Denis Villeneuve

Image: Warner Bros.The Blade Runner-aissance is nigh, especially now that we’re getting a new live-action series from Prime Video. After Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, brought replicants back onto the big screen, it was only a matter of time before a TV show came on the horizon. (Not to mention the comics, an animated series, and an RPG, all made within the last five years.) Blade Runner 2099 will be a limited-run TV series, executive produced by Ridley Scott, the…

Image: TorAs io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders acted as Toastmasters during the Hugo awards ceremony at Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, they were also awarded with some Hugos of their very own!Other notable winners included Arkady Martine’s A Desolation Called Peace, which is the second novel in her Teixcalaan series, and the second in the series to win a Hugo. The first book, A Memory Called Empire, won in 2020. Another big winner was publisher Tor, which published…

Inset of the cover of the Arrival making-of book.Image: Titan BooksEven though Arrival was released almost six years ago, going by the rules of the movie, it might as well have been yesterday. Directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on the Hugo-nominated short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, Arrival stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in a story of alien spaceships that come to Earth. However, these aliens aren’t invading, like in most movies. Instead, they bring peace in the form of a universal language that allows…

Allen’s use of Midjourney begs the question of where exactly AI fits in the creation of art.Image: whiteMocca (Shutterstock)Many of us have had our fun with AI art generators—like DALL-E—over the last few months, but one artist in Colorado took it a step further and won the state fair’s fine art competition with a work generated with the help ofan algorithm.02:5710 Horror Docs You Should Watch Part 2Yesterday 6:40PMJason Allen, CEO of tabletop game company Incarnate Games, submitted his piece, titled Théåtre D’opéra…

Image: Copyright © 2022 Herbert Properties LLCAs you read this, director Denis Villeneuve is back at work making the second half of what’s sure to end up being his most epic sci-fi movie, Dune. It won’t be in our eyeballs for another year or so, but in the meantime, the story will continue in other mediums—especiallycomics, as Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib is on the way.The second in a series of three graphic novel adaptations is out in August, and io9 has an exclusive first look at one of its most exciting…

Dune — out now in cinemas and streaming on HBO Max — is a bold bet. It's not anything like Star Wars, another epic sci-fi franchise that has defined and inspired the genre. There are no lightsabers, dogfights, or space battles here. The first big scale action comes near the halfway point (though after that, it doesn't stop). Its characters don't trade quips, or ping-pong across planets on a galactic adventure. Dune is set largely on one planet that gives the film its name. And there's no humour on display here, it's all…

Image: Ace BooksAs the late 2023 release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part II draws closer, there’s no better time to further immerse yourself in the sci-fi realm created by Frank Herbert. Next year, Ace Books will be releasing more volumes in its deluxe hardcore treatment of the Dune series, and io9 has a first look, as well as an interview with artist Matt Griffin.The books are the second and third in the series—Dune Messiah and Children of Dune—and according to the publisher, which already released a similarly souped-up…

The sequels to Dune and Godzilla vs. Kong have new release dates.Image: Warner Bros.If you already had plans to see Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated Dune: Part Two on October 20, 2023, you might want to put a pin in that. Warner Bros. has shifted the sci-fi epic a few weeks and it’ll now arrive in theaters on November 17, 2023.Surviving characters from the original film, played by the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, and Rebecca Ferguson, are all expected to return along with newcomers played by…

Photo: Jason Mendez (Getty Images)Warner Bros. has opened its bag to just keep adding more and more names to its blockbuster sci-fi franchise as Léa Seydoux joins the ensemble for Dune: Part Two. Deadline reports she is set to play Lady Margot in the upcoming sequel based on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic from Denis Villeneuve, who is returning as director, producer, and co-writer alongside Jon Spaihts.The No Time To Die actress joins recently announced cast members Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh,and Austin Butler.…

This 2003 movie is so terrible on so many different levels that it’s hard to even know where to start. I don’t know that I’ve ever managed to get through the film’s unbearable and inexplicable 147 minute run—though I’ve tried several times, in a generous effort to find something redeemable about it. Each time I’ve come away angry, clutching my eyes, cursing at the television in disgust. Admittedly, the original 1995 Bad Boys wasn’t a great film either, but this one is really a reverse masterpiece of abhorrent crap.The…