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Lager Pictures Classics has announced that Bradley Cooper has signed on to write and direct a Teen Crime Comedy called Mr. Juul or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hit, set to release around Fall of Y5. 

 

The film follows Nic Tabac (Timothee Chalamet), a high school senior who is forced to move from his dangerous neighborhood in New York City to the quiet, seemingly crime-less town of Neighborville, Iowa. Missing the thrill of living in dangerous city and suffering from the agonizing boredom of living in quiet suburbia, Nic ventures into the downtown area of Neighborville, discovering that the city isn't as crime-less as it is advertised. Nic hatches a plan with drug dealer/high school dropout Billy Scott (Dacre Montgomery) to expose Neighborville's dark secrets by corrupting the town's symbol of stability and prestige: North Neighborville High School. Chalamet and Montgomery are also joined by co-stars Corey Stoll - who will reportedly play the main antagonist of the film, Olivia Cooke, and Karan Brar.  

 

The film is described as a mix between Goodfellas and Superbad, a mafia film set within the confounds of a high school setting. 

When Jordan goes to work directly under Thomas:

 

[Rorschach]

4 minutes ago, Blankments said:

When Jordan goes to work directly under Thomas:

 

It was either her or Natalia Dyer but having one Stranger Things actor in the film was enough.

[YM!]

Was gonna wait until next month for the expo but fuck it:

 

@CAYOMMAGAZINE

 

BREAKING NEWS

 

After The ground breaking success of Endless Animation’s Can You Imagine, Genndy Tarkovsky has signed a 2 Picture deal with Infinite Studios. Both of the films are animated, and details have leaked for the first project: A R-Rated Satirical Dark Comedy about Businesses and Captialism, tentatively titled “One Hundred and One Ways to Get Rich” staring Jordan Peele and Jason Ritter play two vitriolic best friend con-men exiled from their home country have arrived in America for one thing: to make money by any means necessary. 

 

Melissa McCarthy, Gina Rodriguez, Trey Parker, Benedict Wong, J.K. Simmons, Naomi Scott, Keegan Michael Key, Ben Schwartz and Jake T Austin will also star in the film in undisclosed roles. The project will arrive around Q3/Q4 Y5.

Edited October 26, 2018 by YourMother the Edgelord

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4 minutes ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:

Was gonna wait until next month for the expo but fuck it:

 

@CAYOMMAGAZINE

 

BREAKING NEWS

 

After The ground breaking success of Endless Animation’s Can You Imagine, Genndy Tarkovsky has signed a 2 Picture deal with Infinite Studios. Both of the films are animated, and details have leaked for the first project: A R-Rated Satirical Dark Comedy about Businesses and Captialism, tentatively titled “One Hundred and One Ways to Get Rich” staring Jordan Peele and Jason Ritter play two vitriolic best friend con-men exiled from their home country have arrived in America for one thing: to make money by any means necessary. 

 

Melissa McCarthy, Gina Rodriguez, Trey Parker, Benedict Wong, Naomi Scott, Keegan Michael Key, Ben Schwartz and Jake T Austin will also star in the film in undisclosed roles. The project will arrive around Q3/Q4 Y5.

 

5 hours ago, Rorschach said:

@CayomMagazine

 

Lager Pictures Classics has announced that Bradley Cooper has signed on to write and direct a Teen Crime Comedy called Mr. Juul or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hit, set to release around Fall of Y5. 

 

The film follows Nic Tabac (Timothee Chalamet), a high school senior who is forced to move from his dangerous neighborhood in New York City to the quiet, seemingly crime-less town of Neighborville, Iowa. Missing the thrill of living in dangerous city and suffering from the agonizing boredom of living in quiet suburbia, Nic ventures into the downtown area of Neighborville, discovering that the city isn't as crime-less as it is advertised. Nic hatches a plan with drug dealer/high school dropout Billy Scott (Dacre Montgomery) to expose Neighborville's dark secrets by corrupting the town's symbol of stability and prestige: North Neighborville High School. Chalamet and Montgomery are also joined by co-stars Corey Stoll - who will reportedly play the main antagonist of the film, Olivia Cooke, and Karan Brar.  

 

The film is described as a mix between Goodfellas and Superbad, a mafia film set within the confounds of a high school setting. 

