Locke & Key's executive producer Carlton Cuse has revealed that the team behind the upcoming TV adaptation have already started working on a potential second season. Speaking to Gamespot, Cuse explained that the writers are busy putting pen to paper on the second season of Locke & Key, even though it hasn't been officially ordered by Netflix yet. "We're writing Season 2," he confirmed. "Even though it hasn't been greenlit. We're working in a room." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/08/netflixs-locke-key-season-1-official-trailer"] Cuse noted that the team would have a better idea of the lifespan of the show after the conclusion of the first season, as he stressed the importance of crafting an ending that is suitable for the series, even if it means that some pages of the comic book don't directly transfer over to the small screen. "I think by the time we get to the end of the season, we'll have a better sense of how much longer the show can go," he said before adding, "I mean, it is a cool ending, but again, the show's diverging from the comics and it becomes something [else]." He continued, "We want to be sure that the ending works for the TV series and we're not just forcing ourselves into an ending for endings' sake. We want the ending to be something that really feels like it's the right conclusion for our story." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=locke-key-season-1-gallery&captions=true"] The story of the first season is described in the official synopsis, which reads: "After their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father's death. As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens — and will stop at nothing to steal them. From Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Meredith Averill (The Haunting of Hill House), the series is a coming-of-age mystery about love, loss, and the unshakable bonds that define family." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=midseason-tv-2020-34-shows-we-cant-wait-to-watch&captions=true"] All 10 episodes of the first season of Locke & Key, the supernatural-horror series based on the best-selling graphic novel of the same name, originally written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez, will premiere on Netflix on Friday, February 7, 2020. To unlock more about the highly anticipated new series, watch the first scene from the first episode of season one, check out our breakdown of all the characters and keys in the first trailer, and find out everything you need to know about Netflix's next big comic book series. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Captain Marvel 2 is officially in production at Marvel Studios, and Megan McDonnell from Disney+'s WandaVision is in final negotiations to write the script for the much-anticipated sequel. As reported by THR, Marvel is also searching for a female filmmaker to helm the movie and is hoping to release Captain Marvel 2 in theaters in 2022. Furthermore, it is said this new story will move from the 1990s of the original to the present day. Sources have also stated that Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the original writers and directors of 2019's Captain Marvel, will not be returning but "are in talks to remain in the Marvel Universe and direct a possible Disney+ series." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/11/captain-marvel-things-you-didnt-know-cinefix"] Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson, was Marvel's first female-focused film and proved to be a huge success with global box office earnings of over $1.1 billion. This isn't the first we've heard of Captain Marvel 2, as Kevin Feige did shout its existence during the Phase 4 Marvel Cinematic Universe reveal panel alongside Black Panther 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy 3. As for McConnell, WandaVision is her first big credit and is one of the first Marvel live-action series headed to Disney+. Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Wanda and... well... Vision, the new series is said to focus on Wanda Maximoff becoming Scarlett Witch. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=marvel-phases-1-3-the-mcus-infinity-saga-ranked&captions=true"] WandaVision was set to be released on Disney+ in 2021, but it was recently moved up to 2020. [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 can't wait and is so excited he just can't hide it. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

"Toss a Coin to Your Witcher," the viral song heard in Netflix's The Witcher, is now available on Spotify and Apple Music. Performed by Jaskier actor Joey Batey, the song is first heard in the series' second episode, Four Marks. The single was released on Wednesday ahead of the full soundtrack, which drops on January 24. Those who want to replay TV's biggest bop since the Succession theme song can now do so on the following platforms:

