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X-Men: Dark Phoenix Director Simon Kinberg Knows Exactly What Went Wrong With Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse is not a very good movie, but it is an extremely comic book-y movie, which is to say that it feels very much like a one-to-one translation of your typical X-Men comic. Rather than focusing on making audiences really care about the characters, Apocalypse prioritizes action and visual spectacle. While that approach certainly…

Movies Charles Pulliam-Moore Dec 8

First X-Men: Dark Phoenix Details Reveal How Jean Grey Will Encounter the Phoenix Force

The first details about the next chapter in the X-Men movie franchise, Dark Phoenix, are here. And as you’d expect when it comes to adapting one of the most iconic sagas of the X-comics, things are about to get hot under the collar for Jean Grey. And like, everywhere else too. Entertainment Weekly has revealed…

Movies James Whitbrook Dec 7

Game of Thrones Star Says She Got Acting Role Because She Has Millions of Social Media Followers

Sophie Turner, best known as Sansa Stark in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones, has a lot of followers on social media. And according to Turner, producers take that kind of thing into consideration when casting different projects. In fact, Turner says that she only got a recent acting gig because she has a…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 3

An Assortment of the Most Interesting Things Said at the Game of Thrones Comic-Con Panel

This year’s Game of Thrones Comic-Con panel was pretty unique. In past years, the season is usually over by July so the panel mainly looks back. This year, though, with the current season just starting, there wasn’t much the panel could talk about or show. So it became a pretty free-flowing, all-over-the-place conversation—with a noteworhy…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 21

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Just Met the Cast of X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Several of the X-Men movies have been made in Canada, so it seems fitting that with the latest one filming soon, the cast gets to meet the country’s leader. X-Men: Dark Phoenix star James McAvoy posted a photo on his Instagram of several members of the film’s cast, as well as writer-director Simon Kinberg, with…

io9 Germain Lussier Jun 26

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Sets Its Main Cast and Creative Team With One Big New Addition

All the rumors you’ve heard in the past few months are true. Fox has set Simon Kinberg to make his directorial debut with 2018’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which will return much of the cast from 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse—and possibly add an Oscar nominee too. The Hollywood Reporter says that Jessica Chastain is in talks to…

Movies Germain Lussier Jun 14

X-Men Writer Simon Kinberg Rumored to Direct a Dark Phoenix X-Sequel

Talk of a sequel to X-Men: Apocalypse has been rampant as of late. There have been rumors of titles, shooting dates, actors returning, and more. But one thing there hasn’t been is an answer to the question of who might write and direct the expected X-sequel. Now that name may finally be revealed. That name…

io9 Germain Lussier Feb 21

These Game of Thrones Stars Picked Who They Want to Rule Westeros

The seventh season of Game of Thrones won’t go into production for months so, on the show’s Hall H panel at Comic-Con, there wasn’t much in the way of news. There was, however, much to discuss about who all the panelists thought should end up on the Iron Throne. It began when Sophie Turner had…

Television Germain Lussier Jul 22

Watch Sansa Stark Make Up Game Of Thrones Fan Fiction On The Spot

Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, gets put on the spot in this video. She’s asked to describe an episode of The Real Housewives of Westeros, and it includes a romance between Sansa and Margaery Tyrell. Vanity Fair put together this video, and now we’re sad that the only way we’ll…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 26

Sansa Stark To Play Frankenstein Author In Mary Shelley’s Monster

Sophie Turner, best known for playing the badass that is Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, has been cast as Mary Shelley in a dark gothic horror/romance based somewhat on the iconic author’s life. I say somewhat because Turner will be playing a “monster,” too. https://gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-sansa-stark-is-awesome-a-treatise-1485716181 Here’s how Deadline describes the movie: …Mary Shelley’s Monster…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 14

Teen Assassin Hailee Steinfeld’s Toughest Mission: High School

This is shaping up to be the year of the lethal teenage girl, what with Vampire Academy and the third Hunger Games movie. And now add to that list Barely Lethal, a comedy in which True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld is an assassin trying to be a normal high-school girl. Entertainment Weekly has your first images…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jan 4

Sansa Stark’s actress adopted her real-life direwolf

In Game of Thrones, Sansa Stark’s dire wolf Lady met an untimely end as a sacrifice to mollify the queen’s anger after Arya’s dire wolf Nymeria bit Prince Joffrey (and then ran away). In real life, however, Lady’s doing much better — especially after actress Sophie Turner adopted the Mahlek Northern Inuit Dog who played…

io9 Rob Bricken Aug 19

12 Great Science Fiction Actors Who Don’t Get Enough Props

Science fiction is an actor’s dream. The genre has created some breakout stars, like Harrison Ford, but it’s also turned scores of working actors into beloved fan-favorites, who work the convention circuit. But here are 12 great science fiction actors who swing for the fences, and just don’t get the appreciation they deserve. Here they…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 17

Oh, it’s just the Stark kids rapping the Game of Thrones opening credits

Last year, the entire Internet was delighted by Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner and Isaac Hempstead-Wright — Arya, Sansa and Bran Stark, respectively — singing their version of the Game of Thrones opening credits in a DVD/Blu-ray commentary track. Well, the season 2 Blu-ray/DVD is coming out next month, and I’m delighted to tell you the…

io9 Rob Bricken Jan 9

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Director Simon Kinberg Knows Exactly What Went Wrong With Apocalypse

First X-Men: Dark Phoenix Details Reveal How Jean Grey Will Encounter the Phoenix Force

Game of Thrones Star Says She Got Acting Role Because She Has Millions of Social Media Followers

An Assortment of the Most Interesting Things Said at the Game of Thrones Comic-Con Panel

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Just Met the Cast of X-Men: Dark Phoenix

X-Men: Dark Phoenix Sets Its Main Cast and Creative Team With One Big New Addition

X-Men Writer Simon Kinberg Rumored to Direct a Dark Phoenix X-Sequel

These Game of Thrones Stars Picked Who They Want to Rule Westeros

Watch Sansa Stark Make Up Game Of Thrones Fan Fiction On The Spot

Sansa Stark To Play Frankenstein Author In Mary Shelley’s Monster

Teen Assassin Hailee Steinfeld’s Toughest Mission: High School

Sansa Stark’s actress adopted her real-life direwolf

12 Great Science Fiction Actors Who Don’t Get Enough Props

Oh, it’s just the Stark kids rapping the Game of Thrones opening credits

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