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Image: Universal Pictures, Paramount, Toho, Netflix, Marvel, Hasbro, Netflix, Studio Ghibli, Photo: Richard Foreman/Prime Video, Screenshot: Disney+David Lynch’s Dune might just be the ultimate “what if?” movie, especially in a world where Denis Villeneuve’s take is the biggest film at the box office right now. So when you get unseen creepy baby talk uncovered for the first time in decades, by god, you take it. Check out that, why Oscar-winner Godzilla Minus One isn’t in theaters anymore, and Jennifer Lopez doing…

Former United States President Barack Obama in London, England on March 18, 2024.Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images)While Bill Pullman’s Independence Day character will likely always be the gold standard for how the President of the United States should react if hostile aliens invade, a certain real-life former POTUS seems a probable close second. It’s sci-fi guy Barack Obama, of course—a fan of author Liu Cixin, though he turned down a cameo in Netflix adaptation 3 Body Problem.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI,…

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem—an adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin’s acclaimed sci-fi novel from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy)—delves into enormous questions. But though its central conflict is planet-sized, it manages to feel like an intimate story, with characters who feel real despite the unbelievable and often elevated circumstances they find themselves in.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksFiguring out the specifics…

For years, fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series believed the books simply couldn’t be adapted to the screen. There were too many characters, spread across multiple continents, in stories that would take years to intersect. And much of the plot was inspired by events that took place decades, if not centuries, before the contemporary action. It was an impossible task, everyone assumed. No one could do that. Then David Benioff and D.B. Weiss actually did it. HBO’s Game of Thrones was a…

Though Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss know a thing or two about adapting much-loved novels for the screen, their new series, created with Alexander Woo, presented some fresh challenges. Netflix’s 3 Body Problem draws from Liu Cixin’s award-winning The Three-Body Problem, as well as—out of necessity—the other books in his Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy.Chad Stahelski on Returning to The Matrix“The guiding principle was to retain the spirit of the novels,” Woo told io9 in a roundtable interview for the…

Fans will never stop discussing, or maybe lamenting, the ending of Game of Thrones. Whether you loved it, hated it, or were somewhere in between, the choices made by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to bring their epic series to a close were famously divisive. However, it seems there was even more uncertainty surrounding the conclusion and much of it happened off-screen.Spoilers of the Week | June 17thIn a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Benioff and Weiss confirm a rumor Thrones creator George R.R.…

Image: HeadpressOk, this isn’t a sci-fi or fantasy book, but it’s definitely in the realms of horror. In the hands of film scholar and director Kier-La Janisse—who made Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, the definitive documentary on folk horror—it’s guaranteed to be a fascinating adaptation. Severin Films announced the project earlier this week in a press release, and described the book as follows: “Documenting the intersection of ethnographic documentary, the dystopic future visions of JG Ballard, and the 1970s snuff…

Screenshot: Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Image: Lucasfilm, Lionsgate, Netflix, Paramount, Lucasfilm, Photo: Tommaso Boddi (Getty Images)Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn’t all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka’s back! Luke and Padmé finally met, sort of! There’s all that, and even some non-Star Wars news, in this…

With a much-anticipated sci-fi project coming soon—Netflix’s 3 Body Problem series—creative partners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are reflecting back on a different, equally anticipated sci-fi project they never ended up making. In 2019, Disney revealed the Game of Thrones showrunners were working on a Star Wars movie, and now they’re finally divulging what that scrapped movie would’ve been about.James Mangold on his Future Star Wars Film | io9 InterviewIt seems the rumors that emerged after the pair’s exit (which came…

Here’s your best look yet at the next show from Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, 3 Body Problem, made in collaboration with True Blood writer Alexander Woo and based on Liu Cixin’s lauded sci-fi novel. Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksThe trailer for the series starring Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Liam Cunningham (The Last Voyage of the Demeter), and Eiza González (Godzilla vs. Kong)—among a star-studded ensemble—was unveiled at…