Agent Mulder ended the 9-year run of The X-Files with the simple declaration, “Maybe there’s hope.” I have never really had a problem with the way the series ended, it wasn’t mind blowing to any degree, it just fit. However, it could have been much different. 

With the limited series of The X-Files in the works, I am sure that a lot of interesting facts from the original series will be leaking out. Like this little gem about the original ending they had planned for the final episode of the series.  You can check out a video over at io9 that features a scene that includes a George W. Bush look-alike being told that Mulder had escaped government custody. There's a bit of commentary over the clip from the show’s executive producer Frank Spotnitz. He explains that they had a totally different vision on how the show should end.

"We had hoped to use the West Wing's Oval Office set. And in fact, we'd even at one point considered asking Martin Sheen who played the president on the West Wing to do this scene, which would have been a nice sort of wink."

I think it would have been really cool to have Martin Sheen's President Bartlet in the show. I always dig it when shows appropriately do crossovers. I don’t feel that it would have taken away from the show, but I also don’t think they took anything away from fans with the way the series ended. 

Do you think they did the right thing by ending it the way that they did? What kind of cameos/crossovers would you like to see in the new series?

A live-action Attack on Titan movie isn't the only adaptation that fans will be getting. There's also a new live-action TV series that is in development, and it's set to be released this coming August. 

According to Anime New Network the series will tie into the movie, and act as a bridge between the two live-action films being released. It will tell a new story about the complex everyday lives of soldiers and their secrets while they aren't zipping around fighting Titans. 

The show will star Satomi Ishihara, who is reprising her role as Hanji from the movies. The other actors reprising their roles from the movies are Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha, Shu Watanabe as Fukushi, Rina Takeda as Lil, and Ayame Misaki as Hiana. There will also be a new character introduced that will be played by Yūta Hiraoka.

The series will be directed by Sinji Higuchi, who is also a director on the film. Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama is apparently also consulting on the series.

The first film will be released August 1st, and the second will hit theaters a month later on September 19th in Japan. The series will stream on the dTV streaming service in August. I really hope that we get to see this stuff here in the states because it looks awesome! If you haven't seen the trailer for the film yet, click here.

When it comes to current actors rocketing to popularity practically overnight, Benedict Cumberbatch's name definitely stands out. Thanks largely to his work on the BBC show Sherlock — and to legions of devoted fans on Tumblr — he's become a household name, rocketing to the A-list and even snagging an upcoming role as one of Marvel's new cinematic heroes.

Apparently, he's also reached the level in his career at which he's famous enough to serve as the basis for a life-sized chocolate replica. The Telegraph has a video of the making of "Chocobatch," an 80-pound hollow chocolate version of the actor that took 250 hours to make. The resemblance is uncanny; it's almost too realistic, to the point where it would probably feel a little weird taking a bite out of this thing. Then again, chocolate's chocolate. 

With Easter coming up this weekend, good luck convincing any Cumberbitches in your life that a chocolate bunny will be good enough for them; to visit the real thing, you'll have to head to Westfield Stratford City in the UK tomorrow while it's on display.

Via: Vanity Fair

Deadline reports that Disney is developing a live-action version of Winnie The Pooh as the latest big screen adaptation of one of their classic animated characters. Alex Ross Perry, the writer/director of the Jason Schwartzman/Elisabeth Moss Sundance movie Listen Up Philip, will write the screenplay, which will focus on an adult version of Christopher Robin who returns to the Hundred Acre Wood to presumably hang out with Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and the rest of his old animal friends.

Perry may seem like a strange choice, but the studio also hired Ain't Them Bodies Saints director David Lowery to write and direct its remake of Pete's Dragon, so there's already some precedent for hiring from the indie scene.

Since the studio has been on a roll with these live-action adaptations (Mulan, Dumbo, and Beauty and the Beast are on the way), I've been trying to guess which ones they'd do next, and I must admit that Winnie The Pooh didn't even cross my mind. They'll have to use CGI to recreate those characters, unless they make the totally insane decision to make a movie like Roar and use real live animals. Can you imagine? Now THAT would be a movie I'd be interested in seeing.

Our friends over at Sneaky Zebra have released a fantastic new cosplay video that pays homage to the late Leonard Nimoy. The cosplay featured in the video comes from several different conventions, and it's footage that they've collected over the years that didn't make it into their other videos. Here's a note that was included with the video that they called "Live Long":

I wanted to do something on this channel to commemorate the passing of the great Leonard Nimoy... As soon as I heard this address I knew what I wanted to make, this video, a different style of cosplay video than we normally do!

