Tarantino is Selling NFTs
'Eternals' banned, Donnie Yen is in John Wick 4, Matt Smith talks 'Rise of Skywalker', plus a new Spidey poster.
Happy Monday friends! ꒰(・‿・)꒱
🍿 What’s Shaking 🍿
🍿‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ has a new poster!!! As you can tell I am very excited!!! Still no clues on whether Tobey and Andrew will make an appearance, but everyone on Twitter is zooming in on Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and possibly Mephisto’s face?
🍿 The strange beef between Vin Diesel and the Rock has come to a (bald?) head. The quibble between both men who star in the Fast and Furious franchise seems to have started when the Rock posted a now-deleted Instagram photo calling unnamed cast members ‘candy asses’. This escalated and two continued to trade petty barbs on social media for the past five or so years. Now it seems Diesel has offered a bit of an olive branch, posting on (where else!) Instagram and saying:
“I swore that we would reach and manifest the best Fast in the finale that is 10! I say this out of love... but you must show up, do not leave the franchise idle you have a very important role to play. Hobbs can’t be played by no other. I hope that you rise to the occasion and fulfill your destiny.”
I have wasted too much of my life reading about this, but in case you’re interested, here’s a timeline of the feud.
🍿I liked ‘Eternals’ - sure it has a LOT of exposition, but it’s also very funny and nice to look at! You can read more of my thoughts here.
Elsewhere: The film has been banned in a number of Middle East countries including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait due to its portrayal of a same-sex couple. When asked about the ban, Angelina Jolie, who plays Thena, said:
“I’m proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out. I still don’t understand how we live in a world today where there’s still [people who] would not see the family Phastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love. How anybody is angry about it, threatened by it, doesn’t approve or appreciate it is ignorant.”
🍿 Donnie Yen will be in ‘John Wick 4’! In an instagram post, he said he’s wrapped up filming. Here’s a photo of him on set:
🍿 Dr. Who, aka Matt Smith confirms he was set to play a character in ‘Rise of Skywalker’. In a teasing interview, Smith said he didn’t shoot any Star Wars scenes, but had several meetings! The part became obsolete as they wrote the story: “It was a big story detail, like transformative Star Wars story detail, it never quite got over the line. It was like a… big shift in the history of the franchise,” he said.
🍿If you are into NFTs, Quentin Tarantino is selling unreleased scenes from ‘Pulp Fiction’ as digital collectables. Tarantino’s NFTs will feature the scenes, handwritten notes from the script and commentary. Not one for FOMO, Warner Bros. is also selling 100,000 avatar NFTs inspired by ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’. They are US$50 each and you can get them from Nov. 30!
🍿 ‘Dune’ is set for release in Australia on Dec. 2 and as Vulture points out, there are no Middle Eastern and North African (MENA)-actors chosen to play the Fremen, in Denis Villeneuve’s film.
Frank Herbert’s book uses terminology derived from MENA culture and ideas, and Villeneuve said on the matter'; “I tried to respect his ideas. Which is why I did the casting the way I did. And I feel truly that I’m right in doing it this way. It feels authentic, it feels honest, and true to the book.” The story follows Paul Atreides, a messiah-type figure who is known as Maud’Dib and Lisan al Gaib to the Fremen people of the planet Arrakis.
🍿 Last Shakes 🍿
Wonder-Lady Gal Gadot has been cast as the Evil Queen in Snow White. ‘Black Panther 2’ production shuts down. Daniel Dae Kim is joining Netflix’s ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ as Fire Lord Ozai. Hawkeye, which is out Nov. 24 on Disney+ has another trailer. Gemma Chan and Richard Madden on the MCU’s first sex scene.
🐶 Pupdate 🐶
Hanging out with friends last week <33
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