Joe Manganiello is reportedly returning as the deadly assassin Deathstroke for the HBO Max cut of Justice League. This should be treated as a rumor, though a credible one, as Collider cited an anonymous source, with TheWrap corroborating.
Hard evidence of the casting is lacking. Along with their anonymous source, Collider cited Manganiello appearing on Twitch with gray hair as the main thing pointing to this information. Manganiello has been sporting a salt-and-pepper beard for years, so it’s tough to call that genuine evidence, but it’s not impossible either.
Deathstroke’s time in Snyder’s corner of the DC cinematic universe was relatively short-lived until this point. Manganiello first appeared as the merc in the post-credits scene of the theatrical cut of Justice League. In that scene, Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) was asking him to join his team of bad mean men to fight the newly-formed Justice League.
At one point, DC and Warner Bros. had a Deathstroke movie in the wings with Gareth Evans (The Raid) set to direct, though that movie was later canceled. Screen test footage of Manganiello meant for Ben Affleck’s Batman film even leaked out via Affleck himself.
Zack Snyder’s untitled cut of Justice League will see the movie transform into a four-hour episodic mini-series on HBO Max, with a reported $70 million budget (on top of the theatrical cut’s original budget) currently attached. Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, Amber Heard, and Jared Leto are all confirmed to be filming new footage for the movie; Henry Cavill, on the other hand, has said that he isn’t doing anything of the sort.
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Genshin Impact has undoubtedly had an eventful first month of operation, with millions of players globally jumping into the world of Teyvat. With the passage of time comes the first change of the promo banner for Wishes and an introduction of a new five-star character, Klee.
Klee is the featured character on this new promo banner, titled Sparkling Steps. Though you may have already been introduced to Klee and her abilities in the quest “The Mystery of the Girl in Red’s Treasure,” this is the first chance you have to recruit her permanently.
The odds haven’t changed for Sparkling Steps compared to the previous banner–your chances of a 5-star roll are still quite low at 0.6%. But, as with the previous banner, if you do roll a 5-Star character, there is a 50% chance of it being Klee. The “Pity Roll” mechanics also come into play here, so if you really want Klee, you can pour all of your resources into Wishing multiple times to have a better chance. (Also, if you didn’t roll a 5-star unit on the last promo banner featuring Venti, the accumulated rolls from that banner will carry over onto this one, making a Pity Roll easier to trip.)
Unfortunately, if you missed Venti’s banner and wanted to recruit him, you’ll need to wait until he appears again on a banner sometime in the future. Since Genshin Impact currently seems more focused on introducing new characters to the roster, you might be waiting a while.
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Of course, the big question is: should you spend your resources trying to recruit Klee in the first place? Well, it depends. If you need to bolster your selection of Pyro elemental users, Klee is certainly a great character to get. Her specialty is doing Pyro damage in a wide area using explosives. Her elemental skill and elemental burst cover a big area and can do some serious damage, particularly when paired with other elements. She can also easily find items using her “All of My Treasures!” skill, which can help a lot in gathering the materials necessary for upgrading characters and completing Battle Pass objectives. And if you have more than one Pyro user in your party, her damage output increases substantially.
However, Klee is outclassed by elemental peers in a few ways. Her normal attacks are a bit lacking, and getting the most out of her combat abilities takes some practice. In comparison, Diluc is a very user-friendly five-star character who can be recruited on both the promo banner and the standard banner. He’s the best offensive Pyro unit in the game right now. There’s a chance you could roll him instead of Klee on the banner, which honestly might be the superior outcome.
Klee also feels like she doesn’t have as significant an advantage over lower-rarity peers as some other 5-star units. Xiangling and Bennett are very capable Pyro users who, at 4-Star rarity, are much easier (and potentially much cheaper) to obtain.