 

7 hours ago, Spagspiria said:

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Coming Y5, A BETTER MAN is a new, harrowing drama with traces of psychological thriller from auteur Lynne Ramsay. The film follows an insecure young man (Timothee Chalamet) as he falls into the hands of a charismatic self help expert (Dan Stevens) with some distributing beliefs and visions.

 

A more moody and tense piece on toxic masculinity and the alt-right, it’s said to be closer to Tulpa than By the Balls. The release is shooting for October in Y5. Nicholas Brittel is attached to score.

 

so i post the first real satire of 3.0 (please correct me if i'm wrong), the first bradley cooper movie of 3.0, and the first film truly about the alt-right and/or toxic masculinity in CAYOM (3.0 for the latter if i believe), and all of these are announced within a day?

 

can i please have an executive producer credit on all three films thanks

 

 

I merely jest. And correct me if I'm wrong please; I love reading movies about all three of these things

Edited October 26, 2018 by Blankments

[Rorschach]

I've had the idea for Mr. Juul planned out for the longest time before I even read By The Balls. 

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I've had the idea for Mr. Juul planned out for the longest time before I even read By The Balls. 

in case it wasn't clear, I'm joking lol

[Rorschach]

Honestly, after seeing A Star is Born, I really wanted to make Bradley Cooper the director of one of my projects. 

[YM!]

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so i post the first real satire of 3.0 (please correct me if i'm wrong), the first bradley cooper movie of 3.0, and the first film truly about the alt-right and/or toxic masculinity in CAYOM (3.0 for the latter if i believe), and all of these are announced within a day?

 

can i please have an executive producer credit on all three films thanks

 

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I merely jest. And correct me if I'm wrong please; I love reading movies about all three of these things

I mean I wouldn’t mind giving an Executive Producer credit:

 

I’ve sort of had the idea a few months ago but never found the passion or certainty I’d get it done but By The Balls was a major inspiration for me and reinvigorated me.

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Just now, YourMother the Edgelord said:

I mean I wouldn’t mind giving an Executive Producer credit:

 

I’ve sort of had the idea a few months ago but never found the passion or certainty I’d get it done but By The Balls was a major inspiration for me and reinvigorated me.

if you're being real, give it to Tony Yacenda; my hope is he becomes a major directing force in CAYOM if By the Balls continues its excellent reception by everyone except for the Xillix and possibly the pastry dish

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1 minute ago, Blankments said:

in case it wasn't clear, I'm joking lol

Its all good lol.

 

This whole situation just reminds me of the time I had a soundtrack planned out for the first Odyssey movie but then Numbers posted a track listing for one of his films before I did. So I posted afterward and it looked like I was being a copycat.

 

Then, to pour further salt into that wound, Odyssey 1 ended up winning Best Score at the Oscars. 😅

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ABM will be completely different from BTB, at least in terms of tone. Prepare for it to just be creepy and at times shockingly violent.

 

But I’ll give Tony Yacienda an executive producer credit.

 

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Above the Line

A Numerator Pictures Prospectus

Volume 2

 

Spoiler

 

Opening a month after Pillars of Eternity, Mass Effect was Numerator Pictures’ first stab into the space opera craze that had found a comfy root in cinema, with the Spark and Voltron franchises leading the way, and Year 3’s Scavenger Wars making an epic entrance. So, it was not too surprising for the studio to invite us back for a very early look at the sequel, greenlit mere hours after the opening weekend numbers trickled in. Though it does beg a question as to why we were invited to discuss a film whose expected release date is two years away.

“Our hope and expectations are that Pillars of Eternity and Mass Effect are the two cornerstone franchises of our studio for many years to come” studio vice-president Michael Karslek told us. “So, we wanted to use this opportunity to set the foundation for what is to come next in each franchise.” With that explanation in hand, we were escorted into the studio to meet much of the cast and crew of the second installment of the Mass Effect series.

