Trailer: Mufasa: The Lion King
Today, Disney released the first full trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King. From director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), Mufasa is part prequel, part sequel. We will see Mufasa become King of the Pridelands in the past, as well as a present timeline concerning Simba and his daughter, Kiara. The present timeline is inspired by The […]
Lucasfilm Says Lando is Now a Movie
Stephen Glover (brother of Donald) recently appeared on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast and said Lando is now being developed as a movie rather than a series. Lucasfilm has since confirmed the news. Lando follows Donald Glover’s interpretation of Lando Calrissian after the events of the film Solo. This all comes in the wake of […]
Is Billy Dee Williams Returning to Star Wars?
Billy Dee Williams is getting people excited. In a Twitter post earlier tonight, Williams teased “something truly magnificent” that will be revealed soon. He ended his message with “May the Force be with you all.” Billy Dee Williams, of course, played Lando Calrissian, an old smuggling friend of Han Solo’s, in two Star Wars films, […]
Justin Simien Learned He was Fired from Lando from Social Media
Justin Simien, director of Dear White People and Disney’s Haunted Mansion, was set to write and act as showrunner for Lando, the Donald Glover-starring Disney+ Solo spinoff about Star Wars character Lando Calrissian. A couple of days ago, we learned that Simien had been replaced by Glover and his brother Stephen last year. But while […]
Donald Glover to Write Lando Series with his Brother
Remember Lando, the Lando Calrissian show Lucasfilm has been planning? Me neither, but it’s in the news again because, in a shocking development you’d never expect on a Lucasfilm project, the series’ writer, Justin Simien, has been replaced. According to an exclusive from Above the Line, Donald Glover (who played Lando in Solo: A Star […]
Community Movie Delayed by the Writers’ Strike?
Will Abed’s hopeful prophecy of “six seasons and a movie” ever come to pass? Because at every turn, the announced Peacock Community movie has been delayed or put in jeopardy by constant issues. After an entire decade, the promised film is closer than it has ever been. Yet, the writers’ strike has put its existence in jeopardy once […]