But what about the other featured 4-star units on the banner? You have increased odds of getting Noelle, Sucrose, and Xingqiu as 4-star units. Noelle is… well, if you took advantage of the Beginner’s Wish banner at the game’s launch, you got her and probably discovered she’s less than amazing. Sucrose and Xingqiu might be worth adding to your roster simply for the bonuses they give to crafting: Sucrose’s “Astable Invention” skill has a chance to double your crafting yields, while Xingqiu’s “Flash of Genius” can sometimes refund materials used for crafting character talent materials. In combat, however, the two are often outclassed by other units.
To summarize: unless you’re hurting for halfway decent Pyro (poor Amber), you should think about saving your Intertwined Fates for someone better down the line. If you’re on the fence, you can give Klee and the other banner characters a playtest in the Test Run event to see how they work in combat. Of course, if you like Klee (or any of the other featured characters) for other reasons beyond her game utility, then, by all means, chase after her! She’s an adorable young pyromaniac with an explosive, infectious personality, and that alone will sell her to some players. But again, if top-tier is what you’re looking for, you should consider holding out for a while, or maybe just trying for Sucrose and Xingqiu, since–factoring in pity rolls–the odds of getting one of two is higher. It’s always handy to have crafting boosts, and those abilities will only get more useful as the game evolves.
Countless movies and television shows are have been delayed, canceled, or changed in significant ways as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adult Swim’s mega-hit Rick and Morty, however, is doing just fine according to co-creator Dan Harmon.
“We’re more on schedule than we’ve ever been,” Harmon said during a virtual panel for PaleyFest NY 2020. “It kind of makes you have to focus on the whole process when you don’t have this office environment anymore. Everyone has to run this bee colony remotely, so the honey just gets made more consistently. It’s working for us.”
Harmon said that the team is “very late into the process of writing Season 6” even as he reviews animatics for Season 5 episodes. He also told the panel that the writers don’t map out the seasons ahead of writing them, despite being on Adult Swim’s books for at least a sixth and seventh season.
“If we simply just keep writing in real time as fast as we can write…that puts us years ahead of the air date of the most recent episode. The last thing we’d want to do in an environment like that is have a plan. We are the plan because we are the future. We’re the guys who wrote the stuff that they’re now drawing, so we make a tremendous effort to stay in the moment and never box ourselves in,” Harmon said.
Harmon did drop a few hints about what we can expect for Morty Smith and Rick Sanchez, though.
“There’s an episode in Season 5 where Morty has a relationship with another female character that’s not Jessica. It’s just a great little story,” Harmon said. Rob Schrab, a long-time collaborator of Harmon’s, wrote the episode. Harmon also said that he’s looking forward to fleshing out the relationship between Rick and Morty’s dad, Jerry.
“These guys are not murdering each [other] for a reason,” Harmon said. Harmon doesn’t want the relationship to pigeonhole either character, so we can look forward to some additional complexity for that relationship in Season 5, too.
Rick and Morty Season 5 does not yet have an air date, but Seasons 1-3 (with 4 coming soon) are available on HBO Max.
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I usually try to hop on Among Us once a week to link up with my friends back home and get rowdy either trying to get away with virtual murder or ratting each other out. But they like to keep things spicy. So, they put together a sort of alternate game mode by customizing the in-game rules and getting us to follow certain gameplay etiquette. And with the vewy scawy Halloween season right around the corner, this makeshift game mode is quite fitting and helps freshen up the traditional paces of Among Us.
Basically, think Dead By Daylight, or any similar game, but in Among Us. Here’s the setup: you have one imposter and nine (or however many) crewmates, but the imposter announces who they are right at the beginning of the match. The imposter counts to 10 while the crewmates scramble to get out of sight, complete tasks, hide, and make mad dashes to dodge the imposter once they start hunting down the crew–there’s no voting phase necessary, just survival.
What makes this style of play work is the tweaking of the custom rules. Here, you’ll want to have the imposter’s kill cooldown timer set to the lowest possible (10 seconds) so they can really act like a serial killer. However, you’ll have to limit their vision range as low as possible (0.25x) to make it challenging for them to actually find crewmates. To make things a lot more thrilling, we set all players’ movement speed higher (at least 2x, but 3x works too).
