Yes, the game is hard as nails – but that's not why 🎉I left it collecting digital dust on my PS5's hard drive.

After the announcement of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring movie, I decided to dip back into The Lands Between and firmly remembered why I left it all behind. It terrified me. Not always in a conventional sense, mind you, but I've always been a little tentative when it comes to the unknown🔥 in video games. 𓆉I am, admittedly, a hand-holder at heart.

Stepping back into Elden Ring where I left off – Raya Lucaria Academy and the fringes of the surrounding Lakes – with rusty skills, no found m💦ap, no guidance (this is a walkthrough-free zone, thank you very much), and a hostile world of gruesome creatures and Lovecraftian monstrosities that want to kill me at every turn didn't exactly fill me wiඣth joy.

As I inched towards the exterior of the cavernous buildings, I was met by a true jump-scare. 🦩A Runebear 🐽– a Lesser one, to my embarrassment – thrust its claws into me and left me shorn of Runes and my shame. I'm not sure I'll ever return to the underside of that bridge.

But then it dawned on me: Elden Ring is meant to scare me. I'd even go🤪 one further and say it's at its best when it's a full-blown nightmare. My earlier hours, too, were packed with spine-chilling moments that dwarfed my return's ursine-shaped terror. The Ulcerated Tree Spirit slashing at me in an optional first dungeon wh🌊en I was hopelessly out of my depth; the sneaky, iconic chest switcharoo that dumped my Tarnished in unfamiliar territory close to Caelid in the opening minutes; whatever Godrick the Grafted is supposed to be. It all painted a picture of a world that didn't want me there or wanted me dead. Neither did much good for my nerves.

The secret to Elden Ring's success, then, isn't that it's a heroic adventure or a power fantasy. Instead, it's a war of attrition; FromSoftware's open-world masterpiece is a brutal struggle, one where you're constantly🐲 on the back foot and never want to see what's around the corner.

Reign over me

Which brings me to A24's Elden Ring movie adaptation. There has been plenty of discussion already about what the big-screen take should look like, with a particularly vocal sub-section of fans 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:pining for a story based on Vyke, the Tarnished who came closest to taking on the mantle of Elden Lord before the player'ꦗs 🍃character rocked up to The First Step with naught but a wing, a prayer, and a Site of Grace's light to follow.

Of course, director Alex Garland is no slouch when it comes to horror himself, and might even be the perfect pick to helm the Elden Ring movie. Why? Discounting his dozens of hours amassed in 澳洲幸运5开奖号൩码历史查询:reaching New Game Plus six times over in Elden Ring, his work💧 on 2022's Men showcased his keen eye for repulsive body horror (the Green Man isn't a sight you'll forget quickly), as well as the sort of oppressive, haunting tone that mirrors my own experience nudging around a greyed-out map in Elden Ring and being frozen by the thought of an otherworldly nasty lunging at me from the shadows.

Garland, too, has shown he is frequently malleable, flexible, and experimental with his choice of genre. Men may lean more into the folksy, peculiarly British sort of horror found in something like The Wicker Man, but the director's ever-changing work elsewhere – the unabashed, noisy grittiness of Warfare, the😼 mind-bending Ex Mac♉hina – proves he has a firm grasp on any genre he sets his mind to.

Rise of the Beast

Garland's less celebrated work as co-writer on the criminally underrated Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and 2013's divisive Devil May Cry quasi-reboot already suggests he can appeal to a range of players, while understanding how the environment – as is the case in Enslaved's grassy world reclaimed by nature – can very much act as a ༺secondary character in the same way Caelid's scorched skies or the br༺utal, enclosed architecture of Stormveil Castle's grounds will live long in my memory.

In truth, I would be disappointed if Elden Ring is a 1:1 adaptation or a similar analogue to the Tarnished's journey towards the Elden Beast. I also don't think gamersꦅ are necessarily content with straightforward adaptations anymore. They've been there, played that. The likes of Sonic, Minecraft, and Mario have proven to be triumphs by using their source materials as a launchpad for adaptations that realize the leap from consoles to cinemas requires transformation, not merely treading the same ground.

Similarly, a heavier horror twist on Elden Ring offers something different – a journey through game director Hidetaka Miyazaki's suffocating saga that taps into something I've been too scared to admit until now: Elden Ring is not-so-secretly a horror game, and it deserves a movie to ma𒁃tch.

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The first trailer for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wicked: For Good has arrived – and it's a serious tearjerker.

In the brief clip, which can be viewed above, we hear snippets of both "No Good Deed" – Elphaba's intense solo – and "For Good," a heartbreaking duet between Glinda and Elphaba. We also see the two witches reuniting, a glimpse of Dorothy and her friends, and Glinda's wedding to Jonathan Bailey's Fiyero (which seem🔥s to be interrupted by the animals).

Honestly, though, Glinda and Elphaba seeing each other again already had me tearing up – then hearing "For Good" had me borderline bawli꧟ng. If you've seen the musical, you were probably the same...

In fact, I liked this trailer so much that I don't even mind that we still haven't heard even a note of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:two new original songs on the way. 🔯We༺'ll all just have to be a little more patient for those.

Wicked: For Good adapts Act 2 of the Broadway show, after the first movie covered Act 1. Both films were co-written by Winnie Holzman, who𝔉 also wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning musical. Jon M. Chu, of course, returns to direct.

Part 2 has a lot to live up to, given the enormous success of Part 1, which grossed nearly $800 million at the global box office against a budget of $150 million and earned multiple Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Cynthia Erivo, and Best Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande. Our own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wicked review also gave the film the f✱ull five stars. Based on this trailer, I have no doubt at all that Part 2 will deliver.

The full cast includes Erivo as Elphaba, Grande as Glinda, Bailey as Fiyero, Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard of Oz, Michelle Yeoh as🐲 Madame Morrible, Marissa Bode as Nessarose, Ethan Slater as Boq🌳, and Peter Dinklage as Doctor Dillamond.

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The publication states that the toy brand's Robbie Brenner, who was recently promoted to President and Chief Content Officer, will oversee the supernatura♑l flick. Akiva Gol🅠dsman (Batman Forever, Doctor Sleep) is lined up to produce alongside Brenner.

The news comeജs just days after Mattel announced the release of its Monster High Skullector M3GAN Doll, which is a tie-in with upcoming sequel M3GAN 2.0. Having debuted in 2010, the first set of dolls were said to be the glammed-up children of Dracula, Wolfman, and Frankenstein. Since then, others have been introduced including Abbey Bominable, Venus McFlytrap, and Cleo De Nile.

While it's yet to be confirmed, it seems safe to assume that Johnstone's take will be live-action, following in the footsteps of Paramount Plus's Monster High: The Mo🎀vie, which was released in 2022. A follow-up, Monster High 2, came out in 2023.

"Gerard's unique vision and genre-blending style make him the perfect fit for this film," Brenner said in a statement. "This is exactly what we're building at Mattel Studios as we continue to wജork with top talent to tell fresh, unexpected stories from our rich portfolio of brands."

Johnstone added: "With Bar💝bie, Mattel Studios demonstrated that they're not afraid to take bold swings with their IP. What makes Monster High so exciting for me is the opportunity to play in the sandbox of so many iconic monster myths."