The address from Nimoy that they are talking about is the following:

"You are the creators and the curators of your own lives. You create your own life and your work. Give us your best. Give us the best of your art. We crave it. We hunger for it. Help us to see ourselves, to know ourselves. Illuminate our lives.” 

Enjoy the video!

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell's Ash Vs Evil Dead hasn't even gone into production yet, but we have our first tease. It's a motion graphic promo that teases the logo, some chainsaw sounds, and other visual concepts to get us primitive screw-heads even more excited for the show. 

Bruce Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead.  When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons –personal and literal.  Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.

The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner, Ray Santiago (“Touch,” Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick and Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past.

There’s no premiere date for Ash vs Evil Dead yet, but it's expected to be released in the Fall of 2015. 

Check out this wicked cool Batman character redesign created by Jeronimo Gomez. The illustration is called "The Knights of Gotham,"  and it turned out fantastically hardcore. It has a great dark and cyberpunk feel that screams Heavy Metal. Here's a note from the artist talking about his creation:

This Alternate universe is called "The Knights of Gotham" where each character, Batman, The Joker, The Riddler, etc.. is a knight / leader of their own street gang hence the name "The Knights of Gotham". Inspired by films like: The Warriors, Escape From New York , Gangs of New York and Streets of Fire. Tried out a ton of different techniques with this one. I plan on doing some more of these for each "Knight". And yes this Batman uses a gun. Hope you like! Thanks!

I'd love to see more designs of other characters from the Batman universe in this style .

Avengers: Age of Ultron is less than a month away now. It's weird: because of all of the news that's been pouring out about upcoming Marvel movies (from Doctor Strange to Captain America: Civil War to Captain Marvel and more), I sometimes find myself forgetting that we're actually getting two Marvel movies this year alone, and the first one is the sequel to the biggest superhero movie ever made. This one looks way bigger, and while everyone's hoping it's also better, we'll have to wait just a few more weeks to find out for ourselves.

In the meantime, check out this new featurette from Marvel that reunites the team. It actually makes me feel for writer/director Joss Whedon — with so many big personalities on that set, it must have been a nightmare to coordinate everything and pull it all together to make a cohesive film. It's no wonder he doesn't want to direct another one of these things. (Luckily, the Russo Brothers are stepping in for the two-part Avengers: Infinity War.)

This is pretty awesome. Redditor bruck7 got tired of staring at the plain walls in his office building, so he and a co-worker designed a superhero mural made out of Post-it notes to brighten things up a little bit. As you can see in the photos below, they created their own versions of Iron Man, Superman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, Scarlet Witch, and more. It's good to see that characters from both the DC and Marvel universes are welcome.

Here's the sad part, though: their office is supposedly moving in about six months, so all of this work was done for only a few months' worth of enjoyment. That's a bummer, but maybe at their new place they'll be able to improve on these already-stellar designs and somehow make them more permanent — it's gotta be annoying to have the sticky stuff on the Post-its wear out and random sections of your artwork just fall to the floor. Check out the full story below:

Via: NerdApproved

We have great news for fans who saw the most recent trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road and thought, "I want to see as much of that insane universe as possible." In a new interview with Esquire, it was revealed that star Tom Hardy is signed for three more Mad Max films, and we'll get to see them as long as Fury Road performs well enough. He's also seen the final cut of the film, and his reaction should get you even more excited:

As for the pressure, Hardy says it’s enormous. “I’ve never been more excited and out of my comfort zone.” He’s seen the film, and says it’s “fucking unbelievable”. He’s attached to a further three Mad Max films, though as he says, “Everything’s based on figures and how things are perceived. Inevitably it’s a business.”

Back in 2011, we heard that director George Miller was planning for Fury Road to be the first in a planned trilogy, and there were initially plans to film the sequel — then called Mad Max: Furiosa — back-to-back with Fury Road. That didn't end up happening, but the fact that Hardy is signed for three more movies means there's another Mad Max movie on the horizon that we haven't even heard about yet. I can only imagine that Charlize Theron will return as well (considering she plays a character named Furiosa), so if Fury Road is as badass as it looks and enough people go see it, we should have plenty more craziness to look forward to in the coming years.

"Fragment" is an impressively made sci-fi thriller that tells the story of an Air Force pilot who survives a crash after his jet breaks up over the desert. According to the synopsis, "a mysterious radio beacon draws the pilot from the crash site. A discovery is waiting. And it is not of this Earth."

