Category: Movies

72 hours left on the Lead & Chrome Backerkit!

Lead & Chrome is of course the Fermi Resolution Worldbook‘s cross-collaboration partner in Backerkit, and they’re having a great crowdfunding, too. But every little bit helps, right? Like mine, Lead & Chrome is a post-apocalyptic TTRPG, only with more guns and mutants. I was gonna say that if you were the kind of person who remembers Hell Comes To Frogtown fondly, you’d probably enjoy it – but apparently saying this dates me, because HCTF DVDs are going for insane prices on Amazon. Like, almost two hundred dollars a pop.

…I backed Lead & Chrome, okay? I would’ve even if we weren’t partnering up on this. Check ’em out.

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Paramount is doing a Star Trek… radio play?

I mean, they’re calling it something else.

Star Trek: Khan, the scripted audio series first announced in 2022, is coming this year as Paramount announces Lost actor Naveen Andrews as the title role.

Joining Andrews as Marla McGivers, the Enterprise crew member who joined Khan and his crew at the end of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Space Seed,” is Wrenn Schmidt — known for For All Mankind.

“How did Khan go from a beneficent tyrant and superhuman visionary with a new world at his fingertips to the monster we think we know so well? Recently unearthed, the rest of Khan’s story will finally be told in Star Trek: Khan,” says Paramount’s formal announcement.

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The DEATH OF A UNICORN trailer.

I’m not gonna lie: I don’t know whom I’m rooting for in DEATH OF A UNICORN. I know it’s supposed to be the evil corporate whoevers, but unicorns are bad. Like, really bad. Everything from Faerie is bad, which is why even the possibility that it is actually somehow real is enough of a justification to keep blanketing this planet with cold iron and electromagnetic radiation.

I dunno. Maybe everybody could die, except Jenny Ortega and Paul Rudd? That’d work for me.

Quote of the Day, I Have No Response To That* edition.

GeekTyrant: “The Bear actress Ayo Edebiri has been hired to write the script and possibly star in the live-action Barney movie that is being made by Mattel and A24.”

Well, I do have one response: did any bits of Mattel and A24 ever come into direct contact with each other? Because I would have guessed that there would have been some kind of hypergolic** reaction if they had.

*Classical reference.
**Spelled it right on the first try!

#commissionearned

It’s not that I don’t care that Kathleen Kennedy is leaving Lucasfilm…

…it’s that Kathleen Kennedy is the reason why I don’t care about Lucasfilm anymore. I mean, she won, didn’t she? She won, she’s going to cash out her chips, and somebody else gets to be the one who’ll have to throw the bodies in the incinerator.

All I have left is detached professional respect for someone who turned out to be a really skilled creative saboteur. At least, I assume that all of that was intentional. It’d approach cosmic levels of horror to instead contemplate the possibility that everything she did was an accident.

The THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY Season 2 trailer.

I’ve never watched the show – this entire universe of Undead seems rather strange to me; they’re not very fast and don’t seem particularly immune to blunt force trauma. Why not just shoot and/or flamethrower them? – and I’m very confused as to why they’re coding the eventual fate of these zombies as somehow awful. Macabre I can see, but otherwise… yes. Yes, this seems like a sensible use of resources.

Disney reportedly considering a Mara Jade seriHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU COCKSURE FOOLS! YOU POOR, DAMNED *IDIOTS*!

IF YOU DO A MARA JADE SERIES WITHOUT FIRST RESETTING EXISTING STAR WARS CANON, THEY WILL COME FOR YOU! LISTEN, AND UNDERSTAND! THOSE EXTENDED UNIVERSE FANS ARE OUT THERE. THEY CAN’T BE BARGAINED WITH. THEY CAN’T BE REASONED WITH. THEY DON’T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR! AND THEY WILL ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ARE DIVESTED!

…So go for it, I guess?

Movie of the Week: War of the Worlds (Spielberg).

Not entirely sure why: that version of WAR OF THE WORLDS has been coming across my screen a few times over the last week or so. It’s actually not a bad film, although it grapples with the usual problem of How do you make an almost entirely reactive protagonist heroic? that WotW movies have. I also remember being amused at the time at how Spielberg did everything to favorably portray American soldiers except put actual halos around their head. Given the absolute crap that passed for war movies in the Oughts, this was no small act of defiance.

#commissionearned