10 Things We Learned About American Crime Story: Sn 2
At an event to look back at the successes of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, executive producer Brad Simpson offered some insight into the show's second season, which will examine the disastrous events surrounding Hurricane Katrina.
Simpson spoke on an American Crime Story panel at the 2016 summer TV Critics' Association press tour, and afterwards fielded some questions about the Katrina season. He is currently awaiting the first scripts for the new season, and revealed that he is working on it with ACS showrunner Ryan Murphy and executive producer and writer D.V. Devincentis. Here's everything new we learned about the upcoming season of the critically acclaimed FX anthology series.
The Americans Creators on Plan for Final Seasons
It was announced earlier this year that The Americans -- which finally broke through into the major Emmy category nominations this year -- would be ending in two years with Season 6 and the show's executive producers, Joe Weinberg and Joel Fields, discussed how they’re approaching the final two seasons at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today.
Weisberg explained, “We figured out roughly what would happen in both seasons,” before concentrating on the upcoming Season 5. Weisberg said he still felt Season 5 will stand alone as its own season, but at the same time, “it sets everything up for the finale.”
Two No Man’s Sky Players Visit Same Planet at Same Time
Two No Man's Sky players have attempted and failed to meet up in No Man's Sky after one player happened upon a planet already discovered by another.
A thread on the No Man's Sky subreddit, as well as a Twitch live stream, show players thesadcactus and Psytokat coordinating to meet-up in front of the same NPC on the same planet's outpost. However, when the two appeared in the same location, they were unable to see each other.
The players also were in the same location at different points in the game's day/night cycle, as noted by Polygon, which suggests they both could be playing on different servers and are therefore on different instances of the same planet.
“Evil Has a Plan” in The Exorcist TV Series
FOX's remake/remodel of The Exorcist -- starring Geena Davis and Alfonso Herrera -- follows two very different priests tackling one family's case of demonic possession. It premieres Friday, September 23rd, and recently the cast and executive producers sat for a Q&A session at the Television Critics Association summer press tour to explain how the story of a family's battle with possession could be turned into a series.
"Even in the scripting phase, we were very conscious of the fact that you can't tell an ongoing series where every season, every year, it's just another American family undergoing a possession," said creator/executive producer Jeremy Slater (The Lazarus Effect). "You would burn out the audience really fast. I don't know how to write that show. I wouldn't want to watch that show. So it was important to start laying in bread crumbs right from the beginning, start introducing kind our Dharma Initiative, our bad guys who are out there."
Rampage Writer to Bring Character and Humanity to Film
Carlton Cuse and Ryan Condal finished their rewrite of New Line's adaptation Rampage and are waiting to find out whether their script will see the light of day.
It was announced in February that the duo behind USA's Colony would rewrite Ryan Engle's take on the video game franchise. Rampage reteams Cuse with San Andreas director Brad Peyton, producer Beau Flynn and star Dwayne Johnson.
"We did a draft and they seem super enthusiastic about it at New Line," Cuse told IGN while promoting his FX series The Strain at the 2016 summer TCA press tour. "Last I heard they were trying to work out schedule and budget. Dwayne's obviously a really busy guy."
The Strain Showrunner Has His Eyes on the End Game
The Strain is close to premiering its third season on FX, and showrunner Carlton Cuse already has his eyes on wrapping up the series.
Initially The Strain had been pitched as a three-season story to FX, but once Cuse, Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan started developing the series they realized it had room for more story. Now that they've finished the third season, the creative team is figuring out how they want to end it.
"Story-based shows like this where there's a clear antagonist and protagonist, you want to bring it to a conclusion," said Cuse at The Strain's 2016 summer TCA press tour panel. "Now that we've finished three seasons, we still have a chunk of narrative left. We're just actually starting those conversations now. We're sitting down in the room and we're trying to figure what's the optimal number of episodes it will take to get us from where we are now to the ending. FX, as always, is incredibly supportive."
John Krasinski Will Play a Funnier Jack Ryan
Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland are moving full steam ahead on their new take on Jack Ryan while awaiting an official series pickup from Amazon.
"We're moving forward, and I hope we'll get an official greenlight soon," Carlton Cuse said after a panel at the 2016 summer TCA press tour for his FX drama The Strain. "We're working on the scripts. I'm just super excited about it. I think it's going to be a really, really cool show. I hope Amazon will be formally announcing that it gets picked up in the near future, but in the meantime we're moving forward on all fronts trying to get the scripts in place and come up with a production plan."
No Man’s Sky Servers Currently Down
The servers for No Man's Sky are currently down.
Hello Games founder and No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray humorously addressed the server status in a post on Twitter, saying, "There are way too many people playing right now. Maybe some of you can just log out? Decide amongst yourselves plz." In a separate post, Murray said:
via Sean Murray on Twitter
Sony Confirms September PlayStation Event
Sony has confirmed, in an invitation provided to IGN, that the company will hold a PlayStation-focused event in New York this September.
The invitation does not elaborate on what will be specifically discussed at the event, which will be held in New York at the PlayStation Theater on September 7 at 3 p.m. ET. The invitation reads:
"We hope to see you there, and we can’t wait to share details with you about the PlayStation business."
Game of Thrones End Will Lead to ‘Existential Crisis’ for Cast
While talking to Bran Stark actor Isaac Hempstead Wright at the announcement event for the Game of Thrones concert tour, he spoke about how he felt finally hearing that the show will reach its end with Season 8.
“It’s kind of like, you don't really want it to end,” Wright said. “We really are like a family. For many of us, it's been seven years of our lives that we've been doing this. Every year it's become like clockwork and a regular part of our existences, so to think that it's all going to end I think there will be many an existential crisis for most of us.”
While Season 8 will be the end of Game of Thrones, that won’t come until after next year’s Season 7, which is starting shooting later than usual in order to film in grimer, grayer weather befitting the arrival of winter. Wright said that he has yet to receive a script for the new season and did admit it was strange doing things differently this time around.