At the end of last year, Guardians of the Galaxy star, and ex-WWE superstar, Dave Bautista tweeted out a picture of himself on the Warner Bros. lot with the caption "It won’t come to you so get after it!! #DreamChaser." It now seems as though Bautista was there to pitch himself as Bane for Matt Reeves' The Batman. Recently, responding to a comment online where the tweeter wrote that he'd read an article speculating that Bautista could be playing Bane, Bautista explained that he had tried his best to win the role. Take a look!

Unfortunately it’s not. Tried my best https://t.co/Dfn6UGzzlb

— Person,Woman, Dave Bautista,Camera,TV (@DaveBautista) July 31, 2020

On the known villain front, The Batman will feature Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Paul Dano as Riddler, and Colin Farrell as Penguin. The Batman, which paused production due to COVID-19 last March, was one of several films that got cleared to resume shooting soon. A few weeks ago, it was announced that Warner Bros. had ordered a TV spinoff to The Batman - a prequel series focused on the members of the Gotham City Police Department that will be exclusive to HBO Max. The Batman will be a part of DC's FanDome event on August 22. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-robert-pattinson-movies-batman-fans-need-to-see&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Fortnite's version of Atlantis has officially arrived in the battle royale as Coral Castle. Since the start of Fortnite's Chapter 2: Season 3, the water level of the map has been lowering, and the latest update has revealed Coral Castle, which exists north of Sweaty Sands near the plane crash site. Coral Castle, which you can see in the below screenshots, is surrounded by waterfalls and features ancient ruins, statues, coral, orbs with creatures inside, and much more. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=fortnites-atlantis-coral-castle-screenshots&captions=true"] As reported by Fortnite Insider, data-miners had previously leaked that an Aquaman Atlantis POI would be headed to Fortnite. Additionally, The Ancient Astronaut near Craggy Cliffs is now completely above water, Slurpy Swamp is back and now free of water on top of it, and the Fortilla has "completely changed orientation." Fornite's map's water level is is now at the "proper level" with this latest update, and Fortnite Insider questions if its time for the long-awaited cars to finally make their way into the game. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/17/fortnite-chapter-2-season-3-splashdown-launch-trailer"] For more on Fortnite, be sure to check out the Marvel's Avengers crossover that will gift those who complete the PS4 beta of Marvel's Avengers a Hulk Smashers pickaxe and an added style that makes them the gloves from Iron Man's Hulkbuster armor. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who proudly took all the above screenshots in his Cleveland Browns outfit. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

NBC's low-rated Hannibal lasted for three brilliant seasons before it finally got the chop, and in a new interview, creator Bryan Fuller, who recently shared some ideas for a possible fourth season, explained how he fought to cast relative-unknown Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter while NBC wanted a bigger name, along the lines of what they did with James Spader and The Blacklist. Talking to Collider, Fuller said "there was a difference of opinion on what a traditional television network would want as a leading man and what we would want as an actor playing Hannibal Lecter to personify playing that character." "I think the network wanted somebody that was much more poppy, much more mainstream, much more American I think in some ways," Fuller stated. "That was just them thinking about ‘Okay how do we get the biggest audience for our television show? We have to cast John Cusack as Hannibal Lecter and everybody will tune in because won’t that be surprising?’ I was like, ‘Well go ahead, make an offer.’” [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-15-best-horror-tv-shows-of-the-last-10-years&captions=true"] Fuller shared that whenever NBC suggested a name, he suggest they make an offer. An offer he knew would be turned down. "I’d say ‘Mads Mikkelsen’ and they’d say ‘No, how about Hugh Grant?’ and I’d say, ‘Great, make an offer, he’s gonna say no,’ then they’d make an offer and he’d say no, and I’d be like ‘What about Mads Mikkelsen?’ and they’d be like ‘Well what about John Cusack?’ and I’d say ‘Great, make an offer, he’s gonna say no’ and they’d make an offer and he’d say no and I’d say, ‘What about Mads Mikkelsen?’" The casting of Mads Mikkelsen, according to Fuller, then made the marketing folks more or less tune out from the show. But that, in turn, gave the Hannibal team way more creative freedom. "They sort of gave up on it a little bit because we were casting a European guy as the face of [a show] they wanted to be more accessible," he said. "I felt that they were right for their reasons but wrong for my reasons." "And so the gift of that, the gift of casting Mads Mikkelsen, is that their investment in the show became dramatically decreased," Fuller continued, "and so that allowed us to do a lot of things that we wouldn’t have been able to do if they were saying, ‘No this show needs to get 10 million people watching it every week.' Because then we would have to really be tied down to certain parameters of storytelling that were going to mesh with a mainstream audience. So Mads was the gift that allowed us to tell the story the way that we wanted to tell it, because the network was like, ‘Well it’s not the person that we wanted and we don’t really see him in this role,’ and we were like, ‘Fine, just let us make the show’.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/08/01/new-to-netflix-for-august-2020"] In other TV news, you can read IGN's review of The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 (along with an explainer of the ending if you've already finished), plus here's everything we know about The Witcher prequel series, Blood Origin. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Netflix podcast host Kris Tapley created a silly stir recently with a minute-long TikTok showcasing an argument for renaming all the Star Wars Skywalker Saga movies. Titled "Why Every Star Wars Film Has the Wrong Title," the video quickly, and humorously, takes viewers through all nine episodes, rearranging the titles -- from Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker -- to explain why they should all be switched up. Check it out...

