I did wonder if Eternals was putting a foot in the water of seeing how the audience would respond to planet-sized humanoid bad guys. The answer would appear to be “not well.” Although that might be more down to the movie being middling.

I only made it halfway through the first. The Japanese storyline was quite interesting but everything else was just too terrible to make it worthwhile.

Alien vs. Predator 2 is probably the goriest instalment of the franchise and also incidentally features the single most horrific thing in the entire franchise: its script.

Wanting to do an SF project where she’s not thrown under the bus five seconds into the sequel?

It remains remarkable that, when asked “Should we make a movie based on this hit video game property now, when it’s hot and everyone’s talking about it, or in ten years’ time when nobody gives a feck?” they always choose the latter.

Good point, considering that The Real Ghostbusters was an animated derivation of the original movie that was probably better than anything else ever made for the franchise.

Trill can summon memories of their prior hosts to sit on their shoulders and give advice (Jadzia does this with all her hosts in one episode, and Ezri does it with the murderer one in a Season 7 episode), so there’s actually a very solid way of doing that already established.

Worth noting that Adrianne Palicki has moved onto other projects and said she would not come back even if it was greenlit tomorrow. She sounded quite annoyed about the gap between seasons and the other projects she’d pass on in the meantime (bearing in mind she’d been messed around with scheduling before on Agents of…

According to some rumours (and yeah, they’re worth what they are), one of the problems was that Netflix didn’t want to stick vigorously to the casting of the original animated show and just wanted their standard colour-blind casting all over the place. If that was the case and what led to Konietzko and DiMartino’s…

The live-action Cowboy Bebop I think was broadly fine. The casting was mostly excellent (even John Cho, which I was very dubious about to start with due to his age) and some characters’ storylines were even improved (Julia is a bit of a nonentity in the anime and is a better character in the live-action).

He sounds like the protagonist of an early 1990s cyberpunk CRPG published on the Commodore Amiga.

As it stands, LotR does not enter the public domain until 2044.

Sounds to me like you’re writing Inspector Spacetime fanfic. Tread carefully, those guys’ lawyers are terrible. They have Chevy Chase on retainer to come round your house and make you feel deeply uncomfortable.

99% of fanfic authors understand that they cannot try to make money out of their fanfic and will be crushed remorselessly if they try. That’s why they post to free websites.

I think the nitty-gritty detail of IP law sure, that’s something specialist lawyers need to look at and that could trip up the layman.

He Fearnored around and found out.

Except it won’t. He legally can’t publish the thing he was trying to promote, LotR and even The Hobbit are still in copyright, he can’t make any money off them at all in a sequel that is published to try to make money. If he wants to put his work on a fanfic site for free, sure, have at it, but he is legally prevented…

I think five years might have been optimal. Endgame was so much better than it really should have been and put a great capstone on that whole era, and immediately resetting to zero with a whole bunch of new characters to pick up almost from scratch was tonal whiplash. Doing that after a longer break would have been…

I’m in the UK, it’s only available here on Crunchyroll.

Not here in the UK, if I want to watch the original I have to shell out more for Crunchyroll.