Like many of you out there, I am a huge fan of the television series Mr. Robot. Without a doubt its success is due to the unwavering vision and immaculate storytelling capability of the show's creator, Sam Esmail. Right now, Esmail can do no wrong in Hollywood. 

THR announced that Esmail is working on turning the 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis into a mini-series. This is the best news that I have heard in a while. Metropolis is one of my all-time favorite films, and it has a ton of relevance to our world’s situation today. The marriage of Esmail and Metropolis is a match made in heaven. Here is what THR had to say on the situation:

Sources say the showrunner's exact role in Metropolis is still being negotiated as the project is in the very early stage of development. Insiders add that the studio isn't aiming to launch the miniseries for another two to three years. Should Mr. Robot stick to its tentative four- to five-season plan, that timing would potentially allow for Esmail's schedule to free up to where he could be more involved in the project. (He's been famously hands-on with Mr. Robot, even going so far as to direct every episode last season.)

Like the original film, the small-screen adaptation of Metropolis will take place in a future society where wealthy industrialists rule the vast city from high-rise tower complexes, while a lower class of underground-dwelling workers toil constantly to operate the machines that provide its power. Risking everything they know, two star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of the divide must find a way to bring down the whole system.

As sad as it makes me to think that the end of Mr. Robot is on the horizon, knowing that Esmail will be transitioning right into Metropolis makes life a little bit better. 

Apparently, the show will be shopped around, so we don’t know where it will be airing yet. What we do know is that Universal is spending an estimated $10 million on each episode.  We all know that spending big money in Hollywood doesn’t guarantee a great product, but I think that Esmail will know what to do with it. 

BTW, if you haven’t seen the original Metropolis, GO WATCH IT. If you are a movie fan, you won’t regret it. 

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Red Letter Media made a name for themselves a few years ago with their epic takedown of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels, and now they're back with a new video review of Gareth Edwards' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Using the parody persona Mr. Plinkett, the YouTubers diss the movie for its lack of memorable characters, low emotional stakes, and uninspired story.

I don't fully agree with their point about context, because at some point you have to realize this is a part of a larger franchise and not every single story can be self-contained. The problem, of course, is that this movie was hyped as a "standalone" story, and it absolutely is not. You must possess knowledge of what happens in A New Hope for any plot development here to be even remotely satisfying, and I totally agree with RLM's assessment of the murky motivations of the movie's unmemorable characters.

What do you think?

There are certain things you should and shouldn't do on live television. Making jokes at the expense of a recently deceased celebrity when you're not a comedian is likely one of them. Brazilian journalist Jorge Pontual appeared on television and made a very uncouth joke about the death of Carrie Fisher. The joke referred to Chewbacca's reaction to the death of the actress. 

Note: You will need to have Closed Captions on for the English dialogue. 

Don't get me wrong, I can take a joke, but there's a time and a place and his tone definitely wasn't respectful. You want to do a stand-up comedy open mic and bust that joke out? I'll probably laugh and cringe at the same time...but when you're a journalist on a CNN type news program and just finished talking about her promiscuity in a demeaning way? I'm not sure he made that joke in a light-hearted manner. 

Maybe it's a joke Fisher would have appreciated, but the death of a person is typically about the family and those left behind. I understand celebrity deaths are a non-issue to many, but there's no reason to broadcast your distaste for the deceased for the world to see. Here's hoping there's an apology down the road! 

It's been a while since I've seen a solid Breaking Bad parody (which makes sense, considering the show has been off the air for a few years now), but the new Bryan Cranston/James Franco movie Why Him? has provided the folks at Funny or Die with the material they needed to create one. By removing Franco and replacing him with meth kingpin Walter White, some fun Cranston vs. Cranston action goes down for our enjoyment. Take a look:

When a loving father (Bryan Cranston) discovers his little girl is dating billionaire drug lord Walter White (Bryan Cranston), he will go to any lengths to stop the wedding bells he sees in his daughter’s future.

Via: LaughingSquid

Sources are reporting that Carrie Fisher had completed her scenes in Star Wars: Episode VIII before her untimely passing. Variety says that it appears that writers will not have to address the loss of Princess Leia until the next film in the series, in which Fisher was slated to appear in. 

