Science fiction and fantasy for you today, spylings! HBO has released a trailer and photos for their adaptation of
Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel
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| New Fahrenheit 451 will air on HBO this May |
FAHRENHEIT 451 with
Michael B. Jordan and
Michael Shannon which will air in May! The television movie is set in a world in which media is
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| Michael B. Jordan as fireman Guy Montag |
an opiate, history is outlawed and firemen are the people who burn books!
Michael B. Jordan is Guy Montag, a fireman who questions his actions after
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| Michael Shannon as Guy's evil boss Beatty |
meeting a young girl... and begins to rebel against society. which gets him into a battle with his mentor Beatty (Shannon).
Sofia Boutella, Martin Donovan are also in the cast.
And it is about time that I remind you that the third season of equally dystopian series
INTO THE BADLANDS starts on AMC April 22nd! This highly unique and extremely attractive mix of fantasy, mediaeval weapons,
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| Amazing Daniel Wu returns as everybody's favourite clipper Sunny |
feudal setting, Asian martial arts, breathtaking costumes and sets and steampunk magic will see its lead hero Sunny (
Daniel Wu) living off the grid,
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| Lorraine Toussaint will play Prophetess Cressida, a mentor to Pilgrim |
doing his best to provide for his infant son, Henry, in the wake of Veil’s death. It is only when Henry contracts a mysterious illness that Sunny must rejoin forces with Bajie (
Nick Frost) and journey back
INTO THE BADLANDS,
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| Sunny will try to find a cure for Henry's mysterious illness! |
where The Widow (
Emily Beecham) and Baron Chau (
Eleanor Matsuura) are entrenched in a drawn-out war that has destabilized the entire region. No longer supported by Tilda (
Ally Ioannides) or Waldo (
Stephen Lang), The
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| Emily Beecham is still trying to end feudal system as The Widow |
Widow must find new allies in Lydia (
Orla Brady) and in Nathaniel Moon (
Sherman Augustus) - the former regent who lost his hand to Sunny and Bajie in season two. But when a mysterious nomadic leader called Pilgrim
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| Ungrateful brat Tilda is still not listening to her mummy The Widow |
(
Babou Ceesay) arrives in the Badlands on a mission to restore Azra and usher in a new era of “peace," old enemies must band together to defend the Badlands.
