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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Cursed‘s Season 1 finale. 

Cursed‘s Nimue is running out of options. The Pendragons and Red Paladins have surrounded her city, while the Ice King’s raiders wait for her on the coast. And that is just outside the walls of Gramaire. Inside, unrest is brewing between the humans and Fey. Can the young queen hold it all together?

Read on for a recap of “The Sacrifice.”

Cursed Finale Recap Season 1 Episode 10BLOOD PAYS FOR BLOOD | Still on her crusade to murder Nimue, Iris steals some deadly weapons from the town armory, killing and burning the body of its Fey guard in the process. The fire interrupts Nimue and Arthur’s absolutely adorable pillow talk (“Do I snore?” the young queen asks. “Like a Viking horn,” Arthur jokingly replies without missing a beat), who go examine the scene. The crime is incorrectly attributed to the Fey Elder Wroth, who is labeling anyone who flees to the desert kingdoms as a traitor.

Arthur goes to see Wroth to end his alleged mutiny. Despite not being responsible for the fire, the chief of the Tusks has taken over part of the city and refuse to recognize Nimue as his queen. Arthur scolds him for his selfishness, even offering his hands as blood payment for Nimue’s cutting off Wroth’s warrior’s hands in the previous episodes. The chief spares Arthur’s hands, but is impressed by his foolish bravery and agrees to leave for the desert kingdoms with the rest of the Fey.

FACE-TO-FACE WITH DEATH | Roaming the castle looking for Nimue, Morgana runs into the Widow and realizes that she has come for her friend. The Widow warns Morgana against interfering, leaving just before Nimue arrives. Not wanting her sword to fall into the hands of Uther, the Red Paladins or the Ice King, Nimue gives the sword to Morgana for safekeeping and instructs her to flee the castle before anyone notices. She then shares one final goodbye with Arthur and Pym before sending them off to the coast to meet the boats.

At the Red Paladins’ camp, the Weeping Monk’s doubts about his path continue to grow. “His Grace. I cannot feel it. I call out to him. I reach out and there is only darkness,” he laments to Father Carden. However, the paladin chief has no patience for these questions, reminding the “demon-born” that he has forsaken his Fey brethren and that he never wants to discuss the matter again.

Cursed-finale-recap-season-1-episode-10KEEP YOUR WORD | Merlin rides to Uther’s camp ahead of Nimue to try and get a read on whether the king will betray her. Merlin nearly sweet-talks the king into his grasp but slips up by revealing that he knew about Uther’s mother’s ruse and the midwife. Furious, Uther has his guards stab Merlin and toss him into an abandoned tent.

Back at Gramaire, Iris sneaks into the castle and waits for the right opportunity to kill Nimue. Before she can sneakily strike, a note from Arthur arrives, informing the queen that they are boarding the Pendragon ships. Keeping her word, Nimue leaves Gramaire for the Pendragon camp to turn herself in.

On the run, Morgana runs into undead Celia. She refuses Celia’s request to bring the sword to the Cailleach and runs off to find Nimue. However, when she arrives at Uther’s camp, she is attacked by the Widow.

Nimue arrives at the king’s camp without the sword, coming face-to-face with Uther and Father Carden. She tells the men than the only way to get the sword is if the Red Paladins free Gawain and Squirrel. Going against Carden’s advice, Uther keeps her under his guard while he considers her offer.

Meanwhile, as Arthur and the Fey prepare to board the boats, they are attacked by Cumber’s daughter Dagmar and her Viking raiders, who are now in alliance with the Red Paladins. Wroth is killed in battle but, just as all hope seems lost, Red Spear and her men arrive, saving the Fey and killing Dagmar.

ONE LEGEND ENDS, ANOTHER BEGINS | Back in Uther’s camp, the king acquiesces to one of Nimue’s demands and bring her the dead body of Gawain. Unable to control her grief and anger, Nimue lets out a powerful blast of magic, which envelops the Green Knight in vines and grass, returning his body to the dirt from whence it came.

