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Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy has addressed the fan questions surrounding the sexuality of Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers. Readers who have yet to watch season four should be warned of the spoilers ahead. While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Levy did not directly answer the question of whether Will is gay but instead gave the explanation that they provide “clear intention and strategy and real thought” for each character. ”Without getting into where we go later in Season 4 [Volume 2], I guess I’ll just say that there aren’t many accidents on Stranger Things,” the producer said. “There is clear intention and strategy and real thought given to each and every character. So, if you came away from Volume 1 feeling those bread crumbs of plot and character, it’s probably no accident.” Re...

Disney+ on Tuesday dropped off the first official teaser trailer for its upcoming live-action remake of Pinocchio, starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto. While the preview only features a short glimpse at the titular toy (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth), it does see Hanks’ puppet-maker carving Pinocchio from a block of wood and making a fateful wish upon a star for the toy to be brought to life by the Blue Fairy (Cynthia Erivo). The visual also places an emphasis on Jiminy Cricket, voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who receives ample screentime while encountering several fantastical storybook characters. Alongside Hanks, Ainsworth, Erivo and Gordon-Levitt, the cast includes Luke Evans as the evil Coachman, Keegan-Michael Key as Honest John and Lorraine Bracco as Sofia the Seagull, among others. The f...

Ahead of Amazon Prime’s The Boys Season 3 dropping on Friday, HYPEBEAST sat down with Karl Urban, the actor who brings the show’s revenge-driven, comic book anti-hero, Billy Butcher, to life. Since breaking out in the Lord of the Rings trilogy twenty years ago, Urban has become a mainstay of big-budget genre cinema, starring in sci-fi institutions including Dredd, the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot and Thor: Ragnarok. In the show – an adaption of Garth Ennis’ controversial comic book series – Billy assembles the titular crew to bring down any ‘Supes’ that abuse their powers, but his ultimate target is Homelander, a completely unhinged take on Superman. At the beginning of Season 3, Billy is being uncharacteristically well-behaved, that can’t last for long, can it? “Billy is on a ...

West Side Story lead Rachel Zegler is slated to star as Lucy Gray Baird in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Zegler will join Tom Blyth, who was recently confirmed for the role of young Coriolanus Snow in the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel. The film will follow an 18-year-old Snow, years prior to his stint as the tyrannical President of Panem, according to an official logline. “With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12,” the description continues. “But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their fav...