correspond out brand newfangled looks at X - Men Apocalypse and Ghostbusters . Benedict Cumberbatch almost did n’t deal to asterisk in Doctor Strange . Kristen Bell heads to iZombie . Plus , loads of novel glimpses of Shadowhunters , and the counter of Supergirl . spoiler Now !
Ever since The Force Awakens loose , conjecture has been rife about the genuine identity of the saga ’s biggest new villain : Supreme Leader Snoke , the head of the First Order . The current prevailing hypothesis sweeping the net — and thus commence to make its way into the Star Wars media cycle — is that Snoke is in fact Darth Plagueis , the Sith Lord who trained Palpatine and had allegedly discovered the key to holding back death through the force .
Although Snoke does share some ocular similarities with Plagueis , the “ evidence ” rooter are change by reversal to are a comparability of similarities between John William ’s motif for Snoke in The Force Awakens and the music that plays during a scene in Revenge of the Sith where Palapatine discusses Plagueis with Anakin ( viaRadio Times ):
But so far give-and-take of Snoke ’s indistinguishability from prescribed sources has all but denied the contact between the two grapheme . Andy Serkis has saidin the pastthat the lineament is completely new to the Star Wars universe , but more latterly the art bookThe Art of Star warfare : The Force Awakens revealedthat at some detail the output squad were considering that Snoke could be a female — which would dominate out the male Plagueis pretty speedily , and the fact that it was under consideration does seem to imply that there is n’t any existent link between the two villains .
Lawrence Kasdan discuss how Rian Johnson ’s motion picture will differ to The Force Awakens :
These movies will all be so different . [ “ Episode VIII ” theater director ] Rian Johnson is a friend of mine — he ’s going to make some weird affair . If you ’ve seen Rian ’s work , you know it ’s not going be like anything that ’s ever been in Star Wars . You could n’t have three more different masses than J.J. , Rian and Colin [ Trevorrow , Episode IX managing director ] .
[ The Independent ]
Kevin Feige say that the movie almost travel beforehand without Cumberbatch in the lead role :
He was someone that we were very concerned in for a very long metre . [ But ] he kept make more and more popular ! He stay fresh get more popular , and more popular , and he keep puzzle busier , and busier , and it looked like the timing was n’t going to work . So we looked at some other doer for a while and in the end decided , ‘ We have to try and make it work with Benedict and with his schedule . ’
[ Entertainment Weekly ]
Entertainment Weeklyhave put out a Modern image from the film , and a abbreviated description hinting at some of the ghosts that the team will face :
utter malefactor from all eras of New York ’s underbelly past have returned to perch among the bread and butter in Paul Feig ’s Ghostbusters reboot . Pilgrims , old-timey Panama hat , Revolutionary War spirits , and even a couple of zoot-suited gangster are quick to take on four formidable female busters look to rid the city of its phantasmic nastiness .
Empirehas an sole new still of Eddie Redmayne in the film :
And back toEntertainment Weekly , this time for a Modern spell of concept nontextual matter of Magneto using some extremely enhance versions of his power , as well as an explanation from Bryan Singer as to what Revelation does to his “ Horsemen ” :
One of Apocalypse ’s many powers is he can imbue other mutation with greater ones . Magneto [ Michael Fassbender ] is demonstrating a small mouthful of what he can do now . Magneto is already enormously powerful … Now Apocalypse gives him mightiness far beyond what we ’ve seen before .
And now to both Empire and Entertainment Weekly ! First up , Empirehas a unexampled promo painting of Deadpool on their January cover , alongside a promo for the issue featuring Ryan Reynolds in character :
Meanwhile , Entertainment Weeklyhas two new pictures from the moving picture : Deadpool fighting Ajax ( Ed Skrein ) , and Ryan Reynold ’s abs .
Kristen Bell will be teaming up with former Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the show , but only for a cameo — Bell will lend her interpreter in a presently unrevealed function to Episode 11 , entitle “ Fifty Shades of Grey Matter , ” an episode where Liv easts the brain of a privy erotic fiction novelist . [ Entertainment Weekly ]
Jed Whedon teases how Daisy ’s human relationship with Ward will have left an impingement on the Inhuman creature inhabiting the former SHIELD / Hydra Agent ’s beat body :
It could be , that ’s a good theory . We know that Will ’s memory lived on , so some of that could carry . As I ’m sure you have venture , it ’s pass away to get complicated . Spoiler alert , it ’s going to get complicated .
Here ’s a fresh promo for the show ’s midseason return , “ Blood Bonds ” , teasing Kara find Hank ’s rightful identity and Cat Grant needling Kara about her own secret identity operator :
A gallery of pictures for episode six , “ Retrofit ” , has been released — more at the link . [ Spoiler TV ]
Even more promo pictures , this clip for “ Bewitched , Bothered , and Belittled ” and “ Giants vs Dwarves”—goherefor more from the former , andherefor more from the latter .
Finally , a bevy of videos for the serial have been released , inaugurate the principal characters on the show :
extra reportage by Gordon Jackson and Charlie Jane Anders . Image : Star Wars : The Force Awakens .
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