The writer of Lost Originally planned to kill their main character, Jack Shepherd, in the pilot episode (and the show would have been much worse off if they had). when Lost was first in development, Michael Keaton was cast as Jack. In the original script, Jack had more or less the same role he had in the final product, but he would not survive the pilot. The idea was to shock audiences by killing the biggest star in the cast – the one they were led to believe would be the main character of the series – in the very…
Author: Ben Sherlock
Saul Goodman’s post-Breaking bad Career as a manager at Cinnabon is just ridiculous enough to work in Better call SaulBut the original plan would have been a little too silly. in Breaking bads incredible penultimate episode – season 5, episode 15, “Granite State” – Walter White had to reluctantly stay in a basement with his slimmer lawyer for a couple of days while they waited for “disappear”Ed Galbraith to sort them out with new identities. Saul told Walt that the “Best-case scenario”For his new life would be”Managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.” When Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould teamed up to…
Still watching It’s what’s inside On Netflix, there’s another great atmospheric horror comedy to check out: Bodies bodies bodies. Written and directed by Greg Jardin, the body-swapping caper It’s what’s inside Takes place at a pre-wedding party where a friendship group’s good time is cut short by a surprise guest with a mysterious suitcase and a mind-bending game that threatens to tear them apart. After premiering in the midnight section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival in January, It’s what’s inside Was quickly snapped up by Netflix for worldwide distribution. with afresh”Rotten Tomatoes score of 81%, It’s what’s inside Has…
Rachel McAdams is currently in talks to star in Sam Raimi’s new thriller Send helpAnd it will mark her first appearance in a horror film in 19 years. Send help is described as a cross between Tom Hanks’ survival drama Throw away And Stephen King’s novel unhappinessSo it sounds like it’s going to be a psychological horror two-hander set on a remote island. This will be Raimi’s first straightforward horror movie since 2009’s Supernatural Chiller Drag me to hellAs he has been focused on big-budget franchise installments since then. The potential casting of McAdams Send help is an exciting prospect.…
Sitcom weddings are usually an uplifting and heartwarming occasion, however Peeps show Flips this trope on its head with the most uncomfortable marriage in television history. In season 3, episode 6, “Quantocking,” one of Peeps shows best episodes, Mark Corrigan was planning to propose to his on-and-off girlfriend Sophie Chapman and ultimately decided against it – but not before Sophie found the ring and accepted a proposal that was never given. All throughout season 4, Mark and Sophie planned a wedding that Mark secretly did not want to go through with. It all culminated in the season 4 finale -…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part II. I think I understood when The last of us Season 2 will end – and it will be the perfect stopping point for the ambitious adaptation of the TV series Part II. Since HBO’s The last of us Confirmed to be splitting the story of the second game into more than one season, there has been a lot of discussion about when the TV show will take a break. There are several options; If it follows the adventures of Eli and Abby simultaneously in Seattle, it may break…
The Fall The end of the movie provides a nail-biting climax to a deep, high-stakes story of survival that leaves some questions unanswered and some deeper meanings ambiguous. Fall Revolves around a sad mountain climber named Becky whose husband Dan fell to his death. A year later, her friend Hunter suggests climbing to the top of a decommissioned 2,000-foot television tower to scatter his ashes, and Becky agrees in the hope that it will help her move on. However, they ironically end up fighting for their own lives when they are stranded at the top with dwindling hope of survival.…
From Dallas getting mauled to Parker getting impaled, the character deaths in Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien Movies – especially the ones in the hands of the pesky xenomorph – are horribly gory. In the years since, the Alien Franchise has explored everything in the genre space from high-octane action thriller to philosophical sci-fi epic. But Scott’s original film is a mix of haunted house movie and slasher movie. It’s an Agatha Christie crossed with a monster movie. And as such, it is constructed as a series of gruesome deaths as the crew of the Nostromo is brutally picked off.…
With a lot of the same talent both in front of and behind the camera, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is always bound to be similar to Wednesday — but it has a few specific references to the hit Netflix show. Released 36 years after the original film, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was Tim Burton’s follow-up project to Wednesday Season 1, which saw his long-awaited return to the macabre (and led to his biggest success in years). Burton knocked Wednesday Showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar to write the sequel’s script and cast Wednesday Addams herself, Jenna Ortega, to play Lydia Detz’s rebellious teenage daughter,…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part II. Pedro Pascal’s most heartbreaking Joel scene from The last of us Season 1 will make the character’s season 2 storyline even sadder than it already is in the game. Pascal faithfully adapted all the dimensions that made Troy Baker’s Joel from the player such a familiar character: he is a grieving father who has closed himself off emotionally to avoid getting hurt again; He is a hardened survivor who has to become a cold-blooded killer to keep himself and his younger brother Tommy alive in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.…