Well look what you get when you don’t explain why the hero can suddenly kill people with his bare hands: every Arnold movie where he plays a dad or “common everyman.” 6th Day, Collateral Damage, etc.
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Primate specialist isn’t enough? He’s got to be a primate specialist with a super-secret military background? Why would such an individual decide to study gorillas? Honestly, I have no problem with the giant animals. It’s the Rock’s convoluted backstory that bugs me.
Still waiting on that Pole Position movie.
Don’t forget that was not even the “original” just a construct made by Reed & molecule man after the remade reality.
Although the day is saved, it’s undercut with a layer of tragedy—after all, technically, Captain America dies in this issue. He may have had some time-travel shenanigans, but the Steve that perishes in Captain America #700 is in some form the one we’ve been reading about all these years, not an alt-reality…
Speaking as someone with no interest whatsoever in Solo, I nonetheless wholly support this endeavor. Han is horribly miscast here, but Donald Glover playing Lando is perfection.
I have a feeling that once Solo: A Star Wars Film comes out, we’re going to get a lot of groundswell for Lando: A Star Wars Story.
Alan Lee is the only Tolkien artist.
I love Stephen King and have read the entire Dark Tower series through twice, but I think people forget just how offensively stupid and outright disrespectful to the characters the final books in this series are. I don’t want to put in spoilers, but suffice it to say there are some late-game near-death conflicts that…
Stephen Colbert must now have the geekiest, fan-boy erection by now.
Rog will finally have his time in the sun, as well as Echtilion and Glorfindel.
Looking forward to the 5-part movie series!
Don’t forget Consider Phlebas. That is some grade-A nerderie right there. If anyone else besides Bezos was in charge, I doubt it’d be happening.
let’s hope those nerds do not forget the face of their fathers
I can’t even imagine any kind of traditional studio greenlighting two fantasy series at the same time, and this story has LotR, Wheel of Time, and the Dark Tower. That’s banana sandwiches! Not to mention all the science-fiction. There must be some serious uber nerds running the show at Amazon (which is super exciting)!
The advantage of Amazon, Apple, et al. is that they’re all run by ex-nerds who read this stuff when they were teenagers. So it’s not like the dumbshits running traditional studios who don’t have clue one about genre projects. Example: Bob Weinstein, who, when Peter Jackson told him that LotR should be at least two…
This, in conjunction with the news that Apple is working on a Foundations (by Isaac Asimov) series, means that that all the epic fantasy from my childhood can finally be seen on big-budget screens. I am pleased.