Next Call of Duty Won’t Have Jetpacks, Treyarch Developer Tweets
Treyarch Studio Design Director David “Vahn” Vonderhaar wants you to know that he really hates jetpacks, and judging from some recent comments of his, it’s unlikely that we’ll see their return in Call of Duty’s 2020 game.
First reported by CharlieIntel, Vonderhaar took to Twitter to respond to a fan tweeting “you butter
have jetpacks in the next COD.”
“NO,” Vonderhaar replied succinctly.
Vizio’s 2020 4K TVs Get a Major Overhaul Along With New Panels
Vizio’s 4K TVs have always impressed us by offering great specs at a reasonable price, but there have always a few sacrifices made in processing power and software. This year at CES 2020, Vizio’s changing all that and given its full TV lineup a major overhaul.
Firstly, all of Vizio’s new 2020 TVs will feature a new IQ processor, which the company claims to be a first of its kind ARM processor that delivers up to a gigahertz in speed. Combined with AI capabilities of this 64-bit CPU, these new IQ chips will be able to improve image quality with real-time noise reduction and detail enhancement algorithms.
Tarantino: A Four-Hour Cut of OUATIH Might Happen a Year From Now
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is already getting an additional 20 minutes of new footage for its home release, but an even longer cut of the movie might be coming on the horizon.
During an FYC screening in Los Angeles, Tarantino, along with stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, answered some questions regarding whether or not a longer version of the film existed. Tarantino recounted showing the entire thing to Sony's Tom Rothman (per Collider).
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Todd Phillips Would Like to See a Batman Movie Set in Joker’s Gotham
Even though Joker, which is the number one R-rated movie of all time, doesn't currently share a cinematic universe with any other DC/Warner Bros. movie, director Todd Phillips is curious as to what a Batman movie might look like if it was set in Joker's Gotham.
Per Variety, Phillips, while at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, said “It’s a beautiful Gotham. What I would like to see someone tackle is what Batman looks like from that Gotham."
Star Wars: Why The Rise of Skywalker Crawl Began the Way it Did
Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker follow...
Even for a Star Wars crawl, Rise of Skywalker's opening exposition kicked off with quite the reveal, instantly detailing how Emperor Palpatine had mysteriously returned from beyond.
The dead speak! The galaxy has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late EMPEROR PALPATINE...Rise of Skywalker co-writer Chris Terrio recently shed some light on that crawl, and why it opened in such a big way, while talking to IndieWire. We already know too, from editor Maryanne Brandon, that there are deleted scenes that dig deeper into how Palpatine returned.
Amnesia and SOMA Developer Teases Its Next Project
Frictional Games, the studio behind horror game classics like Amensia: The Dark Descent and SOMA, appears to be teasing their next project with a mysterious update to its website, according to a report from RockPaperShotgun.
Frictional appears to have updated their website sometime around the holiday, adding a new entry to the site’s “games” tab. The new listing is simply called “Next Frictional Game,” but where things get somewhat interesting is what happens when you click on the link.
Sam Raimi Wants to Make Another Evil Dead With Original Star Bruce Campbell
Sam Raimi says that he and Bruce Campbell are working with a filmmaker who will write and direct a new Evil Dead movie. Raimi is up for directing another one himself, but only if Campbell comes out of retirement as the character.
Raimi made the announcement in a Reddit AMA on Thursday while promoting the remake of The Grudge, which Raimi produced. As for who's making the new Evil Dead movie, Raimi only said that the filmmaker is young and male. He also expressed hope that Campbell will return to the role.
1917: Exclusive Storyboard-to-Film Comparison
Director Sam Mendes' technical World War I marvel, 1917, which has garnered rave reviews and a ton of Oscar buzz, immerses you in the terror of two soldiers tasked with delivering an important life-saving message. The entire film is constructed using elaborate long takes so that the story feels like it unspools in one continuous shot.
We've got an exclusive storyboard-to-film comparison clip to show you, coinciding with the newly-launched IntoTheTrenches site, showing you George MacKay's Schofield and Dean-Charles Chapman's Blake in an intense predicament involving a spiraling German fighter plane. Check it out, straight from our Twitter...
IGN’s Staff Reviews The Mandalorian on Disney+
Season 1 of The Mandalorian is now available to binge in its entirety on Disney+, and a bunch of IGN's staff watched every adventure in the first live-action Star Wars TV series.
In addition to the official IGN review posted on Tuesday (and all the individual episode reviews), below you'll find reactions from 15 staff members across all of our content-making departments -- from editorial to social, video to product -- all of which are kept as spoiler-free as possible.
Following the format of our staff reviews of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Netflix's The Witcher, we had each staff member who participated in these unofficial ratings choose the word on the IGN review scale that they felt best reflected their sentiments rather than assigning a number score.