There are a few rules that can’t be hard-coded into the game, so you need to make sure players mind some general manners. The imposter cannot use any sabotages. They also should not vent (not that it would help them much anyway). Crewmates cannot call emergency meetings or report dead bodies–this wouldn’t really help anyone because there’s nothing to discuss since the imposter is revealed from the start. However, everyone can communicate with each other at all times during the match. Not only is it funny as hell to hear everyone wild out when they spot the imposter chasing the team down, it’s also helpful for keeping tabs on the killer’s position.
The goal remains simple: For crewmates, complete your tasks before the entire crew is killed. And of course, for the imposter, kill everyone before they finish their tasks.
Halloween 2019 promotional art for Among Us.
By twisting the traditional rules of Among Us, you get a pretty unique thrill seeing the imposter running by or chasing after you. You know you can get out of sight since they have limited vision, but you’re well aware that they’re mashing that kill button while hunting you down. Especially when you’re preoccupied with a task and only hear your teammates screaming position callouts that are nearby, it creates a different type of tension.
Depending on the group you’re playing with or the map you’re on, you can (and should) tweak the rules a bit to find a good balance for both sides. What I outlined works well for my friends and is likely a good starting point for others, but switching up the number of long and short tasks can help balance things out.
Of course, we aren’t the ones who came up with this mode, as you may have seen other streamers or content creators play Among Us in this way–I’m sure that’s where my friends got it from, too. But you can be the one to introduce it to your friends if you have a good group to play with. Admittedly, it’s also best if you’re able to communicate through voice chat apps like Discord, but this mode does make things more approachable since you don’t have to engage in discussions or the lying/blame game aspect (especially if you find that a bit uncomfortable).
I really do miss when folks would come up with emergent styles of play and make up rules to create an experience that was never intended to be in the game. (I often think back to playing Project Gotham Racing 2 on the original Xbox and hopping into lobbies for the made up “cat and mouse” mode.) Among Us in particular gives room for these kinds of modifications to spice things up–and if there are any styles of play that you’ve tried, or if you already played this Friday the 13th-style spin on the game, we’d love to hear about it!
We rank all the “Real American Guy” disguises Borat had to don in his Subsequent Moviefilm.
Borat 2, or Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, or several other absurdly long titles depending on the day, is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Plenty of viewers–fans and detractors alike–are now reuniting with Sacha Baron Cohen’s satirical Kazakhstani journalist, and meeting his daughter, the wonderful Tutar, for the first time.
We liked the sequel quite a lot. One of its best running jokes is the fact that Borat can’t go anywhere in US of A without being recognized due to the success of the first movie. Instead, he relies on a series of “regular” American guy disguises to help him do hijinks without being hounded.
Of course, some of those disguises are better than others, so we decided to rank them all in ascending order of efficacy, hilarity, and creativity. Keep scrolling for that, and for more on Borat 2, read our review. Be sure to get in a lengthy argument in the comments. And before you continue, be warned that there will be spoilers from the movie discussed below.
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10. “A typical Jew”
Catchphrase: “Very nice weather we have been controlling”
This disguise is so offensive it makes my brain hurt. Of course, that’s the point. And the sweet Jewish ladies Borat meets are one of the highlights of the movie.
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9. Uninvited Sound Guy
Catchphrase: “Sound problem”
Late in the movie, Borat manages to infiltrate his daughter’s interview with Rudy Giuliani. He chooses the surprisingly practical disguise of a sound guy on her crew. Points for efficacy, but it’s not very creative.
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7. Cliff Safari
Catchphrase: “Hell yeah!”
Cliff Safari lasts about as long in the movie as Rudy Giuliani’s deniability once he enters the bedroom with Tutar, but he makes an impression nonetheless.
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6. Whatever is happening here
Catchphrase: “She 15, she too old for you”
When Borat bursts back into the room before Giuliani and Tutar can consummate their union, he’s wearing this hybrid lingerie and tighty-whiteys number, while retaining Uninvited Sound Guy’s beard, wig, and glasses. In July 2020, following the incident, Giuliani described Sacha Baron Cohen’s appearance as “a crazy, what I would say was a pink transgender outfit…a pink bikini, with lace, underneath a translucent mesh top.” It was a bold choice, for sure.
