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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...

The release of Top Gun: Maverick has kept star Tom Cruise busy. With the film at top of mind, the action star is having fun with his promos, recently taking on two ex-Formula 1 drivers on the iconic British Grand Prix Silverstone race track. Cruise caught up with Channel 4 Sport for a “dogfight” on the track between himself and David Coulthard and Mark Webber. All three are driving a Porsche 911 GT3 as they speak about being each other’s wingmen. Known for doing all his stunts, Cruise knows a thing or two about maneuvering high-speed vehicles. As the trio begins their race, scenes from his newest film Maverick are intertwined with shots from the actual race on the track. Cruise gets into character to deliver some of his most iconic lines as he takes on the two former racers on the Silverst...

Building up anticipation for Maestro starring Bradley Cooper, Netflix recently shared set photos from its upcoming original film. The movie serves as a biographical film based on the life of American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator Leonard Bernstein. Maestro is co-written and directed by Bradley Cooper and produced by Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Todd Phillips. Bernstein is best known for his work in the Broadway musical West Side Story and is considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time. The set photos show Bradley Cooper both playing a young Leonard Bernstein alongside Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre, and serving as director. But many are talking about the prosthetic transformation used to age Cooper to play an aged Bernst...

The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau confirmed during Star Wars Celebration that they are already working on the fourth season, despite the third season not being release until early 2023. When speaking to CinemaBlend, Favreau shared that the process of writing the script of the fourth season is already in the works. He praised how much he is enjoying the television format, claiming that he can touch on many aspects of things slowly without cramming everything up into “hour-and-a-half, two hours,” adding, “We get to tell stories slowly. So now, as Dave [Filoni]‘s doing Ahsoka, it’s very much informing the writing that I’m doing for [The Mandalorian] Season 4. It becomes – how should I put it – more precise.” “When I was writing the first season of Mandalorian, I could do anything,...

Following the recent announcement from Disney+ that season three of The Mandalorian will premiere in February 2023, star Pedro Pascal has revealed that he would like to take the adventures of the helmeted hero to the big screens. Pascal, who plays Din Djarin, has explained to Variety that he is ready for his character to receive a film adaptation. He responded, “Don’t you think it’s inevitable? I, personally, I have no, truly, I have no idea, but that would be a dream come true. Not that any more dreams could possibly come true! Maybe I’ve had my fill.” While Pascal revealed very little on what he expects the direction of his character should take, he showed great enthusiasm for extending the series drama to a full-length film, “I love going to the movies. Going back and just being able to...

Flea made his Star Wars debut with a special appearance in Obi-Wan Kenobi, which just premiered on Disney+. Readers who have yet to watch the two-episode premiere should be warned of the spoilers ahead. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist portrayed the role of a bounty hunter hired by Third Sister Reva Severand, played by Moses Ingram, to kidnap 10-year-old Princess Leia, played by Vivien Lyra Blair, from Alderaan. Ewan McGregor‘s Obi-Wan goes to rescue Leia after her adoptive father asks for this big favor, leading him straight to Reva. Flea’s character supposedly meets his demise in the second episode, and it remains to be seen if he returns in the future. Obi-Wan Kenobi marks Flea’s first acting role of 2022, but he is also expected to appear in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, which will premi...

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has provided an interesting update on an upcoming project in the National Treasure franchise. In a recent reddit AMA for Top Gun: Maverick, a user asked if the producer had “[a]ny plans to work with Nicolas Cage again any time soon,” to which Bruckheimer responded, “Absolutely. I love Nicolas, he’s a brilliant actor and we are currently working on a script for National Treasure.” Although he did not disclose if the script is for National Treasure 3 or the TV series, it seems likely that Cage will be returning to that franchise at one point. In March 2021, it was confirmed that a National Treasure TV series was in the works over at Disney+ with a younger cast. Production began in February 2022 and in April, it was announced that Justin Bartha will be reprising his...

Taika Waititi‘s upcoming film in the Star Wars universe could be releasing in 2023. In a recent interview with Total Film, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy shared that while a release month is not yet confirmed, the Waititi project will most likely hit theaters in late 2023. She added that they are still focused on creating movies in the Star Wars universe that will tie in with the TV series, “As we leave the saga, we have all this great, exciting work happening on the television side that informs so much about where we’re going. We want to be very intentional about that. And we have great talent that we’re working with – people who care so deeply about what the next iteration of Star Wars is and about getting people back into movie theatres, so we can really come out with a bang. That...