WarnerMedia is poised to launch its long-awaited HBO Max streaming service in May 2020, but it'll be short one piece of exclusive content. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Friends reunion special has been delayed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. THR reports that filming was scheduled to take place on March 23 and 24. While we already knew filming on the special had been delayed, this is the first confirmation it won't be ready in time for the launch of HBO Max. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=everything-coming-to-hbo-max&captions=true"] All six main cast members from the iconic sitcom - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer - had signed on to appear alongside series creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman for an unscripted reunion special. Unfortunately, like a great many productions across Hollywood, filming abruptly shut down due to the novel coronavirus. At this point there's no clear timetable for when filming might resume. THR's sources say the special won't be filmed remotely online, and indicate filming will still take place on NBC's Stage 24 on the Warner Bros. lot once production resumes. "As was previously reported, production is delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that the special will not be available on the streamer on Day 1 of launch. But it is coming!" HBO Max said in a statement. "The cast and producers are all very excited to go into production, as this will be the first time since the show ended that the whole cast will be together, and on the original sets to reminisce. There are loads of great surprises in store and lots of rare behind-the-scenes footage they are eager to share. We will keep you informed as plans solidify and once we have a firm premiere date." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/12/04/netflix-to-fork-over-100-million-to-keep-friends"] Word of a possible Friends reunion first surfaced in November 2019, with Warners officially confirming the project in February 2020. Each cast member is reportedly earning between $2.5 and $3 million for appearing in the special. The good news is that, even without the Friends reunion, HBO Max will have plenty of content to offer subscribers when it launches in May. Launch exclusives will include Joaquin Phoenix's Joker movie, all 22 seasons of South Park and the first three seasons of Rick and Morty. For the time being, HBO won't prevent users from sharing passwords with their friends. [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.

Apple TV+ has announced that it will be offering a collection of its original series for free for a limited time. Starting today, April 10, 2020, you will be able to stream eight Apple originals via the Apple TV+ app which is available on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iPod touch, Mac, select Samsung and LG smart TVs, and Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices. Check out the list of free shows in the list below:

• The Elephant Queen - The narrative follows Athena, a majestic elephant matriarch, who leads her family across an unforgiving, yet cinematic natural landscape made up of grasslands and woodlands, dotted with seasonal waterholes.
• Little America - From Lee Eisenberg and executive producers Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon and Alan Yang, Little America is an anthology series featuring eight funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring and surprising true stories of immigrants in America, when they’re more relevant now than ever.
• Servant (check out our review) - A psychological thriller from M. Night Shyamalan that follows a Philadelphia couple in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
• For All Mankind (check out our review) - For All Mankind presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the USSR beats the US to the moon.

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• Dickinson (check out our review) - Dickinson, starring Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld and created by Alena Smith, audaciously explores the constraints of society, gender, and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet Emily Dickinson.
• Helpsters - A new live-action pre-school series from the makers of Sesame Street. Join Cody and the Helpsters - a team of vibrant monsters who love to solve problems. Whether it’s planning a party, climbing a mountain or mastering a magic trick, the Helpsters can figure anything out — because everything starts with a plan.
• Ghostwriter - A re-imagining of Sesame Workshops’ 1992 series. Each episode story arc is grouped around literature, featuring classics and new works commissioned from popular authors like D.J. MacHale and Kwame Alexander.
• Snoopy in Space - Blast off with Snoopy in a series of 12 animated shorts featuring Charlie Brown and the beloved Peanuts gang. Snoopy fulfills his dreams and embarks on his next big adventure: becoming a NASA astronaut. Joined by Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang, Snoopy takes command of the International Space Station and explores the moon and beyond.

For more on Apple TV+, be sure to check out our review of the streaming service and some of its new series, like the video-game inspired comedy Mythic Quest and the moody crime-drama, Truth Be Told. And in other streaming news, we also reviewed every Quibi show and movie at launch in the gallery below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=quibis-movie-and-tv-shows-reviewed&captions=true"] David Griffin still watches DuckTales in his pajamas with a cereal bowl in hand. He's also the TV Editor for IGN. Say hi on Twitter.