Every Star Wars Film has the wrong title. pic.twitter.com/mL0nFVvKAn

— Kris Tapley (@kristapley) July 31, 2020

Here's Tapley's suggested naming:

• Episode I: The Rise of Skywalker
• Episode II: Revenge of the Sith
• Episode III: Attack of the Clones
• Episode IV: Return of the Jedi
• Episode V: The Force Awakens
• Episode VI: The Last Jedi
• Episode VII: The Empire Strikes Back
• Episode VIII: A New Hope
• Episode IX: The Phantom Menace

So what did y'all think? Does this new sorting of titles make sense? Do they make more sense than where they are now? In other movie news, Courteney Cox is returning for Scream 5, Michael Jackson tried to play Professor X in 2000's X-Men, and Karl Urban (The Boys, LOTR) revealed he had a secret cameo in The Rise of Skywalker. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=rogue-one-17-cool-star-wars-details-revealed-by-the-writers&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.

Alongside the reveals of Leo Whitefang and Nagoriyuki, Arc System Works has confirmed that, in addition to the already announced PS4 version, Guilty Gear Strive will launch on PlayStation 5 and Steam in Spring 2021. As reported by Eurogamer, a new trailer showcased Leo Whitefang, a returning character who made his debut in 2014's Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- and wields two greatswords. His official description is as follows; "Leo is one of the three 'Allied Kings' of the Allied Kingdom of Illyria, and is responsible for the governing of Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. He is also an accomplished warrior in his own right, with a relentless fighting style." Nagoriyuki was also introduced, and he is a brand new character that is a techno samurai vampire who uses a sword and wears a pretty nifty sci-fi helmet. His official description is as follows; "Nagoriyuki is the newest addition to the Guilty Gear universe. A vampire with a number of unique and powerful abilities, he wields a huge sword with impressive skill in battle and slashes at his enemies with punishing blows. Stay tuned for more info about this mysterious figure!" Guilty Gear Strive was scheduled to be released in 2020, but it was recently delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Strive is more of a reboot of the franchise, and features such characters as Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, May, Faust, Potemkin, Chipp Zanuff, Zato-1, Millia Rage, and Axl Low. As part of our IGN Expo, we were proud to exclusively reveal Ramlethal Valentine, a returning character who specializes in controlling the mid-range. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/06/12/guilty-gear-strive-ramlethal-reveal-trailer"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Update (7/31/20) - As reported by CNBC, President Trump told reporters that he will ban TikTok from the United States as early as Saturday, August 1. "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," Trump said. This move will come through an executive order of another method, although Trump did not specify what course of action he would take. As far as the reports stating the Microsoft is interested in purchasing TikTok from parent company ByteDance, Trump said, "he didn't support the reported spinoff deal." Original story follows. [poilib element="accentDivider"] TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media video app that is under scrutiny from the Trump administration, is reportedly in talks with Microsoft and other companies to sell itself and part from its parent company ByteDance. As reported by The New York Times, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, has been looking into ByteDance's 2017 purchase of Musical.ly, which would become TikTok. It has decided to, "order ByteDance to divest TikTok, and the government is currently discussing the terms of its separation. White House officials have further said that "TikTok may post a national security threat because of its Chinese ownership." It is unclear if President Trump, who has been informed of the investigation, will focus the divestment order on TikTok's American operations or if it would include its more global business as well. Another option Trump could exercise would be using, "the vast powers of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to bar certain foreign apps from American app stores." Furthermore, the Trump Administration is also considering if it should add ByteDance to the "entity list," which would bar it from purchasing American products and services without a special license. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/07/microsoft-conferences-to-go-digital-only-possibly-until-july-2021"] TikTok has explored other options to avoid a sell, including having a non-Chinese investor like Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, and General Atlantic, purchase a majority stake from ByteDance. ByteDance's current valuation is around "$100 billion," according to research firm PitchBook, so any deal would indeed be a big one. TikTok's issues have been going on for months at this point, as lawmakers and the Trump administration have, "questioned whether the app is susceptible to influence from the Chinese government, including potential requests to censor material shared on the platform or to share American user data with Chinese officials." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=halo-infinite-xbox-games-showcase-gameplay-reveal-screenshots&captions=true"] “It is well established at this point that apps that have granular access to user data, location, and other sensitive personal data are very much on the radar of Cfius and can cause significant national security concerns,” said John P. Kabaelo, a lawyer who represents companies in Cfius reviews. TikTok is currently used by more than 800 million people worldwide, and TikTok's Chinese offices have, "swollen to thousands of employees." TikTok also has offices in New York and Los Angeles. TikTok has tried to fight these accusations and change its course, and has taken such action as hiring a top Disney executive, Kevin Mayer, to be its chief executive and pledging to publicly reveal the, "algorithm that powers its app." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

