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The Trailer Park: Little Monsters

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2019 is looking to be a pretty good year for horror comedies. First, we had a trailer for the Zombieland sequel. Now we get a trailer for a new comedy, Little Monsters.
Not to be confused with the 1989 film of the same name. This one is definitely aimed at a much older audience.
Little Monsters is an American/Australian/British co-production stars Alexander England as Dave, a bit of a burnout who moves in with his sister after a pretty bad breakup with his girlfriend. When his nephew’s kindergarten class goes on a field trip, he jumps at the chance to chaperone, if only to get close to their teacher Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyongo’o). However, he also has to contend with Teddy McGiggle, a children’s entertainer who’s a lot more pleasant on stage than off.
Oh, and also there’s a zombie apocalypse happening.
The trailer is absolutely hilarious. I think my favorite moment is when Miss Caroline leaves a tractor ride to try and investigate a strange person, realizes that said strange person is in fact, undead, freaks out, and runs back to the cart yelling for a the driver to start it back up. Then, when a student asks what’s going one, she immediately goes back to teacher mode and reassures them that everything’s fine, like she wasn’t freaking out five seconds ago.
Also, as I believe I have mentioned before, I think that Nyongo’o should be in basically everything, since she’s just that good.
Little Monsters is directed and written by Abe Forsythe. It actually debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, but is going to see a wider release in the US on November 19th. I really hope that it comes to my local theater, since I really want to see it.

 

The Trailer Park-Zombieland: Double Tap

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You know, I love the 2009 horror comedy film Zombieland. It ranks right up there with Shaun Of The Dead as one of my favorite zombie movies. I liked it so much, in fact, that when it was in theaters, I went to see it three times. In one week. And it never gets unfunny to me.

So of course I’m going to be hyped when the trailer for a sequel drops.

Zombieland: Double Tap reunites us with Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Witchita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) as they make their way to the White House during the zombie apocalypse. Eventually, Little Rock runs away with a guy called Berkeley (Avan Jorgia), which prompts the other three to head off in search of her.

Along the way, they meet up with the ditzy Madison (Zoey Deutsch) and the tough-as-nails Nevada (Rosario Dawson), as well as doppelgangers of Tallahassee and Columbus played by Luke Wilson and Thomas Middleton.

It also features Woody Harrelson dressed as both Santa and Elvis, which is legitimately hilarious to me.

The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Dave Callaham and Rhett Reese, who also wrote and directed the first film (which makes sense). It’s set to arrive in theaters on October 18 of this year. This is definitely one that I want to see in theaters when it comes out.

Shut Up And Take My Money: Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

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So, E3 is a thing that’s happening, and, as is their wont, game companies are making announcements at it. This news, however, has piqued my interest more than the rest.

See, it turns out that Final Fantasy VIII is not only going to be re-released for its 20th anniversary, it’s getting a full-on remaster.

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The Good Omens Trailer Was Released, And I Am Here For It

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So, the trailer for the Amazon Prime series Good Omens dropped about a week and a half ago, and I finally got the chance to watch it. Behold!

For those who may be unfamiliar with the source material, Good Omens: The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agness Nutter, Which is a novel written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, published in 1990. It follows Aziraphale and Crowley, a demon and angel respectively, who end up working together to try and prevent Armageddon. Along the way, we also meet the Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse, a young woman who is the descendant of the witch in the title, and the Antichrist (who is actually quite nice and just wants to be a regular kid).

The series features Michael Sheen as Aziraphale and David Tennant as Crowley. I can’t comment too much on Sheen (as I am not familiar with his work), but I think that Tennant as Crowley is just absolutely perfect.

Also, going back to the trailer itself, I really love the use of Queen’s “You’re My Best Friend,” not only because the song fits, but because of a running gag in the book revolving around the band.

Neil Gaiman has been acting as showrunner for the six-part series, fulfilling one of the last wishes of Terry Pratchett, who passed away in 2015. Pratchett had always wanted to see the series adapted, one attempt even involving former Monty Python member Terry Jones, but was unable to get it off the ground.

