Disney’s forthcoming Rogue One prequel TV series about rebel agent Cassian Andor has found a writer: Tony Gilroy, who will write the pilot and a handful of episodes, according to Variety.
Apple’s forthcoming series For All Mankind will already get a second season, according to Deadline. The series is set to debut with the company’s streaming platform, Apple TV + on November 1st, and follows a group of astronauts in an alternate history in which the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon.
As a result, the US redoubles its efforts and begins recruiting women to become astronauts in an effort to keep up with the space race. The series comes from Ron Moore, who created SCI FI’s Battlestar Galactica reboot and Starz’s Outlander.
Earlier this year, fans of James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse cracked open their copies of the latest installment of the series, Tiamat’s Wrath. While there won’t be another novel hitting stores this year, fans will have something to look forward to: Orbit announced that it will release a new Expanse novella in December, Auberon.
Another familiar face is reportedly returning to the Star Wars franchise in forthcoming film The Rise of Skywalker: Denis Lawson, who played the role of X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
Word of the casting comes from Rebel Force Radio, which says that it’s received confirmation that the actor has agreed to reprise the role of his character from the original trilogy.
Jim Freund’s radio talk show Hour of the Wolf has been a fixture within the New York science fiction community on WBAI 99.5 FM for nearly half a century. On Monday, the station’s parent company, Pacifica Across America, abruptly shut down the station and replaced its local programming with shows from its other holdings, citing “financial losses,” according to Gothamist and The New York Times. The move leaves the future of the long-running program in question.
Fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien is best-known for writing The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but he has a small body of work outside of his Middle-earth stories, too. One particularly notable work is a collection of Christmas letters that he wrote to his children between 1920 and 1942, and which are now being re-released in a new, beautiful edition called Letters from Father Christmas.
At New York Comic Con this past weekend, Amazon screened the first episode of its upcoming fourth season of The Expanse, the television adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s book series by the same name. The episode is the first produced for its new home on Amazon, after being canceled by the Syfy Channel early last year.
At New York Comic Con today, Amazon Prime Video released a new trailer for the forthcoming fourth season of its space opera series The Expanse, showing off a new series of challenges for the crew of the Rocinante.
Ahead of New York Comic Con, Dark Horse Comics has announced a new collection of Neil Gaiman stories, The Neil Gaiman Library: Volume 1, which will go on sale next summer—May 27th in comic shops, and June 9th in bookstores.
There have been some fantastic depictions of the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin in recent years. The Folio Society produced some fantastic editions of The Left Hand of Darkness and A Wizard of Earthsea, and her massive Earthsea tome from Saga Press recently picked up the Hugo Award for Best Art Book. Artist J Yang produced their own set of artwork for The Left Hand of Darkness, and it’s another fantastic depiction of the icy world of Gethen.
H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds is one of the best-known science fiction novels of all time, and accordingly, it’s been frequently adapted for film, television, and radio. This fall, the BBC will air a new version, this time set during the story’s original setting: Edwardian England.
A24, the studio behind films like Ex Machina and The Witch, announced that it is launching a book imprint, and it’ll release its first trio of installments on September 30th.
A24 has produced some incredible films in recent years: Ex Machina proved to be an intense look at the nature of machine intelligence, Midsommar and The Witch were intense horror films, and others like The Lobster, The Monster, How To Talk To Girls At Parties, and Swiss Army Man were off-beat speculative films that have gained a cult following. Others, like Moonlight, have earned considerable critical acclaim.
Apple has dropped a new trailer for its upcoming streaming series For All Mankind, showing off an alternate space race in which the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon.
Witness Disney synergy at work: The Hollywood Reporter reports that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is developing a new Star Wars film. And because Feige has proven so adept at bringing B and C-list characters to the fore in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s possible that Feige is about to do the same with Star Wars.
Hulu reportedly won’t move forward on a Marvel series based on the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. version of the character Ghost Rider, according to Deadline, which says that there was a “creative impasse” between the creative team and the streaming platform.