As for Squirrel, the reason Uther’s knights cannot bring him to Nimue is because, as Brother Salt is about to torture the young boy, the Weeping Monk arrives and saves him. The two are confronted by the Trinity Guard but, with a little help from Squirrel, the Weeping Monk is able to kill them all and escape. As the two ride off, the Weeping Monk gives up his Red Paladin persona, revealing to Squirrel that his true name is Lancelot.

LADY OF THE LAKE | Fed up with the king’s unwillingness to act, Father Carden attacks his camp and captures Nimue. As he raises his sword to strike her down, Morgana, who killed the Widow in their earlier confrontation and stole her powers, hands Nimue the Sword of Power, allowing her to decapitate Father Carden. The two locate Merlin and flee the camp, arriving at a waterfall.

But they have not escaped danger just yet. Iris, who was following them the entire time, shoots Nimue with several arrows, seemingly causing her to plunge to her death into the lake down below. Furious, Merlin grabs the sword, which restores his magic. He attacks Iris but is distracted by a group of paladins, whom he easily destroys before disappearing in a bolt of lightning with Morgana and the sword. Iris survives, though, and is knighted as the newest member of the Pope’s Trinity Guard for killing the Wolf-Blood Witch.

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13 Reasons Why star Katherine Langford faces off against Ozark and Westworld’s Peter Mullan in an exciting new spin on the King Arthur Legend. Before the first season is released on Netflix, the series’ head writer has explained some dramatic changes from book to screen, including an inventive take on the wizard Merlin, played by Vikings favourite Gustaf Skarsgård.

Brand new fantasy drama Cursed is the latest series to take on the iconic King Arthur legend.

In the first season, based on Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller’s illustrated Young Adult novel, the story turns the clock back to before Arthur ascends the throne.

Young sorceress Nimue (played by Katherine Langford) is outcast for her magical gifts, and must take on the sinister Red Paladins.

She then stumbles upon a young mercenary named Arthur (Devon Terrell) and a mysterious quest to find Merlin (Gustaf Skarsgård) and deliver a powerful sword.

READ MORE: Cursed Netflix release date: How many episodes are in Cursed?

The 10-episode series will be available on Friday 17 July and is set to become the next essential summer watch for streaming giant Netflix.

Fresh from her roles in 13 Reasons Why and Knives Out, Katherine Langford is positioned as a brand new fantasy heroine for fans of Game of Thrones and The Witcher.

Cursed will follow the original novel fairly closely, but writer and producer Tom Wheeler has revealed the series has had to make some pivotal changes.

During a preview for TV Insider, Wheeler detailed the series’ premise and promised Cursed’s original readers will still have plenty of surprises to look forward to.

She then embarks on a strange and perilous quest, but Wheeler warns the adventure won’t exactly align with the plot of his original novel.

He continued: “As we began to break down the book chapters and images and shape them into episodes, some events shifted back or were moved forward.

“Plus, we found avenues and opportunities to expand on the world and our characters’ backstories. This will be most noticeable as it relates to Arthur, Morgana (Shalom Brune-Franklin) and Sister Iris (Emily Coates).”

Certain characters will become very familiar to anyone who has read up on their Arthurian legends, but with a number of new twists.

Wheeler added: “We were conscious not to contradict the novel, but we did try to fill in areas the book had not fully explored.”

Plus, a tragic and undisclosed death is said not to occur in the first season, leaving the door open for an even sadder ending down the line.

The showrunner teased: “One character’s life was spared through the passionate lobbying of the writers!”

Cursed is available July 17 on Netflix.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cursed-on-netflix-showrunner-reveals-major-backstory-changes-from-book-to-series/feed/ 0 Daniel Radcliffe: ‘I’ll probably NEVER see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ – Here's why https://briefnews.eu/daniel-radcliffe-ill-probably-never-see-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-heres-why/ https://briefnews.eu/daniel-radcliffe-ill-probably-never-see-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-heres-why/#respond Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:46:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/daniel-radcliffe-ill-probably-never-see-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-heres-why/

Two years ago, the eighth Harry Potter story debuted in the West End as a a two-part play.

Consistently sold out, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has now opened on Broadway.

And while some stars like Emma Watson have managed to see the show, Radcliffe himself hasn’t managed to and doesn’t ever intend to.