Releasing on June 27, M3GAN 2.0 sees the titular bot get given a new body by her original creator and former enemy Gemma (Allison Williams), on the promise of protecting her human "pals" from an even more sinister android. Think Terminator 2: Judgment Day meets The Silence of the Lambs, with danc🦹e sequences and sassy one-liners thrown in for good measure. Violet McGraw, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, and Ivanna Sakhno round out the supporting cast.

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"Here’s the 🌺latest about the ELDER RING [sic] movie that was announced a few days ago," Martin . "A24 is a kickass studio, and Alex🎐 Garland is a first rate director."

While he did🍷n't offer more information, his 'current mood' based on the blog post was "hopeful." Curiously, he also linked to a three-minute video from YouTuber Zayf the Scholar titled, 'Why the Elden Ring Movie WON'T SUCK - Director Reveals His TRUE Power Level'. So, there's that.

For the un-Tarnished among you confused by George R.R. Martin's involvement in the Elden Ring movie, he famously constructed the 2022 game's lore and rich history, which director Hidetaka Miyazaki and developers FromSoftware built upon with a tale of Great Runes, Erdtrees, and Elden Rings as the player aims to take his place as the Elden Lord in The L🍎ands Between.

As of now, very little is known about the Elden Ring movie. Annihilation and Warfare director Alex Garland 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:is helming the project, while Heartstopper actor Kit Connor 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:is circling as lead.

Beyond that, fans are hoping the big-screen adaptation will swerve the source material's focus on the player's Tarnished. Instead, their hopes are pinned on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:following the story of Vyke, a pivotal figure in the game's world, who ulᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtimately stopped short of becoming the next Elden Lord – and was driven mad in the process.

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"How do I describe The Devils? A sharply ꧅witty horror ad🌞venture? An epic battle between good and evil except most of the time you can’t tell which is which? A twisted, stylish, alt-universe middle-ages romp, where your best hope of survival is the monsters themselves?" .

"I’m looking fo🦩rward to the writing process with him, though I’m certain this adaptation will practically write itself because Joe writes very visually, almost in scenes, and with a very cinematic structure. I can’t wait to dig into this as I wind down on Avatar: Fire and Ash. It will be a joyful new challenge for me to bring these indelible characters to life."

A blurb for the novel, which was released just last month, describes The Devils as "Mixing the central conceit of Suicide Squad with Hammer Horror vibes, as viewed via the lens of alternate history." The story follows a librarian, a werewolf, a knight, and a vampire who team up when their world is invaded by bloodthirsty elves. Cameron is set to not only direct the pic, but to co-wri🔯te the screenplay with Abercrombie.

Cameron just wrapped up Avatar: Fire and Ash, but there's still Avatar 4 and 5 to come. Avatar 3 is out this year, but Avatar 4💮 is set for a 2029 release day, with the franchise finally ending in 2031. Sheesh. Given that the director is known for his big-budget action flicks, it'll be cool to see what he does with a horror-fantasy story. Especially since he hasn't direct a horror project since his 1982 debut, Piranha 2: The Spawning.

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Genre fans have been waiting with baited breath for the follow-up to the♔ cult fantasy horror, but if Peter Stormare's new candid interview with is anything to go buy, we're going to have to be patient a little while longer...

"[There's] a lot of back and forth, because... I think Keanu [Reeves] is not so happy with the scripts," the actor, who appeared as Lucifer in the 2005 original 🦩and is set to appear in the continuation, told the publication. "Because the first one wasn't that successful in the beginning, it became a sleeper and became a cult movie, and now it is one of the biggest cult movies ever... To do a sequel, the studios want to have, you know, cars flying in the air. They want to have people doing flip-flops and f𒈔ighting action scenes."

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Also starring Tilda Swinton (as archangel Gabriel) and Rachel Weisz, the first film follows distrustful demonologist John Constantine, as he helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but rather, something supernatural. Based on the DC Comi༒cs character, it was directed by Francis Lawrence,ꦬ who is lined up to helm the second movie, too.

"It took a long time for [the original] to become a cult movie. It really worked, and it will work on the audience again," concluded Stormare. "You don't have to add a lot of action a🌟nd shootouts. You have other movies. Don't turn it into big Marvel... [Don't turn it] into us flying around in harnesses all the time and shooting each other up. Don't bring in the big guns. Let it be."

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As per , Heartstopper's Kit Connor has had talks with Garland about starring i൲n the upcoming video game movie. The pair recently collaborated on Garland's war film Warfare, with Connor appearing alongside Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, and Cosmo Jarvis.

However, this casting isn't set in stone just yet. According to its sources, Deadline states: 'it is 🀅unknown where things stand in negotiations or if a formal offer has been offered.'

Connor, meanwhile, is set to appear in a Heartstopper movie for Netflix. On 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:why it's a film and n൲ot another season, co-star Joe Locke recently told , "S♛o, we realized that the only way to get it made this year is if we do a film because it’s less time commitment, and well, we can still put in a lot of the same love and care into the characters, into finishiඣng off the story."

Ever since 🌸the Elden Ring movie was announced by Bandai Namco, there has been plenty of chatter online about castings and, perhaps more importantly, which figure it will ꧒focus on.

Already, fans 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:are keen to see Vyke – and not the Tarnished hero of the 2022 open-world title – claim the mantle of the movie's lead character, while others want Game of Throne🌺s actor Charles Dance to step into the all-knowing shoes of ﷺRoundtable Hold leader Gideon.

Speak𒈔ing to last year about the possibility of an Elden Ring movie, the game's director Hidetaka Miyazaki indicated he was happy to step aside for the feature – as long as a "very strong partner" was found.

"I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example," Miyazaki said. "But I don’t think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that’s whe♋re a very strong partner wou𒁏ld come into play. We’d have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we’re trying to achieve."

Now, it seems, that strong partner is in play and acꦇtors are marc🌊hing on towards The Lands Between.

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But hold your horses (or should that be Torrents?). Given that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elden Ring movie is currently in the nascent stages of pre-production, you may be looking from the Deeproot Depths to the Mountaintop of the Gods in search of, well, anything that may point you in the direction of what to expect from the feature. In the absence of any Site of Grace lights to guide the way, we've put together a complete guide on everything we know about the Elden Ring movie so far. That includes confirmed news of the director, as well as more speculative information about release dates, fan casting, and what, if any, of FromSoftware's game and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Shadow of the Erdtree DLC will be adapted.

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Elden Ring movie release date speculation

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Announced in May 2025, the Elden Ring movie is undated. In its press release, film production company A24 only announced they would be collaborating with Bandai Namco and that Alex Garland would serve as writer-director. No casting has been confirmed yet either, though Heartstopper star Kit Connor 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:has been touted as the lead.

Frankly, that means Elden Ring is a fair way off from coming to cinemas. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Legend of Zelda movie – announced in late 2023 and coming March 2027 – feels like a goo🍃d case study for trying to 💖figure out when Elden Ring will be released.

If it follows a similar path, then 2027 could be realistic – depending on when filming begins. Working in its favor is the fact that Alex Garland has no current projects in the works, save for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:28 Years Later and its sequel The Bone Temple, which have ꦛboth completed filming.

Elden Ring movie story: will it adapt FromSoftware's game?

