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Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 1:45PM The Ringer Who is winning the Chris wars: Evans, Pine, or Hemsworth?
/Film Stranger Things will get a sequel season, Netflix confirms. I'm a bit disappointed honestly because I thought an anthology approach would be more satisifying, with a whole new story. Season 1 was resolved satisfyingly. Who needs every story thread neatly tied up? Boo.
The Metrograph has a Madonna week in August which will include a Q&A with Truth or Dare director Alek Keshishian - alas, the latter is already sold out. They also have a fun series in a week called "This is PG?!" featuring movies from the late 70s to the mid 80s when the MPAA was pressured into adding "PG-13" (I really have to get better at this Metrograph thing. They're big nights with Q&As seem to sell out instantly so I keep missing them.)
IGN interviews Joss Whedon at Comic Con. They talk Buffy comic book, secret projects, and whether a Black Widow movie would lure him back to Marvel
EW on the pilot for Riverdale, the new CW series that will rethink the Archie comic books. Unfortunately it sounds like all TV high school dramas mixed with Twin Peaks (???) and not much like Archie apart from the character names.
The New Yorker has a really interesting review of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
The Hairpin on the 20th anniversary of Fiona Apple's awesome "Tidal". Fun read.
Current Affairs isn't happy that our political leaders love Hamilton the musical
"New" Musicals and Plays
Playbill This sounds interesting -there's a new stage musical in readings called Flying Over Sunset about Hollywood's LSD craze in the late 50s the main characters are Claire Booth Luce, Aldous Huxley, and Cary Grant. Good luck casting Cary Grant!
Playbill another movie to stage adaptation - the animated feature The Prince of Egypt has been adapted into a full musical and gets a free concert next month in Sag Harbor, NY
Variety wonders if the new Harry Potter play is the next Hamilton. It's sold out in London and expected on Broadway eventually
Trekkies Rejoice
Coming Soon Bryan Fuller, who makes such good television (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls) has two new series coming up in 2017. The first Star Trek Discovery, due in January, now has a visual teaser. American Gods has no air date yet but is also expected in 2017.
Forbes argues that Star Trek's movie franchise division would be smart to go smaller for bigger payoffs at the box office: Agreed.
Space a Star Trek art exhibition called "Star Trek: 50 Artists. 50 Years" debuted at Comic Con and will now be touring conventions and museums, including NYC's Paley Center for Visual Media in September
THR Gene Rodenberry's son is playing release rare unseen footage from the original Star Trek series
Today's Watch
This reworking of the Cheers theme song by K Anderson & Rosered to celebrate LGBT history is really cool and poignant. [Hat Tip: Towleroad]
Reader Comments (5)
Star Trek went cheap for the 80's sequels. 1979's The Motion Picture was very expensive and didn't turn the profit the studio had hoped. The television division at Paramount handled the subsequent movies in the series. Now the special effects and production design is not what made the series special for the devoted nor casual Trek movie watcher. The relationship with the characters and how meta everything actually was with in-jokes about the actors real life personalities mirroring their own screen counterparts. I do appreciate Abrams for making Nu Trek a internationally liked property. But Star Trek's humble TV origins, its cult audience who single handedly made the geek culture we know today, and its very American principals of multiculturalism and believe me that's not really a thing elsewhere, it'll always be niche. The dominate culture prefers Star Wars which has no intellectualism nor earned emotionalism. Outside of its score the creation of Dark Vader its lasting appeal to multiple generations after the fact is lost on me.
Well, that's exactly how I would rank the three Chrises, so all good on that count. :)
I thought Stranger Things ended with a lot of room for a second series, the last 5-10 minutes seemed like set up for a new season if it was renewed.
Flying Over Sunset: I don't know if he can sing (the topic seems more likely to work as a non-musical, honestly), but if they need a "late 50s Cary Grant"? Bruce Campbell. (58 vs Grant's 53-55) Not that hard.
Joss coming back for a Black Widow movie: I'd love Marvel to do it, but I get why they're hesitant. Aside from not wanting to up ScarJo's pay scale (a bull crap excuse), it's also that they're in the $150 million movie business, not the $80 million movie business. See also: I've said this a few times, but Batman has ALSO been grossly over-budgeted, basically to oblivion ($230 million for a solo Batman movie in 2012. $225 million for a solo Superman movie in 2013. Man of Steel might have 99 (or more) problems, but the budg(et) ain't one.), on top of the other problems with current Batman movies.
Pilot for Riverdale: Archie's experimented with itself A LOT, but it's still usually on the comedic end tonally. I really like some Archie related stuff (the Archie's Weird Mysteries TV show (and that theme song kicked some serious ASS) was one of my JAMS as a kid), but I just want this to bomb and GO AWAY.
how does that 'cheers' reworking not end with a 'queers' logo?