TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Netflix just told me they are going to start charging me an additional pound per month. Brexit Britain?

They are raising rates by 1€ over here too.

[Josephus]

They raised them here by $1. I think we came out best 

[11B4V]

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/'lord-of-the-rings'-series-moving-forward-at-amazon-with-multi-season-production-commitment/ar-BBEV4Gi?OCID=ansmsnnews11

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/'lord-of-the-rings'-series-moving-forward-at-amazon-with-multi-season-production-commitment/ar-BBEV4Gi?OCID=ansmsnnews11

It's going to end up being a swords and sorcery soap opera I bet.

Milk every last penny out of the franchise.  As if 3 feature films from one children's book wasn't enough.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't often catch animated movies, but I watched Storks yesterday morning.  Fuck, that was funny.  Mind: blown, brah.

[CountDeMoney]

Sony continues its spider extermination program

Sony Developing Movie on Spider-Man Enemy Morbius, The Living Vampire
By Dave McNary   
@Variety_DMcNary

Sony Pictures is developing an untitled movie based on Spider-Man's antagonist Morbius, The Living Vampire.

The project is being written by the scripting team of Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, whose feature credits include "Power Rangers," "Gods of Egypt," "Dracula Untold" and "The Last Witch Hunter."

Morbius was created in 1971 by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane for "Amazing Spider-Man" issue number 101. He was a scientist who tried to cure himself of a blood disease with tragic results as he became afflicted with vampiric traits such as fangs and a thirst for blood — and wound up battling Spider-Man.

Morbius appeared sporadically in Marvel Comics in the subsequent years and was revived in the 1992 series Morbius the Living Vampire, which had a run of  32 issues through April, 1995.

Sony had no comment as to whether the Morbius project will be connected to its Tom Holland Spider-Man movies or the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Sharpless and Sazama explored vampirism in "Dracula Untold" was directed by Gary Shore in his feature film debut and written as an origin story for its title character, Count Dracula, portrayed by Luke Evans. Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Art Parkinson, and Charles Dance also starred. "Dracula Untold" was released by Universal and grossed $217 million worldwide in 2014.

Sharpless and Sazama are the showrunners and writers for a "Lost in Space" series for Netflix, which will debut next year. They are repped by ICM Partners.

[Ed Anger]

Oh, the agony

[Sophie Scholl]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/'lord-of-the-rings'-series-moving-forward-at-amazon-with-multi-season-production-commitment/ar-BBEV4Gi?OCID=ansmsnnews11

My personal hope is that they work on an animated Silmarillion or a live action series set during say... the Kin-strife era.  I think trying to tackle the Silmarillion live action will be too damn daunting and expensive of a task to do properly.  I suppose you could pull pieces out a la The Children of Hurin or Beren and Luthien, but I think they lose something out of the larger story.  The Kin-strife holds the ability to have a very Game of Thrones-esque storyline in a Middle Earth setting.

[Tamas]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/'lord-of-the-rings'-series-moving-forward-at-amazon-with-multi-season-production-commitment/ar-BBEV4Gi?OCID=ansmsnnews11

My personal hope is that they work on an animated Silmarillion or a live action series set during say... the Kin-strife era.  I think trying to tackle the Silmarillion live action will be too damn daunting and expensive of a task to do properly.  I suppose you could pull pieces out a la The Children of Hurin or Beren and Luthien, but I think they lose something out of the larger story.  The Kin-strife holds the ability to have a very Game of Thrones-esque storyline in a Middle Earth setting.

seeing lesbians and lots of breasts in a Tolkien setting will sure be weird.

[Josquius]

You just know there will be a bunch of tacky elf porn born out of this.

[garbon]

Finally watched Gone Girl. Much better as a film than as a book. Saw they still kept the fucked up ending.

[11B4V]

Longmire S6 

[Habbaku]

Finally watched Gone Girl. Much better as a film than as a book. Saw they still kept the fucked up ending.

What did you think was fucked up about the ending?

[celedhring]

The Sinner. Interesting approach for a procedural: you know right off the bat who the murderer is, and the whole investigation revolves around her motivation. The world and characters are interesting enough, although the plot relies too heavily on the main character's amnesia (she doesn't remember her past or why she killed that dude), which feels like a clutch. Still, I recommend it if you're into dark thrillers.

[celedhring]

Anybody watching The Punisher? Was really looking forward that one but the reviews are rather meh, which would totally suck.