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(Thor's ex-girlfriend Jane, once played by Natalie Portman, is written out of the franchise in one line.)

Not exact matches

The multi-stranded plot of The Last Jedi allows writer / director Rian Johnson to ease out the Star Wars veterans to concentrate on the next generation of the franchise, but not before a fitting farewell to Carrie Fisher, writes Alistair Harkness.

Given that the plot motor is Thanos's worry that the universe is overpopulated, sly self - awareness is shown as the filmmakers embrace drastic solutions to the problems of braiding multiple franchises into one — though some jiggery - pokery with Dr Strange's time - juggling amulet (and Cumberbatch's knowing line readings) suggest any shocking plot developments can be rolled back later, especially with sequels in development for characters who seem to be permanently written out in a tragic finale that's also an old - fashioned cliffhanger.

Written and Directed by Rian Johnson — the first to do both since Lucas himself produced the prequels — THE LAST JEDI is both a departure from standard STAR WARS storytelling and seeks to retell several elements of the franchise's best moments, none of which are carried out quite as well.

Rocky made him an instant star, but Stallone continued to work behind the scenes, writing numerous films and directing many of them: he debuted as director with Paradise Alley (1978), directed four out of the six Rocky films, made the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive (1983), directed 2008's Rambo, and launched a new franchise with 2010's The Expendables.

«We have a lot of fun surprises in store with our movie and what an opportunity for us to smartly build out our beloved Fast and Furious franchise with our spinoff,» writes Johnson.

Before I dwell into the toxic realm of writing the review, I would like to point out to Mr.C that Wayans bros have seized working on this franchise long before.

When asked about the challenges of making K - 2SO stand out from the other already iconic droids of the franchise, Tudyk said that «it was written really distinctly,» and that his Imperial background helped shape how he'd stand apart from the protocol or astromech droids we've seen in the past:

That landed him right at the deep end, hired by Leonardo DiCaprio «s Appian Way company to adapt an Atlantic Monthly article into «The Infiltrator,» a thriller about a British spy undercover in the I.R.A. Again, that film's not yet made it out of development hell, but it worked, as Zetumer is perhaps the only man to have written for two of the biggest espionage franchises — he did a script polish on 007 entry «Quantum of Solace,» and was hired by Universal (albeit without the knowledge of Paul Greengrass, hence the director's exit from the franchise) to write an unused draft for a fourth «Bourne «movie.

Shane Black directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and that's enough, but for those of you out there needing more credentials he also wrote Lethal Weapon, The Last Action Hero and The Long Kiss Goodnight and each of those movies play perfectly into what Iron Man as a franchise wants to accomplish.

In fact, it was Kinberg that brought the book to Drew Goddard («Cabin In The Woods»), the writer / director wrote what Kinberg calls an «incredible script» and Goddard was going to helm it, but because of his obligations to the «Spider - Man» franchise (he's directing the «Sinister Six» movie), he had to bow out.

«We decided we wanted to plot out the next 10 years of the Transformers franchise, so we got together in a three month period of time... nine of some of the most creative writers I have ever worked with — shepherded by Akiva Goldsman, who many of you may know won an Academy Award for A Beautiful Mind, and written a bunch of great movies.

It might feel a bit cynical to write off character deaths because of external factors like franchise potential and actors» contracts, but the MCU is a multibillion - dollar enterprise: These deaths feel exploitative because they wiped out nearly every young star that matters, and the MCU can't possibly survive in the long term without reverse - engineering this event.

Halo Evolved: The Future of the Franchise Written by Kyle Williams on 02/12/09 Halo Week closes out with our speculative look at the twists and turns the franchise could take in thFranchise Written by Kyle Williams on 02/12/09 Halo Week closes out with our speculative look at the twists and turns the franchise could take in thfranchise could take in the future.

I could write 20 + pages of why you should get this game and why it is as close to a perfect game you could ever come by but as mentioned in the start of this review, if you don't already own this game you are either waiting for the PC release or you just hate the franchise, that is the only two reasons I could possible think of as to why you would miss out on such an incredible game that is GTA V. Game of the year contender on many, many gamers lists worldwide, no doubt.

If you have been on this blog and read my writing over the years you would know that I'm a huge fan of SEGA's Yakuza franchise and was really pleased to hear that they decided to bring over Yakuza 5 even though it's been out since 2012 in Japan.

Actually now I'm kind of laughing a bit at myself as I'm writing this because in retrospect I've seen worse things depicted in the Silent Hill franchise over the years but here this one little panel (no I am not posting it you will have to see it when you read the comic) is totally grossing me out!

Written by Ethan Buck BagoGames.com Diablo 3 was my first game of the franchise and although I didn't know much about the series at first, I found out from other fans what the staples of a good Diablo game -LSB-...]

Brawlout — Review PC, Switch G * Note * Updates have already begun to roll out for Brawlout on PC, but as of the time of writing, those same patches are yet to hit the Switch version Nintendo struck gold when it launched the Super Smash Bros. franchise in 1999, but save for one not especially successful -LSB-...]