Our tour starts with us meeting the new director/writer combo for the film. Unlike the first Pillars trilogy, which is using the same director and writer for all three films since they form three units of a single overarching story, Numerator Pictures intends to change directors and writers for most of the films, to allow each film to have its own stamp, especially since while the films are connected, each film for the most part will have its own story identity. Of course Bryan Fuller, the writer on the first film, has been asked to be a story consultant for the franchise as a whole, to help shape the direction, and he has agreed to that. But on to the new brains behind the second film. We are introduced to the director, long-time television director Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones, Mr. Mercedes), and the writer, Drew Goddard. Goddard had been in the running to direct Until Dawn for Numerator Pictures, but scheduling issues with Hourglass Pictures made that infeasible so he had to withdraw. He has however agreed to pen the script for the second Mass Effect outing, which we can reveal is called

 

MASS EFFECT: ASCENSION

 

“Ascension is not being used in a purely thematic sense” Goddard tells us. “It also has a very real world application in terms of the setting of the film.” That application is The Ascension Project, a top-secret program within the Systems Alliance to cultivate the talents and powers of very promising and skilled young biotics, as a means of catching up in the biotics arms race. “Humanity has only been involved in interstellar travel and biotics for a handful of decades, whereas the rest of the advanced races have had centuries or more” Bender says. “So it is considered a strategic imperative by the Alliance to get up to speed as fast as possible.”

 

 

Director Jack Bender and Writer Drew Goddard

Given the Ascension Project’s goals and the biotic talent it is fostering, it is no surprise to hear that not only the Alliance is interested in the project. That other interested party: A certain shadowy organization that has adopted a famous three-headed dog as its mascot.

 

Concept Art of The Normandy on approach to The Ascension Project in Deep Space

“This is the film where Cerberus, a recurring presence in the games, makes its appearance truly known to the galaxy” Goddard says. “They’re a ruthless, aggressive organization that has spent years quietly building up resources, assets, agents, and real estate, and now they are beginning to make their moves.” That first move of course was in the mid-credits scene of the first film, which saw rogue operative Armistan Banes licking his wounds before being recruited by the organization.

 

Cerberus is described as a paramilitary special ops group crossed with unscrupulous scientists dedicated to furthering humanity at all costs.

Jake Gyllenhaal for one is very pleased and eager to return to playing Banes in this outing. “In the first film he had a mask on until the very end” the actor says. “He was hiding his true face from everyone, even his closest friend and protégé Shepard. But now that mask has fallen, and he has been unleashed. And everything in this film is him, with official, strong backing behind him, engineering a scheme that will further Cerberus’ agenda while also fulfilling his own personal grievances.”

Mackenzie Davis is thrilled to get a second chance to butt heads with Gyllenhaal. “In the first film she was very much in his shadow. She looked up to him, she idolized him, she saw him as the big brother she never had. All those images have now been shattered, and she is now seeing who he really is, and for the first time is truly taking steps to be her own person, not just the soldier he had trained her to be. She’s going to start being defined by her own deeds.”

 

 

Mackenzie Davis and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to clash as friends turned foes

We’re told that much of the film acts as a cat-and-mouse game between Shepard and Banes, as Shepard and the Normandy furiously struggle to unravel what Banes is up to and find a way to stop it before a likely calamity occurs. Of course their first encounter will not be directly related to the main plot, but rather in a cold-open action sequence that isn’t expressly connected to the rest of the movie. “We saw a lot of comparisons between the first movie and a Mission: Impossible flick” Goddard says, “so we decided to lean into that a bit and have a cold open sequence like you’d get in one of those movies or a Bond film, that sets the table while also being kind of its own thing.” This sequence we’re told involves the Normandy being sent to Earth’s moon to a R&D facility where an experimental VI (Virtual Intelligence, a less smart and complex version of an AI) has gone rogue and started killing off everyone inside. “There’s killer robots, death traps, and more” Davis says. “It’s a fun way to get the adventure started.”

Of course, that is just the opening appetizer, the main event starts with Shepard and the Normandy receiving intelligence indicating that the Ascension Project is compromised and deciding to investigate it. This brings the Normies into a confrontation with the Ascension Project’s leadership, in particular one of its senior researchers, an irritable and proud man named Paul Grayson. Played by Corey Stoll, Grayson is an ardent believer in the Ascension Project’s mission, perhaps too ardent, as he is more than willing to push the Project’s trainees far beyond safe limits in order to cull the weak from the strong. “He is very much an ends justifies the means kind of guy” Stoll tells us. “He believes humanity risks being left in the dust as a second-class species if they don’t do what they have to do to bring out the best possible specimens as goalposts of human potential.”