Appearing Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, the Harry Potter star revealed why.

The 29-year-old said: “I always give a really boring, terrible answer.

“I’m probably not going to see it, I don’t have plans to.

“Not because I think it would throw me into some sort of existential crisis of like, ‘Oh, is that what happened?’”

“It would not be a relaxing evening. I feel like I would be being watched for my reaction.”

Radcliffe said: “I feel like I want to see the show. I am genuinely intrigued and I’ve heard it’s fantastic.”

“But I just feel sitting in an audience of what will for the most of the near future be very enthusiastic Harry Potter fans might be like not a relaxing way to see a show,”

Hopefully, when’s a bit older Radcliffe might change his mind.

Nevertheless, he could always play an older Harry in a film version of the play one day.

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How much better can this get? OK Brazil beat intrepid Serbia. But Costa-Rica crashed the Swiss banker, Mexico were hammered and went through and yes, Germany are aus! 

The Serbs put on a hell of show in downtown Moscow tonight. Brazil filled a metro station. Here we cast our eye over social soccer, where the official accounts are winning, losing, celebrating and very often struggling to stay stylish in the face of on-field calamity. But the fans are winning.

Here’s the brazil boys down the metro. All smiles.

Not so smiley.

Defender Mats Hummels. German eloquence.

So is the Mannschaft twitter account in English.

Cursed.

But the Seoul brothers enjoyed it.

Costa-Rican Kendall Watson is giving thanks. 

Sweden is:

And very much:

Mexico are moving on. Goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa:

Brazil ‘legend’ (ahem, Cafu, Carlos Alberto) Dani Alves gave goal-scorer a hand this afternoon & Brazil-Insta loved it.

But it seems Serbia was a winner after all.

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Broadway’s two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child production is a fascinating beast. It brings with it most of its West End cast, acting as direct sequel to the books yet trading on the iconography of the film series, all while making its own unique mark on Harry Potter canon. Picking up from the originals’ “Seventeen Years Later” epilogue, it follows a new generation of characters – best friends Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, sons of bitter rivals Harry and Draco – across four years of their schooling in a matter of minutes, before diving back into time itself.

Time is central to The Cursed Child, both as a fictional construct as well as a force of nostalgia. The play’s relationship to an audience that grew up with these characters is paramount. However, the only “Easter eggs” it trades in are those that, through their exploration, lead to a more complex, more complete understanding of the characters as they enter their middle age. Each adult character – Ron, Hermione, Ginny, but especially Harry and Draco – carries the weight of their past adventures, both the guilt and the glory, in ways that impact their children.

The Story So Far

What is The Cursed Child about, exactly? Well, per the barely contextualized spoilers published in 2016 (spoilers from here on out, of course), it’s about Albus and Scorpius time-travelling to events familiar to the audience, amidst a plot involving Voldemort’s supposed secret child. Which sounds suitably fan fiction-esque, as many detractors would go on to note based on the spoilers alone. Though the play’s status as “fan fiction” – an aesthetic term more than a literal one, owing to J.K. Rowling’s involvement – isn’t far off the mark. Albus and Scorpius do act as self-insert characters, in a sense, but this works to the play’s advantage. They’re geeky, angsty outcasts exploring the stories of their childhood, events that unfolded during original characters’ lives and defined their own in the process. Two lonely kids trying to live up to their predecessors by entering their decades-old narratives and influencing them from the margins, hoping for a different outcome.

That’s what The Cursed Child is “about,” most certainly, but what it’s about, at its core, is the effect of time on people and relationships.

The two-part play is a powerful father-son story in its written form. The focus of its words – its published manuscript is certainly wordy – is the complicated dynamic between Harry and his younger son Albus, a child he inadvertently overshadows with his fame. Harry, “The Boy Who Lived,” is now the boy who defeated Voldemort twice. A brave Gryffindor whose oldest child, the boisterous James, follows easily in his footsteps. Albus however, the quieter son with no affinity for sport, finds himself sorted into Slytherin, a House formerly marked by ambition but now defined (both in-world and by many a fan) by its relationship to evil. Fellow Slytherin Scorpius finds himself similarly overshadowed, albeit for different reasons. His father Draco once aligned himself with Voldemort, a decision that keeps both father and son on the social margins, but rumor has it Scorpius may be the secret heir of Voldemort himself. Whatever the case, Scorpius’ peers make him pay for the sins of each of his fathers, both real and presumed. He grows up entirely isolated – but for Albus’ friendship, that is.