The Final Fantasy 14 patch 5.3 update, which was planned for a mid-June release, has been delayed due to the recent state of emergency order in Japan. Director Naoki Yoshida says it’s unclear at this time whether the patch will be delayed a few weeks or a month. In a blog post on the official Final Fantasy 14 website, Yoshida announced that because of the recent state of emergency developers have been ordered to work from home. This, in turn, has put the development timeline for the next big FF14 patch into question. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=10-screenshots-from-final-fantasy-xiv-shadowbringers&captions=true"] Patch 5.3 was supposed to be the next major update in the Shadowbringers content cycle. While Square Enix didn’t officially reveal what would be a part of the update, many players were expecting the next chapter in the Alliance Raid cycle which is a collaboration with Nier: Automata and its director Yoko Taro. In his message, Yoshida detailed exactly what has been delayed by the work from home order including, “Delayed delivery of graphical assets due to the lockdown of cities in East Asia, North America, and Europe. Delayed voice recording due to the lockdown of cities in Europe. Delayed to development tasks performed by Tokyo staff due to work-from-home/shelter-in-place limitations. Production and QA teams operating well below normal capacity due to work-from-home/shelter-in-place limitations.” “We are terribly sorry for the disappointment this may cause our players, as we know you look forward to new patches. However, it is also important to prioritize the physical and mental health of our development team, without whom we would never be able to release the quality updates and features you expect from FFXIV[.]” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/05/24/final-fantasy-xiv-shadowbringers-job-actions-trailer"] Alongside the 5.3 patch delay, Yoshida says that players can expect longer than usual responses from the support desk, and a slowed implementation for bug fixes both as a result of the work-from-home orders. This is the newest game delay as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic. Other major releases like The Last of Us Part 2 were also delayed because of the pandemic. Check out IGN’s Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers review for more coverage. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN. He mains a Monk on Final Fantasy 14.

Warning: full spoilers follow for Final Fantasy 7 Remake and the original game. [poilib element="accentDivider"] The ending of Final Fantasy 7 Remake is unexpected, a little confusing, and very, very meta. If you’ve just watched the credits roll and are still reeling from the revelations and changes, then you’re not on your own. And if you’ve found you don’t know what on Gaia is going on, then you’re in exactly the right place: we’re here to explain the unanswered questions presented in the finale. As best we can, anyway. Did we mention that it’s confusing? [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/10/final-fantasy-7-remake-ending-explained"]

Who is the SOLDIER with black hair?

The biggest unanswered question in Final Fantasy 7 Remake is the identity of the dark haired SOLDIER who appears in the final cutscenes. While the game doesn’t even reveal his name (unless you have the subtitles on, that is), this is Zack Fair, a major character from Cloud’s past. If you’ve never played the original Final Fantasy 7, Zack’s appearance will no doubt be incredibly confusing, as there is no context given as to why he’s important. The cliffnotes are that Cloud and Zack both used to work for Shinra and were once on a major mission with Sephiroth in Cloud’s hometown of Nibelheim. Oh, and he’s also Aerith’s ex-boyfriend. In the original game, Zack is dead. Very dead. The mission in Nibelheim resulted in Sephiroth learning his true nature as a scientific experiment, and in his anger he burnt the town to the ground. Cloud and Zack managed to stop him, but both passed out after the fight. They were then taken by Professor Hojo and experimented on as part of a project known as Jenova Reunion, which was an attempt to restore an alien creature that was used to create Sephiroth. That’s the gross thing you saw in the Shinra HQ, and the company believes it is the key to discovering the Ancients' Promised Land. Hojo's experiments produced a group of people infused with Jenova's cells, and each was tattooed with a number. The hooded man who lives next door to Cloud and Tifa is one of Hojo's victims. Due to his link to the cells inside them, Sephiroth was able to control them as puppets; we see this in Remake when he forces one of these failed so-called "Sephiroth clones" to murder President Shinra. Zack eventually managed to escape Hojo, and dragged a severely Mako poisoned Cloud with him. He travelled to Midgar with hopes of building a new life, but was stopped by a group of Shinra soldiers who brutally executed him. Barely conscious, Cloud took Zack’s weapon - the Buster Sword - from his body, and completed the journey to Midgar alone. In the finale of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, we see that Zack survives his fight with the Shinra guards. Much of his appearance here is actually a shot-for-shot remake of the ending of Crisis Core, the PSP prequel to FF7 that puts Zack as the protagonist. But instead of falling dead, he picks Cloud up and continues his journey to Midgar as planned. So Zack is alive... well, sort of. In this scene we see a snack bag blow on the wind, passing by the camera just slowly enough to provide a clear shot of the mascot printed on it: a dog wearing a green hat. This mascot is seen frequently through Midgar, although this version of it is different. Instead of the normal beagle wearing a helmet, this is a border terrier with a cap. This suggests that there are actually two timelines; a reality where Zack dies, and one where he lives. While Zack fights the Shinra soldiers, we can clearly see Midgar surrounded by a swarm of the hooded spectres known as Whispers, suggesting that the actions of Cloud in the ‘prime’ timeline are rippling through realities. Aerith describes the moment as ‘Destiny’s crossroads’, suggesting that Zack’s timeline is the intersecting pathway. That crossing is further hinted at when Aerith and Zack pass the same location in their respective timelines, as they appear to sense each other. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="legacyId=20028754&captions=true"]