I'm not at all surprised that Fisher had already filmed her scenes for Episode VIII as her role was relatively small in The Force Awakens, and the film has been in post-production for awhile. I am curious as to how big her role in the series will be going forward and if writers will now have to alter the story to cope with the loss. 

Do you think Fisher's role would be substantial enough that she would need to be recast? It seems pretty difficult to continue the series without a major political figure...maybe they'll go another route? I'm trying to leave spoilers out of this, guys. Help me out. 

Here's an interesting spin on Star Wars I've never seen before. A YouTuber going by the handle Lord Aussem has placed the entirety of A New Hope in a single video and sped up the footage every time a laser is fired. So every time a TIE Fighter fires at an X-Wing, Han Solo's blaster goes off, or any other laser flies across the screen, the entire movie increases in speed until it's little more than an imperceptible whirlwind. You might be surprised how quickly the whole thing goes by:

Via: LaughingSquid

We got some intriguing news regarding the upcoming Wolverine film Logan. According to The Wrap, Ryan Reynolds has shot a scene for the movie as Deadpool! This is just a rumor right now, but an inside source tells them that the Deadpool scene in Logan "will most likely become a post-credit scene."

As awesome as it would be to see Deadpool make an appearance in the movie, this doesn't seem like the kind of film he would fit into. Logan looks like a very serious and dramatic film, which isn't Deadpool's style. It seems like throwing Deadpool into the mix wouldn't work effectively, as he would bring in some hilarious humor that might break the dramatic vibe. But who knows, maybe Logan won't be as completely dramatic as the first trailer made it out to be, or maybe Deadpool will have a dramatic moment that fits the tone.

There's no information on how Deadpool's scene will play out, but if it's actually in the movie then we'll just have to wait and see how exactly the character will be included. In the meantime, how do you think the Merc with a Mouth could be utilized in the film?

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Artist Jeff Victor created wonderful Carrie Fisher tribute art that features cartoon-style Princess Leia Evolution. As you can see, it only focuses on the films of the original trilogy. The art came along with the following note:

"Heartbroken. Carrie Fisher, my favorite princess, has become one with the Force. RIP"

There have been so many wonderful tributes made for Fisher since her passing. One of my favorites came from Warwick Davis, which I included below:

Princess Leia, @carrieffisher now one with the Force. Your kindness & sharp wit will be missed. #RIP PS: Thanks for the milk & cookies. xx pic.twitter.com/sFSy9UmvYY

— Warwick Davis (@WarwickADavis) December 27, 2016

Yesterday a reputable website shared a rumor that Deadpool would appear in the upcoming Wolverine film Logan. That rumor just didn't sit right with me, and it didn't make sense. Well, thankfully it's not true. The rumor was debunked by Logan director James Mangold and Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds. Here's what Reynolds said when asked about it:

Sadly, not true. Prisoner 24601 is on a solo mission. https://t.co/5czBmMRfY1

— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) December 28, 2016

Then this is what Mangold had to say when a fan brought it up with him:

@1994alituray I am not making Deadpool, Ali. Breathe.

— Mangold (@mang0ld) December 28, 2016

He then went on to vent his frustrations with the outlet that started the rumor:

Maybe @TheWrap is the show biz Breitbart. #fakenews

— Mangold (@mang0ld) December 28, 2016

For those of you who expressed concern about Deadpool appearing in Logan, you can breathe a sigh of relief and not have to worry about it anymore. 

Logan hits theaters on March 3, 2017, and it doesn't look like a movie that needs Deadpool to help it along. 

Hopefully the holidays treated you well and you now find yourself with a bit of extra cash to spend. If you're like me it's already burning a hole in your pocket, so if you happen to be in the market for a nice, relatively inexpensive way to add a touch of cool to your home theater setup, ThinkGeek has just the thing.

Here's a nice Cinema Box Marquee Light, a battery-operated device that comes with 72 letters, numbers, and symbols so you can announce the movie of the night to your entire household. And hey, if you ever get tired of changing it too much, you can always just start watching a multi-season TV series to give yourself a breather. You can pick this up for $39.99 right here.

HBO could use a funny new comedy series, and it looks like they may have one with Crashing. The series is being produced by Judd Apatow, and it was created by and stars comedian Pete Holmes. 

