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While we patiently wait two more years until the second half of director Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” saga comes to the silver screen to get our next cinematic fix of spice, Boom! Studies has been the vanguard with a captivating roster of “Dune-based” comic book series and one-shots set in the dense “Dune-iverse.” Boom!’s expansive plunge … Read more
Robust quarterly financials and greater-than-anticipated streaming subscribers weren’t the only major highlights of Disney’s earnings report and follow-up call on Wednesday (Feb. 9), as new details about the eagerly awaited live-action “Obi-Wan Kenobi” spinoff series on Disney Plus were revealed. Disney CEO Bob Chapek unveiled official news that the premiere date of May 25 is … Read more
Before Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and long before “Dune,” “Star Trek” and “Star Wars,” there was famed sci-fi writer Edgar Rice Burroughs’ cosmic adventurer John Carter of Mars. First appearing in 1912 within serialized tales in The All-Story magazine titled “Under The Moons of Mars,” this stalwart Virginian and former Civil War captain was … Read more
The latest trailer for the live-action “Halo” TV show coming from Paramount Plus dropped during Sunday’s AFC Championship Game and not only did we get to see Spartans in action, but we also saw Cortana for the first time outside of the game, a teaser of some back story to Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 … Read more
Kel shak Stargate fans, and welcome to our humble pitch that it’s time for a new Stargate series. Amazon’s acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and all its assets last year was one of the biggest business-related earthquakes in the film and T.V. industries recently. Of course, with No Time To Die waiting for the final go-ahead, … Read more
Warning: Spoilers ahead for “The Book of Boba Fett” Chapter 4 Like many recent contemporary science fiction shows, “The Book of Boba Fett” uses a number of different directors throughout a single season. This has perhaps been most noticeable in “Star Trek: Discovery” where the pace, tone and amount of time given to secondary plots … Read more
The live-action TV series based on the post-apocalyptic world of the “Fallout” video games has taken a big step closer to production as Variety reports that Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are now attached to serve as co-showrunners. Robertson-Dworet is best known for her work on the 2018 “Tomb Raider” film starring Alicia Vikander and … Read more
The first proper footage from the eagerly-awaited “Halo” TV series on Paramount Plus has arrived, the live-action adaptation of the famous first-person shooter Xbox games. One of the flagship franchises for Microsoft’s Xbox, “Halo” is a military-style, sci-fi/fantasy video game series that focuses on the experiences of Master Chief John-117, one of a group of … Read more
Fans of flashy interstellar odysseys can rejoice this holiday season as the premiere issue of Heavy Metal’s “The Adventures of Adrienne James” sci-fi comic book series arrives later this month, carried by the cosmic wings of an enthusiastic pre-launch buzz. Think of a gender-bent Indiana Jones darting about the galaxy searching for a priceless artifact … Read more