Witchcraft and Stagecraft

The relationships between these sons and fathers is strained to say the least, but the lens through which they’re explored is set up before the play even begins. Upon entering New York’s Lyric Theater, one is greeted by a stage that expands deeper than usual – the production reportedly removed 400 seats from the auditorium – a space illuminated by a solitary source. From the rear end of the arched façade, a clock-face beams down on the stage like a spotlight, as if bringing with it sunlight, and promise, from the other side of a window. Flanking this clock are rows of pillars on either side. They move inward to reveal branches whenever the setting shifts to the Forbidden Forest, the location from where most of the characters travel through time. These pillars too are adorned by clocks at their apex with each row forming an arch in turn, connecting the clock faces on stage left to those on stage right, as if drawing a line from cause to effect.

The design is lavish. Its execution, precise. While a handful of scenes oscillate between rushed and stretched, every movement, every interlude and every detail has purpose. Many of the conversations take place between characters atop a pair of stairs, not unlike the moving staircases of Hogwarts castle, as fans may recall. Each flight is wheeled in and rotated, musically, until the characters come face to face, like a second and minute hand meeting momentarily.

The play is rife with sleight of hand, the kind of magical stage production that’ an utter delight even for those who disliked the published story. The opening at King’s Cross station sees the Potters and Granger-Weasleys charge through the famous magical platform (Nine and Three Quarters), switching from civilian casuals to magical robes within a momentary flash. Actors often transform and transfigure into one another by inhabiting the same cloak, twisting and contorting in partial darkness, often hilariously and to much applause. Numerous wand duels feature hidden stage-hands making objects float, a marvel to behold, but the one trick that seems to garner the most awestruck response is when time runs in reverse.

The Passage of Time

The characters use a pocket-sized Time Turner – first seen in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – to travel into the past. Whenever the characters visit these events (seen in previous books and films), the stage darkens but for their silhouettes and the outlines of the clock-faced arches. The clocks run backwards, scored by recent dialogue fresh in the audience’s memory until suddenly, a wave-like effect envelops the backdrop, seemingly moving wood and metal like wind caressing a curtain.

It’s disorienting at first, in an awe-inspiring way. It’s the kind of trick you don’t normally see with the naked eye, but the second or perhaps third time it occurs, the cause of the ripple becomes clearer. Light hits the furthest point of the stage before moving (concentrically, turning the stage into a clock-face of its own) toward the front, along the meticulously crafted backdrop that now reveals its hidden purpose. The result is an impossible, enveloping ripple. Something we ought not to see, as if the fabric of space and time have been infringed upon. It happens five, maybe six times in total, but it never loses its charm.

While the play features no songs, it beats with the distinct vibrancy of a musical. Scene transitions, whether traversing hundreds of miles or perhaps years in the very same spot, feature energetic, choreographed ensembles drawing one into the setting. A semester of lessons on how to conjure spells is turned into dance of light, with kids being led by their illuminated wands. Students populate the background of every scene at the school – that is, until the conversations in focus become private – and the Hogwarts express is a seated row of excited teens being rotated, again, like a clock. The stage never moves, but for the mechanical tricks and contraptions at its center, but we constantly move within it as time ticks on.

These constant flourishes are reminders of the story’s foundation, one rooted in the passage of time. While the seven books (and eight movies) that defined the last decade are an important prerequisite, newcomers are filled in on just enough of the backstory through Harry’s returning dreams. Moments from his past, enveloped in fog, articulated the origins of Harry Potter. The lies about his parents’ deaths. The looming threat of Lord Voldemort. And of course, the exciting promise of magic.

