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The next project from Oscar-winning Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis has been revealed. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zemeckis is in “final negotiations” to direct Ares, a sci-fi thriller for Warner Bros.

The movie will be written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who most recently wrote the screenplay for the MCU movie Captain Marvel. She also penned the script for the 2018 Tomb Raider reboot starring Alicia Vikander.

THR says the story of Ares is “genre-bending,” involving an astronaut who crash lands in the African desert. On his journey to find his family, he learns his mission was actually “part of a larger conspiracy and that he may be carrying a secret that could forever change the world.”

Ares is the second of Zemeckis’ high-profile projects currently in the works, the other being a live-action remake of Pinocchio. THR says it is unknown which project will go ahead first.

Zemeckis is staying with Warner Bros. for Ares, as he is currently in post-production on the Roald Dahl movie Witches movie for the studio starring Anne Hathaway.

Westworld will be back for a third season on March 15, 2020, HBO has announced. The season, which will be available on HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO On Demand, will chart “a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the birth of a new form of life on Earth,” according to HBO. The third season will run for eight episodes.

The third season will feature returning cast members Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores,) Thandie Newton (Maeve,) Ed Harris (Man in Black,) Jeffrey Wright (Bernard,) Tessa Thompson (Charlotte,) Luke Hemsworth (Stubbs,) Simon Quarterman (Less Sizemore,) and Rodrigo Santoro (Hector Escaton.)

New cast members include Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad,) Vincent Cassel (Black Swan,) Lena Waithe (Master of None,) Scott Mescudi (better known as the rapper Kid Cudi,) Marshawn Lynch (an NFL player for the Seattle Seahawks,) John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom,) Michael Ealy (Stumptown,) and Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy.)

HBO also released a single image of Evan Rachel Woods’ character, Dolores, below.

The season premiere will air on March 15 at 9:00pm PT.

Fear the Walking Dead is returning for a sixth season this year (a date has not been set yet,) and will pick up where season 5 left off. It will feature Dwight, another character who has crossed over from the main series into the spin-off, and will, of course, involve a lot of zombies. According to Scott M. Gimple, the chief content officer of the television franchise, we might see a time jump in this season as well.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Gimple responds to a question about whether or not the show will feature a time jump by saying that “time is actually going to be played around with on this season.” Although major chronology jumps and changes are likely to be “way down the line,” he says that “we’re going to see a lot of time pass” on the next season of the show.

What this means, exactly, isn’t clear–fans of The Walking Dead on television, comics, and in Telltale’s game series–are used to the franchise playing with time, although huge time jumps are rare.

Elsewhere in the interview, Gimple says that the show’s slow fifth season was “about setting up this journey that these characters on on through there to season 6,” and that while they pay attention to fan reactions, it’s hard to always follow exactly what they’re asking for.

He also says that, structurally, Fear the Walking Dead is “going to change quite a bit” this season, and it’ll be “a little less vignette-y” than before, more like “16 little movies.”

The Walking Dead has a third unique series coming as well, called Worlds Beyond. It will debut in Spring 2020. The flagship show, The Walking Dead, is currently in its tenth season.

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Being a Star Trek fan can be difficult. After all, there are so many different casts scattered between the various TV shows and movies, not to mention more than one timeline. Most of Trek–including Star Trek: The Next Generation–is set in what has been dubbed the Prime timeline. However, the 2009 movie from JJ Abrams, which essentially served as a reboot, was dubbed the Kelvin timeline. Given that’s confined to those films, it should be easy to tell them apart. Unfortunately, the 2009 film also crossed over with the Prime timeline.

So where does the latest addition to the franchise, Star Trek: Picard, live? Thankfully, executive producer Alex Kurtzman cleared up any confusion at the TCA winter press tour panel for the show. “We’re in the prime timeline,” he explained. “Events from the Kelvin timeline impacted Picard, but if you look at that movie, the destruction of Romulus was in the Prime timeline. It is what enabled the Kelvin timeline jump to happen. So that is very consistent with canon.”