The series in inspired by the true-life trials and tribulations that he's gone through in his life as a stand-up comedian. This includes a divorce from his wife after he discovers that she is cheating on him, couch surfing with friends, and reevaluating his life while living in the middle of the New York comedy scene.

All he had after the divorce was his comedy career and his comedian friends to help him through. One of the plot points that the trailer focuses on is how he is forced out of the street corner where he's handing out fliers and him asking for advice on how to take it back. 

The series also stars Artie Lange, Lauren Lapkus, and T.J. Miller It looks like a solidly good series that I would enjoy watching. Crashing hits HBO on February 19, 2017.

YouTuber Andrew Rea has a cooking web show called Binging with Babish in which he recreates meals from movies and TV shows, and one of his most recent entries finds him making the ridiculous pasta that Will Ferrell's character Buddy consumes in Jon Favreau's modern holiday classic, Elf. The video goes really well...until the moment of truth finally comes along:

Looks like another Will Ferrell line would double as a perfect reaction to tasting this monstrosity:

Via: Neatorama

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Warner Bros. has released a new photo from The LEGO Batman Movie of The Dark Knight dressed up in a way we've never seen before! He's sporting a very sparkly gold tuxedo, which is part of a dress-up montage that will be in the movie. Director Chris McKay explains what this whole thing is all about in an interview with EW:

“In all the Batman movies, there’s always a big gala, but one of the things Batman doesn’t like doing is going out and seeing people and carousing as Bruce Wayne. He thinks Bruce Wayne is a bummer. He’d much rather be doing Batmanny things. But fortunately Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) entices him to come out of the Batcave by telling him, ‘Look, if you go out tonight to this gala, you can have a tuxedo dress-up party.’ So in this shot, this is one of the many tuxedos that Batman tries in a sort of dress-up party montage like Sex and the City.”

He went on to say:

“How do you get Batman to come out? What does Batman like? What do they do in Batman movies like this, where there’s always a gala, everyone’s always dressed up, and there’s always some kind of confrontation? We wanted to have fun and have things that were silly and ridiculous and also very LEGO-y: The fact that you can just pop different costumes on people really fast, which is something we did in the first movie.”

The movie certainly does look silly and ridiculous, but in the best possible ways! McKay also reveals that the dress-up montage is backed by the Al Jarreau song “Girls Know How,” which is a reference to the 1982 Michael Keaton and Henry Winkler movie Night Shift. The director loves that movie and says, “It’s fun to ‘70s up the production design and have something wild and expressive and colorful, but I also like filling out movie references in the movies that we do.”

The LEGO Batman Movie will be released in theaters on February 10th, 2017. There's no doubt in my mind that it's going to offer some hilariously funny entertainment. 

As many of have already heard, Debbie Reynolds passed away last night one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher died. It's certainly been a tragic and sad week. But mother and daughter are now reunited. Both of these talented woman left behind a legacy of work that their fans will always have to enjoy.

Last year Fisher presented her mother with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last year, and she offered a wonderful tribute to her mom and then we got to see Reynolds give her acceptance speech as she reflected on her life and career as an actress. 

Both these women had such charming personalities, and they shine in this moment in their lives together which you can watch below. 

We've written a lot about Westworld here at GeekTyrant during the show's popular first season, and considering more people watched that show's first season than any other in the history of HBO programming, it's safe to say it's a full-fledged hit. So it's not too surprising, then, that the team at The Warp Zone would suit up in cowboy gear to sing an acapella cover of Ramin Djawadi's haunting opening theme song. The only surprising thing is that it took them this long to get around to doing it!

(To be fair, they released this video a few days ago, and I'm just seeing it now. But still.)

At one point in his career, Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter was working with Marvel on developing a sequel to Thomas Jane's 2004 Punisher film. I actually really liked that movie and thought Jane made a great Frank Castle. It would have been cool to see a sequel to that movie, but obviously, it was never meant to be.