 

Ascension Project interior

This attitude of course brings Grayson into a bit of loggerheads with the students and trainees of the Project. One of whom is his adopted daughter, Gillian Grayson, played by Isabela Moner, and the other, a much more enigmatic but also fiercely aggressive trainee, played by Kiernan Shipka, who only goes by word “Zero.” If that isn’t enough for Mass Effect fans to know her role, we were shown some early footage of Shipka training for the role already in costume, with a shaved head and extensive tattoos on her arms and shoulders. Stoll tells us that his relationship with Gillian is “complicated,” and with Zero it “is downright hostile. He dislikes her, she despises him, but he recognizes just how much potential she has in her and he is ready to take advantage of that.” We only got to briefly talk with Moner and Shipka but they’re already fast friends, filming a number of scenes together, and say that the relationship between their characters is one of “frienimies.”

 

 

Corey Stoll, Isabela Moner, and Kiernan Shipka play the three most highlighted members of the Ascension Project

Of course, the Ascension Project is not just a plot point and an introduction for new characters, Bender and Goddard also tell us it will help draw out important character development for two of the Normies, Kaidan Alenko (Sean Teale) and Kahlee Sanders (Rosamund Pike). “In the first film Kaidan briefly mentions some hard training with his biotics” Goddard says. “The journey to the Ascension Project reopens old wounds, and he greatly identifies with these kids and trainees being pushed to their limits, and gets really turned off by what the Alliance is willing to do to get ahead.” Teale himself is excited to dig into the material, telling us that Kaidan is going to get a lot more assertive in this film calling out things as he sees them. As for Dr. Sanders, her connection will be more personal, in that it involves her father, someone who she did not speak fondly of in the first film. We haven’t been told much more, except that her father is someone important in the Mass Effect lore, and that he is played by Charles Dance.

If the Ascension Project is what starts our main course, then the big juicy entrée and dessert is one of the most important locations in the entire franchise: The Citadel. A massive space station tens of kilometers in size holding millions of beings, the Citadel is the center of power, society, and culture in the galaxy, a giant melting pot where all species can mingle and interact, and where the Council, the triumvirate who administrate the affairs of the galaxy, have their seat of power. We’re told that the majority of the film’s second half will take place on the Citadel, as Shepard and the Normies work to stop Banes’ plans from reaching fruition. Of course those plans are tightly under wraps, but we assume they are not good.
“Designing the Citadel, making the plot and action work in its various distinct environments, that was a treat” Goddard tells us. “But also we wanted to make sure the film takes time and just lets the world of the Citadel sink in to audiences as a living, breathing place you could lose yourself exploring.”

 

The Normandy arriving at The Citadel

 

Concept art of The Presidium, the political and economic brain of the Citadel

Coming with a big new location are a bunch of characters to fill it up. The Normandy’s interaction with the Citadel brings it into contact with the human politicians who mediate between the Systems Alliance and the Council, that group being led by the eternally grumpy and displeased Ambassador Udina, played gamely by Clark Gregg. Gregg for one is having a blast with Udina. “The man has one setting: Disappointed and pissed off” Gregg says with a laugh. “If it isn’t perfect, he will look at you like you took a dump on his rug.” He says Udina is committed to advancing the cause of humanity and is a political machine in his wheeling and dealing. “Of course he is the highest ranking diplomat humanity has, so he isn’t going to waste his time with the likes of Anderson, Shepard, etc. unless it is really life or death. So he just passes it off to an underling.”

That underling is a character the story team for the franchise has invented, someone brand new to the setting. “We have an overarching idea for where we want this series to end up, and to help achieve that we felt it was better to create someone new rather than force an existing character into that role.” This brand new character is Daniel Choi, a member of the Alliance Diplomatic Security Service, played by Henry Golding. Golding describes Choi as “half-diplomat, half-spy. He can do the ambassadorial grunt work and the interplanetary relations, but he also knows how to investigate and dig out secrets, of which the Citadel holds plenty of.

 

 

Clark Gregg plays the ever-displeased Ambassador Udina, and Henry Golding plays brand-new character Daniel Choi

Of course if you’re going to stop a crazed rogue agent from enacting a plot on the most important piece of real estate in the galaxy, you will need the help of local law enforcement, and there is one member of Citadel law enforcement in particular who will be assisting the Normies in their mission. And the casting gave Bender and Goddard fits.

“We know the love this character has in the fandom, which meant that after Shepard, this was the single most important decision we would make, and we could not screw it up” Bender said. So after a lot of brainstorming, a lot of spitballing, and a lot of hand-wringing, they reached a decision.
“In the end, it kind of felt obvious” Goddard said. “We wanted someone with screen presence, someone who could deliver a wry and sarcastic sense of humor, but most of all, someone who was 100% comfortable and skilled in doing motion capture for an alien who gets into the middle of the action. So yeah, end of the day, it made perfect sense to cast Toby Kebbell as Garrus Vakarian.”

