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8 Cool Details About Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance From Its Incredible Documentary

A wonderful thing happens when you roll the credits on the final episode of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: you’ve finished watching one of the best TV shows of the year. But then another wonderful thing happens: The Crystal Calls, an almost hour-and-a-half long making-of documentary, immediately queues up. If you’re anything like me,…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 17 '19

The First Trailer for Netflix’s In the Tall Grass Makes Even Grass Itself Petrifying

This is worse than peak hay fever season. Well, actually, if you suffer from hay fever, this trailer is probably just gonna make your chest tight in sympathy. Netflix just dropped the first trailer for In the Tall Grass, based on the novella by Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill—just one of the seemingly…

Trailers James Whitbrook Sep 17 '19

The Man Behind Mr. Robot Is Bringing Battlestar Galactica Back [Updated]

All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. Because literally, that’s what they’re doing, they’re rebooting Battlestar Galactica again. Deadline reports that NBC Universal has tapped Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail to headline a reboot of the beloved sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica for its newly unveiled streaming service. Which is called…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 17 '19

Another Familiar Face Confirms Their Return for Ghostbusters 2020

Danny Trejo is willing to direct Machete Kills’ spacebound sequel himself if necessary. Andy Muschietti is working on and adaptation of Stephen King’s The Jaunt. Showtime has dropped Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Kingkiller Chronicles adaptation. Plus, Jon Favreau wants to do a new Star Wars Holiday Special, and the Scooby Gang ring up Batman. Spoilers now! Ghostbusters…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 17 '19

Disney’s New Bedtime Hotline for Kids Lets Yoda Creep You the Hell Out Before Sleeping

As another reminder of Disney owning a good chunk of the things we love, the company’s newly relaunched, limited time Bedtime Hotline service has added some characters from its most popular acquisitions. One of them I feel maybe has kind of the opposite effect of putting your kids to peaceful sleep, though. Last year, Disney…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 16 '19

Colin Baker Regrets Not Filming His Doctor Who Regeneration

The Sixth Doctor was a controversial figure, on screen and off, by the end of his tenure on Doctor Who. At the time, Colin Baker’s exit was so tempestuous the actor did not return for the traditional hand-over of the role to his replacement, Sylvester McCoy. It led to one of the dodgiest wigs in…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 16 '19

Vampironica Returns For Another Bite of Her Own Comic Adventures

Archie Horror’s literal re-vamp of Riverdale’s highest-class high schooler Veronica Lodge has already given us plenty to sink our teeth into—whether it’s in her debut miniseries or her ongoing crossover with Jughead: The Hunger. But it’s once again time for Ronnie to spread her bat wings and fly solo, and io9 has the first details…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 16 '19

We Have Reached the Inevitable: Warner Bros. Is Making a Funko Pop Movie

Whether you love them or loathe them, Funko’s Pop Vinyl figurines are everywhere, their big heads and vacant stares providing a blank canvas for practically every pop culture series under the sun to be turned into an action figure. Now, they’re moving off store shelves and onto the silver screen. Deadline reports that Funko has…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 16 '19

Tony Stark Could Re-Appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe a Lot Sooner Than You’d Think

Ernie Hudson finally confirms his return for Ghostbusters 2020. New Goddess of Thunder or otherwise, Chris Hemsworth is still the star of Thor: Love & Thunder, according to Taika Waititi. New novels give us our best look yet at Birds of Prey’s heroines. Plus, a look at the Killjoys finale and more Batwoman teases. Spoilers,…

Television James Whitbrook Sep 16 '19

The Puppeteer Behind Dark Crystal‘s Deet Has an Adorable Story Behind Her Audition

Casting a character on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a twofold process. Sure, we have Game of Thrones’ Nathalie Emmanuel voicing Deet, but that’s not the whole thing: there’s a puppeteer actually physically playing the character to consider as well, and Beccy Henderson has started sharing lovely stories of her time on the…

io9 James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

New Survey Says People Want to See Less Trailers Before Movies

We love trailers here at io9—there are few things about movies better than, well, y’know, good entire movies. An artful teaser can inspire intrigue (and a desire to break its secrets down), dazzle the eyes, or evoke powerful tone without saying much in the way of actual information at all. But a new survey says…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

I Can’t Stop Looking at These Perfect Final Fantasy VII Figures

We live in a truly incredible time for action figures—whether you’re wanting to spend a couple hundred bucks or even just twenty, you can get well articulated, highly detailed recreations of some of your favourite characters from all sorts of shows, movies, comics, and games. But it means we also get this: amazingly intentionally old…

Toys & Collectibles James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

Listen to the Original Voice of Ash Ketchum Congratulate Him on a Long-Awaited Pokémon League Win

