Glad to see Jack Gleason back in action! 

Hard to top the casting from the audiobook: Rege-Jean Page, David Tennant, and Bill Nighy as Orpheus, Loki, and Odin.

It’s the manga, Road to the Erdtree. It’s a comedy that basically adapts the game with a Wretch start.

It’s not like it’s the first adaptation.

As interesting as it would be to see some Elden Ring characters in live action, I can’t imagine how they would adapt that lore into a cohesive story, or even what story arc they would follow. The game gives many routes for final outcome. 

Not sure how I feel about the lack of cover pictures. It makes a very long post much shorter which is good, but it gives it kind of a “wall of text” feel and I’m pretty sure I’ve bought a book based on cover art before, so it may impact sales a little.

If it’s actually about chasing after Gollum, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also basically an Aragorn movie too. 

The Hunt for Gollum is “a work-in-progress title” and it “may not end up being called that.”

That would be nearly an entirely different story than the actual Dune:Messiah!

Pattern Recognition is a very perfect novel, plus it draws attention to a fascinatingly overlooked part of the modern human condition, with Cayce’s reactions to brands/imagery. My reactions to them obviously aren’t as extreme as hers, but I very much recognised the feelings, and even the specific branding/imagery she…

I dunno, I just never cared much for “Blame Canada” myself. Ok, so it scores high on the social satire scale in the modified J. Evans Pritchard diagram, but on the composition scale it doesn’t do very well, it’s just not very musical, and mostly resembles a military march in structure (not surprising) so it’s not…

Yeah, the whole phone thing...

Remember when there were no Grogu toys after Mandalorian came out? That’s because Favreau specifically avoided the typical merch design pipeline. He realized that’s where most leaks originate, due to the lead times to tool up for manufacturing, and he was right. Baby Yoda surprised everyone.

I used to work for a toy company (not Hasbro) that did a lot of work with some big-name licenses, producing goods based on movies, comics, video game characters, etc. Marvel, DC, Star Wars included. I was working there during the lead-up to and release of The Force Awakens. Companies involved in such products are…

I never knew that about Singing in the Rain, that set couldn’t have smelled that great after a days shooting with watered down milk and hot stage lighting lol.

On the other hand, does it matter what color the filming prop was? Sometimes (and admittedly this was more common in the days of black and white films) they choose the color based on how it will look in the finished product and not what color it actually is. Famously, Psycho (and other movies) used chocolate syrup in…

I dunno, I think the reason Star Wars has endured so long, especially beyond its initial three films, is precisely because it was so heavily and successfully merchandised, and because it had so many designs that were ripe for merchandising. It was tailor made for toys with cool space ships, robots, aliens, troopers,…

The helmet won’t be available until later this year. The design for the show definitely came first, and then was sent to Hasbro for toy production.