 

Toby Kebbell plays unconventional Turian security officer Garrus Vakarian

Very much a cop in the vein of Dirty Harry, Garrus Vakarian is an alien who prefers to shoot first, arrest the perpetrator later, which makes him fit in pretty well with the gung-ho gang of the Normandy. Kebbell has only just started motion capture testing for the role, but he is more than pleased with the cast and crew he’s interacted with. “It’s already like a big, messy family” he says. Kebbell says that unlike the grim and stoic Eastwood portrayal of Dirty Harry, Vakarian at this stage is more like Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon. A bit of a wild, loose cannon, looking at the world with a perpetually raised eyebrow. 

With out time at the studio nearing an end, we return to meet with Bender and Goddard to get a sense of where things for the franchise are going, big-picture wise. We’re told that the plan is to basically have the franchise divided into three story arcs of three films each, those arcs being given the unofficial names of

Arc 1- The Rise of Shepard
Arc 2- Storm Preparations
Arc 3- Don’t Fear the Reaper

And speaking of the word Reaper, the conversation turns to that post-credit scene for the first film with Saren being revealed as the instigator behind Balak, and in cahoots with an ominous, imposing voice. When we ask when that scene will have an impact on the franchise, Bender and Goddard smile.

“We think audiences won’t have to wait too long after this coming one. But like with the first film, we wanted to build the narrative of Shepard and the Normandy first, and introduce audiences to the big galactic playground, before we bring in the threat that can smash it all to pieces.”

 

Mass Effect: Ascension is tentatively planned to arrive in May, Year 6.

 

 

[YM!]

To be honest, Tony Yacienda might just work as an EP for “One Hundred and One Ways to Get Rich”

[Rorschach]

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Above the Line

A Numerator Pictures Prospectus

Volume 2

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Opening a month after Pillars of Eternity, Mass Effect was Numerator Pictures’ first stab into the space opera craze that had found a comfy root in cinema, with the Spark and Voltron franchises leading the way, and Year 3’s Scavenger Wars making an epic entrance. So, it was not too surprising for the studio to invite us back for a very early look at the sequel, greenlit mere hours after the opening weekend numbers trickled in. Though it does beg a question as to why we were invited to discuss a film whose expected release date is two years away.

“Our hope and expectations are that Pillars of Eternity and Mass Effect are the two cornerstone franchises of our studio for many years to come” studio vice-president Michael Karslek told us. “So, we wanted to use this opportunity to set the foundation for what is to come next in each franchise.” With that explanation in hand, we were escorted into the studio to meet much of the cast and crew of the second installment of the Mass Effect series.

Our tour starts with us meeting the new director/writer combo for the film. Unlike the first Pillars trilogy, which is using the same director and writer for all three films since they form three units of a single overarching story, Numerator Pictures intends to change directors and writers for most of the films, to allow each film to have its own stamp, especially since while the films are connected, each film for the most part will have its own story identity. Of course Bryan Fuller, the writer on the first film, has been asked to be a story consultant for the franchise as a whole, to help shape the direction, and he has agreed to that. But on to the new brains behind the second film. We are introduced to the director, long-time television director Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones, Mr. Mercedes), and the writer, Drew Goddard. Goddard had been in the running to direct Until Dawn for Numerator Pictures, but scheduling issues with Hourglass Pictures made that infeasible so he had to withdraw. He has however agreed to pen the script for the second Mass Effect outing, which we can reveal is called

 

MASS EFFECT: ASCENSION

 

“Ascension is not being used in a purely thematic sense” Goddard tells us. “It also has a very real world application in terms of the setting of the film.” That application is The Ascension Project, a top-secret program within the Systems Alliance to cultivate the talents and powers of very promising and skilled young biotics, as a means of catching up in the biotics arms race. “Humanity has only been involved in interstellar travel and biotics for a handful of decades, whereas the rest of the advanced races have had centuries or more” Bender says. “So it is considered a strategic imperative by the Alliance to get up to speed as fast as possible.”

 

 

Director Jack Bender and Writer Drew Goddard

Given the Ascension Project’s goals and the biotic talent it is fostering, it is no surprise to hear that not only the Alliance is interested in the project. That other interested party: A certain shadowy organization that has adopted a famous three-headed dog as its mascot.