The short was directed by Noah Griffith, and it's awesome. The concept may be simple, but the execution of it is wonderful. It has an uneasy feel to it that builds from a slow pace into an intense  confrontation with some kind of creature. I really liked this one, and I think many of you will, as well. 

Pierce Brosnan stars in a new action thriller called Survivor, and in it he plays an assassin who frames Milla Jovovich for a terrorist bombing. So what does she do? She goes on the run as he tries to kill her. 

The film seems to have a generic feel to it, but Brosnan comes off as a slick badass villain. I like both of the actors in it, and it looks like it could actually be an entertaining flick. Here's the synopsis:

After being mysteriously framed for a terrorist bombing, a Foreign Service Officer (Milla Jovovich) must evade government capture and death by a ruthless assassin (Pierce Brosnan) in order to stop the real perpetrators’ master, and much deadlier, plan.

Survivor was directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin, The Invasion, The Raven). It will be released on May 29th. It also stars Emma Thompson, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, and James D'Arcy.

Geektyrant VS is back! On this episode we bring in some newcomers, who love anime, to discuss the ongoing debate: Subtitles vs Dubbing. I can go either way on this topic. When it comes to anime, I’m the kind of person who just wants to find the fastest way to watch it.

This VS episode features Kim De Guzman, Ian Paur, Blair Bryant, Mark Johnson, and Parker Abegg as our host.

Hope you enjoy this episode of Geektyrant VS. What are your thoughts on subbing and dubbing? Let us know in the comments below!

The last time we wrote about anything having to do with the '90s sitcom Full House, it was chastising the cast for butchering a performance of the theme song at the series creator's birthday party. But now, in keeping with rumors that surfaced last year, TV Line reports that the cast is reuniting for a 13-episode reunion series called (and I'm not making this up) Fuller House, and Netflix is "thisclose" to ordering it.

Candace Cameron Bure will return as D.J. and Andrea Barber will be back as her spazzy best friend Kimmy, while Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, and John Stamos "are being eyed to make guest appearances." That's not surprising — those guys hang out together all the time and are basically sitting around with not much else going on anyway, so it makes sense that they'd come back. This is the latest in a long trend of cancelled or concluded TV shows being resurrected, and though I watched Full House as a kid, I'm starting to get really sick of the idea that EVERY SINGLE PROPERTY from the 1990s is going to make a comeback. Really, guys? Do we really need another Full House? No. The answer is no.

Girl Meets World, look what you started!

Game of Thrones is a massive production that shoots simultaneously all across the world. For all of the pieces to work together smoothly, every script for the entire season has to be finished before cameras roll on episode one — that way they can film all of the Jon Snow scenes up at Castle Black all at once, for example. It's an efficient way of shooting, to be sure, but it also seems like it'd be pretty difficult for the writers, who have to work faster than normal to make sure everything is completed by the shooting date.

Writer/producer Bryan Cogman recently gave an interview to Observer (via Collider) that details exactly how the writing process works on the show, and it's a fascinating read for people who enjoy knowing behind-the-scenes details.

“As we’re shooting one season we’re trading emails and/or chatting on set about the broad strokes of the next season: ‘Character X’ starts at ‘blank’ and we want him or her to end up at ‘blank.’ Then, as we start to approach the end of production, David & Dan, in some years, will assign the various writers a few characters. For instance, when we were working on Season Four, I was assigned Arya and a few others. So I’d go home and work for a few weeks on my ‘Arya Season Four,’ keeping in mind a few scenes we’d already discussed and what chapters and scenarios and themes from the books we might use.

Then, in January, when we’re back in LA, we’d meet for about two or three weeks, armed with the work we’d all done individually, and throw it all up on the board. You debate, you use some stuff, you throw some stuff out, you think up some new stuff. Sometimes what you end up with is really close to the individual outlines. Sometimes it’s very different.

After we map out all the main characters’ individual arcs, using color coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order. From there, we all split up again and each tackle a chunk of the outline—a detailed outline, which sometimes ends up being over a hundred pages. David & Dan polish it, and that’s what we use to script our episodes. I’m generally assigned mid-season episodes—it just seems to work out that way. George wrote a script per season for the first four seasons, but took a break for Season Five as he’s hard at work on the next book. And while George isn’t in the writers room, he reads the outlines and gives his notes.

From there I write my two scripts—it takes me about a month and half to do both—D&D read them, give notes, I do a rewrite, D&D sometimes do a pass on it themselves. And we continue to tinker with all of the scripts through prep and production. But they’re generally camera-ready when we finish them. They have to be, as we have to have all ten scripts complete well before shooting starts. We shoot all 10 episodes simultaneously, out of order, like a big, ten-hour movie, with two shooting units going at all times, sometimes in different countries.”

