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Fan-fiction and other unauthorized adaptations can sometimes draw the ire of franchises’ original creators, but the Cyberpunk 2077 team has no qualms with a new and very impressive fan film’s teaser. Cyberpunk 2077: Phoenix Program is an upcoming project that looks professional enough to be official, and can you can see the teaser below.

A one-minute teaser for Phoenix Program was posted on May 9, and it contains characters we’ve seen in Cyberpunk 2077, including Johnny Silverhand. Played in the game by Keanu Reeves, actor Ben Bergmann has the look down, with bright red sunglasses and his signature long black hair. Bergmann has extensive experience cosplaying as CD Projekt Red’s Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher series, as well.

The teaser shows brief snippets of several scenes, including an execution, an interrogation, and an elaborate nightclub shot. Silverhand gets to make use of his close-quarters combat and firearms skills like Reeves in John Wick, and the visual effects are very impressive.

Director Vi-Dan Tran is no stranger to action, having worked in the stunt department in huge films like 6 Underground and the show Into the Badlands. Phoenix Program’s production has been delayed, like most productions, by the ongoing pandemic, but it’s shaping up to be a worth companion piece to the game itself.

Cyberpunk 2077 releases for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Google Stadia on September 17. It will not be available on the PS5 or Xbox Series X at launch, but those versions are also in development.

LOTR’s Andy Serkis, who was in the midst of filming his role as Alfred Pennyworth in Matt Reeves’ The Batman when production shut down indefinitely due to the coronavirus, has confirmed the film’s overall darker tone.

While speaking to LAD Bible, Serkis was asked if fans should expect a “darker, broodier” Batman, to which Serkis chuckled and replied “I would say that’s not far from the truth.”

Devling into the story a little bit more, Serkis stated that “[The Batman] is very much about the emotional connection between Alfred and Bruce. That’s really at the center of it. And it is a really exquisite script that Matt has written.”

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Serkis is the latest actor to portray Alfred in the movies, following fellow Brits Michael Gough, Michael Caine, and Jeremy Irons (and even TV’s Alan Napier, who appeared in the 1966 movie). “[Michael Caine] was fantastic,” Serkis said, when asked how he intended to follow those who came before him. “His Alfred was legendary, I couldn’t even begin to go there, really. You find it for yourself. It’s like playing these iconic roles in Shakespeare, you go back, you revisit them and you have to make it your own, and see what it is about the character that connects with you and your personal venn diagram.”

The Batman, now moved to an October 2021 release, is reportedly more of a noir-style, detective-driven story and an “odd throwback” to ’70s films Klute and Chinatown.
Andy Serkis also directed the Venom sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which wrapped principal photography back in February, before the COVID-19 crisis shut most everything down, allowing Serkis to star in The Batman. We’ve got a running theory about Let There Be Carnage, that the film is strongly hinting at a villain far worse than Woody Harrelson’s Cletus Kasady.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a charming game filled with plenty of silly lines of dialogue, and one that you’re going to hear a lot is about a sea bass:

“I caught a sea bass! No, wait–it’s at least a C+!”

It’s an amusing pun that helps to take the sting away from catching such a common fish, but then you’ll read it a few more times and it will lose its charm. When you’re desperate to catch something better, the line becomes something of a taunt, and even the Nintendo employee who wrote it doesn’t want to read it anymore.

Posting on his own Twitter account, Nintendo localization producer Rob Heiret confirmed he wrote the line, and said he’s tired of the joke. He also shared a small secret about how the joke was originally written.

Is it funnier? Not especially, but it does line up more with your Villager’s emotions every time they catch one. When Tom Nook is wondering how you’re going to gather up the bells to pay for your latest home expansion, a sea bass just isn’t going to cut it.

One of the best ways you can make bells in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is by playing the “stalk market,” which has fluctuating turnip prices that you can sell for big profit. It’s only available for a limited time each week, and you can check out our Animal Crossing turnips guide for help becoming an expert day trader. You can also learn all about fishing in our Animal Crossing fish guide.

The PlayStation Store (PSN) has been temporarily suspended in Mainland China from 7am on May 10. No time or date given for resumption of services.
The official reason given is to carry out security upgrades. But it is unclear what this means exactly. pic.twitter.com/ZoU71zR9tX

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 10, 2020

The only reason I’m posting is this, and i kid you not, is because an Xbox fanboy claimed on Weibo that they reported to authorities about certain back door elements that are easily accessible to switch to overseas services. Was taken down right after.
So let’s see what happens.

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 10, 2020

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which placed very high on our ranking of all the Spidey flicks, was overflowing with fun twists and surprises. The least of which was the reveal of Kathryn Hahn’s scientist character, “Liv,” really being Olivia Octavius – or Earth 1610’s version of Doctor Octopus!

Apparently, this cool plot swerve came about because of co-director Bob Persichetti’s friendship with Hahn.

During this past week’s Comicbook.com’s online watch party for Into the Spider-Verse, featuring executive producers Chris Miller and Phil Lord, co-director/writer Rodney Rothman explained the gist of it…

Turning Doc Ock into a woman was a @bob_persichetti idea. He and Katherine Hahn are friends through their kids. In earlier drafts she was a Big Lebowski type dude. #SpiderVerse #QuarantineWatchParty

— rodneyrothman (@rodneyrothman) May 7, 2020

Hahn, whose Octavius role was originally a “Big Lebowski type dude” according to Rothman, is the second person to play Doc Ock on the big screen after Alfred Molina famously played the tentacled terror back in 2004’s Spider-Man 2.

Recently, Sony revealed its all-encompassing branding name for not only the past Spider-Man movies featuring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield but also the current Tom Holland/MCU-related films as well as titles such as Venom and Morbius.

Meanwhile, Venom 2, like most other films, including the next couple Spider-Man movies, has been delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis.

If thinking about Doc Ock has made you want to revisit the Sam Raimi Spider-films, here’s a fun look back at Tobey Maguire doing a shirtless, shredded R-rated screen test for the first Spidey movie.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.