 

Concept Art of The Normandy on approach to The Ascension Project in Deep Space

“This is the film where Cerberus, a recurring presence in the games, makes its appearance truly known to the galaxy” Goddard says. “They’re a ruthless, aggressive organization that has spent years quietly building up resources, assets, agents, and real estate, and now they are beginning to make their moves.” That first move of course was in the mid-credits scene of the first film, which saw rogue operative Armistan Banes licking his wounds before being recruited by the organization.

 

Cerberus is described as a paramilitary special ops group crossed with unscrupulous scientists dedicated to furthering humanity at all costs.

Jake Gyllenhaal for one is very pleased and eager to return to playing Banes in this outing. “In the first film he had a mask on until the very end” the actor says. “He was hiding his true face from everyone, even his closest friend and protégé Shepard. But now that mask has fallen, and he has been unleashed. And everything in this film is him, with official, strong backing behind him, engineering a scheme that will further Cerberus’ agenda while also fulfilling his own personal grievances.”

Mackenzie Davis is thrilled to get a second chance to butt heads with Gyllenhaal. “In the first film she was very much in his shadow. She looked up to him, she idolized him, she saw him as the big brother she never had. All those images have now been shattered, and she is now seeing who he really is, and for the first time is truly taking steps to be her own person, not just the soldier he had trained her to be. She’s going to start being defined by her own deeds.”

 

 

Mackenzie Davis and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to clash as friends turned foes

We’re told that much of the film acts as a cat-and-mouse game between Shepard and Banes, as Shepard and the Normandy furiously struggle to unravel what Banes is up to and find a way to stop it before a likely calamity occurs. Of course their first encounter will not be directly related to the main plot, but rather in a cold-open action sequence that isn’t expressly connected to the rest of the movie. “We saw a lot of comparisons between the first movie and a Mission: Impossible flick” Goddard says, “so we decided to lean into that a bit and have a cold open sequence like you’d get in one of those movies or a Bond film, that sets the table while also being kind of its own thing.” This sequence we’re told involves the Normandy being sent to Earth’s moon to a R&D facility where an experimental VI (Virtual Intelligence, a less smart and complex version of an AI) has gone rogue and started killing off everyone inside. “There’s killer robots, death traps, and more” Davis says. “It’s a fun way to get the adventure started.”

Of course, that is just the opening appetizer, the main event starts with Shepard and the Normandy receiving intelligence indicating that the Ascension Project is compromised and deciding to investigate it. This brings the Normies into a confrontation with the Ascension Project’s leadership, in particular one of its senior researchers, an irritable and proud man named Paul Grayson. Played by Corey Stoll, Grayson is an ardent believer in the Ascension Project’s mission, perhaps too ardent, as he is more than willing to push the Project’s trainees far beyond safe limits in order to cull the weak from the strong. “He is very much an ends justifies the means kind of guy” Stoll tells us. “He believes humanity risks being left in the dust as a second-class species if they don’t do what they have to do to bring out the best possible specimens as goalposts of human potential.”

 

Ascension Project interior

This attitude of course brings Grayson into a bit of loggerheads with the students and trainees of the Project. One of whom is his adopted daughter, Gillian Grayson, played by Isabela Moner, and the other, a much more enigmatic but also fiercely aggressive trainee, played by Kiernan Shipka, who only goes by word “Zero.” If that isn’t enough for Mass Effect fans to know her role, we were shown some early footage of Shipka training for the role already in costume, with a shaved head and extensive tattoos on her arms and shoulders. Stoll tells us that his relationship with Gillian is “complicated,” and with Zero it “is downright hostile. He dislikes her, she despises him, but he recognizes just how much potential she has in her and he is ready to take advantage of that.” We only got to briefly talk with Moner and Shipka but they’re already fast friends, filming a number of scenes together, and say that the relationship between their characters is one of “frienimies.”

