Star Wars: Jon Watts Reportedly Chosen for the Next Skywalker Saga Film
The Skywalker Saga may not be finished after all. Jon Watts, the director behind Tom Holland’s Spider-Man trilogy and co-creator of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, has reportedly been selected to direct the first film in Simon Kinberg’s planned new Star Wars trilogy. Current reports describe the project as a continuation of the Skywalker Saga and potentially the long-discussed Episode X. There is one very important catch, however. Lucasfilm has not officially announced Watts as director yet. So while this appears to be considerably more substantial than an ordinary internet rumour, fans should still treat it as a reported development rather
Star Wars is turning Thrawn’s origin story into a manga
Grand Admiral Thrawn has had one of the strangest journeys in Star Wars. He began as a novel character, disappeared from official continuity after Disney reset the Expanded Universe, returned through animation, entered live action and is now heading into another format entirely. Star Wars: Thrawn (The Manga), Vol. 1 will be published by Random House Worlds on 29 September 2026. The book adapts Timothy Zahn's 2017 canon novel Thrawn, with Man Tsang handling the manga adaptation. Back to the beginning The story explores Thrawn before he became one of the Empire's most dangerous military minds. It begins around the
Avengers: Endgame Is Back in Cinemas — With New Connections to Doomsday
Marvel has done something unusual with one of the biggest movies ever made. Seven years after Avengers: Endgame brought the Infinity Saga to an emotional conclusion, the film has returned to cinemas as Avengers: Endgame Encore. But this isn't simply Marvel putting an old blockbuster back on the big screen. The new release contains additional material connecting Endgame with Avengers: Doomsday. In other words, Marvel has taken what was once the ending of its biggest story and turned it into part of the setup for its next one. Endgame isn't quite over anymore The original Avengers: Endgame felt remarkably final. Tony Stark sacrificed
Movie Villains Who Actually Had a Point (They Were Just… Very Dramatic About It)
Villains in movies have a habit of ruining their own argument. Not because their point is bad, but because somewhere between “I have a valid concern” and “here’s my plan,” they take a hard left into kidnapping, elaborate traps or trying to destroy civilisation. That’s the tragedy of a good villain. Sometimes, if they had just calmed down and spoken to someone — maybe over coffee, maybe in therapy — they could have resolved the whole thing in under an hour and saved everyone a lot of trouble. But then we wouldn’t have a movie. And if we are being
Has Resident Evil finally found the right way to become a movie?
Resident Evil has spent more than two decades trying to work out what it wants to be on the big screen. Paul W.S. Anderson's films turned the games into increasingly enormous action spectacles centred on Milla Jovovich's Alice. Welcome to Raccoon City attempted a more recognisable recreation of game locations and characters. Now Barbarian and Weapons filmmaker Zach Cregger has taken a third route. His new Resident Evil opened in cinemas on 18 September 2026, starring Austin Abrams as Bryan, a medical courier who finds himself entering a nightmare around Raccoon City. The crucial difference is that Cregger is not
The new Hunger Games trailer shows just how brutal Haymitch’s story will be
We have known Haymitch Abernathy for years as the cynical, damaged mentor who attempts to keep Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark alive. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is taking us back to the event that helped make him that man. A new trailer for the film arrived this week, giving fans another substantial look at Joseph Zada as the teenage Haymitch during the 50th Hunger Games, better known as the Second Quarter Quell. And this was not a normal year in the arena. Instead of the usual 24 tributes, the Capitol demanded 48. Haymitch before the drinking and
Alan Ritchson could replace Jason Momoa in the Helldivers movie – but the deal is not final
Sony's Helldivers movie has found a potential new recruit. Alan Ritchson, best known to many viewers as Jack Reacher in Prime Video's Reacher, is in talks to join the film adaptation of Arrowhead Game Studios' enormously successful science-fiction shooter franchise. The important phrase is in talks. Ritchson has not, as of 25 September 2026, been formally announced by Sony as the movie's new lead. What happened to Jason Momoa? Jason Momoa was announced as the star of Helldivers earlier in 2026, with Sony setting a 10 November 2027 theatrical release. Fast & Furious filmmaker Justin Lin is directing. By June,
The Lunar Chronicles: An In-Depth Exploration of Marissa Meyer’s Dystopian Fairy Tale Retellings
Introduction Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles is a bestselling young adult science-fiction series that reimagines classic fairy tales in a futuristic world of cyborgs, androids, political conflict, plague, and rebellion. The main sequence includes Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter, with Fairest serving as a prequel focused on Queen Levana and Stars Above collecting short stories connected to the series. The wider universe also includes the graphic novel duology Wires and Nerve, which follows Iko after the events of the main novels. Blending Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White with dystopian science fiction, Meyer creates a story about
Is John Wick Trapped in the Matrix? The Fan Theory That Changes Everything
What if Neo never truly escaped the Matrix? It sounds like the kind of wild fan theory that belongs on a Reddit thread, but the more you compare The Matrix and John Wick, the harder it becomes to ignore the similarities. After all, both franchises star Keanu Reeves as a seemingly ordinary man who turns out to be something far more extraordinary. Both worlds are governed by hidden rules, controlled by unseen powers, and filled with characters who exist beneath the surface of everyday society. Officially, the two franchises have absolutely no connection. But that's never stopped fans from asking
Alien: Romulus Sequel Is Still Happening — But With a Twist
The Alien franchise is very much alive and moving forward. After the strong performance of Alien: Romulus in 2024, a sequel was quickly put into development. The film earned over 351 million dollars worldwide on a budget of around 80 million and was widely praised for steering the franchise back toward raw, claustrophobic horror. That success made a continuation almost inevitable. Director Fede Álvarez, who directed and co-wrote Romulus with Rodo Sayagues, initially confirmed that a sequel script was in progress and that filming could begin as early as late 2025. At the time, it looked like he would return