That's wild. Normally writers are scripting late-season episodes as the season begins to air, but these guys have to plan so far ahead for this series. It's probably for the best, actually: it doesn't allow them to take fan response into account even if they wanted to, and while sometimes fans think that they know best when they throw out suggestions or predictions for things that they want to happen, it's clear that Benioff and Weiss are the masterminds behind this show and they have the whole thing planned out very clearly. I can't wait to see what they've cooked up for Season 5, and luckily, we don't have to wait very long to find out. Game of Thrones returns on April 12th.

I didn't even realize that Kristen Wiig was in Zoolander 2, but I suppose I should have guessed. She's one of the funniest women in comedy right now, so it makes sense that she'd be brought in for a role. We're not exactly sure who she plays, or even if she's in the film for that long, but it really doesn't matter because when you see what she looks like in the movie, your world will never be the same. Head over to Elle to check out the image in full, but this tweet gives you all you need to know.

Kristen. Wiig. In. Zoolander. 2. http://t.co/q1z6m7r9vL pic.twitter.com/eJpPI9xcou

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) April 2, 2015

Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Will Ferrell are reprising their roles in Zoolander 2, which opens in theaters on February 12, 2016.

Via: Screencrush

Here's a nice way to cap off your Thursday. Check out this Legend of Zelda-themed remix video that highlights some spectacular cosplay created by fans of the classic game. This comes courtesy of BeatDownBoogie on YouTube, but I'm not sure where the footage was actually shot. Regardless, there are plenty of impressive examples of Zelda and Link cosplay on display here, and it might serve as a nice inspiration for some of you who have been wanting to get into that world but haven't figured out the right look just yet. Put down your Hylian shields, bust out your ocarinas, and enjoy.

One of the DC Comics films that I would love to see happen most is Guillermo del Toro's Justice League Dark, but who knows if it's actually going to happen? It doesn't seem like it's going to be included with the DC universe that Warner Bros. plans on building. 

IGN recently talked to the director at a press event for The Strain, and he offered a brief update on where the film project currently stands. This is what he had to say:

"We turned in our [script] revision, and it all depends on the calendar, you know? If I can do it, I would love to do it. And I think the screenplay and the characters are very solid."

So basically if Del Toro doesn't have the time to do it when the studio is ready, then he might have to pass on it. I thought for sure that Del Toro would be the one to direct this movie, but it sounds like he's having his doubts. He says that if he doesn't do it, then somebody else will, and he went on to explain why it's not easy to commit to direct it: 

"You cannot say, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it after I do this,’ or ‘I have the first season of The Strain. [Justice League Dark] needs to fall into the plan of the DC Universe."

Justice League Dark isn't on Warner Bros. and DC's list of officially planned films. But hopefully one day it will be and hopefully Del Toro will be available to direct it. If it does happen, it sounds like DC will have to find a way for it to connect with the universe their building.

"We're fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow."

Marvel has released a couple of new TV spots for Avengers: Age of Ultron, and they are really quite enjoyable. They feature some bursts of new footage from the film, as well as some funny humor, like Hawkeye's quote above in regards to the insanity they are facing. 

There's also a featurette for the film that was released earlier today. In case you missed that, you should check it out here. Avengers: Age of Ultron will be released in theaters on May 1st, and it looks like it's going to be an absolute blast! 

With the success of The LEGO Movie, I guess it was only a matter of time before someone nabbed the feature film rights to Play-Doh. According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox is in talks to team up with Hasbro for a big screen Play-Doh adventure. They also report that Bridesmaids director Paul Feig is in talks to direct from a script written by Jason Micallef. Feig is currently developing the all-female Ghostbusters reboot for Sony Pictures.

I can’t really say that Play-Doh will make for a crappy movie, because I thought the same thing when I first heard that Warner Bros. was making a LEGO movie. Look how that one turned out! It seems like the studio is going after the right talent to develop the film, so maybe it will turn out to be something that we’ll all enjoy. Then it will get snubbed at the Oscars. 

With a movie about Play-Doh, the story possibilities are endless. Anything can happen with the soft multi-colored clay. It’s just a matter of coming up with the right one to bring to life for audiences. I’m curious to see how this develops, but I imagine Melissa McCarthy will be involved. Maybe as some kind of Play-Doh master shaper. 

I do have to say that one of the main things that The LEGO Movie had that Play-Doh won’t is all of the popular franchise characters.