 

 

Corey Stoll, Isabela Moner, and Kiernan Shipka play the three most highlighted members of the Ascension Project

Of course, the Ascension Project is not just a plot point and an introduction for new characters, Bender and Goddard also tell us it will help draw out important character development for two of the Normies, Kaidan Alenko (Sean Teale) and Kahlee Sanders (Rosamund Pike). “In the first film Kaidan briefly mentions some hard training with his biotics” Goddard says. “The journey to the Ascension Project reopens old wounds, and he greatly identifies with these kids and trainees being pushed to their limits, and gets really turned off by what the Alliance is willing to do to get ahead.” Teale himself is excited to dig into the material, telling us that Kaidan is going to get a lot more assertive in this film calling out things as he sees them. As for Dr. Sanders, her connection will be more personal, in that it involves her father, someone who she did not speak fondly of in the first film. We haven’t been told much more, except that her father is someone important in the Mass Effect lore, and that he is played by Charles Dance.

If the Ascension Project is what starts our main course, then the big juicy entrée and dessert is one of the most important locations in the entire franchise: The Citadel. A massive space station tens of kilometers in size holding millions of beings, the Citadel is the center of power, society, and culture in the galaxy, a giant melting pot where all species can mingle and interact, and where the Council, the triumvirate who administrate the affairs of the galaxy, have their seat of power. We’re told that the majority of the film’s second half will take place on the Citadel, as Shepard and the Normies work to stop Banes’ plans from reaching fruition. Of course those plans are tightly under wraps, but we assume they are not good.
“Designing the Citadel, making the plot and action work in its various distinct environments, that was a treat” Goddard tells us. “But also we wanted to make sure the film takes time and just lets the world of the Citadel sink in to audiences as a living, breathing place you could lose yourself exploring.”

 

The Normandy arriving at The Citadel

 

Concept art of The Presidium, the political and economic brain of the Citadel

Coming with a big new location are a bunch of characters to fill it up. The Normandy’s interaction with the Citadel brings it into contact with the human politicians who mediate between the Systems Alliance and the Council, that group being led by the eternally grumpy and displeased Ambassador Udina, played gamely by Clark Gregg. Gregg for one is having a blast with Udina. “The man has one setting: Disappointed and pissed off” Gregg says with a laugh. “If it isn’t perfect, he will look at you like you took a dump on his rug.” He says Udina is committed to advancing the cause of humanity and is a political machine in his wheeling and dealing. “Of course he is the highest ranking diplomat humanity has, so he isn’t going to waste his time with the likes of Anderson, Shepard, etc. unless it is really life or death. So he just passes it off to an underling.”

That underling is a character the story team for the franchise has invented, someone brand new to the setting. “We have an overarching idea for where we want this series to end up, and to help achieve that we felt it was better to create someone new rather than force an existing character into that role.” This brand new character is Daniel Choi, a member of the Alliance Diplomatic Security Service, played by Henry Golding. Golding describes Choi as “half-diplomat, half-spy. He can do the ambassadorial grunt work and the interplanetary relations, but he also knows how to investigate and dig out secrets, of which the Citadel holds plenty of.

 

 

Clark Gregg plays the ever-displeased Ambassador Udina, and Henry Golding plays brand-new character Daniel Choi

Of course if you’re going to stop a crazed rogue agent from enacting a plot on the most important piece of real estate in the galaxy, you will need the help of local law enforcement, and there is one member of Citadel law enforcement in particular who will be assisting the Normies in their mission. And the casting gave Bender and Goddard fits.

“We know the love this character has in the fandom, which meant that after Shepard, this was the single most important decision we would make, and we could not screw it up” Bender said. So after a lot of brainstorming, a lot of spitballing, and a lot of hand-wringing, they reached a decision.
“In the end, it kind of felt obvious” Goddard said. “We wanted someone with screen presence, someone who could deliver a wry and sarcastic sense of humor, but most of all, someone who was 100% comfortable and skilled in doing motion capture for an alien who gets into the middle of the action. So yeah, end of the day, it made perfect sense to cast Toby Kebbell as Garrus Vakarian.”

 

Toby Kebbell plays unconventional Turian security officer Garrus Vakarian

Very much a cop in the vein of Dirty Harry, Garrus Vakarian is an alien who prefers to shoot first, arrest the perpetrator later, which makes him fit in pretty well with the gung-ho gang of the Normandy. Kebbell has only just started motion capture testing for the role, but he is more than pleased with the cast and crew he’s interacted with. “It’s already like a big, messy family” he says. Kebbell says that unlike the grim and stoic Eastwood portrayal of Dirty Harry, Vakarian at this stage is more like Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon. A bit of a wild, loose cannon, looking at the world with a perpetually raised eyebrow. 