Curiously, there's been no (official) talk so far about Elden Ring adapting the story of FromSoftware's 2023 classic, nor ꦛthe side narrative found in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.

Eℱven if it doesn't follow the source material directly, there's plenty for the Elden Ring movie to get stuck into – largely tඣhanks to the familiar person behind its lore.

George R.R. Martin had a considerable hand in shaping The Lands Between, penning much of the world's history and backstory – essentially, everything before the player's Tarni🌼shed arriv🌱es is the product of the Game of Thrones author.

So, what is Elden Ring about? While there are lore videos lasting d🍒ozens of hours that cover this very subject, let's keep it simple. In the game itself, you are a Tarnished, a figure cast out of The Lands Be𝔍tween. But when the Elden Ring – a mythical object of tremendous power – is broken, the Tarnished are compelled to return.

F🎀rom there, it is up to the Tarnished to seek out the Shardbearers holding the Great Runes of the Elden Ring to repair it. Unfortunately, given that most of those have been corrupted or driven mad by the immense power they wield, that is eas𝔍ier said than done.

Of course, there are centuries upon centuries of history hinted at via item descriptions, dialogue, and other incidental and environmental clues. One such figure embroiled in so much of that history is Vyke – and he's currently 澳洲幸运𒀰5开奖号码历史查询:one of the most-requested characters that fans want to lead an Elden Ring movie.

Like the player's Tarnished, he had worked to restore the Elden Ring and rule over The Lands Between as the Elden Lord. But as thꦉe saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. After chasing his maiden, he turns mad. Vyke can later be fought in-game as a boss fight.

Elden Ring movie director: who is Alex Garland?

A prolific writer and director, Alex Garlan♉d first made his name in the industry as the writer of 28 Days Later, as 😼well as penning the scripts for Sunshine and Dredd.

Garland shifted into directing with 2014's Ex Machina, before helming a series of singular works – including Annihilation, the divisive folk horror Men, Civil War and – most recently – Warfar🉐eꦜ.

Pleasingly, Garland has plenty of experience in the video game space. He has writing credits on 2013's underrated gem Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Garland also acted as story supervisor on Ninja Theory's DmC: Devil May Cry. He's even beaten Elden Ring six times. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:But who's counting?

Elden Ring movie cast and characters: who could appear?

Elden Ring is p🥃opulated with a litany of memorable characters, foul beasts, and corrupted champions, but who is going to 🃏make the cut in the movie?

Riꦦght now, no one has been officially cast, nor do we know which pa𓆉rt of The Lands Between's history Alex Garland has chosen to adapt.

As per , Kit Connor is being eyed for the lead role, but the q♏uestion of which characters will crop up is still difficult to pin down.

That being said, we'd be shocked if the likes of Queen Marika isn't a focal point of the Elden Ring movie. Essentially the god and ruler of 𓂃The Lands Between, she is the driving force behind much of the land's conflicts, most notably taking Godfrey on as her first Elden Lord and bearing three children: Godwyn, Mohg, and Morgott.

When Godfrey is exiled by Marika, she weds secret flame Radagon. And it's here where it gets confusing, with the lore dictating that Radagon is Marika's 'other self' and, essentially, one and the same. That incestuous act of self-love isℱ the core reason why their children – Miquella and Malenia – are cursed with eternal childhood and sickness, respectively.

One of Radagon's children, Ranni, lea♋ds a plot to fight back against Marika alongside Godwyn, which then sees Marika shattering the Elden Ring. This kickstarts a civil war among the many, many branches of Marika and Radagon's family tree, and others.

Much of that history and those key characters could be explored, though fans have already dropped one perfect piece of fancasting into our laps: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Charles Dance as Gideon, Thꦏe All-Knowing, a former Tarnished who wishes to become the Elden Lord.

As a 𝓰twisted take on the player's own Tarnished, it would be a great vessel to see much of The Lands Between's iconic locales and its storied history, so we certainly wouldn't be against it.

When can we expect an Elden Ring movie trailer?

Don't expect any🧜 movement on an Elden Ring movie teaser or trailer for quite 🐠some time, potentially around six months before its release date.

With that in mind, keep an eye on some of the game industry's biggest events – such as the Summಌer Game Fest and The Game Awards – as they will almost certainly be the guaranteed destination🙈 for a big unveiling.

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I don't only say that because of Garland's pedigree in the film industry, but also because of recently uncovered comments ♛he made about Elden Ring prior to the announcement of the movie adaptation. Garland's attachment to the project has been rumored for a while now, but now that he's officially directing the thing, there's a lot of increased attention toward his social media activity, and thankfully, he seems like a legit FromSoft sicko.

In a from a couple weeks back, Garland replied to a fan asking about his progress in the Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree. "Love Shadow Of The Erdtree," Garland said. "I'm on ng+6 currently. Don't even want to think about the hours I'🦄ve clocked up. Can't see꧙m to stop playing. Still discovering stuff."

Did you catch that? NG+6 implies that Garland is on his seventh playthrough of Elde♛n Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. If you've played Elden Ring,💫 or any FromSoft game, you know that's some serious dedication.

Although the AMA is several weeks old, 🤪there are a bunch of new replies to Garland's comments presumably from people learning of his involvem♛ent in the Elden Ring movie, and they're all happy to hear he's a fellow Tarnished.

"Ok I was worried about the mov🌊ie slightly, but now? Holy shit he’s one of us boys, this movie is g♈onna be fucking peak," says .

"NG +6?!??! Based," says .

"This is what you🧔 love to hear fro𒐪m the future director of a game series!! Love that you're a fan," says .

With an IP as beloved as Eld🍌en Ring, it's natural that fans are stressing over Hollywood's🍌 ability to do it justice on the big screen, and it's still way too early to tell if those fears are justified, but Garland as both writer and director is definitely encouraging, especially now that we know he's put in the time in The Lands Between.

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As it turns out, the details of the El🎀den 🀅Ring movie very closely mirror what was first reported by Nexus Point News earlier this month before the story was retracted.

Alex Garland, who directed the 2024 dystopian action thriller Civil War and co-directed the 2025 war movie, Warfare, is wri൲ting and directing Elden Ring for A24. A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, who helped create Elden Ring's world🍃 and lore, is signed on to produce.

The project d🐼oesn't have⛄ a release date or window attached just yet.

Elden💧 Ring is a highly acclaimed and massively popular RPG first released on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC in 2022. It sees players na📖vigate a treacherous and vast open world to become the new Elden Lord.

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Hawke will play Wiress in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, as confirmed on . The announcement included a v🅘ideo showing Wiress’ introductory chapter from the books, describing her as “The black-haired girl from District 3 who won last year’s Hunger Games.” Watch the full clip below.

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Hinting at wh🃏at's to come upon the initial announcement, Peter Jackson – who is producing The Hunt for Gollum – teased to : "We really want to explore his backstory and delve into those parts of his journey we🃏 didn’t have time to cover in the earlier films. It’s too soon to know who will cross his path, but suffice to say we will take our lead from Professor Tolkien."

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Well, that's where we come in! Below, we'v🔜e gathered all the intel that you need to know about starting your long journey back to Middle-earth💝. From The Hunt for Gollum release date, plot, cast, and more, we've got so much information here that even Sauron's spies would be impressed by our efforts. So read on, fellow adventurers!