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5. Stephen Miller
Catchphrase: “Sorry I’m late”
Kicking off the top 5 on the list is the fact that Borat burst into the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) wearing a full-blown KKK robe and peaked hood, declaring himself to be Stephen Miller. Miller, of course, is an advisor to Trump and a blatant racist.
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4. John Chevrolet
Catchphrase: “I want you to make hotzy out of this notzy”
Worried that Tutar’s makeover stylists will recognize him and foil his plot to gift his daughter to Vice Premier Mikhael Pence, Borat assumes the persona of John Chevrolet, a Real American.
Mr. Chevrolet ranks high for his bold, quadruple denim style and the cute moments he shares with Tutar at the fair.
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3. Professor Phillip Drummond III
Catchphrase: “How much you think my daughter is worth?”
The character Borat inhabits for the debutante ball is Professor Phillip Drummond III, who for some reason is named after the protagonist of the 1978-1985 sitcom Diff’rent Strokes. However, he is also a professor, which earns him extra points.
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2. McDonald Trump
Catchphrase: “Mike, You’re fired”
The reason this disguise works so well is it’s just so incredibly high quality. That’s a good thing, because Cohen really did crash Pence’s CPAC speech–although nobody knew it was him at the time. No doubt a few puzzled attendees who glimpsed the getup in passing–with Tutar thrown over his shoulder–thought they’d just really witnessed the president on a date.
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1. Country Steve
Catchphrase: “You bet your a**hole I am”
Country Steve might be John Chevrolet’s country-singing alter ego. That, or Cohen’s production decided to save money by re-using certain wigs. Either way, one thing is clear when he takes the stage at the anti-mask rally and gets bumpkins to sing along with lyrics about chopping up journalists and injecting Obama with COVID: Country Steve is a True American Hero.
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Rob Zombie was known throughout the ’90s as the frontman for rock band White Zombie, but by the 2000s he had reinvented himself as a horror director. His first two movies, House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and The Devil’s Rejects (2005) won fans with their mix of grueling B-movie-inspired horror, over-the-top gore, gaudy visuals, and dark humor. His love of the genre was clear and, in particular, his affection for the groundbreaking movies that emerged in the 1970s. So it wasn’t surprising when in 2006 he was announced as the director of a remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween.
By that point, there had already been seven movies in the slasher franchise (not including the standalone Halloween III: Second of the Witch). But the previous movie, 2002’s Halloween Resurrection, was a commercial disappointment and critical bomb, and it was unclear with what direction the series would go in next. Zombie took the series right back to its roots and delivered his own very specific spin on this classic story.
Zombie’s Halloween hit theaters in August 2007 and was a box office hit. But the movie was–and remains–extremely divisive. It’s a film of two halves, the first being an “origin” story for Michael Myers, which showed how his troubled family life helped transform him into a killer. The second half is essentially a compressed remake of Carpenter’s film, as an adult Michael returns to his hometown of Haddonfield on October 31 for a night of bloody mayhem. But while many of the events are the same and all the familiar characters are in there, the oppressive atmosphere and mix of graphic gore and sex made it unmistakably a Rob Zombie movie.
But love it or loathe, Rob Zombie Halloween–plus its 2009 sequel–are a crucial part of the history of this long-running franchise. As with many of Zombie’s movies, the home entertainment releases have been packed with bonus material, including an extensive making-of documentary and director’s commentary. We’ve been back through the behind-the-scenes material to find some of the best, most surprising, and fascinating references, Easter Eggs, and things you didn’t know about the film. And once you’ve read that, check out our guides to the original Halloween and 1998’s Halloween H20.
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1. The movie was shot in the same town as the original
Like the first film, Zombie shot Halloween in South Pasadena, California. The house used for the exteriors of the Myers house was two miles from the one that Carpenter used. However, Zombie said he couldn’t use it because it was “all restored and looking good.”