He’s finally bloody done it. Ash Ketchum, star of the Pokémon anime and perennial clutcher of defeat from the jaws of victory, is finally the winner of a Regional Pokémon League. The world of Pokémon fandom is rejoicing with him, including…himself? Well, actually it’s sort of herself: in the first eight seasons of the western…

Anime James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

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Let’s Fancast the Wild Amount of People That Are In The Suicide Squad

Friday evening, James Gunn finally revealed the cast of his Suicide Squad quasi-sequel-reboot, the unhelpfully titled The Suicide Squad. There’s… well, there’s an awful lot of them. So why don’t we try our best and wish for who could be playing who from DC Comics’ vast roster of potential squaddies? We’ve had some previous thoughts…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

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British Prime Minister Wants to Hulk Out for Brexit, Because This Is Where This Farce Is at Right Now [Updated]

If you’ve been trying to pay attention to whatever in god’s now-ungodly-name is going on in the UK right now over the nightmare that is Brexit, recently you’ve heard about some bizarre, arcane parliamentary terminology. Prorogation! The Speaker! The Black Rod! Boris Johnson! Well, here’s one new term you probably don’t need explaining: The Hulk.…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

Marvel, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek: Discovery Win Big at the Saturn Awards

It wasn’t just merry Mutant namedrops at this year’s Saturn Awards. It was also a reminder of some of the summer’s biggest dramas in pop culture, albeit on a more amicable scale. https://gizmodo.com/iron-man-had-an-alternate-post-credits-scene-where-nick-1838119810 As Deadline reports, the 45th annual Saturn Awards took place in Hollywood California Friday night, and befitting a venue used to announce…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 15 '19

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Mr. Sinister’s High Camp Perfectly Cuts Through the Drama of Powers of X

So far, Jonathan Hickman’s bold re-envisioning of the X-Men’s place at Marvel Comics in House and Powers of X has been exactly that: bold. It has audaciously upturned everything we ever thought we knew about them, it has plunged headlong into esoteric ideas. This week, it wanted to remind us it is still very, very…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 13 '19

Say Hello to the Very Disposable Stars of The Suicide Squad

After months of rumors and speculation, we finally know who’s back, who isn’t, and who’s arriving for the first time when it comes to the cast of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad sequel. And my god, it’s a hell of a big cast. James Gunn just took to Twitter to reveal the first official confirmation of…

Movies James Whitbrook Sep 13 '19

Cool Costumes Hide Dark Truths in the Haunting New Watchmen Trailer

Who watches the Watchmen? The exact sort of people they don’t really want watching them, it turns out. HBO just dropped a brand new trailer for Damon Lindelof’s sequel-take on the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It, like our prior looks at the show—set in a world after the original comic,…

Trailers James Whitbrook Sep 13 '19

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Diana Takes on the Post-Apocalypse in Our Exclusive First Look at Wonder Woman: Dead Earth

Wonder Woman has faced many trials and tribulations in her quest to save the world of man from itself. But what happens when Diana wakes from slumber to find man’s world already lost? Welcome to DC Comics’ new take on the Princess of the Amazons, Dead Earth. io9 can exclusively reveal the first details on…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook Sep 13 '19

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8 Cool Details About Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance From Its Incredible Documentary

The First Trailer for Netflix’s In the Tall Grass Makes Even Grass Itself Petrifying

The Man Behind Mr. Robot Is Bringing Battlestar Galactica Back [Updated]

Another Familiar Face Confirms Their Return for Ghostbusters 2020

Disney’s New Bedtime Hotline for Kids Lets Yoda Creep You the Hell Out Before Sleeping

Colin Baker Regrets Not Filming His Doctor Who Regeneration

Vampironica Returns For Another Bite of Her Own Comic Adventures

We Have Reached the Inevitable: Warner Bros. Is Making a Funko Pop Movie

Tony Stark Could Re-Appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe a Lot Sooner Than You’d Think

The Puppeteer Behind Dark Crystal‘s Deet Has an Adorable Story Behind Her Audition

New Survey Says People Want to See Less Trailers Before Movies

I Can’t Stop Looking at These Perfect Final Fantasy VII Figures

Listen to the Original Voice of Ash Ketchum Congratulate Him on a Long-Awaited Pokémon League Win

Let’s Fancast the Wild Amount of People That Are In The Suicide Squad

British Prime Minister Wants to Hulk Out for Brexit, Because This Is Where This Farce Is at Right Now [Updated]

Marvel, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek: Discovery Win Big at the Saturn Awards

Mr. Sinister’s High Camp Perfectly Cuts Through the Drama of Powers of X

Say Hello to the Very Disposable Stars of The Suicide Squad

Cool Costumes Hide Dark Truths in the Haunting New Watchmen Trailer

Diana Takes on the Post-Apocalypse in Our Exclusive First Look at Wonder Woman: Dead Earth

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