Star Trek

Wednesday November 7th 2018

WEDNESDAY:


This is Nerd News for Wednesday November 7th 2018.

Nerd News is sponsored by NerdsDrinkWhiskey.com

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and we hope to see you at our Christmas party Saturday December 8th.

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Wolverine: The Long Night is Marvel's first scripted podcast.

The first 9 episodes are available now at WolverinePodcast.com.

With only one episode left a second season has been announced.

Richard Armitage will return as Logan, along with Bill Irwin as Jason Wyngarde, Bell Heck as Remy LeBeau, and Blair Brown as Bonnie Roach.

The second season will be released in winter of 2019 and it will be called Wolverine: The Lost Trail.

https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/11/05/wolverine-the-lost-trail-long-night-season-2/

https://www.wolverinepodcast.com/



Does Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald break canon?

There is a young Professor Minerva McGonagall in the latest movie.

This latest movie is set in 1927, but many Harry Potter fans will tell you that Minerva McGonagall was born in 1935.

How is she in a movie when she hadn't even been born yet?

For the full (and very detailed) calculations on this, click the link in the show notes.

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2460786/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald-looks-as-if-its-breaking-harry-potter-canon


Nerds Drink Whiskey recently announced that our Christmas party on December 8th will feature the most nerdy whiskey we can find.

Just in time Star Trek has announced Montgomery Scott Blended Scotch Whiskey.

Yes this is a Scotch named after Scotty from the original Star Trek.

CBS Consumer Products have officially licensed the blended scotch whiskey.

The plans are to have it on the selves just in time for our Christmas party on December 8th.

A James T. Kirk Bourbon Whiskey has been out since this past summer.

http://www.treknews.net/2018/11/05/star-trek-montgomery-scott-scotch/


In the worst news ever department: There is a rumor that Matt Smith might play a young Sheev Palpatine.

So my least favorite Doctor might be my all time favorite villain?

This could mean that J.J. Abrams is making something from Legends into cannon.

In Star Wars Legends Palpatine used Essence transfer to clones in order to cheat death.

This could also be an interesting twist since in Legends Palpatine tries to overtake the conscience of Anakin Solo.

In current cannon Anakin Solo is called Ben Solo, which is of course Kylo Ren.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-matt-smith-palpatine-rumors/




I want to try something new for Nerd News.

About once a week I will pose a question to everyone to chime in on.

The question is simple: Is it nerdy?

HBO has announced that the long promised Deadwood movie is officially in production.  

The film will begin ten years after season three ended.

Almost the entire cast has returned with Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Paula Malcomson, Dayton Callie, and many more.

The shows' creator David Milch wrote the movie too, so this should excite fans to no end.

Although everyone on the Nerds Drink Whiskey podcast are fans of the show, is it nerdy?

https://www.nme.com/news/tv/production-begins-deadwood-movie-almost-full-cast-returning-2397478


Tuesday November 6th 2018

TUESDAY:


This is Nerd News for Tuesday November 6th 2018.

Nerd News is sponsored by NerdsDrinkWhiskey.com

Always sip, Never slam.

Click the link in the show notes for more info

and we hope to see you at our Christmas party Saturday December 8th.

http://nerdsdrinkwhiskey.com


On October 7th of 1989 an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation aired called The Survivors.

It was episode three of season three.

In the episode The Enterprise responded to a distress call from Rana IV, a Federation colony that is under attack from an unknown alien ship.

When they arrived, they found the entire surface of the planet destroyed, except for a single house and two occupants.

The two occupants being Rishon and Kevin Uxbridge, played by Anne Haney and John Anderson.

The Malibu California home featured in that episode is up for sale for the price of $5.7 million.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/11/05/star-trek-house-sale-malibu-5-7-million-trekkies/1889624002/


Actor Andrew Lincoln gets a three spin off movies from The Walking Dead.

Lincoln's character Rick Grimes just had his goodbye episode of the show.

There is no date on when the movies will be released.

AMC does admit that it is part of an effort to keep the franchise alive for at least several more years.

Although the show has fallen in viewership recently, it's not in the danger zone yet.

https://www.wired.com/story/walking-dead-rick-grimes-movies/


It has been confirmed that the title to the PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 is "Once Upon a Deadpool."

It will have an extremely short theater run of December 12th through 24th.

One dollar per ticket will go to the 'Fudge Cancer' (re-titled because this is PG-13) charity.

Ryan Reynolds and Fred Savage filmed the new footage in one day.

The entire movie was re-edited to be a nod to The Princess Bride.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-pg-13-deadpool-2-has-a-title-release-schedule-and-1830233611