The Hunt for Gollum release date

The Hunt for Gollum release date has been revealed as December 17, 2027. This newꦇs was announced by Warner Bros on May 8, 2025, and we couldn't be more excited. Initially, the film was planned for a December 2026 release window. However,🍌 it was revealed during the Fan Expo Vancouver 2025 event (via ) that the movie had been pushed back to 2027.

Considering how the movie was only announced in 2024, this timeline does make sense as fantasy movies need time in post-production as well to truly cook. Hopefully, the additional time will result in one of the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: best fantasy movies of the year!

What is The Hunt for Gollum plot?

While we don't know how the Hunt for Gollum will expand on Tolkien's work (a terrifying 𒀰thought), we do know that it's based on the appendices of Tolkien's novel. It will take place primarily 17 years after Bilbo's birthday, when he handed over the One Ring to Frodo. Although Peter Jackson's films didn't really show off the lengthy timeline before Frodo left for Rivendell, the events of the movie take place before our main hobbits even leave the Shire.

Basically, worried about the nefarious nature of Frodo's "magic ring," Gandalf is concerned that Gollum would be captured and subsequently reveal information about what he suspects is th𝔍e One Ring to Sauron's dark forces. In order to try and get to Gollum before Sauron, Gandalf reaches out to Aragorn and asks him to make use of his ranger skills to track the wretched creature down before it's too late.

This results in Aragorn and Gandalf teaming up periodically to search for Gollum together (often resulting in cold trails). Unfortunately, if you've seen or read The Lord of the Rings, you know that Gollum ventured into Mordor and was captured. Gandalf went to dive into researching the One Ring some more to 🌟confirm his suspicions, while Aragorn c🌞ontinued the hunt for Gollum, and Gollum continued to be tortured by Sauron in the meantime.

Eventually, Sauron released Gollum after getting all he could out of him, and poor Gollum got himself captured by Aragorn shortly after his newfound freedom. The pair travels for around 50 days, avoiding the enemy when they can, as Aragorn ventures to a safe place to imprison Gollum for interrogation later. Gandalf d🍨oes get to question Gollum, where he gets further confirmation that Frodo's ring is none other than the One Ring belonging to Sauron.

This led to a sense of urgency and fully kicked off the action that we see in Fellowship as Gandalf returned to the Shire to inform Frodo on his next steps, the Ringwraiths eᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤🔯⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚntered the Shire, and a bunch of Orcs allowed Gollum to escape his prison.

There is a lot to go through in terms of the upcoming movie's plot here, but a lot of it involves time skips and simple travel without much confrontationꦐ. So we expect the Hunt for Gollum movie to make some changes. There was a fan-made Hunt for Gollum movie that was released back in 2009. This film featured an original story, though, using Tolkien's work as a jumping-off point🙈. So it'll be interesting to see if Warner Bros takes a similar route here.

Where does The Hunt for Gollum fit in the Lord of the Rings timeline?

The Hunt for Gollum technically starts as far back as TA 2944, only a few years after Bilbo's quest in The Hobbit, where Gandalf w🧔ished to know how Gollum got the 𝓡ring in the first place. The Hunt picks up again in TA 3001 after Bilbo's 111th birthday party, where Gandalf's suspicions about the ring heat up to a fever pitch. The Hunt for Gollum then concludes in TA 3018. This is also the year when Frodo and his friends start their journey to Rivendell.

Currently, it's unclear what timeline the upcoming movie will present. The main action of The Hunt for Gollum spans over 17 years. So we are curious to see how Jackson and his team plan to adapt Tolkien's wo🤪rk to fit into a film. Stay tuned for updates!

The Hunt for Gollum cast

Currently, the only confirmed cast member for The Hunt for Gollum is Gollum himself, with Andy Serkis on board to repri𒉰se his role from the 🌟Peter Jackson movies.

Fans are dying to know if Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen will also be reprising their roles of Gandalf and Aragorn, respectively. However, neither actors we🐬re reached out to before the movie was revealed in 2024, causinﷺg many to raise their eyebrows.

McKellen has stated that he's keen to return as Gandalf during an interview with , and 🐎Mortensen told that he hasn't received a script. This may just be the two hiding their involvement for a big gotcha reveal. However, it could also mean that Warner Bros has recast the characters. If that is the case, I, like many others, will probably scream in desp🧜air at that news. We'll keep you posted as more news heads our way.

Is there a The Hunt for Gollum trailer?

Currently, there is no trailer for the Hunt for Gollum. However, since we now have a release date, we'll likely see a teaser soon. Our money is that the first trailer will drop duri༺ng San Diego Comic-Con in July this year.

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"I would love to delve more into Grey Alys, and Paul and I talk about it all the time," says Jovovich to GamesRadar+. "We've talked so much about, like, her origin💫s, and where she came from, and what is the curse, and how did she get it. I mean, there's so many quesღtions."

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"Still at the very top of my list is I want to play a vampire," says Bautista to GamesRadar+. “More than an🦩ything, I want to play a vampire, but I'm looking for that perfect role."

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He concedes that the production was at least ✱a "bold move," and that Burton "very much took it in his own direction.ꦗ" The former Frodo Baggins actor isn't an outlier for his negative views.

Although Charlie and the Chocolate Factory did well critically, holding a rock solid 83% on , the audience score tells a different story, lan🌠guishing at 51%. The film, featuring Johnny Depp as the eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka, took a slightly different approach to the 1971 interpretation by making Wi🌠lly less charming and more standoffish.

There’s more about his background as well, wherein it’s revealed his father was strictly against candy of any kind, leading to an irreconcilable division. A⛎ bit of a contrast to hearing Wilder sing 'Pure Imagination'.

A third big budget adaptation of the book, Wonka, came out in 2023, starring Timothée Chalamet as the eponymous chocolate salesman. It reviewed very well, sitting at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, and commercially, bringin𝔉g in over $600 million at the box office globally.

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"I always look to Clint Eastwood," says Bautista to GamesRadar+ when asked if he was inspired by any western actors when approaching the new movie. "You know, I love Clint Eas🐟twood. When I think about cowboys, when I think about westerns, I think Clint Eastwood"

In the movie, Bautista plays the cowboy hat-we🔥aring pistol-wielding brawny wanderer Boyce, tasked with venturing into the Lost Lands. But as we get to know the quiet type, it becomes apparent that the character "clearly [mimics] Clint Eastwood's demeanor as a cowboy," as Bautista puts it.

"He was a man of few words. I like that," says Bautista of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly star. "Clint E꧒astwood acts with his eyes. He's a very subtle actor who doesn't have to do much with his body to convey a lot. And so as far as you know, cowboys go, Westerns go, he's always going to be my gold standard."

Although In the Lost Lands isn't your typical gun-൲slinging cowboy flick as it mixes multiple genres and includes many fantasy and horror tropes such as witches and werewolves, director Paul W.S. Anderson could see that the movie had western attributes as soon as he got his hands on the story. "I had also wanted to make a Western for a long time, so this was a great opportunity for me to kind of indulge in that," adds the helmer. "And I know Dav🃏e really appreciated that as well."