With out time at the studio nearing an end, we return to meet with Bender and Goddard to get a sense of where things for the franchise are going, big-picture wise. We’re told that the plan is to basically have the franchise divided into three story arcs of three films each, those arcs being given the unofficial names of

Arc 1- The Rise of Shepard
Arc 2- Storm Preparations
Arc 3- Don’t Fear the Reaper

And speaking of the word Reaper, the conversation turns to that post-credit scene for the first film with Saren being revealed as the instigator behind Balak, and in cahoots with an ominous, imposing voice. When we ask when that scene will have an impact on the franchise, Bender and Goddard smile.

“We think audiences won’t have to wait too long after this coming one. But like with the first film, we wanted to build the narrative of Shepard and the Normandy first, and introduce audiences to the big galactic playground, before we bring in the threat that can smash it all to pieces.”

 

Mass Effect: Ascension is tentatively planned to arrive in May, Year 6.

 

 

I approve of Young Laertes as Garrus. 👍

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@BlankmentsProductions: Today and tomorrow we'd like to announce the male and female leads of the major tentpoles we'll be revealing next week. Ladies first!

 

@BlankmentsProductions: An important note as so to be sure you're not too confused: all the films we are revealing next week are live-action and have a minimum budget of $50M. These are the big guns, folks!

 

@BlankmentsProductions: First off, as revealed in yesterday's trailer, @Lupita_Nyongo will be playing Eve in @alfonsocuaron's CHILDREN OF EDEN!

 

@BlankmentsProductions: Next, for Jake Kasdan's highly anticipated sequel/reboot of THE SANTA CLAUSE, expect to see @kerrywashington as the new Mrs. Claus!

 

@BlankmentsProductions: We've got a spooky treat for you on Halloween we're gonna keep under (mummy) wraps until then, but for now, expect Elizabeth Debicki to play a large role in this film!

 

@BlankmentsProductions: And now a film for the kiddos that we'll wait to reveal until Thursday. However, this Thursday, be excited for @KimikoGlenn landing this huge role!

 

@BlankmentsProductions: And finally, our grand finale: Anne Hathaway will star in directed by none other than @creepypuppet! Yup, we wanted to give you a little more to go on for this one.

 

@BlankmentsProductions: Join us tomorrow for the testosterone-infused talent who will grace the big screen next year, and next week for five exciting reveals!

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i pray you give him the inexplicable mullet I was hoping for in Captain Marvel but FEIGE has denied me

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The camera pans over McClennan University

We see students in uniforms walking down a hallway.

We follow Eli (Cody Fern) standing outside of his door. He walks in and finds a black cat in his room. Giovanni (Miguel Bernardeau) stands behind him. Giovanni and Eli introduce themselves. Giovanni says that his cat likes to get out. He says Eli looks stressed and says he should come across the hall for a drink. Eli awkwardly agrees

 

Next Valentine’s Day

 

We see Giovanni pour Eli a glass of wine

They both sit on the couch and drink their wine

Giovanni turns and leans into Eli and kisses him

They both close their eyes and kiss

 

Return

 

We see police officers swarm a lake

We see Eli panicked on the phone

We see Grace (Camila Mendes) look up from a table

 

To

 

We see Giovanni lay on a couch shirtless and with bleach blond hair stroking his black cat

We see Grace tell Eli to stay away from Giovanni

We Giovanni open a bottle of wine and smirking

 

The

 

We see the wine being poured slow motion into a glass

We see Eli driving up to an abandoned church

We see Eli cautiously looking through Giovanni’s closet

 

University

 

We see Giovanni sip his glass on wine and smirk at Eli

Giovanni walk naked into a moonlight room

We see Eli look up startled (different scene)

We see a car smash into an invisible force

Giovanni shouts, “Noooo!!!”

 

*the scream goes black*

 

We see Eli and Giovanni pull away from their kiss. Giovanni asks if Eli is ready. Eli says yes.

 

*the scream goes black*

 

We see a pentagram made out of salt on the ground. We see Giovanni move his hand over it and it lights up in flames. We see Eli reach his hand out and he manipulates the flames. Eli turns to Giovanni and says, “Their time is over”

 

The camera suddenly cuts to Tyler and Hunter sitting at the end of the student senate room.

 

Unbreakable Bond

 

Valentine’s Year 5

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We see a pentagram made out of salt on the ground. We see Giovanni move his hand over it and it lights up in flames. We see Eli reach his hand out and he manipulates the flames.

 

 

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