WandaVision’s Kathryn Hahn Wants To Play Agatha Harkness Again

Now that we’ve reached the end of WandaVision, our eyes are looking to the future. We know what’s coming next for Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and have some hints about what could become of Vision (Paul Bettany). What about Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), though? While her story was wrapped up in “The Series Finale,” there could potentially be more to her story.

Be warned, the following contains spoilers for the final episode of WandaVision. Speaking to the New York Times, Hahn was asked about whether another project featuring Agatha is in the works.”I have no idea,” she said. “They keep it really tight.” However, it’s something Hahn is definitely interested in. “I want to,” the actress admitted. “Now that I have a taste of it, I’m like, ‘ahh.’ I really, really love it.”

If nothing else comes from the character, though, Hahn is pleased with the conclusion to Agatha’s story. In the finale, her powers were absorbed by Wanda, who left her essentially trapped in the reality of Westview, stuck in her sitcom role as the nosy neighbor.

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Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 Exclusive Preview

DC’s Wonder Woman: Earth One saga is nearly complete, and IGN has an exclusive preview of the third and final graphic novel in the series.

Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 3 reunites writer Grant Morrison and artist Yanick Paquette for one last Wonder Woman epic. In this climactic chapter, Queen Diana is forced to lead the charge in defense of her homeland as Max Lord’s army of robots invade Themiscyra. Can Diana remain a force for love and peace when she’s forced to become the warrior her mother designed her to be?

Get a taste of what’s coming and see Diana interacting with Artemis by checking out the slideshow gallery below:

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For those not familiar with the Earth One line of graphic novels, they’re simialr to Marvel’s Ultimate Universe imprint in that they reimagine and modernize familiar heroes for a 21st Century audience, with some heroes changing more drastically than others. The Wonder Woman books offer a fairly unusual take on Diana and her world, as they draw heavy inspiration from the original Golden Age Wonder Woman comics and the themes of bondage and subservience that were so prevalent in the work of creator William Moulton Marston. The first volume even drew controversy for its depiction of Diana being the daughter of Hercules, a choice even Morrison admitted he “struggled” with.

“In this particular story I wanted that tension,” Morrison told IGN in 2016. “I wanted that push and pull, and I wanted Diana to be a bit more impure in the sense that, yeah, there is a little bit of masculinity that has been put into her. Originally, Hippolyta does it just for the reasons that Hercules’ DNA will then go on to destroy women, and there would be no more sons, as Hippolyta said. So it’s actually kind of an act of revenge. Diana is used as revenge on the battlefield, which to me seemed much more this sort of thing that people could relate to. She’s a character who’s so pure and so perfect that it seemed like we needed that little bit of dark in the character to give her a chance to grow and to think about things and change.”

Vol. 2 further shook up the Wonder Woman mythology by depicting long-time DC villain Doctor Psycho as a supervillain pickup artist and a critique of toxic masculinity.

“Part of it was my revenge on having seen [this level of manipulation] actually done to someone. You can see the narcissist type, the sociopath type and how easy it is for them get to people — people you wouldn’t even imagine could be that manipulated by anything,” Morrison told IGN in 2018. “It’s a very real problem for young people in the world. There are people out there who are quite willing to use these techniques so I kind of wanted to draw attention to it, but, you know, on the Wonder Woman scale where the guy is a supervillain. I wanted to put these paragon of femininity up against that threat and see how she deals with it — because even paragons of intelligence and grace I’ve watched having real trouble with people like this. Here are the techniques. If you see anyone using these techniques against you, the warnings should go off.”

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You can check out IGN’s review of Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 and Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 2. DC is also finally releasing the third volume of Batman: Earth One in 2021, which will introduce a very different version of Two-Face and shed more light on this Bruce Wayne’s ties to the Arkham family.

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New Rainbow Six Siege Update Is Live On Test Server, Fixes Aruni

Ubisoft has released the patch notes for the latest Rainbow Six Siege test server update. The update is live in the test server now, fixing a few bugs in the game.

Of note, the update addresses some issues tied to Aruni, Siege’s newest defender operator that was added in December 2020’s Operation Neon Dawn expansion. Aruni can erect a laser grid over doorways and windows with her Surya Laser Gate, denying an attacker operator’s entry and destroying projectile gadgets.

The update fixes a bug that was causing Surya Laser Gates to appear deactivated if players were over 20 meters away, which messed with the plans of both defenders and attackers. Additionally, a bug has been fixed that was causing Surya Laser Gates (as well as Kaid’s Rtila Electroclaw) to incorrectly pulse when disabled by Thatcher’s EMP Grenade or seen via IQ’s Electronics Detector.

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Fall Guys Developer Teases Season 4 Details

It’s been a little while since Fall Guys has gotten any new content, but that’s set to change. Developer Mediatonic announced in a tweet that it will reveal a trailer with the release date of the game’s upcoming Season 4 on March 15. Additionally, Mediatonic said it will activate double Fame Points around that time, though we don’t know for how long.

