Month: February 2020

Parasite was the biggest winner at the 92nd Academy Awards, and the thriller will continue with a limited series inspired by the movie. Now, some early casting news has surfaced.

Collider reports that Mark Ruffalo is being considered for a lead role in the show, which will be produced by director Bong Joon-Ho and Anchorman director Adam McKay. Ruffalo, who has earned three Oscar nominations and played Bruce Banner/Hulk in the Avengers and Thor franchises, has not officially been cast, but he is being considered, the report said.

The Parasite TV show will not necessarily feature the same characters as the movie. It’s unknown who Ruffalo might be playing as part of the ensemble cast, if this report is accurate.

HBO said in a statement to Collider, “The HBO limited series inspired by Parasite is in the early stages of development, and to speculate on any characters or casting is wildly premature.”

The limited series will add more depth and detail to the story. “So I had all these key ideas accumulated from when I started writing the script,” the director said. “I just couldn’t include all those ideas in the two-hour running time of the film, so they’re all stored in my iPad and my goal with this limited series is to create a six-hour-long film.”

Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars and made history as the first non-English language movie to win the award. It also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature to claim more Academy awards (4 in total) than any other movie this year.

The movie is coming to even more theatres in the US this weekend following its big wins at the Academy Awards.

After winning four Academy Awards at the 92nd Oscars, including Best Picture, director Bong Joon-Ho’s thriller Parasite will play in more theatres this weekend in the US.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Parasite will play in as many as 2,000 more locations across America, which is more than double its current reach.

Parasite is currently the fifth highest-grossing non-English language movie of all time in the US with some $35.5 million in box office receipts so far. It currently trails Pan’s Labyrinth ($37.6 million), Instructions Not Included ($44.5 million), Hero ($53.7 million), Life is Beautiful ($57.2 million), and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ($128.1 million).

Globally, Parasite has made more than $165 million, including $71 million from South Korea alone.

Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars and made history as the first non-English language movie to win the award. It also won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature to claim more Academy awards (4 in total) than any other movie this year.

You don’t have to go to a theatre to see Parasite, however, as the movie is also available through video-on-demand platforms around the world.

Cliff Bleszinski, lead designer on the first three Gears of Wars games, revealed that he almost made an Aliens first-person shooter a couple of years ago that would have had a grown-up Newt as the main character.

Bleszinski shared the news on Twitter, saying that he was in talks to make an Aliens FPS with Fox, who own the Aliens franchise, but when the film company and game publisher was bought by Disney the game was “lost in the shuffle.”

Ripley would be alive and be your “Cortana/Anya.” You’d play as grown Newt. On Earth. Weyland-Yutani are weaponizing the aliens in a Black Mesa style facility and, of course, all hell breaks loose.

Your robotic pal i.e. Bishop? A new one named “Casey” after her doll in Aliens.

— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) February 10, 2020

You would have played as Newt, the young girl from the 1986 film, on Earth after xenomorphs break out of Weyland-Yutani facility that was trying to weaponize the deadly aliens.

To make this happen, all of the canon after the second Aliens film would have been ignored, as Newt dies in transit between the second and third film. Ellen Ripley would have been alive and acted as your Cortana-style guide throughout the game.

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Newt would also have had a robotic pal, similar to Bishop from the film, but would have been called Casey after the doll Newt has in Aliens.

This Aliens game would have been made by the studio that Bleszinski founded in 2014, Boss Key Productions, which closed down in 2018 due to poor sales of its games. Boss Key only made two games, LawBreakers and Radical Heights, both of which were online shooters.

Bleszinski’s Aliens game isn’t the only one that’s known to have been lost. Last year, Chris Avellone talked about Aliens: Crucible, an RPG that was prototyped by The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian before being cancelled.

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In better news, the Aliens shooter that’s being made by Cold Iron Studios, is still thought to be in active development. Fingers crossed it comes out one day.

There’s also Alien: Isolation, which has recently come to Nintendo Switch, and Alien: Blackout, which launched for smartphones in 2019, so you can play those if you need an Aliens game fix.

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Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.