Mufasa: The Lion King will continue Disney's beloved live-action Lion King franchise with a prequel about the rise of Mufasa and how he became the powerful and wise ruler who taught Simba everything he knew. Following the success of Jon Favreau's 2019 live-action remake The Lion KingOscar winner Barry Jenkins will direct this Mufasa prequel that will cover Simba's father before he became king of Pride Rock, as well as the beginning of his intense relationship with his brother Scar. Serving as a live-action version of the 1994 animated classic, The Lion King became Disney's biggest remake when it debuted…
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Frasier Season 2 Episode 9 may have permanently ended talk of a romance between Frasier Crane and Roz Doyle. The idea of Frasier and Roz getting together goes back to the original show. By their very nature as two close characters in a sitcom, the show naturally toyed with the idea (though not to the same degree as Niles Crane and Daphne Moon), although it mostly seemed to opt to keep them friends. However, there were some exceptions. Frasier Season 7 Episode 18, 'Hot Pursuit', explored the sexual tension between them while sharing a hotel room. So finally, they slept…
Game of Thrones may be coming to the big screen, with a film in development at Warner Bros. But does this mean that there will actually be a direct continuation of the show, with members of Game of Thrones' cast returning? Right now, the plan is only in the early stages, with no director, writer, or actor attached, which means in theory, it could be anything. However, while there are many stories to draw from, only a few would make sense - or rather, be big enough - as a theatrical release. This could be something like Robert's Rebellion or…
Contains discussion of sexual assault. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for episode 7 Disclaimer.Disclaimer episode 7 finally reveals what really happened between Catherine Ravenscroft and Jonathan Brigstocke, but the truth was hiding in plain sight the whole time. DisclaimerCatherine's ending allows Catherine to tell her version of events over Italy - and there is no doubt that this is the TRUE version. Jonathan began stalking her on the beach and at the hotel, and after she returned to her hotel room, he entered and sexually assaulted her. It's a shocking and horrific twist, but it makes sense in the broader context of…
ONE Game of Thrones film in early development at Warner Bros., naturally raising questions about what it will be. There are many potential stories from George RR Martin's world of Ice and Fire, dating back thousands and thousands of years before. Game of Thrones'timeline. Whether in Westeros, Essos or one of the areas not yet portrayed on screen, the possibilities, in theory, are almost endless. In practice, however, the story is different. A movie not only has to convince people to watch it on HBO, where it's an established TV franchise, but they also have to pay even more to…
ONE Game of Thrones the film is in development at Warner Bros., and they may have already found the perfect project. HBO Was Exploring Potential Spinoffs Even Before Game of Thrones' ending in 2019, and it's just beginning. So far, one program has aired (Dragon House), and another will debut in 2025 (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), but there is much more to come. Among the Game of Thrones The ongoing spinoffs are a show about Aegon's Conquest and another about Corlys Velaryon's great travels around the known world. With the original program acclaimed for its cinematic spectacle, it's…
Tyrion Lannister has one of the best stories in Game of Thronesbut it could have been very different based on George RR Martin's original ideas. Tyrion is one of the characters who survived from the beginning to the end of Game of Thrones. Few have typified the show's title better, as Tyrion's journey has taken him from King's Landing to Meereen and all the way back, serving as Hand of the King/Queen to no less than three different monarchs and being a true lover of the game. That, at least, was true all along in Martin's vision for the character.…
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for episode 6 Disclaimer.Disclaimer Episode 6 ends with one of the series' biggest cliffhangers yet, as things begin to come to a head between Catherine Revenscroft (Cate Blanchett) and Stephen Brigstocke (Kevin Kline). The truth about what happened between Catherine and Jonathan (Louis Partridge) in Disclaimer has not yet been fully revealed, but the sixth and penultimate episode begins to distort the narrative of the events portrayed in the book The perfect strangerand perhaps towards reality. Throughout the episode, flashbacks to Italy in DisclaimerThe past-to-now timeline is narrated by Blanchett herself, allowing Catherine to tell her side…
Jaime Lannister is a great Game of Thrones character, but the original plan for him would have been very different - and, perhaps, worse. Jaime started the show (and before that, the A Song of Ice and Fire book series) as a clear villain: a dashing, sword-wielding, king-slayer, sister-loving rogue. Put Game of ThronesIn the end, things were much more complicated: still dashing, no longer so good at wielding a sword, the king's murder contained a hidden tragedy, and both loved it. and He hated his sister and hated himself in good measure. From pushing Bran Stark out of a…
Amazon Fourth wing Adaptation will enter a fantasy television realm where Game of Thrones is still the gold standard, but it has one advantage over HBO's hit series. The Fourth wing TV show was confirmed just a few months after Rebecca Yarros' book of the same name, the first in the Empyrean series, was published in May 2023, although there has not been too much movement in the series since then. It has a showrunner - Moira Walley-Beckett (producer and writer on Breaking bad) - but the actual production stage seems a long way off. This is not necessarily a…