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  • White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was reportedly so frustrated at being kept in the dark during yet another White House scandal earlier this year that she publicly erupted at the White House counsel.
  • The confrontation occurred in February, according to The Washington Post, while the White House was grappling with media reports detailing allegations of domestic abuse against then staff secretary Rob Porter.
  • Sanders reportedly grew so angry over not being given more information about the controversy that she “cursed and yelled” and had a “shouting match” with White House counsel Don McGahn that over a dozen staffers heard. 

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was so frustrated over being kept in the dark at the height of the scandal surrounding former staff secretary Rob Porter that she publicly blew up at the White House counsel Don McGahn, The Washington Post reported.

A dozen West Wing staffers heard the “shouting match” that erupted between Sanders and McGahn in February, according to The Post. It reportedly stemmed from Sanders’ anger over not being given enough information about the domestic abuse allegations that had just surfaced against Porter at the time.

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The eighth Harry Potter story is currently running as a hit theatrical production in the West End and on Broadway.

However many fans would one day like to see Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reprise their roles as Harry, Ron and Hermione in a film adaptation.

Taking into account that the play is in two parts, would this mean two films, one or maybe even a trilogy?

Last year a rumour sprouted from alleged sources at Warner Bros that the studio was planning a Cursed Child movie trilogy.

He continued: “I think it’s got a wonderful, long, theatrical run…it works brilliantly as a piece of theatre. I love the fact that there’s another aspect of the Harry Potter world which is completely different from everything else.

“I think it’s very special as it is and there will be a time when she’s maybe ready to do it [as a movie].”

Assuming Rowling could be persuaded one day, perhaps a trilogy would be a little too much.

However two movies would be perfect, reflecting both Part 1 and Part 2 of the Cursed Child play.

Nevertheless it wouldn’t be surprising if the studio pushed for a trilogy for financial reasons.

After all Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy was originally meant to be just two films, but turned into three films.

While financial gain was denied, it did seem a little over the top especially when the last film’s Battle of the Five Armies takes place over just a few pages of JRR Tolkien’s short novel.

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It’s been a hit theatrical production since it opened in London’s West End in June 2016.

And now having opened on New York’s Broadway, fan hunger for a film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child appears to be growing.

Fans will know the play, which is performed in two parts, is a part of the official canon and set 19 years after the final Harry Potter book.

While Radcliffe, Watson and Grint portrayed the older versions of Harry, Ron and Hermione during the final scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the parts are performed by other actors in the stage show of Cursed Child.

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However if Warner Bros did decided to go ahead with a Cursed Child movie (or movies) it would make a lot of sense for the original actors to return – but are there any plans?

Back in August 2016 a source claimed: ““Warners is secretly working on getting the movie rights and a screenplay settled. Of course in their minds only one man should be Harry.”

However JK Rowling’s representatives contacted Express Online to comment on the move.

A spokesperson said: “This type of trademarking is standard practice. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a stage play, with no plans for there to be a film.”

Nevertheless,

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Speaking with Express.co.uk in May 2017, the Harry Potter producer appeared positive if Rowling was willing to go ahead with a Cursed Child movie.

He said: “Whatever she wants, as far as I’m concerned, is right. I think [Cursed Child] would make a great movie. Maybe at some point she’ll be ready to do that.

“I think it’s got a wonderful, long, theatrical run…it works brilliantly as a piece of theatre. I love the fact that there’s another aspect of the Harry Potter world which is completely different from everything else.

“I think it’s very special as it is and there will be a time when she’s maybe ready to do it [as a movie].”

So what about the film franchise’s original cast? Would they return? Here’s what Radcliffe has said over the last couple of years.

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child focuses on Harry’s son Albus in the early 2020s

Speaking with the BBC in September 2016, Radcliffe said: “It’s only been six years [since last playing Potter] and I’m really enjoying being able to do lots of different stuff at the moment.

“Maybe if 30 years had passed I would be thinking differently. They will be doing remakes, and I could play his dad, or something.”

While in another interview he said: “I’m never going to close the door; that would be a stupid thing to do. But I think I’ll be happy enough and secure enough to let someone else play it.

At the moment it’s not even a concern because I’m too young to play the character, but even in 10 years time I would still feel strange about going back to it.”

