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Read Sir Ian McKellen’s Fascinating Lord of the Rings Production Blogs

Did you know Sir Ian McKellen has a blog? I didn’t until recently, and it’s a fact that has brought a lot of enjoyment ever since. Like, for instance, his extremely wholesome and compelling production blogs describing his experience creating The Lord of the Rings. Recently, McKellen shared these blogs on Twitter, a reminder to … Continued

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Finds a New Hero in a Young Ned Stark

The New Mutants is PG-13, and always has been, according to Josh Boone. New set pictures from The Batman could give a mysterious glimpse at Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne. Oliver Queen becomes the Spectre in new ,  art. Plus, new looks at Batwoman and Riverdale’s returns. Spoilers, away! The Purge 5 Deadline reports Lee Rambin … Continued

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Facebook Guy Confused About Lord of the Rings, Many Other Subjects

Getting answers is, in part, what journalism is about, so it gives me no pleasure to state upfront that I have none where Facebook hardware czar and resident loudmouth Andrew “Boz” Bosworth’s recent staff memo is concerned. The needlessly long, meandering note—first obtained by the New York Times and later posted by Boz himself to … Continued

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Just Cast a Young Version of a Major Character

 Van Helsing will return for one last season. The CW is getting into the spyfi game. Plus, another clip from Doctor Who’s New Year return, and what’s to come on the His Dark Materials finale. We’ve passed on all we know. A thousand generations live in you now. But these are your spoilers. Malignant Production … Continued

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More Suicide Squad Rumors About the Identity of Idris Elba’s Mystery Character

Sony’s take on Cinderella finds its king. Warner Bros. gives the Shazam sequel a release date. Ubisoft’s Rabbids are making the leap to the big screen. Florence Pugh says Black Widow is not about Natasha handing off her mantle. Plus, what’s to come on Supernatural, and another element from the recent comics comes to WandaVision. … Continued

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The Purge Brings Back a Familiar Face, and More Updates From The Matrix 4

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show adds another mystery main character. Get a teeny glimpse of some familiar tech in a new cut of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer. Scott Derrickson wants to return to horror after the next Doctor Strange. Plus, what’s to come when Crisis on Infinite Earths returns, and good news for Disenchantment. … Continued

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Amazon’s Already Ordered a Second Season of Lord of the Rings

Even though we’re still ages away from being transported to J.A. Bayona’s take on Lord of the Rings for Amazon Prime, the studio’s confident that audiences are going to want a second season. Deadline reports that—in keeping with the deal Amazon Studios agreed to in order to acquire the rights to produce a Lord of … Continued

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A Game of Thrones Actor Is the New Lord of the Rings Villain

Actor Joseph Mawle is going from one epic fantasy franchise to the other. Deadline reports Mawle, best known for playing Benjen Stark on Game of Thrones, has been cast as the lead villain of Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series. According to the trade, he’ll play Oren, who’ll face off with the show’s heroes, … Continued

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Shocking Breaking News! Lord of the Rings TV Show to Film in New Zealand

Amazon Studios just announced the filming location for its upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel show. And after searching far and wide it settled on…drumroll please…New Zealand! Showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay released the following statement on the momentous decision: As we searched for the location in which we could bring … Continued

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Has Found Itself a Narnia Star

Amazon really is dead set on keeping everyone more or less in the dark about its upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel series that’s set before the events of The Fellowship of the Ring. The studio’s still keeping quiet about the story’s details, but it’s just announced another actor who’s set to join the cast. … Continued

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Marvel Miniatures, a New Dungeons & Dragons Class, and More Tabletop Gaming News

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, io9’s regular column all about the latest in tabletop games and roleplaying news. Gen Con may have come and gone, but we’re still getting some great announcements and cool campaign expansions. This includes a brand-new class for Dungeons & Dragons, an arena board game where you play as the audience … Continued

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Karls Urban, Ranked

Karl-Heinz Urban is good. His sneers are excellent, his range extends from grandiose to gritty, his look is fine, and his appearances in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys are numerous. But which version of Karl Urban is the best Karl Urban? Who among the Karls Urban is supreme? After extensive investigation, I … Continued

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A Wild Agents of SHIELD Rumor Suggests a Familiar MCU Face Could Appear in the Last Season

Quentin Tarantino thinks his tenth and ever-purportedly final film could dip into the horror genre. The Walking Dead has found its Dante. Colton Haynes clarifies his Arrow exit. Not one, but two denials come out against some Doctor Who rumors. Plus, Constantine is a major part of Legends of Tomorrow’s next season. Spoilers get! Quentin … Continued

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Meet the Full Creative Team Behind Amazon’s Lord of the Rings

Here are the folks looking to take you on a journey to Middle-Earth’s Second Age. I’ve seen a lot of trailers before, but this is a first: Amazon has released a trailer to show off the… creative staff of their upcoming Lord of the Rings series. “Meet our fellowship,” Amazon said in a Tweet featuring … Continued

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Just How Big Is Bag End? Let These Middle-earth Cross Sections Lay It Out

Bag End, the home of both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, is where The Lord of the Rings Saga begins and ends. It’s there the dwarves come to meet about traveling to the Lonely Mountain and where Samwise Gamgee settled after the Baggins leave Middle-earth. There are few more important places in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic saga, … Continued

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Has Its First Cast Member

We still know very little about Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. It will take place sometime prior to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring, director J.A. Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and consultant Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) are involved, and the writers’ room is operating under intense security precautions. Now, we’ve got another … Continued

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Amazon Has Set Its Sights on That New Lord of the Rings MMO

Last year, it was announced that Middle-Earth’s latest foray into the world of gaming would be a new Massively Multiplayer Online RPG from Chinese developer Leyou Technologies, set long before the events of Tolkien’s books. Sound familiar to another big Lord of the Rings project kicking around? Well, that might explain this latest news. Amazon … Continued

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Show Nabs Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Director J.A. Bayona

Amazon’s foray into the Second Age has found a director. Deadline reports that J.A. Bayona—who took over from Colin Trevorrow for the middle chapter in the current Jurassic trilogy, Fallen Kingdom—has been tapped to helm the first two episodes of Amazon’s big-budget fantasy series, a prequel show set in a Middle-earth centuries before the events … Continued

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Brandon Sanderson Likens Amazon’s Wheel Of Time Series to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings

After years of languishing in development hell, a live-action series based on Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novels is finally coming to the small screen courtesy of Amazon Studios and showrunner Rafe Judkins (Agents of SHIELD). But according to Brandon Sanderson, who finished the final three books in the series following Jordan’s death, Amazon’s take … Continued

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Arrow’s Star Leaves the Door Open for a Post-Series Finale Return

You’ll have to wait a bit longer to see Super Pets in action. Spider-Man: Far From Home’s stars give us some new looks. Plus sneak peeks at Star Trek: Picard, Legion, and more. Spoilers ho! Tenet Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kenneth Branagh, Clémence Poésy, Dimple Kapadia and Michael Caine have joined John David Washington, Elizabeth Debicki and … Continued