• Spotify
• Apple Music

[widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-witcher-season-1-images&captions=true"] "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" took on a life of its own following the release of The Witcher in December. In addition to being the subject of countless memes, the song was added as a playable track in Beat Saber and modded into a cutscene from the original Witcher game. Show composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli revealed to IGN there's even a rap version of "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher." Netflix recently revealed The Witcher is tracking to become its most-watched first season of television, with 76 million member households tuning in for at least two minutes, a period of time the company deems "long enough to indicate the choice [of watching] was intentional." The news was shortly followed by the announcement of The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. The anime film comes from series producers Lauren Hissrich and Beau DeMayo, in collaboration with Netflix and Studio Mir (Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender). [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/20/the-witcher-game-vs-netflix-scene-comparison"] The Witcher: Season 2 will be released in 2021 and feature a "much more linear" story, according to Hissrrich. In the meantime, you can check out IGN's The Witcher: Season 1 review and read up on how the finale sets up the second season. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.

UPDATE: Colin Farrell also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, during which time he said of his role as the Penguin in The Batman that "we are still in the process of just finishing the design, the aesthetic of the character.” Farrell said he begins filming three weeks -- he had told Ellen DeGeneres in the story below that he begins filming in two weeks -- and praised filmmaker Matt Reeves' screenplay for The Batman, deeming it "a really, really beautiful, dark, moving script, really gorgeous." Our original report from Jan. 22nd follows. [poilib element="accentDivider"] The internet was abuzz recently when photos of Colin Farrell sporting silvery grey hair surfaced online, leading many to suspect that's what Farrell might look like as the Penguin in The Batman. As it turns out, Farrell hasn't even started filming The Batman yet and has already dyed his hair dark since those paparazzi photos went viral. Farrell appeared on Ellen on Wednesday where he said he recently finished filming a BBC movie in the Arctic, which is reportedly called The North Water. He explained the silvery hair was simply him trying out a new hair color after wrapping the BBC film and that he'd gone through a few other colors before dyeing his hair back to its normal dark color after those photos came out. It appears Farrell gained weight for the BBC film, judging by the personal videos he showed DeGeneres from the set. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-batman-cast-every-actor-and-character&captions=true"] Farrell revealed that he's headed to London in two weeks to start filming The Batman. He referred to his role as "Oz Cobblepot, I'm playing a character known as the Penguin." We can assume that wasn't Farrell simply shortening Oswald Cobblepot's name as director Matt Reeves recently tweeted Farrell's casting with the hashtag #Oz so it appears that's how the iconic DC Comics supervillain will be referred to in the movie. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/10/19/ranking-the-batman-movie-villains"] Colin Farrell's latest film, The Gentlemen, opens in North America this weekend. We weren't fans, saying in our Gentlemen review that "there’s no high to be found from this new Guy Ritchie joint."

Trigger, the animation studio behind anime like Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia, released the first trailer for its upcoming series, BNA: Brand New Animal. The anime is set to stream in Japan exclusively on Netflix, though there’s no word yet on whether it will be coming to the U.S. BNA: Brand New Animal is about an alternate 21st Century where animal-humans are real and live alongside regular humans. Michiru, who lived as a normal human, one day turns into a tanuki-human. [caption id="attachment_229136" align="alignnone" width="1230"] Source: Trigger[/caption] She flees and takes refuge in “Anima City” where animal-humans can live in peace. There she meets others like Shirou, a wolf-human who hates humans. You can watch the first trailer for the show here, though it’s currently only available in Japanese. IGN reached out to Netflix to ask whether BNA: Brand New Animal will be available to stream in the United States, but we didn’t hear back from the company in time for the publication of this story. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=netflix-spotlight-january-2020&captions=true"] Netflix has been ramping up its anime offerings, including hosting streams for other Trigger anime like Little Witch Academia and Kill la Kill. Check out IGN’s full list of best anime to stream on Netflix here, including Neon Genesis Evangelion and One-Punch Man. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN. You can reach him on Twitter.