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2. William Forsythe’s leg cast was real
William Forsythe plays Michael’s abusive stepdad Ronnie. His character’s leg is in a cast throughout because shortly before production started Forsythe had a motorcycle accident and couldn’t walk properly. Zombie said he was in pain throughout the shoot and that’s why he is sitting in every scene.
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3. Baby Angel didn’t want to cry
The baby playing young Angel/Laurie found Forsythe’s voice very soothing. Even though Zombie wanted the child to be upset during the argument scenes, he said that she would stop crying every time she heard Forsythe yelling at Sheri Moon Zombie, playing Michael’s mom.
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4. This kitchen was accidentally tidied
The opening breakfast scene in the Myers house was shot on the first day of production. The real kitchen was initially messy as it appears in the film, but not realizing that’s how Zombie wanted it, the art department tidied the whole room ahead of filming. Zombie then had to tell them to put it back how they found it.
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5. There were three Myers houses
Zombie and his team had trouble finding a house that had all the rooms they needed for the various scenes set there. In the end, the exterior, the downstairs, and upstairs scenes were shot in three different houses.
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6. This kid was already famous
Daryl Sabara, who plays school bully Wesley, was best known in 2007 for his lead role in the Spy Kids movies. These scenes were shot in a real school, and Sabara kept getting mobbed by the kids there when they discovered who he was.
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7. Young Michael loved to swear
Daeg Faerch, who plays young Michael, loved the scenes where he gets to swear because he wasn’t allowed to at home. Zombie said that he kept laughing as he said that dialogue, and you can see him start to crack up a couple of times in this scene.
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8. This old movie is a homage to the first Halloween
Zombie has the characters watch the ’50 horror classic The Thing from Another World on TV because that’s what they were watching in the original. In a later scene, adult Michael deliberately stops to watch some more of the movie, having missed a lot of it 15 years earlier because he was busy killing his family.
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9. William Forsythe didn’t want a kid to cut his throat
A stunt double stood for Faerch for the scene in which Michael cuts Ronnie’s throat. Even though Forsythe is wearing a make-up appliance, it still had to be cut open for the blood to flow out, and Forsythe understandably didn’t want a 10-year-old waving a knife near him.
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10. This clever shot was actually very simple
The striking shot of the camera moving through what seems to be a freeze-frame to Michael sitting in the police car, was designed on the day of shooting. While it looks like a clever use of visual effects, Zombie actually told the background actors just to stand very still while he moved the camera towards the car.
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11. A lot of these reactions were genuine
The interview between Loomis and Myers was semi-improvised. Zombie gave Malcolm Dowell and Faerch random things to say to each other, without telling each other what they were, in order to get genuine responses.
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12. Zombie had a week to create several seasons
The hospital scenes were shot at a Veterans’ Hospital in North Hills, California. Zombie only filmed there for a week but needed to give the impression of many months passing. So he used fake snow, rain, and sunshine for the various brief establishing shots. The rain scene was literally just someone standing to the side spraying a hose in front of the camera.
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13. The hospital scenes were influenced by a classic movie
Zombie said that the character of Chief in the 1975 classic One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest was a big influence on the hospital scenes. Everyone has stopped paying attention to Michael, who has not spoken or committed a violent act for many years, until it is too late.
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14. This scene was changed to make it more original
The giant image of Michael on a screen behind Loomis was decided on the day of shooting. Originally Zombie planned to show him giving his lecture in a standard theater, but decided it looked far too conventional.
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15. This gory effect didn’t work very well
The blood smash effect, as Michael (played as an adult by Tyler Mane) slams the orderly’s head against the wall, had to be filmed over 20 times as they couldn’t get the effect to work properly.
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16. Danny Trejo’s death was added later
The scene of Danny Trejo’s character Ismael getting killed by Michael was filmed at a different hospital months after principal photography because Zombie decided he needed a resolution. “When you’re shooting he seemed like a minor character, but when editing he seemed more important,” he said.
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17. Michael dropped the TV
When Mane first picked the TV off the wall in this scene, he accidentally dropped it and it smashed. That’s why the shot quickly cuts away and you don’t actually see the set as Michael kills Ismael with it.
