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When Mattson Tomlin, a writer on The Batman Part II and Project Power, sat down to penTerminator Zero, he hit a hurdle he wasn’t expecting.

 

It didn’t have anything to do with continuity, which feels like the obvious head scratcher, given all the time tampering across six movies. As Tomlin tells Entertainment Weekly, the show treats all the past films as canon. “We're not going to pretend that the third movie didn't happen. We're not going to pretend that the sixth movie didn't happen,” he says.

 

No, the specific challenge related to the setting itself. The powers that be at Netflix, Skydance, and animation studio Production I.G wanted Terminator Zero to have some kind of Japanese component. Tomlin took it a step further and set the eight-episode anime in Japan. “I was aware that there aren't really guns in Japan, and I don't think I quite appreciated how real that was," he says of his predicament.

 

Tomlin was very much inspired by the first two Terminator movies: 1984’s The Terminator and 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Although a certain rifle-touting robot with a thick Austrian accent and a killer motorcycle jacket might not be popping up in the anime, he wanted to emulate the feeling of uncertainty to who's good and who's bad. Tomlin points to Micheal Biehn’s Kyle Reese in that first movie: “You don't know what's going on with that guy. You do not know that he is the hero.” In a similar way for Terminator Zero, he adds, “These are all original characters. We don't know who anybody is. All of those answers are going to absolutely be revealed — and they'll be revealed pretty quickly.”

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Lionsgate is developing a John Wick spinoff movie around Donnie Yen’s Caine assassin character.

 

Yen will reprise his John Wick: Chapter 4 role in the untitled project set to shoot in Hong Kong in 2025. The franchise expanding film, with no director yet announced, will follow the events of John Wick 4 as Caine has been freed from his obligations to the High Table.

 

The project also follows Yen, a veteran Hong Kong action hero, pushing back against what he claimed were Asian stereotypes in the original script for John Wick 4. After some prodding, John Wick 4 director Chad Stahelski agreed to change the name and clothes for Yen’s character. 

Hearing the finale credits scene clearly calls out next season's threat. And who may right some wrongs from events this season.

On 5/14/2024 at 4:13 PM, The Commissioner said:

It’s still Charlie Vickers as Sauron, they just altered his look. 
 

https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-2-teaser-charlie-vickers-sauron-1235004197/

Wow! That is quite the transformation they made with his appearance.

On 5/14/2024 at 1:35 PM, kimik said:

Is it the same actor or someone new? 

It looks to be someone totally different from Season 1 (old guy below)

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s adaptation of video game Tomb Raider is scaling the walls at Amazon.

 

The streamer has handed the project a series order.

 

The news was revealed by Head of Amazon & MGM Studios Jen Salke at the company’s Upfront event in New York, who called it an “epic” and “globe-trotting” series.

 

“If I could tell my teenage self this was happening I think she’d explode. Tomb Raider has been a huge part of my life and I feel incredibly privileged to be bringing it to television with such passionate collaborators. Lara Croft means a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this adventure. Bats ‘n all,” said Waller-Bridge.

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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts has unveiled plans for StreamSaver, an upcoming streaming product bundle that packages Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ that will be available to all Comcast broadband, TV and mobile subscribers.

 

“Those three products will come at a vastly reduced price to anything in the market today and will be available to all our customers,” Roberts told the MoffettNathanson Media, Internet & Communications Conference during a session that was webcast on Tuesday.

 

Comcast, which also owns NBCUniversal, has answered cord-cutting and an increasing streaming video space with Now TV, a streaming TV bundle at the low end of the market, and Xfinity TV at the higher end. But the onset of rebundling streaming products has increasingly taken hold in the pay TV business as major studios look to wring profits from their streaming platforms.