Star Trek: The Next Generation fans can expect to see another familiar face in Star Trek: Picard's second season. Star Patrick Stewart has invited Goldberg to reprise her role as the sage bartender Guinan in Season 2. Stewart made the gesture during an appearance on The View, which is co-hosted by Goldberg. The actor, who plays Jean-Luc Picard, made it clear he wasn't merely wishing for Goldberg to return, but formally passing along an offer from executive producer Alex Kurtzman and the producing team. Goldberg happily accepted, which seems to confirm she'll indeed be appearing in Season 2. [caption id="attachment_2291353" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] Goldberg as Guinan and Stewart as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation.[/caption] You can see a clip of Goldberg and Stewart's conversation on The View's official Twitter feed. In response to Stewart's offer, Goldberg told her audience, "I've said it on this show before, but Star Trek was one of the great experiences from the beginning to the end. I had the best, best, best time." Ever the gentleman, Stewart responded, "It was wonderful having you, and we cannot wait to have you with us again one more time.” [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-trek-picard-the-essential-treks-to-take-before-the-show&captions=true"] This news serves as our first taste of what's to come in Season 2, which was officially greenlit in January 2020, just ahead of the show's January 23 premiere. Previously, Deadline reported Season 2 will be 10 episodes in length. For more on what to expect from the newest Star Trek series, find out which Trek timeline Picard takes place and which version of Data could be appearing in the show. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/13/why-seven-of-nine-blames-picard"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

SPOILERS AHEAD for Star Wars Rebels. [poilib element="accentDivider"] A brand-new trailer for the seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been released and, while it gave us another glimpse at some of our favorite characters (Ahsoka!) from the show that hasn't aired since 2014, it also appears to show a young Kanan Jarrus from Star Wars Rebels. Spotted by those like @ThomasLHarper on Twitter around the 25-second mark, viewers can catch a glimpse of a young Padawan standing next to Jedi Master Depa Billaba. As was revealed in Star Wars Rebels and expanded upon in works like the comic series Star Wars: Kanan - The Last Padawan, that boy was named Caleb Dume and would grow up to take the name Kanan Jarrus following the tragic events of Order 66. During Order 66 on the planet Kaller, Master Billaba sacrificed herself to save Dume and he ended up meeting a smuggler named Janus Kasmir. He was forced to hide that he was a Jedi and had to learn to live as a fugitive to survive in a world where Jedi were being openly hunted. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/22/star-wars-the-clone-wars-final-season-official-trailer"] Dume went so far as to abandon his name and past, and thus became Kanan Jarrus. While he was lost in his purpose for a while, he eventually ran into a Twi'lek female named Hera Syndulla and the rest, they say, is on Disney+. Seriously, go watch Star Wars Rebels. While we don't know if we will see or learn more about Caleb Dume besides this one cameo, it is pretty clear that this final season will venture into the timeline of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. What's even more, it appears we will see scenes from Episode III played out in animation form, as you can see below from @ImmortalSoldier.

I don't think I'm ready to go relive it all again#StarWars #TheCloneWars #CloneWars pic.twitter.com/E8JPlrbmE6

— Chris (@ImmortaISoldier) January 22, 2020

There are other small Easter Eggs in this trailer that hint at the ROTS timeline, including the shot of Anakin and a seemingly-pregnant Padme holding virtual hands by @Sithreeepio. We know Anakin didn't find out she was pregnant until the third film, so this would indicate the timelines will be crossing. This also backs up previous statements by both Dave Filoni and Pablo Hidalgo in 2015 who had hinted that, before its cancellation, there were plans for Star Wars: The Clone Wars' final episodes to have taken place after Revenge of the Sith. It won't be long until we all find out the truth when we return to our favorite galaxy far, far away for Star Wars: The Clone Wars final twelve episodes on February 21, 2020. [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 can't wait and is so excited he just can't hide it. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Motorola's upcoming foldable Razr phone now has a release date. The Verge reports that the new Razr will launch on February 6, after it was originally supposed to come out on December 26 last year. Preorders for the phone will be available through Verizon, Walmart, and Motorola's website beginning on January 26. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/11/14/new-motorola-razr-smartphone-is-nostalgia-that-costs-1500-ign-now"] The original Motorola Razr is one of the most iconic early cell phones of all time, and the new model marks the first Razr phone to hit the market since the Droid Razr brand debuted in the early 2010s. The Motorola Razr was announced back in November, and it will join a growing group of flip phones with modern smartphone technology. The new Razr does fold in half like old flip phones, but this model comes with a full 6.2 inch HD display. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=motorola-razr&captions=true"] Plus, when the Razr is folded shut, a 2.7 inch touch screen on the front allows you to view notifications, access the camera, and more. The phone will cost $1,500 at launch. For more, you can read all the specs for the new Motorola Razr. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Logan Plant is a news writer for IGN, and the Production Assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN's weekly Nintendo show. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant. .

