day when the time is right.

“I’m dying to do a musical, yes. I’ve been dying to do a musical my whole life. I was this close to doing Guys and Dolls with Steven Spielberg, but [I am] dying to do a musical,” he said.

We heard about the Guys & Dolls remake back in 2019, but it has yet to materialize. Spielberg is directing a new version of another classic musical, West Side Story, which premieres in December, though Diesel is not in the cast. Diesel didn’t share any information on the Guys and Dolls remake, so there is no word on why it didn’t come together.

Spielberg and Diesel have worked together before, as Diesel appeared in Spielberg’s acclaimed 1998 WWII movie Saving Private Ryan.

Diesel said he would have wanted to play Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls, a part that Frank Sinatra famously played in the 1955 film adaptation of the stage play.

“Well, for the longest time I thought the Nathan Detroit role in Guys and Dolls would be a very interesting one to revamp, the character that Frank Sinatra played. My grandmother loved musicals,” Diesel said.

Diesel is no stranger to music, as he released the songs “Days Are Gone” and “Feel Like I Do” in 2020.

Diesel currently stars in F9, which is now in theaters where it’s making a mountain of money. The film pulled in $70 million this weekend in the US alone, setting a new pandemic-era box office record stateside.

F9, the latest movie in the Fast & Furious series, has scored the biggest opening weekend at the US box office since the end of 2019. The movie made $70 million in its first three days on release.

Not only is this by far biggest domestic opening weekend of the pandemic era, it’s the highest since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was released in December 2019. As Box Office Mojo notes, F9 managed to exceed the $60 million opening weekend of the previous film in the series–2018’s spin-off Hobbs and Shaw–with only 80% of the country’s theaters open. The previous highest opening weekend gross of the last 18 months was A Quiet Place: Part II in May, which made $47.5 million.

F9 opened in some international territories last month and has so far $404.8 million worldwide. The movie was originally set for release in May 2020–at the time, it was one of the first movies to be shifted back an entire year to 2021, as opposed to just being moved forward a few months.

Elsewhere in the box office chart, A Quiet Place: Part II remained at No.2, adding another $6.2 million to its $136 million US gross. Worldwide, it has $248.4 million to date. Last week’s No.1, the action sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, dropped to No.3, with Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway at No.4 and Cruella at No.5.

US Box Office June 25-27

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1. F9: The Fast Saga $70.0 million
2. A Quiet Place Part II $6.2 million
3. The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard $4.8 million
4. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway $4.8 million
5. Cruella $3.7 million
6. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It $2.9 million
7. In the Heights $2.2 million
8. Spirit Untamed $1.0 million
9. Mighty Orphans $591,000 million
10. Nobody $560,000 million

A Mass Effect film was announced in 2010 with Legendary set to produce and Warner Bros. on board to distribute the project based on BioWare’s RPG series. One of the hired writers, Thor’s Mark Protosevich, eventually dropped out, and the project never got off the ground. Mac Walters, a BioWare veteran who has been with the studio for 17 years and was a writer on the original game, explained in a recent interview why the film stalled.

He told Insider, “It felt like we were always fighting the IP. What story are we going to tell in 90 to 120 minutes? Are we going to do it justice?”

Walters also mentioned that, as a result of a leadership change at Legendary, the movie studio was looking to focus more on TV. The producers then decided to restart Mass Effect, but it never worked out.

“It never picked up again after that, not for lack of trying,” Walters said.

He went on to say that Mass Effect has “such an expansive” world that could be ripe for storytelling for film or TV. “So many people I know in the TV and film industry have reached out to ask me when we’re going to do it and saying we’ve got to do it,” Walters said.

Now, Walters believes that TV–not film–is the right way to tell Mass Effect’s story outside of games. “If you’re going to tell a story that’s as fleshed out as Mass Effect, TV is the way to do it. There’s a natural way it fits well with episodic content,” he explained.

Walters added that each level or mission from Mass Effect is “like its own TV episode.”

“It doesn’t get written ahead of time. It gets written at the time that we get to it. So it gets added to the main story and sometimes the main story gets adjusted because we did something really cool in that ‘episode.’ So long-from storytelling is a great place for game franchises,” he said.