During an interview with Looper, Sutter talked about his experience working on the script that he was brought in to rewrite. This was the first time he was ever hired to rewrite a script, and he got overly ambitious on the project. He explained what he was trying to do with the character saying:

"So I turn in this draft, and I'm, like, 'Aw, yeah, I'm shakin' up Marvel, man!' And literally, there were people—including Gale Ann Hurd—who were, like, 'Uh…' They didn't know what the f— happened! And it's not like I didn't do the things I said I was going to do, but…I also did a lot of other things! And I'm a Marvel fan, but I was not a comic book kid. I didn't really get into that whole world until about 15 years ago, which is when I started getting into graphic novels. And that happened in Paris, because their graphic novel industry is decades beyond ours! But I didn't realize that you can't take liberties with some of the characters and some of the traits, because they are what they are. They're very derivative, they're stereotyped, but this is the guy that does this, and this is the guy who does this… So they're two-dimensional for a reason: that's the purpose they serve. So I was trying to expand the Marvel Universe in a direction it should not have been expanded in [Laughs]."

He then went into some detail on what he was looking to do with Frank Castle by bringing some emotional weight to him, which he believed that Jane could pull off. He even threw a love interest into the story, but it wasn't the direction that Marvel wanted to go.

"Doing the research on it, he's such an iconic character and really pretty much every vigilante since has some piece of that, but what I think I was trying to do… I'd known Thomas Jane a little bit, and I thought he was a great actor and had a lot of emotional depth that maybe some other action stars may not have. So I think I was trying to write to the emotionality of this dude and motivate the absurd violence with some kind of meaning. I don't mean that I was, like, f—ing Gandhi [Laughs]. But I was just trying to root it a little bit more in the mental anguish that he went through to justify it, and to take a little bit of that journey. And that's why I had the connection with the female character: because I was able to explore that pain through that relationship. So I think that's what I was trying to do: humanize him a little bit more. But it's the kind of thing where there's only X amount of time the movies, so you have moments of that, but you can't really have a subplot that explores that kind of thing. Not in a summer blockbuster or Marvel picture."

Sutter did get another pass at the script, but ultimately Marvel didn't move forward with it. When asked if there was any response from anyone along the lines of, "I wish we could do this, but we can't"? Sutter replied: 

"You know, if there was, I don't think that's something that would ever have been vocalized to me. Look, it's not like I turned in the script and it was written in a different language. I mean, there were parts of it they liked. I think they realized what I was trying to do…and how wrong that was [Laughs]. So they tried to guide me back, and like I said, I did another pass, but poor Gale Anne Hurd—I think she's the one who sort of championed me in that process. And Kevin…We were sitting at a big table, and I think she started glancing over at Kevin, going [whispering under breath] 'I don't know what happened!' Anyway, I'm sure there was good feedback, but as a writer, all I ever hear is bad feedback! And I think at that point, Marvel was already…not quite the machine it is now, but it was finding its legs. And I think there was just a process that was going down, and there were a lot of people who were sort of being let go and given producing gigs. They started cleaning house a little bit at that time and managing the IPs in a different way, and Kevin pretty much led that charge."

I would love to read Sutter's Punisher script! He's an extremely talented writer with such an extreme, hardcore vision. Maybe at the time Marvel just wasn't ready for the kind of intensity that Sutter brought to the character. 

It's very likely that an animated series based on Castlevania is heading to television thanks to the efforts of one of animation's biggest names. Fred Seibert (Fairly OddParents and producer for Adventure Time) tells IndieWire he's working on a series based on "one of the most popular games of the past 30 years". 

That's a pretty broad list until you realize that Frederator has the animation rights to Castlevania, and then you can stop racking your brain. The question is, though, can Seibert and his team pull off a series similar in tone to the game. There are a couple of things to consider...

Sure Fairly OddParents was a goofy series, but Adventure Time took some dark turns in its later stages and actually had a pretty good lore without making it too scary for kids. 

On the flip side, I would say most of Adventure Time's direction and tone was thanks to original creator Pendleton Ward, and Nickelodeon has this awful tendency to ruin every property it touches outside of its creation sphere (Series of Unfortunate Events movie, TMNT movie...).

I'm curious to see if the project comes to light, only because I've been desperate for a cartoon that isn't some goofy ass random stuff! Don't get me wrong I love that stuff...but where's the action?! Castlevania needs to reboot that '80s action cartoon vibe! 

Anyone else have some suggestions for this potential new series?