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18. This scene was entirely reshot
The scene of Loomis being awoken to hear about Michael’s escape was totally reshot. Originally, the escape was during the day, but Zombie changed the timeline in editing to make it happen at night. In the first version, it was hospital administrator Morgan Walker, played by Udo Kier, who makes the call. But Kier wasn’t available for reshoots, so Doctor Koplensen, played by Clint Howard, makes it instead.
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19. This dialogue was taken from a classic Paul Newman movie
In the director’s cut, Big Joe Grizzly, played by Dawn of the Dead star Ken Foree, tells Michael “what we have here is failure to communicate.” This is a classic line taken from the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke. Zombie cut it out of the theatrical version, but put it back in for the longer DVD director’s cut after Foree complained.
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20. Ken Foree wasn’t very good at playing dead
Zombie had to use CGI to make sure Big Joe looked dead, as Foree kept breathing and blinking. “Ken is an amazing actor, but he’s the worst dead body ever,” Zombie said in the commentary.
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21. This Laurie is very different to the one in the original movie
Zombie made a conscious decision not to make Laurie prudish like she is in the original film, because it wouldn’t make as much sense for a teenage girl in 2007. However, he did admit that the vulgar joking with her mom “seemed to bother everybody.”
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22. They had to recreate fall in Illinois
Zombie’s decision to shoot Halloween in California meant he had many of the same issues that Carpenter did 30 years earlier in trying to make Hannonfield look like it’s in Illinois. The tree that has been placed in front of the Strode house is hiding a palm tree.
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23. Michael’s mask and wig caused issues
Zombie discovered on set that there was an issue with Michael’s mask. Tyler Mane was wearing a long-haired wig throughout, and it was impossible to put the mask on or pull it off without dislodging the wig. This is why you never see Michael fully mask up–he starts, then Zombie cuts away. The same is true later on in the scene with Laurie, when he takes the mask off.
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24. There was a full-time leaf wrangler
Zombie said they employed a crew member whose only job was to put leaves on the ground for the exterior Haddonfield shots. Sometimes he’d run out of leaves, and just have to collect them all up and move them to the next location.
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25. Danielle Harris is the only previous Halloween actor
Danielle Harris, who plays Annie, is the only cast member to have already appeared in the Halloween franchise. She played Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 5 and 6 in the late ’80s when she was only 11 and 12. Initially, Zombie didn’t want to include anyone from a previous film, but her audition convinced him to cast her.
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26. That’s the original Myers house
When Laurie, played by Scout Taylor-Compton, looks out of the window and sees Michael, he is standing in front of the Strode house from the original movie.
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27. Scout Taylor-Compton turned 18 during production
It was Taylor-Compton’s 18th birthday on the day this scene with Dee Wallace Stone, playing her mom, was shot. Zombie said he was worried that Taylor-Compton would “go out and get wasted and show up hungover the next day,” but thankfully she didn’t.
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28. Zombie reshot Bob’s murder
Originally Bob was killed when Michael follows him out to his van. But Zombie reshot the scene so it mirrored the same shots and music (Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear The Reaper) as Judith’s murder earlier in the film, as well as Bob’s death in Carpenter’s film.
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29. The sheet was problematic
Zombie had issues with the sheet that Michael wears to disguise himself as Bob. The glasses kept falling off, so they had to be sewn on with a fishing line. And when the sheet was pulled off, it kept making the hair on Michael’s mask “stand up in some funny way.”
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30. Some of the local residents got angry with the production
All of the Haddonfield scenes were shot around a real neighborhood in South Pasadena and in houses where people lived. Zombie said that at one stage unknown residents started throwing rocks at the set.
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31. Michael’s hand was taped to Annie’s foot
When Michael pulls Annie, played by Danielle Harris, across the floor, her shoe kept coming off in his hand. So Mane’s hand had to be duct-taped to Harris’s foot.