. But presuming he and the other cast members were up for it, when would a Cursed Child movie likely be released?

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is performed in the West End and on Broadway

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Daniel Radcliffe has given a variety of answers on if he’d return as Harry Potter

Harry Potter fans will know that the fifth and final Fantastic Beasts movie is slated for a 2024 release.

If Rowling had a change of heart and gave a Cursed Child movie the green light, it could come as early as 2026.

While that’s eight years away it would be perfect timing as the play may have run its course (or might need a boost in ticket sales).

And the original film actors – Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint – will have aged sufficiently to play middle-aged versions of their characters.

In 2026 Radcliffe will turn 37-years-old. That’s exactly the same age as Harry in opening scene of the Cursed Child play.

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In this edition of TV bits:

  • The legend of King Arthur is getting yet another re-imagining
  • A trailer for Archer season 9
  • A new Series of Unfortunate Events clip
  • That amazing instrumental cover of “Heart-Shaped Box” from the Westworld trailer is now available
  • Alex Kurtzman will direct Star Trek: Discovery season 2 premiere
  • A new teaser for Fear the Walking Dead

 

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It’s been approximately ten minutes since someone decided to adapt the legend of King Arthur, so it’s time for someone to give it another go yet again. Deadline reports that Netflix will tackle the tale of the once and future king, and they’ve brought comic book writer Frank Miller on board to help. Miller will team with writer/producer Tom Wheeler to adapt Cursed, based on Miller and Wheeler’s upcoming graphic novel of the same name. Per Deadline, “Cursed is a re-imagining of the Arthurian legend, told through the eyes of Nimue, a teenage heroine with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful (and tragic) Lady of the Lake. After her mother’s death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther.” While we just had a re-imagining of the Arthurian legend with King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, I’ll admit this idea sounds different enough that it might be interesting.

 

Archer started off as a spy parody, but over the years, the show has evolved to essentially reboot itself. Now, the show is rebooting again as Danger Island, which now, in season 9, centers on “semi-functioning alcoholic seaplane pilot, Sterling Archer, a lush on the lush South Pacific island of Mitimotu in 1939. While the rest of the world is concerned about the impending Second World War, Archer is only concerned with who’s buying his next drink. Along with his trusty co-pilot Pam, Sterling must navigate quicksand, cannibals, super-intelligent monkeys, poison darts, pirates, and did we mention quicksand? Welcome to the mysterious and deadly world of Archer: Danger Island.”

 

A Series of Unfortunate Events season 2 is now streaming on Netflix. To celebrate the arrival of the new season, why not watch this clip from the series. The clip concerns an event at VFD headquarters. VFD stands for Volunteer Fire Department, and, as the Unfortunate Events Wiki explains, “The Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.) is a fictional secret organization within the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The purposes of the organization are never made clear, although the name of the organization is connected to various interpretations of the word “fire.” V.F.D. members have been known to participate in various (and often unusual) academic pursuits, cryptography, disguise training, crime prevention, espionage, animal conditioning projects, and social activism. The organization’s most known tenets include both extreme secrecy and dedication to the organization itself, with membership beginning from early childhood. Its motto is ‘The world is quiet here.’” This clip features  Jacques and Lemony Snicket (Nathan Fillion & Patrick Warburton), Uncle Monty (Aasif Mandvi), Aunt Josephine (Alfre Woodard), Jacquelyn (Sara Canning), Dr Orwell (Catherine O’ Hara) and of course, Neil Patrick Harris‘ Count Olaf.

The Westworld season 2 trailer dropped the other day, and it was pretty damn fantastic. Overlaying all the exciting imagery was a damn cool instrumental cover of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box.” The cover was arranged by series composer Ramin Djawadi, who also handles the music for Game of Thrones. If you watched that trailer and immediately thought, I need the full version of that cover (as I did), you’re in luck! The cover is online, and you can listen to it above.