Based on the short story of the same nam▨e by Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin, In the Lost Lands follows a witch named Grey Alys (Milla Jovovich) who is sent by a queen to the Lost Lands in search of a magical power that can turn a human into a werewolf. Guided by drifter Boyce, the sorceress must outwit and outfight man and demon to deliver what she has promised.

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"Oh yea𒉰h, I'm definᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚitely feeling the pressure. I do have a bit of anxiety, because we’ve, you know, got a lot to live up to," says Bautista to GamesRadar+, admitting he is a big Game of Thrones fan himself. "It would be one thing if people's expectations weren't set, but I believe their expectations are set very high. There's a high bar there. It's a high standard. And so we want to live up to that."

However, co-star Jovovich seems to be keeping a cooler head as she sees the movie and the prᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚevious TV shows in two completely different lights. "I felt like this was so separate from the world of Westeros," said the Resident Evil star. "I knew that Paul and I could give it a completely new look and take you on a journey through a George R.R. Martin story without having it be a par🎶t of the Game of Thrones world, like it's a completely separate reality."

Similarly, Anderson feels like he has cr♔eated an experience so visually different to Game of Thrones and "specifically for the cinem𝄹a" that the two are not really comparable. "So you have everything that people enjoy about George, the complex characters, the dark reverses, the creatures, the twists," adds the director. "But then a completely different visual palette."

As Game ofꦰ Thrones and House of the Dragon are based on Martin’s lengthy A Song of Ice and Fire book series, the upcoming movie is adapted from one of the writer’s short stories also titled In the Lost Lands, which features in the 1982 fantasy anthology novel Amazons II. The story follows the intertwining tales of a witch, a wanderer, a queen. and a werewolf, set in a fantastical historical꧑ setting.

Much like the story, the movie follows a witch named Gray Alys (Jovovich) who is sent to the 'Lost Lands' by a queen ꧋who is desperate to become a werewolf. Thღe official synopsis reads: "With the mysterious hunter Boyce (Bautista), who supports her in the fight against dark creatures and merciless enemies, Gray Alys roams an eerie and dangerous world. And only she knows that every wish she grants has unimaginable consequences."

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"We are right at the beginning of the writi༒ng process," the motion capture legend-turned-director explained at Fan Expo Vancouver 2025 (via ). "We will be prepping later this year. Prep takes a good chunk of time, six or seven months, and then we will be shooting next year. So, it backs into that December 20ཧ27 release date."

Despite the film being announced back in May 2024, this is the first major update we've had since then. Outside of the facts that Serkis will be starring in the flick as well as producing, it'll🌼 be filmed in New Zealand, will a standalone movie, and that Peter Jackson is on board to executive produce, little is known about the project so far.

While it's not been explicitly stated, it seems safe to assume that the new flick will bﷺe live-action, unlike recent anime spin-off The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, starring the voice ta☂lents of Brian Cox and Eowyn actor Miranda Otto.

Given the mystery surrounding the movie, fans of the franchise have begun speculating as to what its plot could be, with many voicing that it could be a prequel that depicts Gollum, known once as Sméagol, and Gandalf's first encounter, w🔥hich the wizard teases to Frodo (Elijah Wood) in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

"We're playing around with a number of ideas, but most of those ideas do include Gandalf," Lord of the Rings screenwriter 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Philippa🌜 Boyens told Empire last year.

"Well, all I know is that they called me up and said that these films were going to happen, [and] mainly be about Gollum. Andy Serkis, who played Gollum, is going to direct, and there w🎉ould be a script arriving some time in the new year," Sir Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in Jackson's adaptations of Tolkien's works, back in September 2024. "That's next year. And then I'll judge whether I want to go back."

The 85 year old continued: "But I would. I would love to go bac൲k to New Zealand, number one. And I also don't like the idea of anybody🐎 else playing Gandalf."

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Resident Evil director says in the new issue of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine, which features the 30 greatest shows of the SF♕X era on♚ the cover and hits newsstands on February 26, that he felt the pressure to impress Martin. However, thankfully, the Game of Thrones author had high praise for the new take on his works.

Anderson says he screened 𓂃the movie for Martin in New Mexico, at the author's personal theater. "I have to say, having been in this industry for a little while and made a bunch of movies, it's the most nervous I've ever been having a screening," the director laughed. "I'm sitting there going, 'Shit. This is George R.R. Martin.' But at the end, he loved it. He said he felt that I had captured his voice better than anyone had in an adaptation, which made me feel amazing."

It was such high praise that Anderson is hoping 🌜that Martin may be encouraged to continue the story. He had previously expressed a desire to write multiple Gray Alys novels, but never got around to it. "The movie has a closed end and, I feel, a very satisfying end," he co♐ntinued. "But if George wanted to weave more Gray Alys stories, I'd be very excited."

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"It's a terrible confession to make: they weren’t that much fun to make," he ൲said on The One Show (H/T ). "It's quite boring making big special effects films."

But, that doesn't mean he has any bad feelings about his experience. "However the pleasures all come afterwards," he continued. "I see and meet people for whom the🦄ir lives were changed by it, and still people reading it and sharing it with their children. Some people say their lives were saved by it and I believe them."

While thꦅe movies wrapped up in 2011, a reboot from HBO is in the works. Each of 🔯the seven books will get its own season and the series is expected to run for 10 years.

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"Well, it came as a total surprise to me," 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lithgow said of his casting. "I just got the phone call up at the Sun🐻dance Film Festival for yet another film, and it was not an easy decision because i💯t's going to define me for the last chapter of my life, I'm afraid.

"But I'm very excited," heꦓ added. "Some wonderful people are turning their attention back to Harry Potter. That's why it's been such a💧 hard decision. I'll be about 87 years old at the wrap party, but I've said yes."

There's no release date for the TV show just yet. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the most exciting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming shows of the year to fill out your watchlist.

It is important to note that the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series has been the subject of criticism and debate due to the show's executive producer and author J.K. Rowling's very public and harmful stance on gender identity. It was a similar situation with the Hogwarts Legacy launch. For more, read more about the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hogwarts Legacy controversy.

Martin was involved in creating the fantasy world of the beloved Hidetaka Miyazaki-directed action RPG, and as a result has long been fans' first choice to help with an adaptation. asked 🔴the man himself whether he'd be interested in helping with a sequel to the game when he gꦚave a pretty intriguing tease about its potential movie.

"Well, I can't say too much about it, but there is some talk about making a movie out of Elden Ring," he revealed. An adaptation of the game hasn't yet been greenlit, but Martin has shared his intrigue at the idea before and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:even Miyazaki hasn't ruled it out. Could talks be further along than we ha🌟d imagined?

Well, according to Martin, there does remain a very significant block in his path. "We'll see if that [the Elden Ring movie] comes to pass and what the extent of my involvem♈ent was, I don't know," he said. "I'm a few years behind with my latest book, so that also limits the amount of things that I can do."

The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth book in the Ga💞me of Thrones saga and Martin started writing it in 2010. However, it's been delayed several times in the 15 years since, with the author often admi✃tting his struggle to work out the ending.

Although, it's fair t♎o say that while its publication is hanging over him, Martin hasn't shied away from attaching himself to other projects in the meantime. He's been an executive producer on shows like House of the Dragon and Dark Winds, and even wrote the upcoming adaptation of his short story In The Lost Lands. So surely, he's got some time for Elden Ring too?

