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3 Body Problem’s Creators on the Challenges of Adapting a Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Though Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss know a thing or two about adapting much-loved novels for the screen, their new series, created with Alexander Woo, presented some fresh challenges. Netflix’s 3 Body Problem draws from Liu Cixin’s award-winning The Three-Body Problem, as well as—out of necessity—the other books in his Remembrance of…
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How The Creator Became Gareth Edwards’ Love Letter to Sci-Fi Movies
Gareth Edwards’ new film, The Creator, is filled with nods and winks to all of your favourite sci-fi movies: Star Wars, 2001, Aliens, Blade Runner, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, you name it. Some filmmakers might be coy about that fact, but Edwards is 100% unapologetic about it. “I thought this might be the last…
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Spanish Speakers Are Sharing Their Hilarious Reactions to Netflix’s Chupa
Netflix’s upcoming film Chupa is a re-imagination of a creature that has haunted the nightmares of many Latin American children for at least three decades: el chupacabras. Aka the goat sucker.
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Transformers: Earthspark Twists the Franchise In a Great Way
The new Transformers animated series, Earthspark, is doing a lot of things that might make dyed-in-the-wool fans wary at first. It’s a family show, in that its primary focus is on its robotic heroes as they sit hand-in-hand with two young kids and their parents. It’s also not about Autobot/Decepticon conflict, in so much as…