What are the Whispers?

Throughout Final Fantasy 7 Remake, the party frequently encounters hooded spectres that are eventually revealed to be the Whispers. Red XIII describes them as “Arbiters of Fate”, and explains that their sole purpose is to ensure that Destiny plays out according to plan. As they are directly responsible for ensuring certain situations play out, such as when they restore Barret after he is killed by Sephiroth, and flashforwards shown by them depict key events from later in the original story, it’s clear that the Whispers are there to keep the events of the previous game’s timeline on track. A fate that will, eventually, see Sephiroth defeated. Where things become more complicated is in Chapter 18, when Sephiroth invites the party to fight destiny. Considering fate has so far doomed the planet to being drained by Shinra, it’s easy to see why Cloud and the team would want to free themselves of that path. However, breaking away from destiny also frees Sephiroth up to succeed in his plan. The penultimate boss fight is against the Whisper Harbinger, along with its three smaller lieutenants: Rubrum, Viridi, and Croceo. Using the Assess skill on these smaller Whispers reveals that they are each “an entity from a future timeline that has manifested in the present day. It fights to protect the future that gave shape to it.” Based on their weaponry - a sword, a gun, and bare fists - it can be interpreted that these are future versions of Cloud, Barret, and Tifa that are fighting their past selves in order to try and keep destiny on track. The fact that they are beaten by the player means that the future is now uncertain, and that events of future installments need not adhere to the narrative of the original game. In that way, the Whispers are essentially a great big meta narrative device used by Square Enix to say “things aren’t going to go how you think they’ll go.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/06/final-fantasy-7-remake-review"]

Who is Sephiroth and why does he want to destroy the planet?

Sephiroth makes many appearances during Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but unless you have a working knowledge of who he is from playing the original game, it can be difficult to understand exactly what he wants. By the end of the game it’s established that he is a Shinra war hero who wants to destroy the planet, but his motivations are very unclear. Why are we fighting this dude? Simply put, it’s because Sephiroth wants to become a god, and part of his plan to achieve that involves finding and exploiting the Promised Land, a legendary place that was supposedly once home to Aerith’s ancestors, the Ancients. For a little more spoiler-heavy conext, Sephiroth intends to generate godly power by absorbing the Lifestream; a spiritual force within the planet that effectively works as the world’s white blood cells. Sephiroth plans to create an extinction-level event by causing a meteor to collide with the planet, as seen in one of the flashforwards provided by the Whispers. By standing at the impact point, he can absorb the Lifestream and become all-powerful. Sephiroth believes the Promised Land is the ideal point for all this to happen. Where Remake further complicates things is by revealing that Sephiroth apparently knows that his plans for godhood are doomed to fail. How he knows this is unrevealed, but considering the levels of meta the finale is operating on, it could be that this Sephiroth is actually from the original game’s timeline, and Remake has its own continuity. By invading this new timeline, Sephiroth has the chance to thwart Cloud and ensure his scheme plays out. Alternatively, this could be the Remake continuity’s Sephiroth who has been informed of the original Sephiroth’s failure, or it could also be a… Well, you get the idea. With what we’re given, it’s impossible to know what Sephiroth’s deal is for sure. One for the sequel, I guess. Oh, and as for when Sephiroth abandons Cloud at the edge of creation, claiming he has seven seconds left before the end? Honestly, it’s hard to understand if even the writers know what the heck that means. Another cryptic cliffhanger left to be addressed in future games. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=final-fantasy-7-remake-over-100-screenshots&captions=true"]

What is the unknown journey?

