Early in Amazon's new film The Tomorrow War, where soldiers from the future time travel to the past to draft humans forward in time to an apocalyptic war against aliens, it's made clear that should civilians have seen beforehand what their impending extraterrestrial threat the White Spikes look like, almost no one would have agreed to help save the world. Visual effects supervisor James E. Price tells EW that when they were figuring out their design, director Chris McKay told the crew " Read More...
After the blockbuster success of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games franchise, dystopian novels became the Next Big Thing in the YA world: Veronica Roth's Divergent series, Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave, Marie Lu's Legend trilogy, Ally Condie's Matched trilogy, and Lauren Oliver's Delirium books, to name a few. But after years of bookstore and box office success, that trend seemed to be waning. By 2016, the Divergent movies were performing so badly that the final film was basically canceled and replaced by a still-unformed TV series. Read More...
Once upon a time…fantasy was a genre of entertainment that was practically banished from the realm of television. Even the delightfully cheesy sword-and-sorcery epics like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Highlander: The Series that once aired at weird times on weird channels thanks to the wonders of syndication back in the 1990s had vanished, as if some evil network exec had cast a spell over the entire medium. Read More...
