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Han Solo Is Dead! Long Live Han Solo! The New Han Solo Has Been Cast!

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Looks like the casting of the new young Han Solo has been completed, and it is Alden Ehrenreich.  Apparently Disney filed through just about every actor between 20 and 30 to find their man.  Looking through his credits the only thing I have seen him in was Supernatural ten years ago…oh and Beautiful Creatures…, meaning he would have been just 15 or 16 for Supernatural and everyone phoned it in for Beautiful Creatures, so it is safe to say I have no opinion about him either way.  He will just need to grow his hair out a bit.

Despite my lack of knowledge of him he has been on the upswing with movies like Stoker, Blue Jasmin, and Hail Caesar!  And young barely known yet talented indie actors are a Star Wars casting staple.  According to rumors we may catch a glimpse of him in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.  I am guessing if we do he will be in some seedy bar with our favorite Wookiee friend.

I am not a huge fan of prequel origin stories, but I do wish him the best, and I hope he does Han Solo proud come May 2018.

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Why Hasn’t Season 2 Of Supergirl Been Announced? Money!

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Supergirl had quite the year.  It started off slow and way to cheesy, but it ended up being my favorite superhero show.  However, despite solid but not great ratings CBS has not yet decided to pick up the show for a second season because they feel it is too expensive, and they want Warner Brothers to slash the budget.  Of course with the current budget the special effects on Supergirl have still been dodgy at times, so Warner Brothers doesn’t want make them any worse.

The Wrap is saying that if Warner Brothers does have to cut the budget that they would want to move the show to the CW were they would have more control over the future of the series, and so they could further integrate the Girl of Steel in to the Arrowverse.  Though both sides like the show on a major network, so getting it renewed on CBS is still plan ‘A’.

I honestly don’t care either way as long as Supergirl comes back next year.  While I like the higher production values CBS’s money brings to the table, The Flash crossover proved how much fun it would be to have Kara in the Arrowverse.  Maybe there could be some sort of Crisis on say multiple Earths to make her a permanent Earth One resident?  The end of May is quickly approaching, so we will not have to wait too much longer to find out Supergirl’s fate.

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Star War: Rebels Is Why We Need Shorter TV Seasons!

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I know Rebels ended over a month ago, but I had to catch up on my DVR, and today is Star Wars day, so the timing is perfect!  Star Wars: Rebels had a 15 episode season last year and it most mostly great.  This season they got a full order of 22 episodes, and there was a lot more filler.  Don’t get me wrong there was still some really good stuff in there, but not every episode was must watch, and worse still it seemed like some of the episodes covered things we had already seen before.

That being the case the season finale was still amazing.  It tied in threads from The Clone Wars, Knights of the Old Republic, The Force Awakens and of course the original trilogy, and it all made sense!  It also managed to make the call to the Dark Side truly seem alluring.  If it is the way to gain more power and save your friends why wouldn’t you?  To the uninitiated it seems a lot more helpful than being a non-feeling stuck-up do-nothing jerk of a Jedi.

Star Wars: Rebels would be a better series if they cut out all the fluff.  If this was a focused 10-12 episode series it could be one of the best on TV.  Though I understand the reasoning for its longer run with Star Wars being so hot right now, so Rebels is a money printing machine, and like the finale proved it can still wow its audience.  I just wish that was every episode, not every other.  Who knows maybe they will find a little more meat next season and I will be asking for even more episodes, but I doubt it.

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Looks Like They Are Going Ahead With That Tomb Raider Movie After All…

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While the internet is freaking out wondering if Alicia Vikander is physical enough to be the first lady of video games, I am just amazed that they are actually going to go ahead with this movie.

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First off let me get this out of the way, Alicia Vikander (pictured above) will be fine as Lara Croft.  She is an Oscar winner and very talented, and she looks very similar to the new young and athletic Lara Croft from the rebooted Tomb Raider franchise.  To say that she can’t do an action movie because she has never done one is bull crap.  You hear me internet!  If the script is good, she will be too, but that is the problem I am having.  Video game movies up till now have been terrible.  Not because the source material is bad, but for some reason writers have had a hard time translating games to a non-interactive medium.

The first Tomb Raider movies staring Angalina Jolie were at best so-so, and sadly that ranks them amongst the top of the video game to movie heap.  They also only did at best so-so business at the box-office.  Again that sadly ranks them at the top, so why are studios so excited to jump back in?  I know they are out of ideas, but I am getting sick and tired of good games getting crappy movies because picture people don’t understand the medium they are converting to the big screen, and nothing I have seen recently has proved to me that they are getting any better at it.

If there was ever a video game character that should be easy to bring to life via film it would be Lara Croft, but they are going to screw it up.  They are going to go all in on some weird mystic stuff and leave out all the adventure, fun and charm.  Then they are going to panic and put poor Alicia Vikander in something sexy and tight to try and cover up that their script didn’t work out.  In other words we are getting another Tomb Raider movie, and I think the two we got were more than enough.