The very last scene of Remake displays the words ‘The unknown journey will continue’. This suggests that what lies ahead will be unknown to even those who know the original story inside and out. With the destruction of the Arbiter of Fate, anything could happen next. Provided Sephiroth still plans to become a god using the same scheme, it’s likely that the journey will take us onwards to the Temple of the Ancients, where he’ll obtain the Materia vital to his pursuit. Chances are, though, that the events will play out in different ways to what you remember, especially with the revelation that there are multiple realities. Will these intersect in the sequel? And how will Zack become involved? Only time will tell. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.

Sony Interactive, the MLB, and the MLBPA have announced the MLB The Show Players League today. This is a new online event where thirty professional baseball players will compete against each other in MLB The Show 20 to help raise funds for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada. The MLB The Show Players League is comprised of 30 professional baseball players, including 11 former All-Stars, five World Series Champions, and eight players age 25 or younger. They will compete in a round-robin format throughout April against one another for a total of 29, three-inning games. The top eight players will advance to a Postseason and ultimately a World Series. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=igns-top-25-playstation-4-games&captions=true"] The three organizations have agreed to donate $5,000 on behalf of each participating player to a Boys and Girls Club affiliate in their team’s community. The championship player will earn an additional $25,000 donation to their community’s clubs. The MLB The Show Players League begins today, April 10, as Tampa Bay Rays’ Blake Snell takes on Amir Garrett of the Cincinnati Reds starting at 6 pm PT/9 pm ET. The games will stream on Twitch and YouTube, and details can be found on the @MLBTheShow Twitter account. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/10/21/mlb-the-show-20-announcement-trailer"] Here’s a full list of MLB The Show Players League participants. Also, check out IGN’s review of MLB The Show 20 for our take on Sony's long-running baseball sim.  

• Jon Duplantier - Arizona Diamondbacks
• Luke Jackson - Atlanta Braves
• Dwight Smith Jr. - Baltimore Orioles
• Eduardo Rodriguez - Boston Red Sox
• Ian Happ - Chicago Cubs
• Lucas Giolito - Chicago White Sox
• Amir Garrett - Cincinnati Red
• Carlos Santana - Cleveland Reds
• David Dahl - Colorado Rockies
• Niko Goodrum - Detroit Tigers
• Lance McCullers Jr. - Houston Astros
• Brett Phillips - Kansas City Royals
• Ty Buttrey - Los Angeles Angels
• Gavin Lux - Los Angeles Dodgers
• Ryan Stanek - Miami Marlins
• Josh Hader - Milwaukee Brewers
• Trevor May - Minnesota Twins
• Jeff McNeil - New York Mets
• Tommy Kahnle - New York Yankees
• Jesus Luzardo - Oakland Athletics
• Rhys Hoskins - Philadelphia Phillies
• Cole Tucker - Pittsburgh Pirates
• Fernando Tatis Jr. - San Diego Padres
• Hunter Pence - San Francisco Giants
• Carl Edwards Jr. - Seattle Mariners
• Matt Carpenter - St. Louis Cardinals
• Blake Snell - Tampa Bay Rays
• Joey Gallo - Texas Rangers
• Bo Bichette - Toronto Blue Jays
• Juan Soto - Washinton Nationals

[poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.

A video released by Square Enix to commemorate the launch of Final Fantasy 7 Remake has hinted towards a potential PC release. The 'Thank you for waiting' clip features Final Fantasy 7 Remake Director Yoshinori Kitase providing players with an overview of the game. Most interesting though is the text that appears below the gameplay shown, which reads "Gameplay captured on PC." You can see that text below in the video. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/10/final-fantasy-vii-remake-thank-you-for-waiting-video"] We already knew that Final Fantasy 7 Remake has a timed exclusivity window on PS4, which lasts until April 2021, but this is confirmation that a PC version of the game exists in some form. We don't know if that's a development build, a full version of the game waiting for release, or otherwise. It's a formality from Square Enix to show that the footage isn't exactly what you should expect if you pick up the game on PS4 today, but it's still a worthwhile tidbit concerning which platforms it might land on in the near future. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=final-fantasy-7-remake-over-100-screenshots&captions=true"] The rest of the trailer explains the changes to the battle system in Final Fantasy 7 Remake and gives a brief rundown of how Square Enix has updated the 1997 classic for a new audience in 2020. As you may know, Final Fantasy 7 Remake is not the full game - for an explanation about what the first part of this remake franchise covers, check out our handy guide. For even more on Final Fantasy 7 Remake, you can check out our review of the game, which we think breathes "exciting new life into a classic." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter. 