Netflix has announced that a new anime film called The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf is in the works. The team behind this new movie includes Netflix's The Witcher's producers Lauren Hissrich and Beau DeMayo, and Studio Mir, the renowned Korean animation studio behind The Legend of Korra and Voltron: Legendary Defender. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/01/16/the-witcher-why-season-2-wont-premiere-until-2021-ign-now"] The logline for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf is "The world of The Witcher expands in this anime film that explores a new threat facing the Continent." No cast details were given, but it's pretty safe to assume that Geralt of Rivia, the White Wolf himself, will most likely be present to handle whatever this nightmare may end up being. Who knows? He could be the one having the nightmare, or maybe he IS the nightmare. This news follows Netflix's other announcement that The Witcher is tracking to be its most-viewed first season ever, with 76m member households streaming the new series through its first four weeks of release. There is no release timing for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, and it is yet unclear if it will arrive before or after the return of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri in season 2 of Netflix's The Witcher in 2021. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-witcher-explaining-all-the-characters-and-who-plays-them&captions=true"] For more on The Witcher, read on why Netflix decided to adapt the books and not the games, how Yennefer's season 1 story was created, and six other videos games that we think would be awesome Netflix shows. [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 can't wait and is so excited he just can't hide it. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Valve has responded to fan questions about why the voice actor for Alyx Vance was recast for upcoming VR game Half-Life: Alyx, stating that the studio was looking for a “different direction”. Discussing the game on Reddit as part of a Half-Life: Alyx AMA, Valve said “We worked with Merle [Dandridge] at the beginning of HL:A development, but in the end, felt we wanted to go in a different direction. We love Merle, her work in Half-Life 2 was instrumental in bringing Alyx to life, and we hope to work with her again in the future.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/11/21/half-life-alyx-reveal-trailer"] Mere Dandridge voiced Alyx Vance, Gordon Freeman’s key companion, in Half-Life 2 and its two episodic expansions. As the only person to voice the character, Dandridge’s vocals have become iconic for one of the most recognizable women in games. As such, many players were disappointed to learn that she won’t be reprising the role for Half-Life: Alyx, in which Vance is the protagonist. Valve has offered no further explanation beyond this, which has left many people in the Reddit thread frustrated. It is currently unclear why Valve wished to go in a different direction, or even what that direction is. Theories tend to land around the idea of Valve wanting a younger voice as Half-Life: Alyx is a prequel and thus features a younger Alyx, but without further comment from Valve it is unclear as to the studio’s intentions. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=half-life-alyx-first-screenshots-4k&captions=true"] Alyx will this time be played by Ozioma Akagha. Her father, Eli Vance, has also been recast, with James Moses Black stepping into Robert Guillaume’s role. This change, however, is due to Guillaume having passed away. Other details from today's Reddit AMA include how Half-Life: Alyx will support a variety of accessibility options such as one-armed play, left-handed mode, and the ability to play the game seated. Valve also revealed how the development team for Half-Life: Alyx is the biggest the company's ever had at "around 80 people." During the AMA the developers also confirmed that Half-Life: Alyx is "done", and that the team are confident that it will release this March. Hopefully that's not another game on the delay pile, then. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.