The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: Dark Phoenix doesn’t look so hot~

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This has been the talk of the week: Disney’s possible acquisition of Fox, and damn it seems a deal could happen before Christmas!

Talking about Christmas, here’s the new trailer for the Doctor Who 2017 Christmas Special… and that’s Peter Capaldi’s regeneration. Well thanks for punching me in the heart, BBC!

Here’s the first look at A Series of Unfortunate Events season 2, which will covers books 5 through 9: The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital and The Carnivorous Carnival. Here’s what Neil Patrick Harris, who returns as the villanous Count Olaf, has to say:

Now that we’re in season 2 — and I think the same is true with the books — now the Baudelaires can start to take some control and try and take more action. I think season 2 ends up being a little bigger in its scope and scale, but also allows for a little bit of a more fevered heartbeat from our protagonists.

Here’s our first look at Incredibles 2, where it’s confirmed that the film “picks up, literally, where the first film left off, with Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl battling The Underminer, while Violet and Dash are stuck with babysitting Jack-Jack”, according to writer-director Brad Bird. Holly Hunter also talked about the “full-fledged” journey of her character, Elastigirl, that includes:

A real incredible sense of competitiveness and ambition. She throws down the gauntlet in this one. It’s so much fun to see a woman luxuriating in those two arenas, because women have for so many generations been brought up to not be ambitious or to not be competitive, and it’s fun to see Helen basking in those two arenas in much the same way that we give men license to do.

And here’s Aquaman‘s first look where Jason Momoa is built like a brick shithouse. Pardon my French~ It already looks different from Justice League, which is something some can appreciate! Momoa is also quite hyped over it:

Justice League was only a weekend in Arthur Curry’s life,” Momoa says. “This is a totally different beast. In Aquaman, you see when his parents met and what happened to hem. Then the little boy being raised and finding his powers and going through that and never being accepted on either side. And then becoming this man who puts up all these walls. You just slowly see this man harden up and be completely reluctant wanting to be king and not knowing what to do with these powers he has. I think James Wan just killed it.

Well, Sir Patrick Stewart would love to come back as Captain Picard for a Tarantino Star Trek movie~

One of my dreams is to work with Tarantino. I admire his work so much, and to be in a Tarantino film would give me so much satisfaction. So, if he is going to direct something to do with Star Trek and there was the possibility of dear old Jean-Luc showing up again and doing that for Mr Tarantino, I would embrace it.

The New York times was gracious enough to share this lovely picture of the cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi! I love it! But of course they didn’t reunite them all just to make them sit (or stand) pretty. It’s a nice interview with all of them at the same time. And here’s an interesting tidbit about Snoke and his Hugh Hefner robes, courtesy of Andy Serkis:

There’s a gold lamé layer. The Supreme Leader as Hugh Hefner, that’s something that I particularly grabbed onto. The luxuriousness of it all. The thing about Snoke is, leaders are fearful people, because when you’re in a position of maximum power, you can only lose power. And that fear drives nearly all decisions. That fear then makes you aggressive. It makes you want to destroy others. It makes you unable to see or care about others. But when you’re creating a villain character, it’s about humanizing — there’s something important in the task of creating Snoke to find his vulnerability, because that makes him even more dangerous and despicable.

And to end the week on a high note, and continuing with the Star Wars theme, Oscar Isaac endorses Stormpilot (Finn/Poe ship), and say they “would make nice babies”.

It could be [possible] in this galaxy far, far away. These guys are freaking aliens. We don’t know. We don’t know how it works down there.

This Space Latino has become the Sain Patron of Gender Politics at Tumblr.

And that’s it for the week. Before I go, I want to wish Happy Birthday to Lucy Liu, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, Jeff Bridges, Nicholas Hoult and Dominic Monaghan.

mirella

YAM Magazine geek resident. Cloud Cuckoolander. Seldom web developer. Graphic designer.

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