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32. No blood was allowed on the floor
The owner of the house that Annie is attacked in requested that the filmmakers didn’t get any blood on the floor. This is why Annie is found lying on a rug, with blood all over her but very little anywhere else.
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33. Zombie has a voice cameo
Zombie provided the voice of the 911 operator as Loomis and Sheriff Brackett race across town.
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34. Lindsey’s screams are real
Neither Skyler Gisondo and Jenny Gregg Stewart, playing Tommy and Lindsey, had seen Mane in his Michael mask before this scene was shot. Stewart was genuinely terrified when she saw him come through the door, and her screams were real. Zombie said he had to calm her down after the scene was shot.
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35. Michael kept tripping
Mane kept tripping down the stairs as he left the house carrying Laurie, because of his huge size and the fact his mask obscured his vision.
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36. This stunt went wrong
The balcony fall stunt went wrong, and the stunt performer playing Laurie hurt herself badly when she fell. Production had to be paused while she was rushed to hospital.
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37. The ending was reshot
Zombie reshot the entire ending. In the original climax, Michael is killed in a hail of police gunfire after he is cornered by Loomis and the cops. However, Zombie said that he only ended it this way because of the rushed schedule. When he realized it didn’t really work he was able to go back and totally reshoot it, to allow Laurie to be the one who kills Michael.
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The new consoles are almost here and both Sony and Microsoft are preparing for their arrival. What does this mean? For the former it means making some tweaks to the way its existing services work in order for the transition to PlayStation 5 to be a little more smooth. For the latter it means dishing out new information on the ways Xbox Series X/S owners will be able to make the most of their brand new hardware.
On this episode of Generation Next, Lucy, Jordan, and Tamoor tackle the aforementioned tweaks Sony is making. More specifically, they talk about the changes to the PlayStation Store, which has been redesigned somewhat. Tune in to find out what’s new, what’s changed, what’s gone, and what it all means. There’s also a quick analysis of what the future could hold for PlayStation’s Trophies, which look like they may start dishing out rewards in a different way.
For the Xbox part of the discussion, techspert Michael Higham returns to answer some of your burning questions about the X/S. These range from whether you can run apps off an external hard drive and whether the hard drive that Microsoft endorsed as made for the Xbox Series X works with the new consoles, to Kinect 2 compatibility and how new platforms will work with setting a home console.
Generation Next is GameSpot’s weekly video show all about the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Each Friday, join PlayStation Pro Tamoor Hussain, Xbox Xpert Jordan Ramée, and Console Connoisseur Lucy James as they discuss the biggest stories about the new consoles.
Electronic Arts has provided an update on Apex Legends for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam, confirming when the battle royale launches on both platforms.
Apex Legends hits Steam on November 4. Origin players can switch back and forth between that and Steam, letting you transfer all progress and unlocks between the two. Meanwhile, Steam players will get free Half-Life and Portal gun charms for logging in during Season 7. The new Apex Legends season also starts on November 4, the same day the game hits Steam.
EA said the Nintendo Switch port of Apex Legends has been delayed to 2021. An exact release date or window has yet to be announced. Game director Chad Grenier said the “unexpected new challenges” of this year impacted the game’s development on Switch. Whenever the game drops on the console-handheld hybrid, it will come with “full feature parity with the other versions of the game,” including cross-platform support and the latest seasonal content.
Look at these super-cute Apex Legends gun charms.
Check the specs below to see if your PC can handle Apex Legends.
Full Apex Legends Steam System Requirements
Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: 64-bit Windows 7
Processor: AMD FX 4350 or equivalent, Intel Core i3 6300 or equivalent
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7730 or Nvidia GeForce GT 640
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 22 GB available space
Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: 64-bit Windows 7
Processor: Ryzen 5 CPU or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 290 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 22 GB available space
Respawn has begun teasing the content coming to Apex Legends in Season 7, including the new hero Horizon. While we don’t know much about her, it’s said she can manipulate gravity.
Apex Legends is available on a variety of platforms, including PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Those interested in the game should consider the Champion Edition, a $40 package that features unlocks, cosmetics, rewards, and immediate access to every character up to Horizon.
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