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Sirens of the Deep, which hit the streamer on February 11, is c🦋urrently sitting at just shy of five million views for its week on the platform. Nightmare of the Wolf, however, hit over nine million🥂 views in the same timeframe when it dropped back in 2021.

The film is currently number seven in Netflix's top 10 movie chart, above Norbit, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, and Shrek the Third. The first two Shrek movies, Back in Action, and Kinda Pregnant are all pulling in more vie▨ws, however.

Sirens of the Deep follows Geralt of Rivia (voiced by the character's video game actor, Doug Cockle) as he travels to a seaside village to investigate a series of attacks by mysterious creatures – and gets drawn into a centuries-long conflict in the process. Set between episodes 5 and 6 of the main show, it's based on Andrzej Sapkowski's short story 'A Little Sacrifice'. The cast also featuresꦐ actors from the live-action show, incl💧uding Anya Chalotra and Joey Batey.

Nightmare of the Wolf, meanwhile 💃is a prequel that follows the origin story of Geralt's mentor Vesemir, voiced by Theo James. The film has a perfect critics' 🐓score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The star-studded line-up includes Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Elliot Page𒁃, Lupita Nyong'o, Samantha Morton, Will Yun Lee, Himesh Patel, Benny Safdie, a♋nd more.

"As a side, do we think that Pattinson or Bernthal is playing Antinous?" . Antinous is the name of one of the belligerent suitors of Odysseus's w🅰ife, Penelope, as she awaits his return atꦏ home.

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When another person guessed Bernthal would be Poly🍬phemus, AKA the cyclops, : "That was💃 my exact guess. I hope he gets a fantastic chance to verbally go nuts against Damon's Odysseus and then rage out to Daddy Poseidon to curse him."

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"I guess Zendaya won't have too big of a role because I can't see how she would juggle filming for Euphoria (which is also filming right now) + Dune 3 and this one all at once…" – Dune 3 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reportedly begins filming this year.

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"I was 28 when I did the first movie and I think, if all goes to plan, I'll be 53/54 for the very fifth one and last one," she told , but Saldaña says she doesn't view it as a bur🌞den.

"It's a gift to be able to revisit a character that has given me so much, to revisit a place that has been so magical," the actor continues. "Not just for me but for so many people in the world. We're talking about communities in the Amazon who were able to see Avatar 1 and they were moved by the stories that Jim was saying and how they felt represented in the story that Jim was conveying. That's beautif𝄹ul to be a part of something so impactful."

Next up in the franchise is Avatar 3, also called Avatar: Fire and Ash, which is due out later in 2025. Not much is known yet about what will happen in the movie, but it will feature ꧋a new clan, the Ash People. They're🐠 led by newcomer Varang (Oona Chaplin) and director James Cameron has teased that they've been through tough times.

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Of course, the latest Geralt will ꧑be no stranger for fans of the franchise as iconic voice actor Doug Cockle takes on the mantle, after voicing the monster hunter in The Witcher games. And thankfully toꦐo, as his iconic take on the character helps carry this potentially confusing addition into a satisfying new Witcher adventure that harks back to the live-action series' heyday.

Set very specifically between episodes 5 and 6 of the main Netflix show's first season, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep tells a standalone, fantastical story that both enriches Geralt's character ♈and would be a satisfying entry point for those unfamiliar with this golden-eyed monster hunter.

Part of your world

Based on Andrzej Sapkowski's short story 'A Little Sacrifice', the animated adventure film picks up with Geralt and his trusty companion Jaskier (voiced once again by Joey Batey) on a new mission. This time, they're hired to i𒐪nvestigate a series of mysterious attacks in a seaside village. Naturally, it proves to be more than what the monster hunter bar🉐gained for as he's drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople that shows no sign of abating.

It's a great premise, and one that feels particularly suited to this mode of storytelling. South Korean a🐽nimation studio, Studio Mir – who previously worked on The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf – has gr🅠eat fun depicting the underwater, fantastical world. The design of the merpeople is particularly beautiful, blending blue and purple tones to create something quite visually arresting.

This lean deeper into monsters and fantasy is something that the best episodes of the live-action series did too. Focusing on a small, contained story, rather than a heavy reliance on ongoing conflicts reminds me of some of its 🦄best episodes, like season 2's opener 'A Grain Of Truth' or season 1's 'Rar🌌e Species'. Yet, here there is even more time to delve deeper into both the story itself and the backstories of our beloved protagonists.

Character study

Jaskier in particular gets a lot more to tackle, and we find out some interesting details about his past. While we won't venture into spoilers, it's a real joy to learn🌌 more about him, especially because Batey and his musical character remain a real high point of Netflix's take on the world of The Witcher. Geralt too gets some growth with the memories of his relationship with Yennefer (voiced by the returning Anya Chalotra) plaguing his every decision. This is particularly interesting when brought into contrast by new love interest, Essi Daven.

Daven is a fascinating character, with links to Jaskier's past as well as being a refreshing new heroine in The Witcher franchise﷽. Voice actor Christina Wren does bring warmth to the character, but sadly it's a performance weighed down by a distracting accent that makes it hard to follow her narrative at times. As the film progresses, it evens out 🔯a bit, but unfortunately a barrier remains for audiences to truly engage with her story.

It's not just Daven's a🧜ccent which hampers the film either, but some of the action sequences don't flow as well as you would hope. While the animation is won🧜derful at capturing the unique world of The Witcher, it gets a bit clunky in fast-paced scenes which can't hold a candle to some of the incredible fight sequences of its live-action counterpart.

Full of potential

Yet, if you're able to look past these quibbles, there's a lot to like about The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. It remains an enjoyable watch throughout thanks to its pacy, well-woven storytelling that broadens the lives of familiar characters while exploring previously untouched areas of Sapkowski's world. Director Kang Hei Chul dౠoes a stellar job, and props go to writers Mike Ostrowski and Rae Benjamin who understand the delicate balance of a standalone tale that fits into an existing narrative.

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The Ash clan, aka the Manꦗgkwan, are set to make their first appearance, with Oona Chaplin's Varang as their leader.

"[The Mangkwan] had a natural disaster befall them, and that sort of helped shape their culture," production designer Dylan Cole told . "S𒁃o much of the world of Pandora is rich and vibrant and full of life - this is just the exact opposite. They used to live not too dissimilarly to the Omatikaya from Avatar 1." You can check out the photo below.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cameron previously teasedꦅ that we can expect Avatar 3 to show us "different cultures from those I have already shown. The fire will be represented by the 'Ash People.' I want to show the Na'vi from another angle because, so far, I have only shown their good sides."

The cast includes Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, Zoe Saldaña as Neytiri, Sigourney Weaver as Kiri, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Giovanni Ribisi, Edie Falco, and Jermaine Clement. David Thewlis has also joined the cast as a Na'vi character who will go on to appear in Avatar 4 and 5 -🦄 which have already been gre🐈enlit by Disney.

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"The details in this trilogy never cease to amaze m🐭e: there's a quarry next to Isildur statue in the Argonath!" said one fan on Reddit, accompanied by a picture of the quarry beside🅰s the statue.

