Disney Force Fail: The Acolyte Fandom Fallout
The recent Star Wars TV shows, with the exception of the first season of The Mandalorian, have been met with criticism from fans, with some attributing it to review bombing, while others point to issues with the writing and unfamiliarity with the franchise among the show’s creators. This raises concerns for the future of the franchise and the need to balance fan expectations with creative freedom.
Jonathan Frakes: Our Champion Scifi Alum?
Jonathan Frakes, known for his role in “Star Trek”, is set to direct the sci-fi series “Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime” and has joined the producing team, with writers David Cormican and Dwayne Hill also serving as producers and showrunners for the six-episode series which is set to go into production in Canada at the end of this year, based on the books which were acquired by Claxson and Navajo and will also have Arthur C. Clarke collaborator Paul Preuss as a consultant while being produced by Navajo Entertainment in association with Claxson, Washington Square Entertainment, Palatin Media, Julijette, Karma Film, Fun Republic Pictures and virtual production studio / film financier Volume Global, with series producers Anand Ramayya and Juliette Hagopian, and executive producers including Volume Global’s Christopher Rush Harrington and Michael Hamilton-Wright, Claxson’s Roberto Vivo, Palatin Media’s Bernd Schlötterer, and executive producer Lucas Vivo Garcia Lagos, with Paradigm’s Babacar Diene, Bill Douglass, and Wilson Rubinoff negotiating Frakes’ deal with Fun Republic Pictures’ Cormican, and Palatin representing international sales worldwide excluding Latin America which Claxson will represent.
Paul Allen Innovation Legacy Up for Auction
The Living Computers museum in Seattle, opened to the public 12 years ago and featuring interactive displays of vintage computing systems, will permanently close as its entire inventory is being auctioned off at Christie’s, including items from the Paul G. Allen Collection, after the museum and associated educational facilities were forced to close due to the pandemic in 2020, leaving it as the only major vintage computing museum in Washington State.
Apple TV+ and the Neuromancer Hype Machine
The long-awaited adaptation of William Gibson’s Neuromancer is finally coming to Apple TV+ as a series, with Callum Turner and Briana Middleton cast as the co-leads and creators Graham Roland and JD Dillard expressing their excitement about the project.
Japan Olympic Uniforms’ Anti-Perv Technology
Japanese manufacturer Mizuno has developed a new fabric for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics that is nearly wholly opaque to both visible and infrared light, in order to protect athletes from potentially voyeuristic images taken by infrared cameras that can be circulated on pornographic sites, after complaints were made by athletes in 2020 about their images being shared on social media.