 

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Alex Kurtzman has some history with the Star Trek franchise, having written 2009’s Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. Kurtzman is also the executive producer on the series Star Trek: Discovery, and is the show’s co-creator with Bryan Fuller.. Variety reports that Kurtzman will step behind the camera to helm the two-hour season 2 premiere of Discovery. Star Trek: Discovery “begins roughly a decade before Captain Kirk’s five-year mission — as portrayed in the original “Star Trek” from the 1960s — and a century before the events of “Star Trek: Enterprise.” The series follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they encounter new worlds and civilizations, delving into familiar themes and expanding upon an incident that has been talked about within the franchise’s universe, but never fully explored.”

 

Does anyone watch Fear the Walking Dead? I’m assuming the answer is yes, since the show continues to air, unobstructed. The Walking Dead brand is too strong for AMC to ever kill, and so here we are, with two distinct Walking Dead shows. Here we have a teaser for season 4, which adds Jenna Elfman to the cast. Fear the Walking Dead returns to AMC  on April 15 at 10/9c immediately after the Season 8 Finale of The Walking Dead.

A sign of the apocalypse has begun. Reports of a rapidly changing world for unknown reasons underscore this gritty drama, a prequel to AMC’s uber-popular “Walking Dead.” The story is told through the lens of high school guidance counselor Madison Clark. The widowed mother is raising two children single-handedly and maintains a relationship with English teacher Travis Manawa, her apocalyptic partner. The challenge of blending their families is exacerbated by unforeseen chaos, and a necessary survival of the fittest takes hold.

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Sony is moving forward with The Grudge remake, and they have their eyes on a great actress for the lead. Andrea Riseborough, who appeared in Birdman, The Death of Stalin, Oblivion and the most-recent season of Black Mirror, is in talks to star in the horror remake.

Andrea Riseborough, a stellar performer who continues to stand-out in any project she appears in, might join The Grudge remake. Deadline reports Riseborough is “circling” the film, which will be directed by The Eyes of My Mother filmmaker Nicolas Pesce. Riseborough would play a “detective and young single mother.”

Normally I’d be somewhat indifferent about yet another Grudge remake, but this project intrigues me. For one thing, Nicolas Pesce is a horror filmmaker to watch. His 2016 black and white indie horror film The Eyes of My Mother is one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen; we’re talking pure nightmare fuel here, folks. Throwing Riseborough into the mix would only make the film even better. I’m actually excited about a Grudge remake now. How surprising!

What You Need to Know About The Grudge

The Grudge began its life as the Japanese horror-series Ju-On. There are a whopping total of 12 Ju-On films, which all primarily revolve around a haunted house where the brutal murder of a mother and son (and cat) unleashed a curse that attaches itself to nearly everyone who sets foot in the home. Ju-On received an American remake in 2004 with The Grudge. Original Ju-On helmer Takashi Shimizu directed the film, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as an American exchange student living and working in Tokyo as a care worker. Gellar’s character ends up at the cursed house, which triggers a wave of death and other spooky stuff. Here’s the original synopsis:

This American remake of director Takashi Shimizu’s popular Japanese movie franchise The Grudge puts Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the line of supernatural fire. When Karen (Gellar), an American student working with a Japanese health center for college credit, comes across a mysterious curse, she quickly finds herself embroiled in a fight for her own sanity, and, ultimately, her very survival. Known as a “grudge,” the curse was born inside of a house after its inhabitants died while consumed by rage — according to legend, the curse touches all who come into contact with it, and will torment those unlucky individuals until they, too, become part of the grudge . Each time the curse finds a new victim, it is, in a sense, reborn, and will continue on its path unless Karen can free herself from its control over her. This version of The Grudge is also directed by Shimizu, and features Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Kadee Strickland, William Mapother, and Bill Pullman in supporting roles.

The 2004 film was followed by the 2006 sequel The Grudge 2, which stars Amber Tamblyn as Gellar’s sister, who comes to Tokyo to find out what happened to her sibling. The conclusion of the American remake series came in 2009 with the utterly forgettable The Grudge 3.

This new Grudge film will presumable restart the franchise from scratch again, while telling the same familiar story of the cursed house and the pesky, contortionist ghosts who inhabit it. Pesce will write and direct the new film, which is based on a script by Midnight Meat Train writer Jeff Buhler.

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