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"Wēta Workshops world building is unmatched," .

"The concept behind them is that they're carved out of the cliff faces of the river, but we theorized that probably there wasn't the necessary rocᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚk to be able to ღcarve the whole figure," explained Richard Taylor, Weta Workshop Creative Supervisor, in a for the movie.

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Hasbro announc𒁏ed via press release that it's teaming up with Legendary Entertainment to create not only a Magic: The Gathering live-action feature film, but also a "television universe" and, eventually, "other content."

As a writer primarily focused on video games, I'm all too familiar🔴 with Hollywood production companies taking a popular gam🐎e and expanding it into movies and TV, often using the term "universe" to mean multimedia franchise.

"This is an exciting and complementary partnership, uniting one of the world’s most iconic brands with a powerful and proven steward. Magic: The Gathering has inspired decades of epic world-building and creative storytelling. It is a perfect match for Legendary’s diversified approach to marquee IP, and we are excited to work together t🐻o build a wholeಌ new Magic. The Gathering universe," said Hasbro head of film Zev Foreman.

As far as timing, no specific release windows have been revealed, but according to the press release, the plan is to kick off the new Magic: The Gathering universe with the live-action movie and then follow that up with the TV show and potentially other crossovers, presumably dep🧸ending on the success o🐈f the first adaptations.

No cast, writing, or directorial deets h𓄧ave been revealed✃.

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When asked by whether he would want to play Hellboy agꦏain, Perlman 🅘replied, "For Guillermo, I would."

He added, "I had an opportunity to play him for other people and I passed. That's his franchise as f꧑ar as I'm concerned – and I'm his boy."

Perlman played the gruff, gun-toting B.P.R.D demon in both 2004's Hellboy and 2008's Hellboy: The Golden Army, eac💖h time directed by Del Toro. Perlman has also collaborated with the Mexican director in several more 💎movies, including 2013's Pacific Rim.

Since then, the Right Hand of Doom has punched its way through two more features. The first was a tepidly-🐼received 2019 reboot starring David Harbour as Hellboy. A 2024 attempt, The Crooked Man, brought the series back to its more supernatural horror roots but still failed to ignite at the box office – grossing only $2 million.

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Per , C✨lair Obscur developer Sandfall Interactive is working with Story Kitchen to develop the adaptation, with Kepler Interactive handling publishing duties. Casting and directing duties are being worked out right now.

"We're thrilled to collaborate with Sandfall Interactive to bring the rich, immersive world of Expedition 33 to the big scre🅠en," said Story Kitchen founders Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg. "The game’s compelling narrative and complex characters provide a solid foundation for a cinematic experience that will resonate with both gamers and moviegoers alike."

Clair Obscur is the debut pro𓆉ject from Sandfall. The game takes place in a fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France, which is being terrorized by the Paintress, who paints a number on her monolith once a year, at which point everyone that age mysteriously vanishe♏s. As the number gets lower each year, the urgency to stamp out her evil increases.

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The movie adaptation doesn't have a release date൲ yet, but the gaಞme launches on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC on April 24.

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After months of rumors, Eggers has closed a deal to write an🌼d direcꦍt a Labyrinth movie. Of course, Jim Henson’s original 1986 fantasy feature is a cult favorite, so I feel that the new🏅 film should avoid revisiting any aspect of the original like a🍨 lot of sequels tend to do, and go in a completely different direction. A more horrific, post-apocalyptic, gothic direction – think Silent Hill but switch the town for a windy labyrinth and the nurses for deranged puppets.

Another wander into the maze

Although I’m sure Eggers will come up with something completely brilliant and blow us all away, adding to his already stellar filmography, I have a few ideas for what possible storylines the new movie could follow. Considering how the original film ended, with Sarah looking into her mirror at home and seeing the creatures from the labyrinth dancing around her bedroom, it is clear that the vജeil between both worlds has not been clo🧸sed. So, with how much time has passed, it would make sense for Sarah’s daughter to look into that same mirror and somehow be pulled into that other world, then facing the same journey her mother did.

Much like the cult favorite 1999 TV movie Alice in Wonderland where ꩵAlice visits an alternate Wonderland different from what we see in Disney’s version, Eggers' new Labyrinth movie could show the maze in a new light, decades after Sarah first visited its cobbled path. Who knows, maybe time has not been k⛎ind to the labyrinth and it has turned into an even scarier place.

More goblins, ghouls, and petrifying puppets

But with no David Bowie, there is no Goblin King. The iconic musician simply cannot be replaced and so the new heroine’s (or hero’s) journey will be a little bit different. This is where Eggers's signature gothic touch can come in. Without the Goblin King to rule over it, I expect the Labyrinth to become lawless and hostile, kind of like in Mad Max or Silent Hill, where the strange surviving inhabitants are living as they please, causing carnage in a dark new world. The heroine’s walk through the 💙new almost post-apocalyptic-like labyrinth, where the goblins and creatures have become rabid, will visit familiar spots and show how different the maze has become without any or💙der.

Eggers is no stranger to taking already bizarre and offbeat worlds, making them even darker. His 2015 movie The Witch takes your average The Crucible-style witch trial tale and makes it even more nightmarish by including forest-dwelling baby-eating witches, whilst the filmmaker’s most recent release Nosferatu is perhaps the most chilling Dracula adaptation I have ever seen, thanks to Eggers' bold choice to present The Counওt as a rotting corpse rather than the handsome, s𝕴eductive figure we are used to seeing with vampires. In this respect, I don't think the director will have any trouble turning the horror up a notch with Labyrinth.

All in all, I think Eggers has proved that he can🃏 handle adapting well-loved tales with care by putting his own spin on things, so I am more than excited to see what he makes of one of ▨the best fantasy movies ever made. I just hope he keeps the puppets.

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The news was confirmed in announcing its February 2025 programming slate. Although The War of Rohirrirm is not listed on ’s 'What's new on Max' list, the movie is featured towards the end🐠 of the video.ꩲ An exact date is yet to be revealed. Check out the video below.

The War of Rohirrim will fit quite 📖nicely in Max’s streaming catalog, as the service already hosts Peter Jackson’s trilogy, as well as the prequel The Hobbit m🏅ovies, and the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings film by Ralph Bakshi. However, the live-action The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series can only be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

Based on the iconic novels by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is set 183 years before the events of Jackson’s trilogy and follows Helm Hammerhand's daughter Héra as she leads a resistance against a deadly enemy. The movie stars Brian Cox and Gaia Wise aꦦnd is directed by Kenji Kamiyama.

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Over 40 years after theও original movie ♎starring David Bowie as the Goblin King hit screens, Eggers has closed his deal to write and direct a Labyrinth sequel from TriStar Pictures, as reported by .

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Despite the studio currently keeping storyline details for Eggers's upcoming Labyr⭕inth tightly under wraꦛps, Deadline has reported that the movie will act as a sequel to the 1986 classic, rather than a remake.

Directed by Jim ꦗHenson, the original musical fantasy flick follows 16-year-old Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) as she enters a strange and vast maze to find her baby brother – after she wishes for him to be taken away by goblins. However, along her journey, Sarah encounters a bunch of magical creatures 𒈔before she comes face to face with Jareth the Goblin King himself, played by the late Bowie. The movie is best known for its catchy songs, puppetry, and stunning costume design, making the film a cult classic over time.

