Tarantino’s Next Project May Be Elmore Leonard TV Series
Quentin Tarantino's next project may be headed to television in the form of a miniseries adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Forty Lashes Less One.
"I own the rights to this book
wanted to adapt for a while, and the time may have come for me to tackle
," Tarantino told Premiere magazine. "This is Forty Lashes Less One,
Elmore Leonard... which could be my third western.
considering
project to TV, in the form of a mini-series of four or six hours."
QT's film Jackie Brown was also based on a Leonard novel. Tarantino's latest project, The Hateful Eight, opens this Christmas and will feature a special 70mm roadshow version that includes an extra six minutes of footage, as well as an overture and intermission.
Star Wars: Aftermath – Life Debt Cover Revealed
The cover of Chuck Wendig's upcoming novel Star Wars: Aftermath - Life Debut has been revealed.
Life Debt is the second installment in Wendig's trilogy, which picks up after the events of Return of the Jedi and leads right into Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Its cover features the iconic Millennium Falcon trailed by a group of TIE fighters. See it below, courtesy of StarWars.com.
Overwatch Closed Beta Going into ‘Extended Break’
Blizzard is taking the Overwatch closed beta "offline for an extended break," the company announced today.
The break begins on Thursday, December 10 at 9 am PST. "This phase of development has been key, but now it's time to analyze the data we have, dig into your feedback even further, and put that knowledge to use as best we can," Blizzard explained.
Blizzard will use this time not only to evaluate the "bug reports, suggestions, critiques, and experiences" shared by testers, but the company will also "work on in-development features like spectating and progression."
Fighting Game Luminaries Meet Up at PlayStation Experience
Sony's PlayStation Experience will play host to a fighting game panel on "what’s driving the next generation of fighting games."
Called "Fighting Games: The Next Generation," the panel begins December 5 at 7 p.m. PT. at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
The panel involved features Street Fighter V producer Yoshinori Ono, Tekken 7 director Katsuhiro Harada, as well as former Capcom community manager and Sony employee Seth Killian.
Killian is also helping to develop the free-to-play fighting game Rising Thunder, which is currently only announced for PC. He and the rest of the group will be joined by PlayStation Blog senior social media manager Sid Shuman.
Halo 5 Gets Limited-Time Armor, Weapon Skins
There are now Halo Championship Series-themed armor and weapon skins in Halo 5: Guardians, but they're only available for a limited time.
Microsoft and 343 Industries are offering the premium REQ pack in Halo 5 until December 6. Players are guaranteed to receive weapon skins for the assault rifle and magnum, a helmet, armor and emblem.
The Halo Championship Series premium REQ pack costs $10 USD, or Halo 5 players can pick it up with 80,000 REQ points. Money from the pack will go toward the championship pool, which now sits at over $1.7 million.
Halo 5: Guardians launched in October and became the fastest-selling Xbox One exclusive ever. The sci-fi shooter also ranked as the top-selling game in North America for October.
Seth Macfarlane Hints at New Family Guy Movie
Is Family Guy getting a new movie? Creator Seth Macfarlane suggests that it may be coming soon.
RT @GingeThink: @SethMacFarlane when are you going to stop fannying around and actually do a Family Guy movie? ?? // Soon. Soon.
— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) December 2, 2015
The question was asked by a fan on Twitter, and Macfarlane simply replied, "Soon. Soon." No other details about the movie have been revealed.
Jazzpunk Heads to PS4 With Splitscreen, New Single-Player Content
Necrophone Games' first-person, Dadaist adventure game, Jazzpunk is bringing its brand of crazy to PlayStation 4.
The game, published on PC by Adult Swim in 2014, ostensibly follows an absurdist spy tale during the Cold War. Of course, nothing about the game is quite so straightforward.
Our own Jazzpunk review called the game "rather aimless." Though the reviewer did note it made him "laugh so hard that I woke up my deaf dog."
But the original laughs and meandering aren't all that's coming to Sony's console. The PS4 edition will include a new, four-player splitscreen version of its "Wedding Qake" multiplayer mode.
Media Molecule and Double Fine Hosting Livestream Event
Double Fine Productions and Media Molecule will be teaming up to host a special livestream event next week.
In a post on Twitter, the studio behind LittleBigPlanet, Tearaway and the upcoming PS4 exclusive Dreams, announced the stream, which begins at 10am PT, 1pm ET.
Join us on Monday 7th December at 10am PST (6pm GMT) for a special @DoubleFine livestream! https://t.co/Lz1a8nop3A pic.twitter.com/gVHFSB1o1t
Game of Thrones’ First Season 6 Teaser is Here!
HBO has released the first official teaser for the sixth season of Game of Thrones, and while not exactly chock-full of new footage (it's more like - hey! - look at all the past atrocities) we do get to hear a new character. That being Max von Sydow's Three-Eyed Raven. Mentor to Bran in the art of "Greenseeing."
Take a look...
You can hear him say "We watch. We listen. We remember. The past is already written. The ink is dry." Game of Thrones returns April 2016.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity.
Prisoners Screenwriter to Script Next Friday the 13th
Prisoners writer Aaron Guzikowski looks set to script the next Friday the 13th film.
Variety reports that Guzikowski is in negotiations with Paramount and Platinum Dunes to pen the script for the horror flick.
Meanwhile, Platinum Dunes' Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller are back to produce the next installment in the horror series.
Paramount recently pushed the Friday the 13th reboot back to 2017. V/H/S filmmaker David Bruckner is attached to direct, with Jason Voorhees resurfacing again to do what he does best.