A black hole was spotted seemingly breaking the laws of physics, before it became clear that what astrophysicists were seeing was an optical illusion. Per Vice, the phenomena was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope – the same one responsible for capturing the first ever image of a black hole last year thanks to algorithms developed by Katie Bouman and her team. What scientists observed in this case was a beam of energy coming from the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy called 3C 279. That beam of energy appeared to be travelling at up to 20 times the speed of light. The speed of light is supposed to be a universal speed limit, and it's impossible to provide moving particles of conventional matter with the energy required to travel any faster than this. This is because a particle's mass increases in proportion to its velocity and requires a proportional amount of energy to accelerate. A particle travelling beyond light speed would need infinite energy due to its subsequent infinite mass, which is why this energy beam observation is so strange. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/04/10/scientists-have-revealed-the-first-photo-of-a-black-hole"] The observational team, led by astrophysicist Jae-Young Kim, posted a study that explained this impossible vision was actually the cause of a mega-scale optical illusion. While the jet does reach speeds of a less law breaking 99.5% of the speed of light, it only looks like it was travelling at 15 - 20 times faster because of how it's oriented with the Earth. Co-author Dom Pesce, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics also explained the illusion in this statement, saying, “This extraordinary optical illusion arises because the material is racing toward us, chasing down the very light it is emitting and making it appear to be moving faster than it is.” [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/02/27/biggest-explosion-in-the-universe-detected"] Despite the optical illusion not breaking the laws of physics, scientists still learned some interesting things from their observations. Thanks to The Event Horizon Telescope's ability to observe distant objects in much greater detail than previously possible, they could see that the beam looks twisted where it emanates from the centre of the black hole. This could mean the beam is being distorted or deformed at the centre of the black hole, due to the contrast with the straighter beams further from the middle. That observation could help scientists understand how these jets of energy are formed. For more on black holes, NASA's new simulation is also looking into how black holes can warp space time. A supermassive black hole has also recently been discovered to be responsible for the biggest explosion ever detected. [poilib element="accentDivider"]Hope Corrigan is an Australian freelance writer for IGN who also only ever looks like she's breaking the law. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Since Taika Waititi is 80 percent troll and 20 percent pure chaos demon, it's best to take everything he says with a large wheelbarrow of salt, but the director of Thor: Ragnarok appeared to reveal a few real tidbits about the upcoming sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder - and some very fake script pages teasing the return of Tony Stark - during an Instagram Live watch party of Ragnarok on his personal Instagram account on April 9. Kicking things off by offering fans an exclusive look at what Waititi described as new concept art for the character of Miek and a look at New Asgard from Love and Thunder, Waititi also "accidentally" "leaked" a page of the "script" for Love and Thunder in the process. The fake script sees Tony Stark returning because of "science" to assemble a new team to face a similarly resurrected Thanos: The Avengererers. Oh, and the Iron Man suit has apparently had an upgrade, emblazoned with decals of "all the flags of every nation on Earth," obviously. (Why has no one let Waititi write an Avengers movie?) Take a look at the concept art and script page below: [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=thor-love-and-thunder-preview-art-from-taika-waititi&captions=true"] Waititi then answered (or dodged) a number of fan questions, including whether Loki might appear in Love and Thunder ("can't say," said Waititi), who Christian Bale is playing (Waititi faked his mic cutting out while he was answering), if we'd see the Silver Surfer in the film (nah), or whether we might see Beta Ray Bill in the sequel, following an Easter egg nod to the character in Ragnarok. The Beta Ray Bill question came the closest to getting a straight answer: "Not sure how to answer that; I don’t want to tease and I don’t want to give anything away... It would be awesome to have him in the film but I just don’t know right now, it’s up in the air," Waititi said, after expressing his love for the character. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=thor-love-and-thunder-6-characters-christian-bale-could-play&captions=true"] Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson later made an appearance on the stream (as did Mark Ruffalo) and prompted further discussion of the upcoming sequel - which Waititi said is currently on its fourth or fifth draft, noting that he "can't wait to do it," because it's become "so over the top now, in the very best way." For her part, Thompson said she had read a recent draft, though she hadn't read the most recent iteration. In a tease that could have no basis in reality, or could be entirely accurate (it's impossible to tell with Waititi), the director revealed: "it makes Ragnarok seem really run of the mill, a very safe film ... There’s a lot in it, a lot of set pieces. This new film feels like we asked a bunch of 10-year-olds what should be in the movie, and just said yes to every single thing," he laughed. "The combination of things as well, and some of the stuff from the comics... space sharks; if you look up space sharks, you’ll get a good idea of what this is." Waititi was likely referring to the Starsharks, sometimes referred to as Space Sharks, which are often used for transportation in the comics since they can live and move in space. They were first created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum for Uncanny X-Men, but also appeared in Jason Aaron's Mighty Thor and Thor: God of Thunder runs. Aaron's work is believed to be a major influence on the direction of the new movie, which will see Jane Foster return and take on the mantle of Thor, as she did in Aaron's run. Aaron's God of Thunder arc also introduces Gorr the God Butcher as an antagonist, and the character is rumored to be the villain in Love and Thunder. To be fair, Waititi has previously described Love and Thunder as "doubling down on how nuts Ragnarok was," so Space Sharks seem like a believable escalation. Dodging questions about whether we'll see a love interest for Valkyrie, Thompson also asked about the status of Waititi's on-screen character, Korg, in the sequel. "We do touch on Korg’s culture, where he’s from, the cultural specificities of Kronans, if you will," Waititi said. "If you look in the comics about Kronans, there’s some interesting things about where they come from and how they procreate." As for whether Thor will have regained his chiseled physique in Love and Thunder after the events of Avengers: Endgame, Waititi seemed to confirm the transformation by noting that he doesn't want to repeat the same beats of a previous film: "I feel like that’s done for him - I feel like we’ve seen that, haven’t we?" Things fully got off the rails by the time Ruffalo joined the Instagram Live, with conversation veering from telling knock-knock jokes with Waititi's daughter to revealing fake "treatments" for the coronavirus pandemic. For much of the end of the watch-along stream, Thor: Ragnarok was not even on screen, nor was the focus on discussing the movie. But like Thor: Ragnarok (and, presumably, Thor: Love and Thunder), the overall experience was well-worth having, if a bit insane, and it was a nice breath of fresh air to see Waititi, Thompson, and Ruffalo catching up with each other while cooking and caring for their families while stuck inside, just like the rest of us. Thor: Love and Thunder was scheduled to start filming in Sydney, Australia this summer, but production has since been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Waititi confirmed that he's still working hard on the film and hopes to begin production as soon as they can, but noted, "I think this little break that we’re taking is going to be good for all films, all scripts, all art." Thor: Love and Thunder was initially scheduled for release on Nov. 5, 2021, but the recent release date changes for Marvel's Phase 4 have pushed it back to Feb. 28, 2022. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/04/disney-reveals-massive-changes-to-marvel-phase-4-ign-now"]

