2022 Star Wars Movie to be Made by Game of Thrones Showrunners

Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed today that the next Star Wars movie after Episode IX will be part of the previously-announced series by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff & DB Weiss.

We did a deal with David Benioff and D.B Weiss, who are famous for Game of Thrones, and the next movie that we release will be theirs.

Phase 4 Won't Be Announced Until After Avengers 4

In an interview with io9, Kevin Feige confirmed that we won't learn the titles of the movies in MCU Phase 4 until after Avengers 4 comes out. This is because the line up of Avengers will change, with some of them presumably getting killed off. Currently the only films on the block after Avengers 4 are a Spider-Man sequel and three untitled movies in 2020. Presumably, we'll find out some of the 2020 films earlier, as they have to film before Avengers 4 debuts. Feige also revealed that the Spider-Man sequel was chosen to be after Avengers 4 so as to lead the way into phase 4 (similar to Iron Man and Civil War).

Pegg Explains Carol Marcus Absence

If you're like me, you probably walked out of Star Trek: Beyond wondering what the heck happened to Carol Marcus. In the original series, Carol is a microbiologist, founder of the Genesis Project, and mother of Kirk's child. She was last seen in Into Darkness, and writer Simon Pegg has explained her absence from Beyond in the latest official Star Trek podcast.

We thought rather than have Carol Marcus be not used to a reasonable capacity, let’s just not include her, have her be alive, in canon, and be ready to come back at any time. I think we had some lines to explain her absence in one of the initial drafts that had her going off to start work on the Genesis project and do sort of very, very early research on that. But it didn’t make it into the final cut.

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Ben Wheatley on Series 8

Ben Wheatley (director of the first two episodes of the upcoming season) has spoken to io9 about the next season of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally it’s dark, it’s always been dark. Even in the more modern ones. If you look at the Tom Baker stuff, it’s especially dark. When he leaves Leela — who’s a very beloved assistant — he just laughs after it. There’s none of the [breaking down and crying]. He just laughs, and “on to the next one,” you know. It’s a bonkers show. It’s a monster. To have a unity that runs eight years [of the new series]… it’s pretty crazy. They’ve done everything, they’ve tried all sorts of stuff. It seems to me the episodes that we’re doing now seem more like classic Who. We’re going back to that style. But you’ll have to wait and see.

With someone like Capaldi, he’s a massive Who fan. He knows Who inside out. And everything he does is very, carefully planned and thought about. I remember when they first started talking to me about doing it, and I was very nervous for just those reasons. How do you shape this performance? But then when I heard who was going to do it — when they told me it was Capaldi, [I thought] that’s not really a problem. He’s so good. I was relieved, pretty much. It would have been a very different situation if it had been another kind of Matt Smith character. A guy who you don’t know. Molded from the start. But with Capaldi, you look at his career and you look at his performances they are all so brilliant, and all so different as well. It was a lucky break for me, I think that.

It was something I sought out. I got my agent to kind of badger them about doing, because I was a fan as a kid. But also because my kid was a fan of the show and I wanted to make something that he could see, for a change. That was it. And it’s been very geeky indeed. Going into the TARDIS, I held the Sonic Screwdriver the other day, and that was a particular thrill. All sorts of stuff. Also stuff I can’t talk about, that’s been very, very exciting for me.