While it makes complete sense for Picard to be set in the Prime timeline, it’s an interesting question to think of in light of the Viacom/CBS merger, which brings the films produced by Paramount Pictures under the same corporate umbrella as the expanding Star Trek presence on TV and streaming. As for whether this series could end up a movie itself, Kurtzman isn’t closing the door on that possibility, but notes there has to be a reason to take it to the big screen. “What can we do in the movie that we can’t do on the television show? That’s the only reason to do it,” he said.

Picard picks up years after the end of The Next Generation and finds the titular captain living a reclusive life on Earth, long-retired from Starfleet. Patrick Stewart returns to the role he made famous and will be joined by a host of familiar faces from The Next Generation–Brent Spiner as Data, Jonathan Frakes as Riker, and Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi. Additionally, Jeri Ryan will reprise her role as Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Voyager. For more about Picard, make sure to check out our guide to everything we’ve learned thus far, plus a look at why Picard’s dog may be one of the show’s most important characters.

Star Trek: Picard debuts on CBS All Access on January 23.

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The Switch has a great controller in the Pro Controller, but many gamers (especially fans of Super Smash Bros. Melee) cannot look past the GameCube controller, so much so that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate still supports it. But if you’re playing in handheld mode, you’re out of luck, with no official GameCube controller-shaped Joy-Cons available–which is why one console modder took it upon themselves to build some.

Shank Mods‘ creation was made by tearing down a pair of standard Joy-Cons and recreating them inside the half-shells of a GameCube controller. This is not a theoretical render, but rather a new pair of working Joy-Con controllers that each look and feel like half a GameCube controller.

In the video below, Shank shows how he did it (it took months of work and involved 3D printing some parts,) and how they work.

The process of making the controller is pretty involved, as the Joy-Con pair features different buttons compared to the GameCube controller.

Shank even creates a Joy-Con cradle, so you can use the two halves snapped together like a Wavebird. These Joy-Con controllers he has created are compatible with any games that you can use the Joy-Con with, and feature gyro controls and amiibo support.

Unfortunately, the GameCube Joy-Con is not available as a commercial product.

Star Trek: Picard is days away from debuting on CBS All Access, and at the TCA winter press tour, series star Patrick Stewart reminisced about his days working on The Next Generation and why Star Trek is still relevant.

The original Star Trek series first debuted in 1966, and more than half a century later, it’s still part of pop culture. But why? “Hope,” Stewart stated. “It is the dominant emotion behind everything we did on The Next Generation and as I’m beginning to discover, on Picard too. It has always been part of the content of Star Trek that it will attempt to create a better future with the set belief that a better future is possible.”

While Stewart wasn’t a part of the original series, his iconic character Jean-Luc Picard first made his debut in 1987 on The Next Generation, arguably one of the most important science fiction television series of all time. He portrayed that character up until his final appearance in the 2002 movie Star Trek: Nemesis. “I was proud of the work we did in seven years on the series and the four movies we made,” said Stewart. “That brought the franchise to a close. I was very content with that because I felt, as I said, very proud of the work we’d done, the context in which the work was done.”

Coming back to the character didn’t seem to be a huge obstacle to Stewart, since Picard is just as much a part of him, as he is of the Starfleet Captain. “It has been far easier than I expected to make this transition nearly 20 years later. Because, as I’ve said, the man exists inside of me. We’ve talked for days about the backstory, what happened in those 20 years. Little snippets of the backstory will creep into the series because it’s important our audience gets to know why we are living in the world that we are.”

Picard follows the former Starfleet Captain, years after the end of TNG, as he lives on Earth. There will be plenty of familiar faces popping up from the beloved Star Trek series like Brent Spiner as Data, Jonathan Frakes as Riker, and Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi. And don’t worry Voyager fans, Jeri Ryan will also be appearing as Seven of Nine.

For more on Picard, check out the announcement for Season 2 of the series, along with series star Patrick Stewart discussing why there is a dog on the show and how Picard fits into the already confusing Star Trek timeline.

Star Trek: Picard debuts on CBS All Access on January 23.

Disclosure: CBS All Access is owned by ViacomCBS, GameSpot’s parent company.