Lego has put the Razor Crest Mandalorian set up for pre-order, which comes with a secret code that unlocks a digital version of the ship in the upcoming Lego Star Wars: The Sky Walker Saga video game. IGN has confirmed with WB Games that the code will redeem the ship only, and not any of the included minifigs. The Razor Crest is the name of the eponymous Mandalorian’s space ship from the Disney+ series. When Lego put the set up for pre-order, eagle eyes observers saw a notice on the box that said there was a secret code somewhere in the kit that would unlock the ship in the Lego Star Wars video game. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=star-wars-the-razor-crest-lego-set&captions=true"] WB Games confirmed that it will just be the ship that gets unlocked in the game with the code. Meaning the Mandalorian, the Child (aka Baby Yoda), Greef Karga, and IG-11 — who are included in the set as minifigs — will not be unlocked through this code. Perhaps this means the characters will already be available in the base game. Furthermore, IGN has learned that the included Lego code will be the only way to acquire the Razor Crest in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and that there are no plans yet to release the ship in-game or as DLC. WB Games says future Lego sets will include similar integrations where players can redeem digital goods from physical, boxed Lego sets. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/24/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-announcement-trailer"] WB Games announced the Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga at E3 2019 and that it would be released in 2020 following the release of Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker. Despite the release date for the Razor Crest Lego kit set for September 1, 2020, there’s still no confirmed release date for The Skywalker Saga video game. You can read IGN’s Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga preview here. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.