Eggers is writing the new Labyrinth script alongside 🌳his The Northman and Werwulf partner Sjón, with Chris and Eleanor Columbus, Lisa Henson, and Brian Henson set to produce. An official cast list and release date is yet🐠 to be revealed.

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"We’re in post-producti🦩on on Troll 2, which is set to release in the fall of 2025," the movie's producer Espen Horn said in an interview with .

Troll 2 was greenlit back in 2023 and Netflix announced that the sequel would be released this year in a letter to shareholders inꦇ November 2024. Now, thou💫gh, we have a much better idea of when we can expect the movie to arrive in 2025.

Directed by Tomb Raider helmer Roar Uthaug and released in 2022, the first Troll movie follows a gr❀oup of people who must come together in an attempt to stop an ancient troll from wreaking havoc. The film is the most-watched non-E꧅nglish language movie of all time on the streamer, with over 178 million hours viewed, beating the likes of French thriller Under Paris, Spanish plane crash drama Society of the Snow, and Swedish actioner Black Crab.

Uthaug is returning to the director's chair for the sequel and cast members Sara Khorami🌟, Jon Ketil Johnsen, Gard B. Eidsvold, Kim S. Falck-Jorgensen, Aksel Almaas, and Trond Magnum will also be returning. Any further details, including what the plot might entail, are still few and thin on the ground, though.

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Pattinson played Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephanie Meyer's wildly popular novels, with the first movie ☂released in 20🌸08.

"I love that people keep telling me, 'Man, Twilight ruined the vampire genre.' Are you still stuck on that shit? How can you be sad ab▨out something that happened almost 20 years ago? It's crazy," Pattinson told (translated from the article's Spanish).

Indeed, while it's been almost two decades since we first saw Edward Cullen onscreen, his mark on the vampire genre is undeniable. Even Nosferatu director Robert Eggers had him in mind while developing his horror film, telling our sister🥀 publicati🦩on Total Film last year: "We've gone all the way to Edward Cullen, where vampires are not scary. So how do we go in the complete opposite direction of that? Vampires were scary enough that people used to dig up corpses and chop them into bits and set 𓂃them on fire."

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, one user wrote that watching Lord of the Rings got them thinking about which movies have perfect casting. They poseꦇd the question: "What ar🅰e other movies where every character is exactly right for their role?"

"The 90s version of The Addams Family. Especially Anjelica and Raul but the entire cast were just perfection for me," .  Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia played Morticia and Gomez Addams in Th🌳e Addams Family and The Addams Family Values, both directed by Barry Sonnefeld. The third movie saw Daryl Hannah and Tim Curry take over as the leads after Julia's passing (and, in my opinion, were miscast).

"Back to the Future. Th🐲ank god they replaced Eric Stoltz with Michael J Fox. The perfectly cast Christopher Lloyd and Fox have great chemistry. With Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and a really gr🎃eat Thomas F Wilson, they nailed it," . 

In Still, the 2023 documentary about Michael J. Fox's career and Parkinson's diagnosis, we get some early foot▨age of Stoltz as Marty McFly... and it just doesn't hit the same. Fox filmed Back to the Future at night, while also filming the hit sitcom Family Ties by day. He showed up to set delirious and sleep-deprived, which added to Marty's rather chaotic nature - and it's hard to imagine him any other way.

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"I'm shocked that I got here this late and am still the first person to mention Clue," . "Martin Mull, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKeen, 🍒Lee Ving...plus all the ones I'm forgetting because I'm going off t♛he top of my head. I mean, that's an All-Star cast. They cast Lee Ving as Mr. Body for the pun! And he nailed it anyway despite never acting in anything else before or since."

"Pulp Fiction. Samuel Jackson was so good as Jules Winfield he is still playing that character to this day, and I don’t think anybody else could have pulled off Christopher Walken’s short monologue better. Add to that, Travolta, Thurman, Rhames, and Thurman all gave career-best perfo♌rmances," .

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"I can’t watch my own films. I mean, one day… I sort of enjoy it more as more꧋ time goes by, so one day I’ll watch them again," he told . But that doesn't mean he doesn't ha𝕴ve a favorite. "The Two Towers, I think. But if I see them again I might have a totally different one."

The Return of the King, the final installment in the original trilogy, is the most common answer to that question, so Jackson is somewhat bucking the trend with The Two Towers. The second movie, released in 2002, cont💛inues the story of The Fellowship of the Ring as Frodo, Sam, and Gollum make their way towards Mordor, Merry and Pippin help plan an attack on Saruman's fortress at Isengard, and Aragorn and co. are reunited with Gandalf.

The latest big-screen installment in the franchise, which saw Jackson on board as an executive producer, was The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which hit theaters in Decembe🐻r 2024. Directed by Kenji Kamiyama, the anime movie follows the king of Rohan and his family as they defend their kingdom against a Dunlending army and featuresᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ an English-language voice cast including Brian Cox, Luke Pasqualino, and Miranda Otto.

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"I was asked to c𒉰ome in and talk to them about how I would do Harry Potter," Fincher told . "I remember saying, 'I just don't want to do the clean Hollywood version of it. I want to do something that looks a lot more like Withnail and I, and I want it to be kind of creepy.'"

That wasn't exactly what Warner Bros. had in 🎃mind, though. Fincher added, "They were like, 'We want Tom Brown's School Days by way of Oliver.'"

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His latest movie was The Killer, released in 2023 and starring Michael Fassbender as an assassin. As for his next project, there have been rumors that he'll helm an English-language adaptation of hit Netflix series Squid Game. "I've also read news about David Fincher taking on a spin-off of Squid Game, and it isn't something that's been shared with me officially, so it's tricky to comment," the show's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk recently commented.

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which opened on December 13, will be avai🅺lable on participating digital platforms including Amazon Prime Video on December 27 (H/T ), just 14 days after it hit the big screen.

However, it is important to note that just because the movie is heading to digital, doesn't mean it will stop playing at movie theatres completely. Similarly, Red One hit Prime Video t🅰his month, but continues to show theatrically.

Set 183 years before the events of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, The War of Rohirrim follows Héra, the daughter of the King of Rohan Helm Hammerhand, as she attempts to save her kingdom from the dark Dunlending lord. The film isꩲ directed by Kenji Kamiyama and stars voice actors Gaia Wise, Brian Cox, and Thಞe Lord of The Rings’ Miranda Otto.

The anime flick has so far stirred up $15.3 million at the wor𓂃ldwide box office, compared to the film’s estimated budget of $30 million. That sum seems pretty small when compared the $6 billion raised by the six Lord of the Rings live action movie series, starting with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and endi꧟ng with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.

However, more live action adventure awaits as two new Lord of the Rings movies are on the way from Warner Brothers. The first, titled 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, welco🎐mes back Smeagol star Andy Serki𒆙s who will both lead and direct the movie, while Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens pen the script. The Gollum flick is estimated to release in 2026.

As for The War of Rohirrim, the good news is that the digital version includes a bunch of special content; Return to Helm’s Deep: History B༒ecomes Legend, Middle-earth and Anime: A Marriage of Creativity, and Héra: A New Hero for Middle-earth.

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