Official: Lego Movie Directors to Make a Han Solo Movie
Han Solo will officially be featured in his very own Star Wars film.
Lucasfilm announced today that The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are attached to direct the scoundrel's first standalone big screen appearance.
Written by Lawrence Kasdan and his son Jon, the film will detail the events that led to Solo becoming the smuggler we first meet in the Mos Eisley cantina on Tattooine. Kasdan has written for Star Wars before, having penned the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and the upcoming The Force Awakens.
First Footage From The X-Files Revival
To mark the 201 days left until the return of the X-Files, Fox released a trailer for a re-airing of the original series that also contains our first quick glimpse at footage from the show's revival coming in January.
The footage shows a few seconds of Agents Scully and Mulder walking into a dark room with guns drawn - and Mulder, in voice over, giving a slight twist on one of the show's most iconic phrases. Will the truth be revealed at last?
The X-Files has been back in production for a few weeks, and this isn't the only thing we've seen of the upcoming six-episode run. Recently, photos from the set have shown us glimpses of lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, among others.
Bungie Rewarding Destiny’s Most Dedicated Players
Bungie has revealed a special reward for first-year Destiny players who complete a certain criteria of in-game challenges.
The prize is an exclusive emblem in the shared-world shooter, which Bungie says will only be available this one time. To attain the reward, Destiny players must finish 10 challenges, called the Moments of Triumph, before September 9.
Ghostbusters: Other Space Star Cast as Villain
Actor-writer Neil Casey has reportedly been cast as the villain in next year's Ghostbusters reboot.
At this time, further details on Casey's character are being kept under wraps, according to Deadline. Casey currently stars in Ghostbusters reboot director Paul Feig's Yahoo Screen series, Other Space.
Casey in Other Space.
DC Taps Original Creators for 8 New Comics
DC Comics has eight, six-issue miniseries coming in early 2016.
With the help of their original creators, the new run aims to reintroduce forgotten characters from DC’s back catalogue while also giving them a new lick of paint. The full list of everything coming next-year is as follows:
- Swamp Thing – Len Wein
- Metal Men – Len Wein
- Raven – Marv Wolfman
- Firestorm – Gerry Conway
- Katana: Cult of the Kobra – Mike W. Barr
- Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death – Amy Chu
- Metamorpho – Aaron Lopresti
- Sugar & Spike – Keith Giffen
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Cowboy Bebop Has Never Been Cheaper
Three, two, one let's jam! The complete Cowboy Bebop debuted on Amazon for $43, and then hung out at $30 for quite some time. Now it's sitting at $24, which is the lowest I've ever seen. You can also get the Cowboy Bebop Movie for $7 if you're a real CB completist. The complete series is an Amazon deal of the day, so I expect it to go back up to at least $30 in the next twenty-four hours.
App Store Update: July 7
Every day hundreds of new apps make their debut on the App Store, and hundreds more are updated or reduced in price. We have sifted through the noise and highlighted those select few that might be worth your attention.
Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
Sonic Runners – (Freemium)
This one actually dashed into the App Store a couple of weeks ago, but since we haven't featured it directly in the ASU yet, you may have missed it! It's Sonic's latest mobile adventure focused on speed:
Harry Shearer Coming Back to The Simpsons
Actor Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders and Smithers on The Simpsons, will return to the animated show after all.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Shearer has signed the same deal as his five fellow primary voice actors on The Simpsons: Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright and Hank Azaria. That means Shearer is contracted for four more seasons (though FOX has only renewed the show for two more years right now), earning an estimated $300,000 USD per episode.
Shearer's signing is surprising because the actor announced he was leaving The Simpsons back in May. At the time, Shearer said he wanted the freedom to do other work, which baffled Simpsons showrunner and executive producer Al Jean, who claimed all of the cast has great free time to pursue other project.
Marvel’s Comic-Con Giveaways Focus on Guardians
Those attending San Diego Comic-Con this weekend will have the chance to pick up several new premium items from Marvel Animation.
With the new Guardians of the Galaxy animated series launching in September, there's a lot of focus on the Guardians, though Marvel's other animated series are also included. IGN has your exclusive first look at these items, which will be available as giveaways at the Marvel booth at SDCC.
The items include:
Marvel Animation Coloring and Activity Books (featuring art from Guardians of the Galaxy, Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel’s Avengers Assemble). Check out the cover and a couple of the pages from the book below.
Wrestling Wrap Up: Cena and Cesaro Deliver a Classic Match
Hey, all. Hope you had a happy July 4th. Got a fast and raucous Wrap Up comin' at you this week accompanied by the message that there will be no Wrap Up next week. Due to Comic-Con craziness and the whatnot and the hoo hah.
So I won't get to report on the go-home RAW for Battleground, which I hope finally sees Paige get some help from NXT's Charlotte or Sasha Banks. Or both. I'm pretending like they haven't pulled the trigger on this yet because Total Divas premieres this week and they wanted have a TD-only match last night.