And, as said in the title, I am totally here for it. Good Omens is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read, and I’m looking forward to seeing how they manage to adapt it.

Good Omens is currently set for release next year, though I have yet to find a more specific release date. From what I’ve seen, it looks like it’s going to release onto Amazon Prime’s streaming service first, then is going to air on BBC 2 in the UK.

In the meantime, I highly recommend reading the book, and will most likely be re-reading it myself sometime before the series comes out.

Update On The Whole Telltale Games Thing

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So, remember how Tellltale Games ended up whittling down their staff to a skeleton crew of 25 employees? Well, it looks like they’ve got that number down to 0 employees now, according to this article from Game Informer.

As of now, it doesn’t look like the higher-ups of the now apparently-defunct game developer have put out any kind of official statement as of this time. However, I can say that it’s a safe bet that these employees won’t be getting any kind of severance pay or reimbursement for overtime either.

And the whole situation still kind of fucking sucks. What makes it worse is the knowledge with how terribly TTG treated their employees before the closure, plus the fact that if any of these folks end up working with any other large developer, they’re going to run into the same issues they did with TTG.

Because the CEOs of these companies (and any company, really) simply do not care about their workers. And they will continue this pattern of behavior as long as it continues to make them money.

Like I said at the end of the last post, the tech industry needs to unionize. At this point, it’s probably about the only way that the workers in said industry will actually get what they deserve.

 

There’s Been Another Star Trek Series Announced…

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And guess who’s going to be the main character.
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Yup, that’s right. Sir Patrick Stewart announced at Star Trek Las Vegas this weekend that he will be reprising his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. 
According to the article linked above, Sir Patrick had the following remarks:
“I will always be very proud to have been a part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation, but when we wrapped that final movie in the spring of 2002, I truly felt my time with Star Trek had run its natural course… It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions with him. ”
Personally, as the British would say, I am quite chuffed with this news. While my favorite Star Trek series now is Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation is the series that holds the most nostalgia for me, since it’s the one that I grew up with. Picard also ranks pretty highly on my list of favorite captains, so getting a continuation of his story is quite exciting to me.
We don’t have a lot of information as to a release date as of yet, but we do know that it will be airing on CBS’s streaming service. We also know that Alex Kurtzman, who served as an executive producer for the Star Trek reboot films as well as Discovery, will be serving the same role for this yet-unnamed series.
The only other thing I really have to say at this point is that I wish that shows didn’t have to be written or filmed, since I really wish I could watch it right now.
 

A Series Based On “Good Omens” Is Coming

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(First, some housekeeping: a shout out to Amanda for pledging $5 on my Patreon! You get to pick a topic for me to write about. If you would like to pick a topic as well, (or just feel like kicking some money my way), check out my Patreon page. Thanks!)

After my last post detailing the latest delay of Star Trek: Discovery, it’s good to have some good TV-related news to discuss.

So, Good Omens. Written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and originally published in 1990, it is quite possibly the funniest book about Armageddon that I’ve read. And it’s getting its own Amazon series.

It’s going to be a miniseries (only about 6 episodes long), but they have Neil Gaiman set to be the showrunner, as well as having adapted the novel. It’s going to be coming out next year, and is a joint production between Amazon and BBC UK, as well as Narrativa, the production company run by Pratchett’s daughter Rihanna Pratchett.

Good Omens centers around Crowley and Aziraphale, a demon and an angel respectively, who have been tapped by the powers that be to kickstart the apocalypse. However, neither of them are too keen on doing that, plus they’ve also lost the Antichrist. Hilarity ensues.

There have been other attempts to adapt the novel. Probably the most notable was an attempt made by Terry Gilliam (which would’ve starred Robin Williams and Johnny Depp, apparently), but that fell through. There was also a BBC-produced radio play starring Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz that came out in 2014 and is currently available on Audible.

There isn’t a current release date for the series, but according to the sources I’ve seen state that it should release sometime next year. After it’s debut on Amazon Prime, the BBC will also be broadcasting it in the UK.