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Tarantino changes his mind on "The Movie Critic"

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As for The Movie Critic, originally planned to be his 10th and final film, Tarantino has simply had a change of heart and Deadline hears he will not be moving forward with the project. Sources close to the director said he changed his mind and is going back to the drawing board to figure out what that final movie will be.

https://screenrant.com/silo-show-future-season-3-4-filming-end-rebecca-ferguson-update/

Silo season 2 wrapped filming last month, and Rebecca Ferguson says should they get the green light, she thinks season 3 and 4 should be filmed back to back to wrap up the series.

This conversation really escalates:  "I do hope you are murdered soon."

20 hours ago, Werthead said:

It's an alt history.

Heard a newish word, not widely used: uchronistic.  Apparently created to be analogous to utopia (no-place), uchronia means no-time, used as a synonym for alternate history sci-fi, encompassing retrofuturisms like this.

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However, another developing definition of uchronia is a larger umbrella category of fiction that encompasses alternate history, parallel universes, and stories based in futuristic or non-temporal settings.  Yet another use of the term is for a genre of story rooted in divergences from actual history that originate as more gradual or micro-level changes, in contrast to alternate history, whose divergences have tended to be rooted in sudden and macro-level changes.

Furthermore, the goal of uchronia is sometimes now focused away from the traditional purpose of fiction as mere entertainment instead towards more practical applications in social and political discourse. In this context, it can refer to a re-imagining of a more positive history of a place than the current one, with real-world value in its implications and proposed solutions to social problems. Thus, as used by some scholars, uchronia is a whole new or alternative way of thinking, and not simply a genre of storytelling.^[

By the way, @Ran shouldn't there be a more appropriate part of the forum to put news of projects not GOT and not HOTD in?  Where do we discuss the Kit Harrington recently talked about SNOW not currently being developed any more?  Maybe an GOT Related In Development Projects sub is needed...( or In and Out of Development).

This is sweet

50 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Assume you mean "Cornwell" not Cromwell?

You decide -- first opium war in China: 1839 – 1842.

yeah

Is there any Cromwell Cornwell material for Sean Bean to play Sharpe at Bean's current age?  Like in the Opium Wars for example?  Or is the character already dead?

The mach diamonds are cool, but that flow separation creating exhaust rings is wild.

49 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said:

There have been many US veterans who went to fight for Ukraine. Now one has gone to fight for Russia. And of course, he's a pedo. https://apnews.com/article/us-military-veteran-charged-russia-ukraine-60afee11f686c29ccf5f5e28b9243a2d

 

Send in the U.S. Army Rangers to capture and extract him and extradite to face justice.  With Ukrainian permission of course.

You guys ranting about the same topics over and over again and missed a Spider-verse short film was released two weeks ago.

Perfect weather at Long Point, north shore of Lake Erie.  It looked so much awesomer than i expected, like a black hole in the sky.  Eerie and alien.  The horizon was a 360 degree sunset too.  Couldn't ask for a better experience.

12 hours ago, Ser Rodrigo Belmonte II said:

This almost makes me wanna have kids just so i could make them experience the stuff i grew up on  On a side note its pretty impressive your sons able to comprehend these types of films at that age! i wouldve thought youd have to be like 8 to even process and understand what is happening in the film. 

Kids develop a sense of morality around 3 or 4.

45 minutes ago, Sandy Clegg said:

I wonder if he'll keep his Irish accent? I can see that working for Dunk, although he's meant to be from Fleabottom.

Consistent with Davos Seaworth, also from Fleabottom, actor Liam Cunningham is Irish.

Here's Claffey in Wreck

2 hours ago, Fragile Bird said:

The eclipse in Toronto is supposed to be 99.8%, not total, but I don’t think I’m going to risk the traffic to Niagara Falls.

GO train is operating extra rides there on the Lakeshore West line.  But at this point I suggest taking the train to Kingston instead.  Much clearer skies likely there.

Reserved my parking spot for Long Point Provincial Park.  There's only 650 spots and parking was not suppose to be reservable until this Friday, but it opened early.  So at most will have a few thousand people on the beach, instead of millions in Niagara Falls two hours away.  It's within a few seconds of the same amount of totality as the Falls too, so I feel like I outsmarted the crowd.

But the weather forecast now says Mostly Cloudy. 

I think the weather is going to work out for me. But my Texan friends and most of the southern U.S. is likely going to be clouded over, which is the opposite of what is historical for the U.S. south. Thanks El Nino! Eastern seaboard should be great. Okay in the U.S. midwest, around Indiana and Ohio i think.  Southern Ontario might be on the transition edge between completely crap to completely clear.  Kingston looks complete in the clear, Montreal no good. I think a lot of Canadians will go towards Kingston, hopefully, instead of towards Niagara.  I don't want a 12 hour ride home.

For some reason NATO played the theme from Star Trek: First Contact at Sweden's induction ceremony.

https://trekmovie.com/2024/03/30/nato-explains-why-the-theme-for-star-trek-first-contact-was-played-at-swedens-induction-ceremony/

Maybe the Borg are Swedish.

1 hour ago, A True Kaniggit said:

So it’s in two weeks.

One week.

I got to wonder, that Trump bible must be heavily edited, right?  Got to leave out all the commandments and whatnot that Trump has violated.  Ladies and gentlemen:  The Two Commandments! 

4 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Wrong, posted too soon.  It takes well over 60 seconds to load threads in Firefox too.  What's going on?  Is the site under cyber attack or something?

Reddit was like that yesterday.

25 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Trump’s Unbearable Temptation to Dump His Truth Social Stock
Would he really screw over MAGA investors to cover his gargantuan legal debts? Don’t bet against it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180205/trump-dump-truth-social-stock-unbearable-temptation

 

Can i pet dat dawwwwg?

Wil Wheaton hosts an preview of the final season of Discovery and interviews Sonequa Martin-Green

I'm probably going to freeze my ass off camping overnight.

But if it is clear skies, there's two more things possibly to see during the eclipse. 

The "Devil Comet" 12P/Pons-Brooks - a "horned" comet:  https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/world/devil-comet-pons-brooks-eclipse-scn/index.html -- apparently it kind of looks like the Millennium Falcon.  It makes it's closest approach to the Sun in April, and closest approach to Earth in June.

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“The comet will brighten a bit as it gets closer to the sun, and it should be visible to the naked eye low in the west about an hour after sunset,” according to a joint email from Chodas and Farnocchia. “You should go to a location away from city lights and with an unobstructed view of the western horizon. It would be advisable to use a pair of binoculars, since the comet may be hard to locate without them.”

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After April 2, the comet is on track to move into the daytime sky and won’t be visible to sky-gazers at night — but it will be visible when the moon’s shadow temporarily blocks the sun’s face from view on April 8.

“The comet would be located about 25 degrees away from the eclipsed sun,” Chodas and Farnocchia said via email. “The comet should be fairly easy to find during the total solar eclipse, as well as a number of planets, but the main focus during those 4 minutes should be on the eclipse itself!”

Also, the eclipse itself might be extra dramatic because we're at the peak in the solar cycle, and we could see some intense solar flares. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/01/26/total-eclipse-solar-maximum-aurora/

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In fact, the active sun will look very spiky, like a “very irritated little hedgehog,” solar physicist Scott McIntosh said.

Vernor Vinge has passed away, according to David Brin.