Fall Guys has been in the news quite a bit recently, especially following the announcement that Fortnite developer Epic Games has bought Mediatonic, further expanding its family-friendly battle royale empire. Based on a cryptic tweet, it appears that Season 4 is going to take the egg-men of Fall Guys into the future, though what exactly that means remains to be seen.

Mediatonic also recently announced that Fall Guys is coming to Nintendo Switch this summer, as well as Xbox, the next phase of its stated goal to get Fall Guys onto every major platform. The most recent content update added a new level and more costumes to the game.

Halo’s Master Chief TV Show Actor Won’t Try To Replicate Steve Downes’ Voice, Apparently

Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber has said he won’t do an impression on the Halo TV show, suggesting he won’t try to replicate Steve Downes’ iconic voice from the video game series.

Writing on Twitter, Schreiber said, “I don’t do impressions, I play characters.” He said the video games focus on Master Chief the super-soldier, but the TV show will provide more depth and insight on the man under the helmet, John.

“I don’t do impressions, I play characters. While everyone knows the Master Chief, this show is an opportunity for all of us to get to know John,” he said. “Thank you for your kind words. We are all working incredibly hard to bring something to the screen that everyone can get behind.”

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Apex Legends’ New “Conquistador” Wattson Skin Renamed Following Complaints

Ahead of the start of Apex Legends Chaos Theory, Respawn has renamed the new Wattson legendary skin that will be added during the event. Previously announced as the rather problematic Charged Conquistador, the skin will thankfully now be called Chaos Conductor.

“Thank you to folks who reached out about it and kept us honest,” Respawn director of community and communications Ryan Rigney tweeted. “This was an oversight that shouldn’t have happened.”

Respawn’s decision seems inspired by folks pointing out how uncomfortable they were with Respawn naming one of Wattson’s skins after the conquistadors, a group of white colonizers who are well-known for conquering countries through murder and slavery, and killing thousands of people through the spread of diseases. It’s not a good label to give to any of Apex Legends’ characters.

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Sons Of Anarchy Creator Kurt Sutter Making This Beast, A Netflix Movie With Blumhouse

With his work on the Sons of Anarchy franchise complete, following his firing by FX in 2019, Kurt Sutter has set his sights on Netflix. The Sons of Anarchy creator and Mayans M.C. co-creator is teaming with Blumhouse for a movie that’s described as a drama but certainly sounds like a horror film.

According to a tweet from Netflix, This Beast is set in an “18th century English village besieged by a mysterious and elusive beast.” A longer description reads, “Dozens of innocents are slaughtered and the mayhem is driven to puritanical heights by religious fanaticism. The impossible task of killing the beast falls to a lowly trapper who promises he can stop the carnage. But for him this hunt is not a professional mission, it’s a deeply personal one. The idea was inspired by The Beast of Gévaudan, a true story about a mysterious beast that terrorized a French village in the 1760s.”

The Beast of Gévaudan story dates back to a French province in the 1700s. According to historical documents, over 100 people were reported to have been killed between 1764 and 1767, which many of the victims having been partially eaten. It’s believed the beast, itself, was wolves.

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More Unannounced Xbox Games Are Coming This Year, Says Microsoft

A Microsoft executive has said that there are more Xbox games coming this year that we don’t yet know about. In an interview with the Iron Lords podcast that focused on the Xbox Series X, Xbox’s director of program management Jason Ronald was asked what game he was most looking forward to in 2021. In response, he said the following: “Not all games that are releasing this year have been announced.”

While this certainly isn’t a surprise, given that there’s still a lot of 2021 left to go, it’s not clear if Ronald was referring to games made by Microsoft’s own Xbox Games Studios or any other studios that the console juggernaut owns, such as Halo developer 343 Industries. Ronald might also be referring to studios that Microsoft is in the process of buying, such as Bethesda.

Currently, Microsoft’s biggest release of the year is Halo Infinite, which is scheduled to come out in Fall 2021. The studio is also publishing Psychonauts 2, which doesn’t have a concrete release date, but is scheduled to come out in 2021, though it will also come to the PlayStation 4. However, in the above tweet, the GM of Xbox Games marketing recently said that there will be no announcements of major games like Elden Ring coming soon, so it’s not clear when we might get some more details on these upcoming games.

Halo TV Show Won’t Please Everyone, And That’s The Point, Producer Says

Halo’s transmedia boss Kiki Wolfkill has shared a few small updates on the long-in-development Halo TV show. Speaking to IGN, Wolfkill said the Halo franchise as an FPS is limited in terms of its storytelling opportunity since the main storyline focuses on one character: Master Chief. But with the TV show, there is an opportunity to widen the franchise and look at more characters and plot points. The steps that Microsoft is taking with the Halo TV show may not please everyone, Wolfkill also acknowledged in the interview.

“In a first-person shooter, there is only so much of a character journey because of that wanting to maintain some of that character for people to pour into him or her,” she said. “So TV gives us a long form ability to really focus on character and story in a way that’s harder to relay in a first-person game.”

Wolfkill alluded to this previously, saying the Halo TV show will be similar to Game of Thrones in terms of the “scope and scale and complexity of relationships.”

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