A 17-year-old from Tampa, Florida was arrested on Friday over the July 15 Twitter hack that affected the accounts belonging to high-profile users such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and more. Earlier this month, several prominent Twitter accounts were seemingly hacked to tweet out the same message about a fake giveaway for Bitcoin. Graham Ivan Clark was arrested as the “mastermind” of the attacks. He reportedly gained more than $100,000 in a single day from the hack. Clark was charged alongside two others. 22-year-old Nima Fazeli and 19-year-old Mason Sheppard. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren called the crime a “highly sophisticated attack on a magnitude not seen before.” Clark faces 30 charges including one count of organized fraud of more than $50,000, 17 counts of felony communications fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, 10 counts of identity theft, and one count of hacking and unlawful access to a computer in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. Following the Twitter hack, Twitter shut down the ability for some users to Tweet as it investigated the attack. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.

Ubisoft's adventure game, Beyond Good and Evil, is getting a Netflix adaptation from Detective Pikachu director Rob Letterman. Ubisoft is also currently developing a long-awaited sequel, Beyond Good and Evil 2 for consoles. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter Letterman's The Beyond Good and Evil movie will reportedly be a mix of live-action and animation. The movie will be produced by Jason Altman and Margaret Boykin under the helm of Ubisoft Film & Television. This adaptation is early in development as the team is still searching for writers. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=beyond-good-and-evil-2-concept-art&captions=true"] Beyond Good & Evil is a cult-classic 2003 video game developed by Ubisoft about a young investigative journalist named Jade who works with an underground resistance movement. The game takes place in the year 2435 on the mining planet of Hillys, which is located in a far off section of the galaxy. Ubisoft is currently at work on a sequel to the game. As for whether or not the Netflix adaption will follow the storyline of the game, not much is known. It could be an adaption of the game's plot or a different story that takes place in the same universe. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2017/06/22/beyond-good-and-evil-2-gameplay-prototype-walkthrough"] Letterman's directorial debut came with DreamWorks Animation's Shark Tale featuring Will Smith back in 2004. He co-directed 2009's Monsters vs. Aliens before making his first live-action film, Goosebumps, starring Jack Black in 2015. The director is seemingly fusing his talent for animation and visual effects, which is where he began in the film industry, with his live-action directorial efforts considering this Beyond Good and Evil movie will be a hybrid of animation and live-action. Beyond Good and Evil joins a troupe of Netflix video game adaptations. Just yesterday, it was announced that John Wick creator Derek Kolstad is writing a Splinter Cell series for the streaming service. Earlier this month, Netflix announced a Dragon's Dogma anime coming this September. Earlier this year, Netflix released The Witcher, which is based on the same books the Witcher video game series is inspired by. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.