While a Mass Effect movie or TV might not be happening anytime soon, HBO is working on a Last of Us TV series starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. It, too, was originally envisioned as a film before switching to a TV series.

As for the Mass Effect game series, a new entry in the franchise is currently in development, but BioWare has said very, very little about it thus far.

River, the real-life dog that was the inspiration for Fallout 4’s Dogmeat, has passed away.

The news was shared by Fallout 4’s senior designer Joel Burgess on Twitter alongside a thread that honored her life with images, behind-the-scenes stories, and much more.

Burgess began by saying that River was “the antidote to my biggest worry for the Dogmeat character – a canine weapon, and nothing more.” River made their goal of having Dogmeat become a companion first and a combat ally second come true.

To begin with the obvious; River’s looks were almost directly replicated to the in-game model.

Not just because of her beauty (but yes, that too), her markings happened to work really well for pose read + facial expression.https://t.co/9vXYRgrBqq

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However, it didn’t start that way as the team began by researching “professional” dogs with film and/or police training. Burgess recalled visiting the desk of a new member to the Dogmeat team and seeing “countless images of German Shepards snarling, all teeth and attack postures.” A day or two following that, River arrived and changed everything.

She would attend meetings, not as a subject to be “poked, prodded, recorded and filmed as reference,” but to just “BE with the team.”

The team quickly bonded with her and began adding much of her personality to the character of Dogmeat. According to Burgess, River was “more than a mascot or an inspiration – she was part of the team.”

Beyond replicating River’s looks for Dogmeat, which helped the team as “her markings happened to work really well for pose read + facial expression,” her patience and gentle nature were also made a part of the character.

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They even captured much of River’s voice for Dogmeat’s audio, even the distress calls. While this was “heartbreaking” for Burgess and the team, they made this possible by him simply standing in an adjacent room where she could smell but not see him until she started calling out. They would quickly be reunited, and the “happy little celebration yips” as they were together again were captured for the game that way as well.

River also helped with pathing for Dogmeat, as long walks with her would show that, while she would trot ahead, she would “consistently stop to look back and check in on me.” This helped connect players to Dogmeat, as it showed the care they had for the player.

River’s joy in making people happy, including bringing large objects to the team, was also captured, as was her priority of protecting you and not being an attack dog that just killed everything in sight.

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One of the most important parts of Dogmeat’s identity is that, like the player character, the dog doesn’t belong in Fallout 4’s world either. For a game filled with “bizarre creatures, places, scenarios, and characters,” Dogmeat is your tether to the real world.

“Dogmeat is a tether,” Burgess concluded. “He grounds you in the world, will always stand by you, lead you to your family, and anticipate your needs. He wants your to be safe and happy. In other words, he loves you. And if love is River’s legacy, I am contented. Rest in peace, big girl.”

Dogmeat is a tether. He grounds you in the world, will always stand by you, lead you to your family, and anticipate your needs. He wants you to be safe and happy.

In other words, he loves you.

And if love is River’s legacy, I am contented.

Rest in peace, big girl. pic.twitter.com/XiUszPtOnM

— Joel Burgess (@JoelBurgess) June 27, 2021

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In its first weekend at the domestic box office, F9 has earned over $70 million USD and has set a new North American record during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As reported by THR, F9 had the biggest domestic opening since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker earned $177 million in 2019.

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As for the pandemic record, F9 raced past the opening weekend debuts of Godzilla vs. Kong’s $48.5 million, A Quiet Place Part II’s $47 million, and Mortal Kombat’s $22.5 million.

Globally, F9 has earned over $400 million USD and, while it surpassed the $60 million domestic launch of Hobbs & Shaw, it didn’t quite reach the $98.8 million opening of 2017’s The Fate of the Furious.

Last week, the Fast and the Furious Saga became the fifth-biggest film franchise globally with $6.2 billion earned globally, overtaking the X-Men series.

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In our F9 review, we said that it “proudly pitches audiences into the shotgun seat on one more absolutely wild ride packed with thrills, laughs, and—in the end—a heartwarming message about family.”

For more on F9, check out our explainer of the ending and mid-credits scene and how the film’s magnet plane stunt was dreamed up by a 9-year-old.

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