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Werner Herzog Gets His Nihilistic Hands All Over Star Wars: Episode IX in This Parody Trailer

Welp, Colin Treverrow definitely isn’t directing the ninth film in the Skywalker saga, leaving a gap that Lucasfilm has yet to fill. In the meantime, this fake trailer lets us imagine what wonderful, terrible film future could await us. Courtesy of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Werner Herzog’s name can be added to the…

io9 Julie Muncy Sep 9 '17

How To Survive a Killer Clown Attack

Alamo Drafthouse locations across the country are hosting all-clown screenings of It this weekend in an ill-advised attempt to turn the public’s innate and rational fear of clowns into some sort of “fun” marketing stunt. To reiterate: there’s a solid chance you’re going to see gangs of clowns roaming the streets. To be fair, the…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 9 '17

This Last Jedi and My Neighbor Totoro Mashup Will Melt Your Heart

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is still several months away, but it already has a breakout new set of characters: the Porgs. Artists are having a ton of fun with the lovable aliens, but this latest piece by Michael Pasquale might just be the best so far. As you can tell above, he’s mashed up…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 8 '17

The Greatest American Hero Is Coming Back With an Indian-American Heroine

George Costanza’s favorite TV show is coming back with a modern twist. Deadline is reporting that cult 1980s TV show The Greatest American Hero is being rebooted, again, at ABC. The original show was about an unassuming white man who was given an alien super suit that allowed him to save the world. This version…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 8 '17

Adult Action Cartoon LastMan Has Loads of Style But Way Too Much Sleazy Substance

LastMan sounds like a movie from the ‘80s, wants to be set in the 1970s, and looks like it’s supposed to be happening in the ‘90s. It’s a messy jumble of execution that occasionally manages to be appealing despite itself. The best way I can describe LastMan—now airing on the Mondo channel of streaming platform…

Anime Evan Narcisse Sep 8 '17

Congress Isn’t Happy About the Equifax Breach

We knew it wouldn’t be long before Congress demanded action in response to the Equifax data breach—particularly since several of its members are among the 143 million Americans who are pissed about having their Social Security numbers and other personal data exposed. Equifax announced the breach yesterday, and so far the company’s behavior has been…

Tech News Dell Cameron Sep 8 '17

Virginia Is Getting Rid of Its Vulnerable Voting Machines

Virginia’s Board of Elections voted unanimously to decertify all of the state’s touchscreen voting machines, which are considered by cybersecurity experts to be vulnerable to manipulation by hackers. The race is now on to replace the machines, which are used in 22 counties, before Virginia’s elections in November. Industry experts and and the state’s elections…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Sep 8 '17

The Mouse Guard Movie Continues to Squeak Ahead

Mouse Guard is an award-winning comic book series, written and illustrated by David Petersen, about medieval mice protecting their own. Last year, a writer was hired to adapt it—and now, a director may actually be turning its lush world of marauding mice into a movie. Deadline reports that Wes Ball, who has spend the last…

io9 Germain Lussier Sep 8 '17

Google Employees Organize Their Own Study of Gender Pay Gap

In April, the US Department of Labor accused Google of gender pay discrimination. The tech behemoth denied the allegations, and when the DoL requested historical salary records from the company, Google argued that the endeavor was too expensive. Lucky for Google, good samaritans at the company have led efforts to compile the wage data. The…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Sep 8 '17

Hollywood’s Movies Suck, and It Doesn’t Want You to Know

Hollywood is struggling through a particularly rough financial patch at the moment, and it’s throwing blame in every direction. Its favorite target over the last ten years has been technological disruption. Netflix, home theaters, and MoviePass have all been cited as box office grim reapers. The latest target, Rotten Tomatoes, is the dumbest excuse yet.…

Tech News Rhett Jones Sep 8 '17

Artist Turns Gotham‘s Heroes and Villains Into Batman: The Animated Series Legends

Batman: The Animated Series recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and right on its heels comes the fourth season premiere of Gotham. The Baby Batman prequel doesn’t exactly hold a candle to one of television’s greatest animated series—but, thanks to one artist, it kind of looks like it does. Artist Rick Celis has created a series…

io9 Beth Elderkin Sep 8 '17

The 22 Most Shocking Moments of Twin Peaks: The Return

Twin Peaks: The Return may have concluded its run, but that doesn’t mean we’ve been able to get it out of our heads. The entire series was really one surprise after another, but there were some obvious standout moments, which included the introductions of new (and old) characters, sudden shocks, and weird reveals. 22) Meeting…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Sep 8 '17

Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Apparently

Summer is coming to an end, and you may be thinking fondly back to times spent lounging on a beach, soft white sand flowing between your fingers and toes as you napped under the Sun. Well, forget relaxing and start worrying, baby! Researchers writing in the journal Science this week are warning us about yet…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Sep 8 '17

The New Black Panther in Marvel’s Venomverse: War Stories Needs Her Own Comic Book

Though it’s not a comic book event quite as big as Secret Empire, Marvel’s Venomverse is borrowing some core rules from major crossovers. It’s focused on telling stories of alternate reality versions of Venom from different universes. One of those Venoms is a Nigerian teenaged girl who also happens to become the Black Panther. In…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore Sep 8 '17

Peter Capaldi Auditioned for Captain Sisko on Deep Space Nine

Set your phasers to stunned. Early audition documents and footage have revealed that Peter Capaldi, Doctor Who himself, once tried out for the role of Commander (later Captain) Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And he’s not the only one. Twitter account trekdocs recently dug up a UK casting session document from July…

Television Beth Elderkin Sep 8 '17

How the Deadliest Frogs on Earth Avoid Poisoning Themselves

Poison dart frogs have an ominous and well-deserved reputation as a lot of death stuffed into a teeny, neon package, and none is more dangerous than Colombia’s golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis). With skin slaked with enough of the potently neurotoxic batrachotoxin (BTX) to kill a staggering 20,000 mice, the golden poison frog somehow doesn’t…

Biology Jake Buehler Sep 8 '17

EPA Head Scott Pruitt: Discussing Climate Change Right Now Is ‘Insensitive’ to Irma, Harvey Victims

In a bonkers interview with CNN late Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt doubled down on the climate censorship that’s become foundational to this administration’s environmental agenda. A longtime denier of man-made climate change, Pruitt told CNN it is “insensitive” to discuss the role climate change may have played in strengthening Hurricane Harvey or…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell Sep 8 '17

Is This the Beginning of the End for Goop?

Around the turn of the 20th century, American entrepreneur Clark Stanley sold an allegedly healing “rattlesnake oil” out of his stage coach. Stanley marketed his product as a Western interpretation of some ideas he supposedly gathered from Eastern medicine, claiming the product could cure a whole host of illnesses. The problem was, a federal investigation…

Tech News Rae Paoletta Sep 8 '17

Celebrate Christmas in August with an Early Listen at Olaf’s Frozen Adventure

Early season’s greetings from your favorite (annoying) snowman who likes warm hugs! Frozen stars Josh Gad and Idina Menzel have shared some musical clips from the upcoming animated short, Olaf’s Frozen Adventure. The 21-minute short will air before Pixar’s latest film, Coco, and it mostly stars Olaf as he tries to find Elsa and Anna…

io9 Beth Elderkin Sep 8 '17

As Irma Approaches, a Nervous Florida Braces For Impact

Like a slow moving stalker in a horror movie, Hurricane Irma is now less than 400 miles from Miami and making steady progress. The exceptionally-powerful storm has triggered a mass exodus from Florida, what may wind up being one of the largest evacuations in US history. Irma, now downgraded to a still-very-powerful Category 4 storm…

Tech News George Dvorsky Sep 8 '17

Werner Herzog Gets His Nihilistic Hands All Over Star Wars: Episode IX in This Parody Trailer

How To Survive a Killer Clown Attack

This Last Jedi and My Neighbor Totoro Mashup Will Melt Your Heart

The Greatest American Hero Is Coming Back With an Indian-American Heroine

Adult Action Cartoon LastMan Has Loads of Style But Way Too Much Sleazy Substance

Congress Isn’t Happy About the Equifax Breach

Virginia Is Getting Rid of Its Vulnerable Voting Machines

The Mouse Guard Movie Continues to Squeak Ahead

Google Employees Organize Their Own Study of Gender Pay Gap

Hollywood’s Movies Suck, and It Doesn’t Want You to Know

Artist Turns Gotham‘s Heroes and Villains Into Batman: The Animated Series Legends

The 22 Most Shocking Moments of Twin Peaks: The Return

Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Apparently

The New Black Panther in Marvel’s Venomverse: War Stories Needs Her Own Comic Book

Peter Capaldi Auditioned for Captain Sisko on Deep Space Nine

How the Deadliest Frogs on Earth Avoid Poisoning Themselves

EPA Head Scott Pruitt: Discussing Climate Change Right Now Is ‘Insensitive’ to Irma, Harvey Victims

Is This the Beginning of the End for Goop?

Celebrate Christmas in August with an Early Listen at Olaf’s Frozen Adventure

As Irma Approaches, a Nervous Florida Braces For Impact

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