Tag: sci-fi

  • 65 MILLION VIEWS?

    65 MILLION VIEWS?

    Fallout, originally a video game and now a TV show streaming on Amazon Prime, follows “the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters that are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them” two hundred years after…

  • Jeff Bridges Will Return in Tron: Ares

    Jeff Bridges Will Return in Tron: Ares

    Jeff Bridges, who starred in the 1982 sci-fi film Tron, spoke with the Film Comment podcast about reprising his role of Kevin Flynn in the upcoming sequel Tron: Ares. This is the third installment in the Tron saga (not including the animated series Tron: Uprising) after 2010’s Tron: Legacy, which also featured Bridges as Flynn; the film’s villain, Clu, the personification of the…

  • Shift Up Responds to Stellar Blade Censorship

    Shift Up Responds to Stellar Blade Censorship

    As gamers react to the censored version of Stellar Blade, Shift Up CEO Kim Hyeong-tae and technical director Lee Dong-gi answered some questions about their game’s release, and inevitably, the costume change came up. Kim Hyeong-tae explained it like this (translation via packergirl, and I’m grateful because Google Translate is not quite clear): This makes…

  • Tales of the Empire Clip: “Stay Back”

    Tales of the Empire Clip: “Stay Back”

    Lucasfilm recently released a newer, shorter trailer for the upcoming animated Star Wars series Tales of the Empire titled “Stay Back.” They often do this leading up to Disney+-released Star Wars properties, putting out 30 to 60-second clips showing off action and snappy dialogue. This clip sees Morgan Elsbeth and her coven face General Grievous, presumably…

  • Fallout Prime Show Puts the Wastes On Screen

    Fallout Prime Show Puts the Wastes On Screen

    The Fallout games are a classic series of post-apocalyptic adventure RPGs, with the most recent installment (Fallout 76) released in 2020. Fallout features a whole wasteland full of lore, characters, and humor, making it an ideal inspiration for a streaming series like Prime Video’s 2024 release. That said, any time a studio adapts a popular…

  • Doctor Who Actor Insults Fans While Showrunner Pushes Social Messaging

    Doctor Who Actor Insults Fans While Showrunner Pushes Social Messaging

    The newest Doctor Who doesn’t care if you watch his show. In a Variety article on the long-running British sci-fi series, the latest actor to play the iconic character, Ncuti Gatwa, talks about being cast in the role, while his co-star, Millie Gibson, and showrunner Russell T. Davies, also give their thoughts on the new iteration…